Conference Programme

Monday 3rd July

10.00 Executive Committee Meeting

12.00 Registration

1:00 Lunch for Postgraduate Students

2.00 Plenary 1
Chair: Jean Duffy (University of Edinburgh)

Siân Reynolds (University of Stirling)
‘Paris–Edinburgh 1900’

3.30 Afternoon Tea

4.00 – 5.30 PANEL SESSIONS 1

1. Poetry, Music & Identity
Chair: David Gascoigne (University of St Andrews)

Peter Dayan (University of Edinburgh)
‘Satie Sporting with the Identity of Music, Poetry, and Socrates’

Paul Gifford (University of St Andrews)
‘Paul Valéry: Melos Maketh Man’

David Evans (St Andrews)
‘What is Music? What is Poetry? A Nineteenth-Century Identity Crisis’

2. Violence I
Chair: John Phillips (London Metropolitan University)

Hannah Wheeler (Wadham College, Oxford)
‘Senseless Sadism? Violence in the Old French Fabliaux and the Roman de Renart’

Anna Holland (St John’s College, Oxford)
‘Suicidal Selves: Identity, the Passions and Stoic “Self-Slaughter” in the late Renaissance’

Mary Orr (University of Southampton)
‘Powers Psychic and Profane: Rereading Violence in the “Sacred” in Flaubert’s Salammbô’

3. Incompletion
Chair: Céline Surprenant (University of Sussex)

Henriette Korthals Altes (New College, Oxford)
‘Reading the Other and the Unfinished Body of Characters’

Lucy O’Meara (University of Nottingham)
‘Barthes’s La Préparation du roman: Impossible by Design’

Laura McMahon (University of Cambridge)
‘A Touch Incomplete: Denis and Nancy’

4. Documentary Aesthetics
Chair: Keith Reader (University of Glasgow)

Margaret C. Flinn (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
‘Signs of the Times: Chris Marker’s Chats Perchés’

Nicholas Harrison (Kings College London)
‘Pontecorvo’s Documentary Aesthetics: Postcolonial Studies and La Bataille d’Alger.’

Julia Dobson (University of Sheffield)
‘From nature morte to autoportrait: Therapeutic Function in the Documentary Films of Dominique Cabrera’

5.45 Plenary 2
Chair: Diana Knight (University of Nottingham)

Jonathan Culler (Cornell University)
‘Reading Les Fleurs du Mal Today’

7:15 Reception hosted by Oxford University Press to mark the publication of the 100th number of French Studies Bulletin and the 60th Anniversary of French Studies.

8.00 Dinner

9.30 Informal Meeting for Postgraduate Students

Tuesday 4th July

7.45 – 8.45 Breakfast

9.00 – 10.00 Annual General Meeting of the Society for French Studies

10.00 – 11.00 Coffee & Postgraduate Poster Session

11.00 - 1.00 PANEL SESSIONS 2

1. Globalisation and Cultural Production
Chair: Michael Kelly (University of Southampton)

Vincent Bruyère (Université Laval)
‘Inventer un ethnoscape créole: la cartographie selon Chamoiseau’

Ruth Cruickshank (The Queen’s College, Oxford)
‘Film and the Food Chain: The Politics of Consumption in Moullet and Varda’

Raymond Kuhn (Queen Mary University of London)
‘Pushing Back and Reaching out: French Television in the Global Era’

Clare Finburgh (University of Essex)
‘The Mediatisation of Mass Media: Michel Vinaver’s 11 septembre 2001’

2. Genre and Experimentation
Chair: Kate Ince (University of Birmingham)

Agnieszka Steczowicz (University of Edinburgh)
‘Title as Genre: The Example of Paradox’

Claire Boyle (University of Stirling)
‘Ma vraie vie à Rouen: Confessional Narrative Goes Digital’

Susan Bainbrigge (University of Edinburgh)
‘Nicole Malinconi: Documenting Exile and Alienation’

3. Visions and Visionaries in the Seventeenth Century
Chair: Noël Peacock (University of Glasgow)

Corinne Bayerl (University of Chicago)
‘Poets, Mystics, Fanatical Soldiers: Denouncing Visionaries at Port-Royal’

Milad Doueihi (Independent Scholar)
‘Tabula cordis, Marguerite-Marie Alacoque: Between Vision and Politics’

Michel Fournier (Univeristy of Ottawa)
‘La vision sans mélancolie : poétique du fantasme dans Le Comte de Gabalis de l’abbé Montfaucon de Villars’

Richard Parish (St Catherine’s, Oxford)
‘Individual Inspiration and Hierarchical Authority: Means of Discernment in the Interpretation of Visions’

4. Les Lettres et les Sciences
Chair: Marian Hobson (Queen Mary University of London)

Stephen Bamforth (University of Nottingham)
‘Science and Literature in the Sixteenth Century’

Wilda Anderson (The Johns Hopkins University)
‘Hijacking Science: Napoleon’s De-evacuation of Letters’

Kate Rees (St Anne’s College, Oxford)
‘“Une langue étrangère, barbare.” Flaubert, Du Camp, and the Translation of Science’

Emer O’Beirne (University College Dublin)
‘Marc Augé’s Theoretical Fictions’

1.00 – 2.00 Lunch

2.00 – 4.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS 3

1. Beckett
Chair: Michael Sheringham (All Souls College, Oxford)

Mary Bryden (University of Cardiff)
‘“The Snowball Act”: Beckett’s Literary Pathfinding’

David Houston Jones (University of Exeter)
‘Forgetting Beckett: From Entropy to Despair’

Natalie Sheehan (New Hall, Cambridge)
‘Thresholds: Beckett and the Scapegoat’

Adam Watt (Trinity College Dublin)
‘Foirades, mirlitonnades: Form and Genre in Beckett’

2. Lesbian History, Writing and Culture
Chair: Ursula Tidd (University of Manchester)

Rebecca Linz (CUNY)
‘Penetrating Knowledge: Representations of Relations between Women in Sexual Texts of Early Modern France’

Aurora Wolfgang (California State University) and Sharon D. Nell (Loyola College)
‘”Une carte de tendre à la féminine”: Female Community and Exchange in Madeleine de Scudéry’s Lettres amoureuses de divers auteurs de ce temps (1641)’

Lucille Cairns (University of Durham)
‘Lesbian Desire in French and Francophone Cinema’

3. Transcultural Paris
Chair: Andrew Hussey (University of Wales Aberystwyth)

Katherine Gantz (St. Mary’s College of Maryland)
‘Défense d’afficher: Urban Annotations in Haussmannized Paris’

Sam Haigh (University of Warwick)
‘“Faites comme chez vous”: Hospitality and Humour in Pascal Légitimus’s Antilles-sur-Seine’

Lorna Milne (University of St Andrews)
‘Monumental Misdeeds: Rewriting French Identity with Claude Izner and Alix de saint André’

4. France and Scotland
Chair: James Laidlaw (University of Edinburgh)

Michael Fodor (Dartmouth College)
‘Lumières françaises et écossaises: les discours agricoles’

Michael Freeman (University of Bristol)
‘Robert Louis Stevenson’s France’

Victoria Reid (University of Liverpool)
‘“Ressurgir de l’ombre”: André Gide and James Hogg’

Janette McLeman-Carnie (University of Stirling)
‘Robert Burns, the Ploughman Poet, at the French Literary Salons’

4.00 - 4.30 Tea

4.30 – 5.45 Plenary 3

Michèle Le Doeuff (CNRS)
‘Une vision moins intimidante du travail philosophique’
Un dialogue avec Elizabeth Fallaize (St John’s College, Oxford)

6:45 Concert hosted by the Department of French, University of St Andrews

7:15 Reception hosted by the Institut Français du Royaume-Uni

8.00 Conference Dinner

9:30 R H Gapper Charitable Trust Awards

Book Prize: Roger Pearson (Queen’s College, Oxford) for Mallarmé and Circumstance: The Translation of Silence (Oxford University Press, 2004)

Graduate Essay Prize: Katja Haustein (Trinity Hall, Cambridge)

Undergraduate Essay Prize: Martin Robinson (University of Nottingham)

Wednesday 5th July

7.45 – 8.45 Breakfast

9.00 – 11.00 PANEL SESSIONS 4

1. Music and Cultural Identity
Chair: Peter Hawkins (University of Bristol)

Stéphanie Bérard (Bowdoin College)
‘Le tambour gwoka comme affirmation de l’identité guadeloupéenne’

Ludivine Isaffo (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris)
‘La musique comme propagande du régionalisme français au début du XXe siècle: l’exemple du compositeur Déodat de Séverac’

Colin Roust (University of Michigan)
‘“J’y suis!”: Georges Auric, French Musical Identity, and the Occupation’

Chris Tinker (Heriot-Watt University)
‘Johnny Hallyday: Icon of Transition’

2. Confessions
Chair: Alain Viala (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford)

Bruno Tribout (Paris IV-Sorbonne, Université de Montréal, NUI Maynooth)
‘Secret et production de soi dans les Mémoires de Retz’

Ruth Whelan (NUI Maynooth)
‘Confessions of a Justified Galley Slave: Converting Trauma into Narrative in Late Seventeenth-Century France’

John Whittaker (University of Nottingham)
‘A New Kind of Confession: Musset’s La Confession d’un enfant du siècle’

Eilene Hoft-March (Lawrence University)
‘La Reine du silence Goes Public: Confessions of a Writer’s Daughter’

3. Provincial Cities
Chair: John Flower (University of Kent)

Claire (University of Bristol)
‘Borderlands and Bibelots: Emile Gallé and fin-de-siècle Nancy’

Dominique Jeannerod (Trinity College Dublin)
‘Redécouverte littéraire et relégation provinciale de Strasbourg dans l’entre-deux-guerres’

Bill Kidd (University of Stirling)
‘Perpinyà la catalana or the Difficulties of Diaspora?’

Helen E. Beale (University of Stirling)
‘Designer flâneries? Experiencing City Spaces from Planned Path Systems
in Montpellier and Lyon.’

4. Violence II
Chair: Dr Renate Günther (University of Sheffield)

Nikolaj Lübecker (University of Aberdeen)
‘Somnolence and Violence in J’ai pas sommeil (Claire Denis)’

Katherine Roberts, (Wilfred Laurier University)
‘”Héros sublimés ou meurtriers fratricides”? Remembering Violence in Algerian Francophone Fiction and Film’

Renaud Lagabrielle (University of Vienna)
‘Homosexualité et violence(s) dans la littérature maghrébine: Un poisson sur la balançoire et Une promesse de douleur et de sang d’Eyet-Chékib Djaziri’

Jonathan Ervine (University of Leeds)
‘The Cycle of Violence in Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche’s Wesh Wesh, qu’est-ce qui se passe ?’

11.00 Coffee

11.30 – 12.45 Plenary 4
Chair: Michael Syrotinski (University of Aberdeen)

Charles Forsdick (University of Liverpool)
‘”Un spectre oublié”: The Afterlives of Toussaint Louverture’

1.00 Lunch

End of Conference

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