VISIONS OF THE 'COMING COMMUNITY'
organisé par
Birkbeck Research in Aesthetics of Kinship and Community
Birkbeck,
University of London
Clore Management Centre, Rooms 101 and 103, Torrington Square, London WC1 7HX
Programme et Inscription :
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Day 1 - Thursday 30 June
8.45‐9.15am Registration and coffee
9.30‐11.00am Welcome and First Keynote Address,
Judith Still
Professor of French and Critical Theory, University of Nottingham
Title: 'The Community of Cannibals'
11am‐12.30pm
Panel 1 The 18th Century's Coming Communities
Chair: Ann Lewis
Sanja Perovic (King's College London), 'A Community of the Past or Future? Year One of the French Revolution'
John Walker (Birkbeck), 'Strangers to Ourselves?: The Relevance of the German Enlightenment to Contemporary French Debates about Intercultural Communication'
Kevin Inston (UCL), 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "the first thinker of community": a critique of Jean-Luc Nancy's La Communauté désoeuvrée'
12.30pm‐1.30pm Lunch (sandwich buffet)
1:30-3pm
Panel 2 Literary Communities 1
Chair: Andrew Asibong
Ruth Bush (Wolfson College, Oxford), 'Alain Mabanckou and the ambivalence of literary community: actual and imagined encounters in Lettre à Jimmy'
Christophe Meurée (Université catholique de Louvain), 'Post-exotiques, post-apocalyptiques, prophétiques: constellations communautaires autour d'Antoine Volodine'
Thierry Tremblay (University of Malta), 'Communauté, révolution, invisibilité: Tiqqun, et alentours'
3pm-4.30pm
Panel 3 Literary Communities 2
Chair: Nathalie Wourm
Hervé Tchumkam (Southern Methodist University, Dallas), 'Transgressive communities: banlieue literatures and the rise of a coming community in France'
Veronika Thiel (University of Vienna), 'Relecture d'un concept hypertrophié et de structures méconnues: le rapport difficile du marqueur de parole à la communauté créole au miroir des structures énonciatives dans Solibo Magnifique de Patrick Chamoiseau'
Emily McLaughlin (Balliol College, Oxford), 'Cela est, que cela soit': Being Singular Plural in Yves Bonnefoy's 'La Terre'
4.30pm-5pm Tea, coffee & biscuits
5pm-6.30pm
Panel 4 Politics, Policy and the Law
Chair: Akane Kawakami
Shailja Sharma (DePaul University, Chicago), 'Community, Hybridity and Citizenship'
Thijs Witty and Baylee Brits (University of Amsterdam), 'Community Against Attributes: Derrida, Badiou and Forms of Universality'
Cristina Johnston (University of Stirling), 'Post-PACS Communities and the "Symbolic Order"'
6.30pm-7pm Break
7pm-8pm Second Keynote Address,
Jane Hiddleston
Fellow and Tutor in French, Exeter College, Oxford
Title 'The Self-Destructive Community: Globalisation, Terrorism, and Auto-immunity in Recent Theory and Literature'
8.30pm Conference Dinner
Day 2 - Friday 1 July
9am-9:30am Coffee, tea and biscuits
9:30am-11am
Panel 5 Individualism and Outsiders
Chair: Damian Catani
Rémy Astruc (Université de Cergy-Pontoise), 'Conditions de la communauté dans le roman'
Jean-Frédéric Hennuy (Bennington College, Vermont), 'Philippe Blasband et la personne handicapée: communauté et stigmate de la différence'
Morgane Leray (Université de Provence), 'Communautés houellebecquiennes: la nostalgie de l'androgyne'
11am-12.30pm
Panel 6 Imagined Communities
Chair: Akane Kawakami
Martin Hurcombe (University of Bristol), 'In Search of latinité: Action Française and the Mediterranean Dictatorships'
Avram Alpert (University of Pennsylvania), 'Levinas and the Construction of the New European Community'
Nicolas Di Méo (Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3), 'Entre communauté locale et société mondiale: la province dans la littérature française de l'entre-deux-guerres'
12pm‐2pm Lunch (own arrangements) and exhibition of artwork
2pm-3pm Third Keynote Address,
Jerôme Game
Writer and Associate Professor of Film Studies and Philosophy, American University of Paris
Title 'The Atmospheric Community, or, how to Intensify Singularities'
3pm-4.30pm
Panel 7 Communities in Theory
Chair: Nathalie Wourm
Jeremy Biles (School of the Art Institute, Chicago), 'The End of Eternity: Georges Bataille's Sacrificial Community'
Abdoulaye Imorou (Université de Cergy-Pontoise), 'Postcolonialisme et poétique de la Relation: histoire d'une rencontre manquée'
Irving Goh (Cornell University), 'The Reject before (the) Community'
16:30 Tea, coffee and biscuits
5pm-6.30pm
Panel 8 Theatre and Cinematic Communities
Chair: Andrew Asibong
Laura McMahon (Girton College, Cambridge), ' "Amour, amour, amour…": Immunity, Collectivity and the Exhaustion of Myth in Arnaud des Pallières's Parc (2009)'
Nikolaj Lubecker (St John's College, Oxford), 'French Idiots: Siegrid Alnoy, Bruno Dumont and the Redemptive Film'
Lara Cox (University of Exeter), 'Dissensus and Dialectics: Psychosis and the Spectator of Arthur Adamov's Off limits (1969)'
6.30pm-7pm
Concluding remarks
7pm Vin d'honneur
7.30pm-8.30pm Dinner (own arrangements)
8.30-10.30 Film Screening at Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square: Jean Renoir's La Règle du jeu (1939)