Oxford University French Postgraduate Conference
The European Humanities Research Centre, in conjunction with La Maison Française d'Oxford and The Society for French Studies, presents a one-day conference on Waste in French Literature, Film and Theory
Friday 25 January 2002
Abstracts for twenty-minute papers on topics from any period are invited from postgraduate students. Contributors may wish to be guided by the following list of suggested areas:
- rejected or unused drafts (waste paper?), or footage
- colonial wastelands: lands laid to waste
- 'les déchets': chippings, shavings, dross and other by-products of creative work
- the abject
- exclusion (bodily, historical, social)
- filth and scatological representation
- Deconstruction's remains
- lost and found objects
In addition to papers by postgraduate students, the conference will hear contributions from a number of distinguished invited speakers, including Professor Michel Delon, Professor Christopher Johnson and Dr. Alison Smith.
The final deadline for receipt of short abstracts (of around 250 words) is 1 December 2001. Please e-mail abstracts and any inquiries to Stephen Forcer at Wadham College (stephen.forcer@wadh.ox.ac.uk), or post them to Oliver Davis at Wadham College, Oxford OX1 3PN.
The conference organizers would hope to publish a selection of papers.