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Women in French Third Conference

Women in French Third Conference

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Women in French Third Conference

 

UNH-Durham, NH

 

April 6-8, 2006

 

 

 

Thursday evening, April 6, 7:30-9:00 p.m.

 

 

Keynote

 

Claire Quintal, professor emerita Assumption College and the Institut Franco-Américain

 

“The Franco-American Woman of Yesteryear and Yesterday: What of Today?”

 

 

Friday, April 7

 

 

9:00-10:30 – Sessions 1-3

 

 

Session I: Women and Work: Contemporary French and Francophone Representations

 

Chair, Nicole Aas-Rouxparis, Lewis and Clark College

 

“Vie professionnelle et quotidien de femmes dans le cinéma actuel”, Anne Marie Obajtek-Kirkwood, Drexel University

 

“Working Women/Women's Work as Seen by Annie Ernaux and Simone de Beauvoir”,

 

Camilla Krone, College of St. Benedict

 

"Private Space, Public Space, and Women's Place", Michèle Chossat, Seton Hill University

 

 

Session II: Women in Franco-American History and Literature

 

“From New England Captive to Quebec Woman Leader”, Maureen O'Meara, University of Dayton

 

“Great Expectations: Women in the novels of Rémi Tremblay and Adélard Lambert”, Margaret Langford, Keene State College

 

“Gender's Ethnic Identity”, Susan Pinette, University of Maine

 

 

Session III: Transformations (a special session)

 

Chair and Organizer, Metka Zupancic, University of Alabama

 

“Aventure au féminin, « action » au féminin ?”, Karin Schwerdtner. University of Western Ontario

 

“Métamorphose et dédoublement par l'écriture chez Ying Chen et Linda Lê”, Stephanie Cox, Pensacola High School

 

“Ecrivains femmes francophones : nouvelles formes d'engagement au féminin ?”, Odile Cazenave, Boston University

 

 

10:30 – 10:45 Pause

 

 

10:45-12:15 – Sessions 4-6

 

 

Sessions IV: Women and Work in the Arts

 

“Germaine Dulac: Women and Cinema”, MaryAnn DeJulio, Kent State University

 

“Women, Pianos and War: Musical Education and the French Resistance”, Kendra Preston Leonard, National Coalition of Independent Scholars

 

“Germaine Beaumont (1890-1983) : une femme témoin de son siècle”, Hélène Fau, Institut Supérieur de Gestion Hôtelière, Clichy

 

 

Session V: From Wife to Widow: Tears and/or Joy? (a special session)

 

Chair and Organizer, Marijn Kaplan, University of North Texas

 

“Remarriage and its Discontents: Young Widows in the Novels of Mme

 

Riccoboni”, Ruth Thomas, Temple University

 

“Widows and Riccoboni's Lettres de la comtesse de Sancerre“, Marijn Kaplan, University of North Texas

 

Widowhood/Motherhood/Selfhood: Latifa Ben Mansour”, Jane E. Evans, University of Texas, El Paso

 

 

Session VI: Paroles pour adolescentes

 

“Pratiques culturelles – La culture de l'adolescent chez Françoise Dolto”, Roxane Tifache, Collège Technique Virgil Madgearu et Lycée Vasile Lupu

 

“Ados méchantes : solitude et marginalité dans le roman pour adolescentes au Québec”,

 

Daniela DiCecco, University of South Carolina

 

“Lectures du roman québécois pour la jeunesse et nouveaux discours féministes : le relativisme du genre”, Lucie Guillemette, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

 

 

 

12:15-2:00 – Lunch & Concert by La Donna Musicale

 

“Unheard Of! From Drinking Songs to Pious Psalms – 17th and 18th Century Women Composers”

 

For more information on La Donna Musicale, go to: www.ladm.org

 

 

2:00-3:30 – Sessions 7-9

 

 

Session VII: Finding and Founding Mythologies (a special session)

 

Chair and Organizer, Esther Marion, SUNY-Brockport

 

"Medea's Legacy: Female Vengeance in Christian Gailly's Nuage Rouge", Liz Berglund Hall, University of West Georgia

 

"Ingestion de l'abject: Réécriture des mythes et des folklores occidentaux chez Linda Lê", Anne Magnan-Park, University of Notre Dame

 

"Jusqu'aux sources égyptiennes... Francine D'Amour, Retour d'Afrique", Metka Zupancic, University of Alabama

 

 

Session VIII: Visual Connections

 

Chair, Sonia Assa, SUNY College at Old Westbury

 

“ ‘The Girl with a Prefabricated Heart' (1946): Fernand Léger and the Single, Cycling American Girl”, Maureen Shanahan, James Madison University

 

“Dirty Linen? The Ethics and Aesthetics of Intimacy in L'Usage de la photo by Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie”, Shirley Jordan, Oxford Brookes University

 

“Autoportrait en Vert (Mère), collection particulière: Marie Ndiaye en famille anonyme”,

 

Marie-Clarie Barnet, University of Durham

 

 

Session IX: French Feminism: Sexual Politics and Philosophies

 

“Écrire sans s'énaser, étude de l'essai en tant que genre écritural”, Francis Halin, McGill University

 

“Feminist Philosophy—What's Love Got to Do with It?”, Katherine Stephenson, UNC-Charlotte

 

“Espace textuel et allégorie politique dans Virgile, non de Monique Wittig”, Catherine Phillips, University of Toronto-Mississauga

 

 

3:30-3:45 - Pause

 

 

3:45-5:15- Sessions 10-13

 

 

Session X: 17th-18th century

 

Chair, Catherine Daniélou, University of Alabama at Birmingham

 

“Rethinking the Griselda Legend: Sainctonge vs. Perrault”, Perry Gethner, Oklahoma State University

 

”Mythes et réalité du travail féminin dans la France du XVIIIe siècle”, Pascale Vergereau-Dewey, Kutztown University

 

“"Comment peut-on être gouvernante: une profession féminine au dix-huitième siècle", Nadine Bérenguier, University of New Hampshire

 

 

Session XI: Nouveaux Langages

 

“Poetic genre: gender and form in contemporary poetry by women”, Adèle Parker, Brown University

 

“Poésie et technologie: de Ronsard à Victoire Lasseni Duboze, poète du Gabon", Catherine Montfort, Santa Clara University

 

“Odyssée à la recherche d'un terme ambigu”, Raymonde Bulger, University of Graceland

 

 

Session XII: Autobiographie, Mémoire, Exile

 

“ ‘I' vs. ‘We': Autobiography and Collective Consciousness in Julia Kristeva's Les Samouraïs”, Natalie Edwards, Wagner College

 

“Mémoire et identité dans l'oeuvre de Marie Susini”, Mia Panisse, Université de Âbo Akademi

 

“The (Auto)biography of Exile: Agota Kristof's L'Analphabète and Amélie Nothomb's Biographie de la faim”, Sara Steinert Borella, Pacific University

 

 

Session XIII: Women's Roles and Professional Narratives

 

“Professional Women in Third Republic France”, Julie Fette, Rice University

 

“Three Generations of Franco-American Women, Oral Interviews from Lewiston, Maine”, Kristin Langellier, University of Maine

 

“1001 Arabian Days: A French Look at Francophone Muslim Women in the Workplace”, Doris Gray, Florida State University

 

 

 

5:30 – 6:30 Keynote

 

Geraldine Sheridan, University of Limerick

 

“Images of Women at Work: 18th-century France”

 

 

Evening Free

 

WIF Studies board meeting

 

 

Saturday

 

 

9:00-10:30 – Sessions 14-17

 

 

Session XIV: Women and Work: Contemporary Quebec and Acadian writers

 

“Quebec Novelist Louise Dupré, La memoria and La Voie lactée: Starting

 

Over, A Second Chance at Happiness”, Debra Popkin, Baruch College

 

“Apprentissages: Two Portraits of 21st-century Women Writers”, Juliette Rogers, University of New Hampshire

 

“From La Sagouine to Madame Perfecta: Representations of the Cleaning Woman in the Works of Antonine Maillet”, Mary Anne Garnett, University of Arkansas

 

 

Session XV: Madame de Genlis

 

Chair, Nadine Bérenguier, University of New Hampshire

 

“Genlis Against the Grain: De l'influence des femmes and the Promotion of French Women Writers”, Vicki Mistacco, Wellesley College

 

“Des bienfaits et des tourments de l'économie domestique”, Bénédicte Monicat, The Pennsylvania State University

 

”Madame de Genlis et le métier d'écrire”, Martine Reid, Université de Versailles, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

 

 

Session XVI: Humor, Session I (a special session)

 

Chair and Organizer, Cheryl Morgan, Hamilton College

 

“No Laughing Matter: Marriage in Delphine Gay de Girardin's Theater”, Joyce Carlton Johnston, Stephen F. Austin State University

 

“L´écriture de La Missexualité: lieu d´érotisme humoristique”, Maribel Peñalver Vicea, Université d´Alicante, Spain

 

“L'ironie de l'inconscient dans Les stances à Sophie de Christiane Rochefort”, Julia Morris, Université d'Ottawa

 

 

Session XVII: Abjection and Empowerment

 

“Speaking the Truth: Denial, Discovery, and Consequences in Sallenave's Viol”, E. Nicole Meyer, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

 

“‘Tiens, voilà du boudin!' L'abjection joyeuse dans Truismes et dans Shrek”, France Grenaudier-Klijn, Massey University

 

“ ‘Moi, l'interdite': When the Subaltern Speaks… Reading the Marginalised in Ananda Devi and Maryline Desbiolles”, Jean Anderson, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

 

 

10:30-10:45 – Pause

 

 

10:45-12:15 – Sessions 18-20

 

 

Session XVIII: Contemporary Quebec

 

Chair, Mary Jean Green, Dartmouth College

 

“Cris de choeur dans Augustino et le choeur de la destruction de Marie-Claire Blais”, Karen McPherson, University of Oregon

 

“Dans le secrets des mots” de Louise Dupré”, Anne-Marie Jézéquel, University of Cincinnati

 

“Contemporary Franco-Canadian Playwrights”, Jane Moss, Colby College

 

 

Session XIX: Humor, Session II (a special session)

 

Chair and Organizer, Cheryl Morgan,

 

“Alone of all her Sex? Delphine Gay de Girardin, Humor, and the Nineteenth-Century French Woman Writer”, Cheryl Morgan, Hamilton College

 

“Les soeurs Benoîte et Flora Groult: L'humour ‘à quatre mains' comme élément de mesure du progrès des femmes”, Lucie Joubert, Université d'Ottawa

 

“Drôle d'écrivaine: rire et humour dans Les Catilinaires d'Amélie Nothomb”,
Frédérique Chevillot, University of Denver

 

 

Session XX: Colette, Duras, Cixous, and Theories of Writing

 

Chair, Natalie Edwards, Wagner College

 

“The Decline of Bergsonism in Colette's La Chatte”, Margaret Colvin, Ball State University

 

“Ceci n'est pas Colette: Writing, Performativity, and Identity in Colette's Mes apprentissages”, Tama Lea Engelking, Cleveland State University

 

“Moderato Cantabile: Mouvements de femme ou Pourquoi n'entend-on toujours pas la musique ?” , Corinne Mann-Morlet, Bowling Green State University

 

 

12:15-2:00 – Lunch & Keynote by Louise Dupré

 

 

2:00-3:30 – Sessions 21-23

 

 

Session XXI: Hébert, Brossard, and Gagnon: New Views

 

“Le gouffre de la Matrie est-il le territoire des fils? Analyse de la relation mère-fils dans l'écriture romanesque de Madeleine Gagnon, Anne Hébert et Suzanne Jacob”, Chantal Ringuet, Université du Québec à Montréal

 

“Genre Trouble in Nicole Brossard's un livre,” Amy Hubbell, Kansas State University

 

“Laughter in Anne Hébert's Works: Absence, Sadism, and Ludic Joy”, Annabelle M. Rea, Occidental College

 

 

Session XXII: 19th-century Women & Society

 

Chair, Jean Anderson, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

 

“Les signfications de l'Association Artistique et Littéraire Franco-Russe (1888-1890) de Juliette Adam”, Olga Amarie, Indiana University

 

“Integral Education in the Novels of André Léo”, Cecilia Beach, Alfred University

 

“The Third Sex?: A Fin de siècle Physiology of the Woman (Genius) Question”, Adrianna Paliyenko, Colby College

 

 

Session XXIII: Body As Spectacle

 

Chair, Margaret Colvin, Ball State University

 

“Ernaux's Ce qu'ils disent ou rien: Anne Makes a Spectacle(s) of Herself”, Elizabeth Richardson Viti, Gettysburg College

 

“Filming Women and Adolescence: Anne-Sophie Birot's Les filles ne savent pas nager”, Michèle Scatton-Tessier, University of North Carolina-Wilmington

 

“Deviant Bodies: Corporeal Otherness in Contemporary Women's Writing”, Susan Ireland, Grinnell College

 

 

3:30-3:45 – Pause

 

 

3:45-5:45 – Sessions 24-26

 

 

Session XXIV: Women and Work: Representations in the 19th century

 

Chair, Barbara Cooper, University of New Hampshire

 

“Making Hay While the Sun Shines: Peasant Women at Work in Sand and Zola”, Ione Crummy, University of Montana

 

“Georges Sand, un artisan de la plume: travailler la contrainte et produire la libération”, Marion Krauthauer, National University of Ireland, Galway

 

Adieux au monde, mémoires de Céleste Mogador: The Courtesan Rehabilitates Herself Through Work and Writing”, Courtney Sullivan, Washburn University

 

“Why Mother Knows Best: A Re-evaluation of Maternity in the Novels of Victor Hugo”, Isabel Roche, Bennington College

 

 

Session XXV: Women and Work in Franco-American Literature

 

“Franco Women and Emigration: A Comparative Literary Study of French Canadian Emigration to New England, 1878-1913”, Sarah Domarecki, University of Maine

 

“In Farm and Factory: Women at Work”, Janet Shideler, The State University of New York, Albany

 

“Representations of Work in Maine Franco-American Women's Writing, Past and Present”, Mary Rice-Defosse, Bates College

 

 

Session XXVI: Medieval/Renaissance

 

“Les premières écrivaines: quel impact sur l'histoire des mots?” , Fabienne Hélène Baider, University of Cyprus

 

“Virginité et écriture féminine au moyen âge”, Awa C. Sarr, University of Illinois

 

“What the Male Humanists are Missing: Marguerite de Navarre's Bold Message on Female Mysticism”, Sinda K. Vanderpool, Baylor University

 

“Women at Work and Notions of Servitude in Late Medieval Farce and the Héptaméron”, Sarah Gordon, Utah State University

 

 

6:30-9:30 –

 

Closing Banquet

 

Performances and Roundtable Discussion: Franco-American Arts in New England

 

Moderator and Organizer, Susan Pinette

 

Rhéa Côté-Robbins

 

Susan Poulin

 

Josée Vachon