University of Cambridge Graduate Conference - The Spectrum
Programme
Friday 11th May
10:00am
Conference Start
10:15am: Panel One
- Self -
Jared Holley (University of Cambridge): ‘Rêveries du promenaire
epicure: Spectres of the Self in Rousseau’s Rêveries’
Zoe Roth (King’s College London): ‘An Impossible Death: Anachronism,
Embodiment and the Spectrum of Sensation in Maurice Blanchot’s
L’Instant de ma mort’
Sara-Louise Cooper (University of Oxford): ‘Une assise prismatique de
l’être’: Spectra in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Une enfance créole’
Chair: Amy Li
11:45am
Coffee
12:00pm: Keynote Address
Professor Michael Moriarty, Drapers Professor of French, University of Cambridge
Chair: Francesca Hardy
1:30pm
Lunch
2:30pm: Panel Two
-Politics-
Alice Holt (University of Oxford)
Adrian May (University of Cambridge): ‘From Spectres of Marx to a
Spectrum of Marx’
Eva-Maria Hochhauser (University of Innsbruck): ‘Breaking the
(spot)light: The political spectrum of France in the 21st century’
Chair: Alex Stuart
4:00pm
Coffee
4:15pm: Keynote Address
Dr Jane Hiddleston, University of Oxford
Chair: Maria Flood
6:30pm
Drinks Reception
Saturday 12th May
10:00am: Panel Three
-Vessels-
Jennifer Oliver (University of Oxford): ‘From ship to book: a spectrum
of Nefs in early sixteenth-century French literature’
Sven Greitschus (Bangor University): ‘Spectral Sorrow Sung Sweetly:
Socio-Critical Implications in Baudelaire’s “Les Bons Chiens”’
Rebekka Schnell (University of Munich): ‘Images spectrales: Pour une
esthétique de la latence’
Chair: Giovanni Menegalle
11:30am
Coffee
11:45am: Panel Four
- Colour -
Rosalind Holmes-Duffy (University of Oxford): ‘Synaesthesia, Morality,
and Light in Boureau-Deslandes’ L’Optique des Moeurs’
Élodie Ripoll (Université Lumière Lyon 2): ‘Épistémologies de la
couleur dans le roman français du XVIIIe siècle’
Hannah Scott (University of Bristol): ‘Le blanc et le noir: Rejecting
the Spectrum in Maupassant’s Short Stories’
Chair : Jonathan Patterson
1:15pm
Lunch
2:30pm: Keynote Address
Professor Clive Scott, Professor Emeritus University of East Anglia
Chair: Philippa Lewis
4:00pm
Coffee
4:15pm: Panel Five
-Women-
Élise Côté-Levesque (Université Laval): ‘La négation du genre dans Tu
ne t’aimes pas, de Nathalie Sarraute’
Tatiana Gavriliouk (University of Oxford)
Rym Feriani (University of Westminster): ‘“Entre les Ténèbres et
L’Excès de Lumières”: Light and Darkness in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s
Novels’
Chair: Victoria Richardson
5:45pm
Round Table
6:30pm
Conference Close