The Society for French Studies 51st Annual Conference
5-7 July 2010 Swansea University
Plenary speakers: John Lyons, Stanley Péan, Agnès Spiquel, Emma Wilson
The Society for French Studies is delighted to announce its 51st Annual Conference, to be held at the University of Swansea, 5-7 July 2010. Programme below.
Registration forms can be downloaded from the Society's website:
http://www.sfs.ac.uk/conference.htm
Payment is by cheque or via Paypal (surcharges apply). All those registering must return a registration form to the conference officer, Dr Adam Watt (contact details are on the registration forms).
Early registration rates are available for those booking up to and including 30 April 2010. Standard-rate booking will remain open up to and including 1 June 2010, which is the absolute deadline for registration. Preferential rates for post-graduate students and retired members of the Society are available.
Any queries about the conference should be addressed to the Conference Officer, adam.watt@rhul.ac.uk.
SFS Conference 2010 Programme
Monday 5 July 2010
12.00à Registration
12.00-13.00 Session for postgraduate students with lunch
12.30-1.30 Buffet Lunch for all delegates
1.30 -2.45 Welcome and Plenary Lecture One (Lecture Theatre)
CHAIR: TBC
Emma Wilson (University of Cambridge)
‘Accompanying Jacques Demy: On some recent works by Agnès Varda'
2.45-3.15 Afternoon Tea & Postgraduate Poster Session
3.15-4.45 PANEL SESSIONS ONE
Theories of the Visual
CHAIR: TBC
Manon Mathias (University of Oxford)
‘Conceptions of vision and the novels of George Sand'
Victoria H.F. Scott (New York)
‘A Genealogy of the Spectacle: The French Reception of Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School'
Juliet Simpson (Buckinghamshire New University)
‘Wall-power: Brassaï, Picasso and the Art of the Street'
Katie Kirtland (University of Chicago)
‘What was photogénie?'
Language Policy in the French and Francophone World
CHAIR: TBC
Michelle Harrison (University of Liverpool)
‘Language-in-Education Policy in Alsace: A Case Apart?'
Robert Blackwood (University of Liverpool)
‘Decoding France's linguistic landscape: written language practices in urban spaces'
Yves Montenay (NGO)
‘Analogie et résultats des politiques langagières maghrébines'
Medieval Ekphrasis
CHAIR: James Simpson (University of Glasgow)
Colette Van Coolput-Storms (Université catholique de Louvain)
‘Le piège mortel du château de l'Épervier : sur le châtiment de Mélior chez Jean d'Arras et Coudrette'
Lorna Bleach (University of Sheffield)
‘The literary magician: Jean Renart's tricks with cups and rings'
Natasha Romanova (University of Liverpool)
‘The dangers of embroidery: Ekphrasis in Renaut's Galeran de Bretagne'
La littérature-monde en français
CHAIR: TBC
Bronwen Martin (Birkbeck)
‘Le Clézio and World Literature in French'
Aude Campmas (King's College, London)
‘Le Sang des promesses de Wajdi Mouawad: tétralogie /tératologie'
Ileana Chirila (Duke University)
‘La littérature transculturelle d'expression française, ou comment réinventer la République des Lettres'
4.45-5.15 Tea/Coffee & Postgraduate Poster Session
5.15-6.30 Plenary Lecture Two (Lecture Theatre)
CHAIR: Michael Moriarty (Queen Mary, University of London)
John Lyons (University of Virginia)
‘Literary Chance: from Fortune to Randomness in Seventeenth-Century France'
7.15 Wine Reception
8.00 Dinner
Tuesday 6 July 2010
7.45-8.45 Breakfast
9.00-10.00 Annual General Meeting of the Society for French Studies (Lecture Theatre)
9.00-10.30 Postgraduate Poster Session
10-10.30 Tea/Coffee and Postgraduate Poster Session
10.30-12.30 PANEL SESSIONS TWO
Atheism
CHAIR: TBC
Chris Watkin (University of Cambridge)
‘To Have Done with Atheism? Quentin Meillassoux's L'Inexistence divine'
Helen Tattam (University of Nottingham)
‘The Religious Significance of Atheism? Faith in the Philosophies of Gabriel Marcel and Paul Ricoeur'
Thierry Durand (Linfield College, Oregon)
‘Fiction, désastre et damnation chez E. Darley, Ph. Renonçay et Ph. Raymond-Thimonga'
Translation, Adaptation, Appropriation 1
CHAIR: TBC
Rebecca Dixon (University of Leeds)
‘Cultural Appropriation and Conspicuous Consumption in Burgundy:The Case of Girart de Roussillon (1447)'
Emma Campbell (University of Warwick)
‘Translation and Adaptation in Rutebeuf's Miracle de Théophile'
Emma Gilby (University of Cambridge)
‘Appropriating Aristotle: Going Against One's Better Judgement in Early Modern France'
Friendship
CHAIR: TBC
Laura Burch (Dominican University, Illinois)
‘Practically Speaking: Rethinking Friendship in Madeleine de Scudéry's Conversations'
Olivier Delers (Univeristy of Richmond, USA)
‘“Le dangereux dépôt”: Friendship and Escrow Economy in Rousseau's La Nouvelle Héloise'
Peter Vantine (University of Indiana)
‘“Comme un livre en deux volumes”: Fraternity, Friendship and the Artist in the Goncourts' Journal and Novels'
Anna Kemp (University of Oxford)
‘The art of friendship in the work of Amélie Nothomb'
French Cinema
CHAIR: TBC
Gabrielle Houbre (Paris 7)
‘Du politique en cinéma: l'exemple des films sur la jeunesse délinquante (premier 20e siècle)'
Keith Reader (University of Glasgow)
‘Raymond Bernard's Les Misérables (1934): a forgotten classic, a fourfold exclusion'
Rae Beth Gordon (University of Connnecticut/Paris 8)
‘The Context of Theories of Illusion and Hallucination for Early French Cinema'
Kari Evanson (New York University)
‘Jacques Prévert: Reporting and the Screen'
12.30-1.30 Lunch
1.30-3.00 PANEL SESSIONS THREE
Poetic Writing and Practice in French (1990-2010)/ Écritures et pratiques poétiques de langue française des vingt dernières années
CHAIR: Andrew Rothwell, Swansea
Eric Giraud (Centre international de poésie, Marseille)
‘La traduction et la page in Vengeance du traducteur de Brice Matthieussent (2009)'
Eric Pesty (Centre international de poésie, Marseille)
‘Claude Royet-Journoud: une bibliographie'
Nina Parish (University of Bath)
‘Virtual Verse: Digital Transformations of Poetic Space'
Emma Wagstaff (University of Birmingham)
‘The Poem as Event: Time in the work of Philippe Beck'
Translation, Adaptation, Appropriation 2
CHAIR: TBC
Derek Connon (University of Swansea)
‘Jean's just Wild(e) about Oscar: Cocteau's Portrait surnaturel de Dorian Gray'
Carole Maccotta (University of North Carolina)
‘Appropriation culturelle et corporelle dans l'Anthologie Nègre de Blaise Cendrars (1921)'
Clémence O'Connor (University of St Andrews)
‘Poetry as a Foreign language: Heather Dohollau and her “Daughter Tongue”'
Twenty-first-century Novel
CHAIR: TBC
Simon Kemp (University of Oxford)
‘Objet littéraire non-identifié: Pascal Quignard's Dernier Royaume Sequence and the Edges of Fiction'
Alison James (University of Chicago)
‘François Bon and the Returns of the Novel'
Erika Fülöp (unaffiliated)
‘Books on Nothing 2009'
Gerald Moore (University of Oxford)
‘La Fin du siècle deleuzo-nietzschéen? The Eternal Returns of Michel Houellebecq'
Orality and Oralisation: a Linguistic Perspective
CHAIR: Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Janice Carruthers (Queen's University Belfast)
‘Memorisation, oralisation, performance: framing strategies and narrative structure'
Mairi McLaughlin (University of California at Berkeley)
‘The oralisation of reported speech in news agency dispatches'
Sophie Marnette (University of Oxford)
‘Thought presentation in Medieval French lais and fabliaux'
3.00-3.30 Afternoon Tea & Postgraduate Poster Session
3.30-4.45 Plenary 3 (Lecture Theatre)
CHAIR:
Agnès Spiquel (Université de Valenciennes)
‘De L'Envers et l'Endroit au Premier Homme : continuités et ruptures dans l'oeuvre d'Albert Camus'
5.00-7.00 Free time: visits to be confirmed
7.15 Wine reception
8.00 Conference dinner
9.30 R H Gapper Charitable Trust Awards (Book Prize, Graduate Essay, Undergraduate Essay)
Malcolm Bowie Prize
Wednesday 7 July 2010
7.45-8.45 Breakfast
9.00-10.15 Plenary Lecture Three (Lecture Theatre)
CHAIR: TBC
Stanley Péan, writer
Title TBC*
10.15-10.45 Tea/Coffee and Postgraduate Poster Session
10.45-12.45 PANEL SESSIONS FOUR
Drama and Adaptation
CHAIR: Ann Lewis (Birkbeck)
James Ambrose (University of Oxford)
‘Philosophy or Philology? Translating Seneca's drama in Early Modern France'
Cécile Dudouyt (University of Oxford)
‘Voltaire's Oreste: A vindication of Sophocles in 18th-century France'
Dominic Glynn (University of Oxford)
‘Adapting history in Ariane Mnouchkine's Les Atrides'
Ruth G. Vorstman (University of Oxford)
‘The Adaptation of Novels for the Seventeenth-Century Theatre'
Alternative Itineraries: Contemporary Travel Narratives in French
CHAIR: Charles Forsdick
Martin Hurcombe (University of Bristol)
‘From Republican Solidarity to the Totalitarian Republic: Four Narratives of the Journey to Republican Spain'
Angela Kershaw (University of Birmingham)
‘“For lust of knowing what should not be known”: Ethel Mannin, Ella Maillart and the Journey to Russia in the 1930s'
Kathryn Jones (Swansea University)
‘Travel and the ethical imperative: Twenty-first-century voyageurs engagés'
Jean-Xavier Ridon (Nottingham University)
‘Lenteur et interstices ou le symptôme de la tortue'
Camus (ROOM)
CHAIR: TBC
Mark Philip Orme (University of Central Lancashire)
‘From Pacifism to Resistance: The Case of Albert Camus'
Christine Margerrison (University of Lancaster)
‘Islam: Camus's Nemesis?'
Nikolaj Lubecker (University of Aberdeen)
‘Camus, Bataille and the Moral of Revolt'
Textual, Disciplinary and Archival Incorporations
CHAIR: TBC
Larry Duffy (University of Queensland)
‘Disciplinary Struggle, Incorporation and Contamination in Madame Bovary'
Vladimir Kapor (University of Western Australia)
‘What is Archeological about Nineteenth-Century “Archeofictions”?'
David Houston Jones (University of Exeter)
‘Archive, Knowledge and Event: Beckett's Archives'
1.00 Lunch and close