October
2009
WIFIS 2009 – Programme0
Women In French In Scotland (WIFIS)
International annual conference 2009
Featuring an exhibition and poetry reading
With the support of the Universities of Aberdeen and St Andrews
and of the Society for French Studies.
16 October 2009, Linklater Rooms, University of Aberdeen
Registration, tea and welcome from 4pm. An exhibition on contemporary poetry and the visual arts will be available. Guest speakers will be heard that evening:
5pm: Formal welcome by main organiser Clémence O’Connor
5.10: Professeure Béatrice Bonhomme, Université de Nice, ‘Marie-Claire Bancquart: l’exil comme genèse de l’œuvre’
6.10: Wine reception, display of visual-verbal artworks by Geneviève Guétemme
6.40: Dr Geneviève Guétemme, ‘Au seuil du texte’
7.30: Dinner and conference cake
8.45: Professeure Béatrice Bonhomme, poetry reading
Professeure Béatrice Bonhomme (Université de Nice) is an acclaimed and prolific poet and critic.
Dr Geneviève Guétemme is a Cambridge- and Orléans-based French artist in dialogue with contemporary French poetry. She will be presenting some of the displayed works for the first time.
17 October 2009, MacRobert 028, University of Aberdeen
Session 1: Embodying values
Chair: Dr Anne-Lise Feral, University of Edinburgh
9.30: Dr Lidia Radi, University of Richmond, ‘Claude de France, l’ange de Royale Mémoire à la cour de François 1er’
9.50: Professeure Martine Spensky, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont 2, ‘Républicanisme versus multiculturalisme: les femmes en otage’
10.10: Questions
10.25: Coffee break
Session 2: Women of letters
Chair: Dr Lidia Radi, University of Richmond
10.50: Dr Cécile Champonnois, Universités de Montréal et François Rabelais (Tours), ‘Des femmes de culture et de pouvoir : Mondaines, écrivaines, spectatrices et actrices au dix-huitième siècle’
11.10: Dr Adriana Bontea, University of Sussex, ‘Femmes par l’esprit’
11.30: Questions
Session 3: Crimes and transgressions
Chair: Caroline Verdier, University of Strathclyde
11.45: Professeure Lucie Lequin, Université Concordia, ‘L’écriture du soi et un certain théâtre de l’obscène dans les œuvres de Nelly Arcan, Ying Chen, Marie-Sissi Labrèche et Catherine Mavrikakis’
12.05: Dr Elise Hugueny-Léger, University of St Andrews, ‘Du fait divers à la mise en fiction : Thérèse Desqueyroux et Christine Villemin, ou le crime transformé en mythe’
12.25: Questions
12.40: Lunch
Session 4: New epistemologies
Chair: Dr Adriana Bontea, University of Sussex
14.00: Dr Adrienne Angelo, Auburn University, ‘Mourning in memoriam: Poetic Epistemology in Nathalie Rheims’s Lettre d’une amoureuse morte’
14.20: Clémence O’Connor, University of St Andrews, ‘Colour, Whiteness and the Unsaid in the Poetry of Heather Dohollau’
14.40: Dr Erika Fülöp, University of Aberdeen, ‘A World of Words: A Little Nothombian Epistemology’
15.00: Questions
15.15: Tea
Session 5: Filiations, creative and destructive
Chair: Dr Adrienne Angelo, Auburn University
15.45: Dr Áine Larkin, Trinity College Dublin, ‘The Ballet Body Beautiful: Pleasure and Pain in Amélie Nothomb’s Robert des noms propres’
16.05: Dr Katherine Roussos, ‘Un univers à soi : les inspirations créatrices de Christine de Pizan’
16.25: Michèle Schaal, Indiana University, ‘Virginie Despentes, une auteure de la troisième vague féministe’
16.45: Questions
17.00: End of event
For all information, contact clemence.oconnor@gmail.com
