Women In French In Scotland

WIFIS 2009 – Call for paper0

 WOMEN IN FRENCH IN SCOTLAND

A one-day conference to be held at the University of Aberdeen

on Saturday 17 October 2009

Old Senate Room, King’s College

Wine reception with poetry reading and presentation of visual-verbal dialogues from 6p.m. on Friday 16 October 2009

Linklater Rooms, King’s College

featuring

Béatrice Bonhomme and Geneviève Guétemme

 The annual Women in French in Scotland conference is organised by women academics in French departments at Scottish Universities and has two broad aims:

- to promote scholarly exchange based on research in French Studies by or about women

- to maintain a network of contacts amongst women teaching and researching in French Studies

http://wifis.edublogs.org/

 Abstracts (200 words) are invited for 20-minute papers in English or in French on topics concerning women in any area of French Studies. Offers of papers on teaching issues and non-literary topics (translation, politics, history, media) are very welcome. Please send abstracts (and queries) to the organisers Elizabeth Macknight (e.macknight@abdn.ac.uk) and Clémence O’Connor (clemence.oconnor@googlemail.com) by May 31st, 2009.

 Further details

WIFIS conferences are warm, stimulating, interdisciplinary events. This year the venue will be at the heart of the 14th-century campus of King’s College, Old Aberdeen, a green and charming location, only a 15-minute walk from the North Sea and a coastal nature reserve. A postgraduate / low wage fee will be available.

                       Accommodation

 King’s Hall www.abdn.ac.uk/kingshall

King’s College, Aberdeen

Tel: +44 (0) 1224 273444

The Jays Guest House www.jaysguesthouse.co.uk

422 King Street, Aberdeen

Tel: +44 (0)1224 638 295

Lillian Cottage www.lilliancottage.com

442 King Street, Aberdeen

Tel: +44 (0)1224 636947

 Professeure Béatrice Bonhomme (Université de Nice) is a prolific poet and critic. She will give a talk on ‘Marie-Claire Bancquart: l’exil comme genèse de l’œuvre’ and will read a selection of her own poems.

For a bibliography, see her page on Poezibao:
http://poezibao.typepad.com/poezibao/2006/10/batrice_bonhomm.html
She is also the editor of Nu(e):
http://www.revue-nue.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=3

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