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Waste in French Literature, Film and Theory

Waste in French Literature, Film and Theory

Publié le par Thomas Parisot

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.

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