Society for French Studies 54th Annual Conference University of Nottingham 1-3 July 2013 Monday 1st July 12.00 onward Registration (Hugh Stewart Hall) 12.00-1.00pm Session for postgraduate students (Don Rees Library, Hugh Stewart Hall) 12.30-1.30pm Buffet lunch for all delegates (Dining Room, Hugh Stewart Hall) 1.30-2.45pm Presidential Welcome (Clive Granger Building, A48) Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool Plenary Lecture One Lucille Cairns, University of Durham Queer, Republican France and its Euro-American ‘Others’ 2.45-3.15pm Afternoon Tea & Postgraduate Poster Session (Clive Granger Building Foyer & A42) 3.15-4.45pm PANEL SESSIONS ONE (Clive Granger Building) (1) The Medieval Macabre: Mimesis and Morbid Fascination in Medieval Epic (A44) Chair: Sophie Marnette, Balliol College, Oxford Manipulating the Body Politic: Decapitation and Dismemberment in Late Twelfth-Century chanson de geste Emma Goodwin, Merton College, Oxford Medieval Entrails in French and Latin: Cross-Cultural Evisceration Simon Parsons, Royal Holloway, University of London Incorporating Difference, Grafting the Other: Saracen Amputation and Social Identity Victoria Turner, University of Warwick (2) France and Africa (A41) Chair: Mary Orr, University of Southampton Gide and Allégret on the Congo: Photography, Film and Text in Visual-Cultural Context Rachael Langford, Cardiff University The French Bulama Project: Philanthropy, Transportation and Colonisation in West Africa Kate Hodgson, University of Liverpool Migration, Prefixes and Consequences: Fatou Diome Audrey Small, University of Sheffield (3) Questions of Genre: Cinema and Horror in French (A40) Chair: Guy Austin, University of Newcastle The Enigmatic and Tawdry Rebellion of Le Sadique aux dents rouges Paul Hegarty, University College Cork Trauma, Genre, Psychodynamics: François Ozon’s Ricky (2009) Jason Hartford, University of Stirling French Horror and the New Sincerity: Pascal Laugier’s Martyrs Tina Kendall, Anglia Ruskin University (4) A Journey Through the Underworld (A42) Chair: Diana Holmes, University of Leeds Au seuil des bas-fonds: les préfaces des ‘Mystères urbains’ Amy Wigelsworth, Durham University Au cœur des bas-fonds: romans et reportages français, 1849-1930 Dominique Kalifa, Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne Au-delà des bas-fonds: débats autour de la ‘mauvaise’ litérature, 1842-1914 Loïc Artiaga, Université de Limoges (5) Photography and Identity in French and Francophone Cultures (A39) Chair: Andy Stafford, University of Leeds Artistic Identities: Portraits of the Author in Nineteenth-Century France Kathrin Yacavone, University of Nottingham Making Images during the guerre sans images: Photography and the Algerian Civil War Joseph McGonagle, University of Manchester Where Is Home? Space, Photography and National Identity in Contemporary France Edward Welch, Durham University 4.45pm-5.15pm Tea/Coffee & Postgraduate Poster Session (Clive Granger Building foyer & A42) 5.15-6.30pm Plenary Lecture Two (Clive Granger Building, A48) Chair: Michael Moriarty, Peterhouse College, Cambridge Neil Kenny, All Souls, Oxford Tense and Posthumous Survival in Early Modern France 6.30pm Wine Reception (Don Rees Library, Hugh Stewart Hall) 7.15pm Buffet Dinner (Dining Room, Hugh Stewart Hall) Late bar (Hugh Stewart Hall) Tuesday 2nd July 8.00-9.00am Breakfast (Dining Room, Hugh Stewart Hall) 9.00-10.00am Annual General Meeting of the Society for French Studies (Clive Granger Building, A48) 9.00-10.30am Postgraduate Poster Session (Clive Granger Building, A42) 10.00-10.30am Tea/Coffee & Postgraduate Poster Session (Clive Granger Building foyer & A42) 10.30-12.30 PANEL SESSIONS TWO (Clive Granger Building) (1) Theoretical Approaches to Visual Culture Chair: Mairéad Hanrahan, University College London The Ethics of Visual Fascination in French Theory Maria Scott, National University of Ireland, Galway / University of Bristol Homosexuality, Virtuality and French Theory Enda McCaffrey, Nottingham Trent University Good Images versus Bad: Baudrillard’s Modern Televisual Culture and the Roman de Perceforest Sura Qadiri, University of Cambridge Pour une anthropologie des cultures visuelles: approches théoriques Daniel Dubuisson, CNRS & Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille (2) Enfer(s) et espaces sous-terrains (A39) Chair: Susan Harrow, University of Bristol Conversations aux Champs Élysées: représentations des Enfers dans les dialogues des morts Margaux Whiskin, University of St Andrews ‘Nous sommes tous sortis de la même pâte comme les pierres au sein de la terre’: The Underground and the Idea of Progress in Sand and Flaubert Manon Mathias, University of Aberdeen The Underwater World, Underground: Laforgue and Huysmans on the Berlin Aquarium Sam Bootle, University of St Andrews Underground Obstructions: The Louvre and The Bande Dessinée Margaret C. Flinn, The Ohio State University (3) Les bestsellers: lectures populaires françaises et francophones (A40) Chair: Simon Kemp, Somerville College, Oxford Fantômas ou comment un succès populaire est-il devenu une figure de proue de l’avant-garde artistique du début du vingtième siècle? Annabel Audureau, Université de La Rochelle Romancing the Other in Contemporary French Popular Literature Annamma Varghese, University of Melbourne Michel Houellebecq and the roman noir – Between détournement and homage Russell Williams, University of London Institute in Paris ‘Zarathustra of the Middle Classes’: on the Ambiguities of Michel Houellebecq as a Social Critic Hanna Meretoja, University of Turku, Finland (4) Les fantômes et les démons (A44) Chair: tbc Fantômes et écriture spectrale dans Mémorial de Cécile Wajsbrot et Auschwitz et après de Charlotte Delbo Nathalie Ségeral, Virginia Tech Demons, Sylphs, or Delusions? The Interpretive Labyrinth of Le Comte de Gabalis (1670) Daniel J. Worden, Princeton University ‘Quelqu’un […] m’a tuée’: Paroles et savoirs de femmes mortes dans Les fous de Bassan d’Anne Hébert Irena Trujic, Université de Lausanne Personnages de fantômes dans le théâtre contemporain français: de la représentation au spectacle Pierre Katuszewski, Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III (5) Swann Centenaire: Reading Proust, Then and Now (A45) Chair: Margaret E. Gray, Indiana University 'Un millésime vers lequel il ne m'était pas permis de remonter’: Publication and Legacy in Proust Edward J. Hughes, Queen Mary, University of London Proust, Nabokov and ‘the language of rainbows’ Emily Eells, Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense Cross-Dressing, Coming Out, and Reading in a Queer, Topsy-Turvy World Nathan Guss, Fort Lewis College, Colorado Testing Taste in Un Amour de Swann Hannah Freed-Thall, Princeton University 12.30-1.30pm Lunch (Dining Room, Hugh Stewart Hall) 1.30-2.45pm Plenary Lecture Three (Clive Granger Building, A48) Chair: Nicki Hitchcott, University of Nottingham Jean-Marc Moura, Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense Formes et études actuelles du rire en France 2.45-4.15 Choice of events * lakeside walk * visit from representatives of Nottingham Contemporary * campus gallery visit 4.15-5.45pm PANEL SESSIONS THREE (Clive Granger Building) (1) New Directions in Research on France and Africa (A41) Chair: Martin Evans, University of Sussex Enhancing the History of France in Africa: France, Rhodesia and the French Colonial Empire, 1947-1958 Joanna Warson, University of Portsmouth A Celebration of the Underworld: Entangling Dominant and Subaltern Histories in Mounsi’s La Noce des fous Jonathan Lewis, University of Portsmouth French African Policy: From Unilateralism to Multilateralism? Tony Chafer, University of Portsmouth (2) Réception populaire du cinéma populaire dans la France d'après-guerre (1945-1958) (A45) Chair: Sébastien Layerle, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III Jean Marais, star de Cinémonde (1946-1950) Delphine Chedaleux, Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III Perceptions du star-système français des années d'après-guerre dans Cinémonde Gwénaëlle Le Gras, Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III Le courrier des lecteurs de Cinémonde: une source pour une étude genrée de la réception ordinaire Geneviève Sellier, Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III (3) Creating Nature in the Middle Ages (A44) Chair: Emma Campbell, University of Warwick Artificial Animals, Pleasure, and Natural History in an Anglo-Norman Bestiary Jonathan Morton, New College, Oxford It’s Only Natural: Time in the Roman de Horn Alex Stuart, King’s College, Cambridge Sculpting Nature: Pygmalion and Medusa in Le Roman de la Rose and the Ovide moralisé Miranda Griffin, St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge (4) Multi-Media Adaptation: The Pull of Nineteenth-Century France (A39) Chair: Adam Watt, University of Exeter Radio and the Space of Adaptation: Diana Griffiths’s Madame Bovary (Radio 4, 2006) Kate Griffiths, Cardiff University Serial Offenders: Balzac, British Television, and the Adaptation of Private Life Andrew Watts, University of Birmingham Animating Animality through Dumas, D'Artagnan and Dogtanian Bradley Stephens, University of Bristol (5) Deux cultures? Le français et le latin de la Renaissance au 18e siècle (A40) Chair: Philip Ford, Clare College, Cambridge Bilingual Morality: The Uses of French and Latin in Henri Estienne’s Apologie pour Hérodote (1566) Jonathan Patterson, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge ‘Tu ad me rescribe, Gallicè saltem, si Latinè non potes’: French and Latin in Seventeenth-Century Correspondences Richard Maber, Durham University Between Two Cultures? Women Reading and Translating Horace in Eighteenth-Century France Russell Goulbourne, University of Leeds 6.00-7.00pm Free time 7.00pm Wine reception, supported by the Service Culturel of the Ambassade de France (Law and Social Sciences Building) 8.00pm Conference Dinner, followed by the R.H. Gapper Charitable Trust Awards (Book Prize, Graduate Essay, Undergraduate Essay) and the award of the Malcolm Bowie Prize. (Dining Room, Hugh Stewart Hall) Wednesday 3rd July 8.00-9.00am Breakfast (Dining Room, Hugh Stewart Hall) 9.00-11.00am PANEL SESSIONS FOUR (Clive Granger Building) (1) Transartistic Configuration and Cultural Mediation (A41) Chair: Rosemary Chapman, University of Nottingham Aki Shimazaki: Generic Instability as Didactic Intent Gabrielle Parker, Middlesex University Shadow Play: Recomposition in Gao Xingjian’s Cinema Rosalind Silvester, Queen’s University Belfast Cross-Rhythms, Across Cultures: Francophone Travel Narratives and Music Margaret Topping, Queen’s University Belfast Beyond Visuality: Transcultural, Transmedial Art in the Contemporary French-Speaking World Siobhán Shilton, University of Bristol (2) Contemporary French Cinema (A40) Chair: Susan Hayward, University of Exeter Decrypting Depression in Rivette’s Histoire de Marie et Julien Guy Austin, University of Newcastle The Politics of Representing Islam in the Workplace: Class Struggle and Religious Difference in Dernier Maquis (Ameur-Zaïmeche, 2008) Will Higbee, University of Exeter Pre-Existing Songs in Contemporary French Cinema: The Nostalgia for Community Phil Powrie, University of Surrey (3) Voices in Medieval French Narrative (A39) Chair: Emma Campbell, University of Warwick Voice, Genre and Gender in Medieval Lais Sophie Marnette, Balliol College, Oxford Picturing Narrative Voice: Displacement and Communication Helen Swift, St Hilda’s College, Oxford ‘Les voies dou pays d’Aquitaine’: Froissart’s Gascon narrators in the Voyage en Béarn Pauline Souleau, Merton College, Oxford (4) Translating Thought (A45) Chair: Christopher Johnson, University of Nottingham Translating from ‘Idea’ to ‘Multiculturalism’ (and between Sense and the Senses) Michael Syrotinski, University of Glasgow The Efficacity of Jargon: Translating Guattari Andrew Goffey, University of Nottingham Violence, Revolution, Theory: Frantz Fanon’s Les Damnés de la terre in Translation Kathryn Batchelor, University of Nottingham Translating Gender: From Thought to Language with Beauvoir and Irigaray Alison Martin, Nottingham Trent University (5) Textes-revenants (A44) Chair: Fiona Cox, University of Exeter After Adolphe Patrick O’Donovan, University College Cork Flaubert and Virgil’s Aeneid: Ghosts in the Text/Ghosts of the Text Stephen Goddard, St Catherine’s College, Oxford Reading and its Aftershocks: Literary Encounters in Assia Djebar’s Nulle part dans la maison de mon père Jane Hiddleston, Exeter College, Oxford Textual Afterlives in the Works of Linda Lê Gillian Ni Cheallaigh, King’s College London 11.00-11.30am Tea / Coffee & Postgraduate Poster Session (Clive Granger Building foyer & A42) 11.30-12.45pm Plenary Lecture Four (Clive Granger Building A48) Chair: Michael Syrotinski, University of Glasgow Emily Apter, New York University Translation at the Checkpoint: The Problem of Sovereign Borders in Literary Theory 12.45pm Lunch (Dining Room, Hugh Stewart Hall) End of conference.
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