2007 October 25 | Women In French In Scotland

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October
2007

Gisèle Pineau in Scotland0

Gisèle Pineau, renowned Guadeloupean novelist and writer of children’s fiction, will read from her work and answer questions from the audience at a special event hosted by the School of Modern Languages of the University of St Andrews on 16 November. The reading will take place in the Buchanan Building, Union Street, St Andrews, at 2.00pm. Admission is free and all are welcome. This event will be conducted in French and will be suitable for members of the public, senior school pupils and Undergraduates as well as researchers and University staff.
For directions and further information please contact Dr David Evans, dee3@st-andrews.ac.uk or Dr Elodie Laügt, el40@st-andrews.ac.uk

Mme Pineau will also be the guest of honour at this year’s Burn French Studies Conference, 16 - 18 November. Further details about the conference are available from Dr David Evans, dee3@st-andrews.ac.uk or Dr Elodie Laügt, el40@st-andrews.ac.uk

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October
2007

WIFIS 2007 - Conference Summary0

The sixth annual meeting of Women in French in Scotland (WIFIS) took place on 13 October 2007 at the Glasgow Women’s Library (www.womenslibrary.org.uk), the only women’s library in Scotland. The conference, organized by Joy Charnley and Caroline Verdier (Strathclyde), welcomed participants from throughout Britain as well as from the universities of Ottawa and British Columbia. Conference panels took up the Québécois writer Hélène Monette, chick media, and women’s letter writing, including as yet unpublished letters written to Lucie Dreyfus at the height of the Dreyfus Affair, the letters of nineteenth-century aristocratic girls, and the letters of Flora Tristan. At the WIFIS round table, Professors Lorna Milne (St Andrews), Siân Reynolds (Stirling), and Mary Orr (Southampton) discussed career strategies and pitfalls specific to the experience of women in higher education. The WIFIS plenary was given by Thérèse Moreau (Lausanne), who asked, ‘Les femmes sont-elles solubles dans la démocratie française?’ The organizers remain grateful for financial support to the University of
Strathclyde and the Alliance Française de Glasgow. Next year’s meeting, broadly themed around ‘Women’s History/ L’Histoire des femmes’ will take place in Glasgow on 18 October and will welcome historians from Marseilles as part of the Glasgow/Marseilles Twin Towns Programme. For more information, please visit the WIFIS blog at http://wifis.edublogs.org. (Report by Amy Wygant, Glasgow).

Posted: Information

25
October
2007

WIFIS 2007 - Pictures0

Click on the following thumbnails to see a few pictures taken on the day.

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25
October
2007

Thank you!!!0

The WIFIS 2007 conference was a great success and we would like to thank everyone for their enthusiastic participation and enlightening contributions. Special thanks to the Glasgow Women’s Library Team for their behind-the-scenes work, fantastic support on the day and documentation of the event…Compromising pictures will soon be posted on the blog. If you wish to get a copy of the pictures taken on the day, e-mail me: caroline.verdier@strath.ac.uk

Thanks again to everyone
Vive WIFIS!

Caroline & Joy

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