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Women in French in Scotland

18 October 2008

The Mitchell Library, Glasgow

Provisional Programme

9.30    Tea/Coffee, Registration and Welcome

10.00 – 11.30                   Parallel sessions 1 & 2

Session 1                                                                         

Magalie Wagner (Université de Haute-Alsace)

Quand la femme prend les armes… : Renversement et travestissement  dans les Œuvres poétiques de Louise Labé (1555)

Katariina Närä (University of Sheffield)

‘Tout ce que il appartenoit a une noble et haulte dame’: representations of aristocratic female characters in Jean Froissart’s Chroniques Book IV

Jutta Hergenhan (Free University of Berlin)

Women and Language in Early Modern France

Session 2

Nelly Sanchez  (Université de Bordeaux 3)

Le roman féminin en France dans l’entre deux guerres (1918-1939)

Sandrine Aragon (Université de Lille 3)

Les représentations de lectrices dans la littérature française du XVIIe au XIXe siècle : femmes sous influence ou femmes libérées ?

11.30  Tea/Coffee break

12.00 – 1.00                   Parallel sessions 3& 4

Session 3                           

Sophie Bélot (University of Sheffield)

‘L’intimité vraie’ of Une Vraie jeune fille (1976/2000) by Catherine Breillat

Aedín Ní Loingsigh (University of Stirling)

Encrypted Desire in Marguerite Duras’s L’Amant de la Chine du Nordand Taos Amrouche’s Jacinthe noire

Session 4                                                       

Paola Ferruta (University of Bielefeld)

Ruse, dissimulation, écriture : l’histoire d’Euphrasie Rodrigues au coeur du saint-simonisme

Emilce Rees (Independent Researcher)

Hybridity and Academic Identity: the unmonastic Jedis

2.00 – 2.15   Baillie Liz Cameron (Lord Provost of Glasgow, 2003 – 2007)

2.15 – 3.15

Session 5: L’histoire des femmes en France                

Geneviève Dermenjian (Association Les Femmes et la Ville)

Les suffragistes et le mouvement féministe à Marseille

Linda Guerry (Université d’Avignon)

 Le service social d’aide aux femmes migrantes à Marseille (1918-1939)

3.15 – 4.15

Guided tour of the Special Collections of the Mitchell Library led by Marion Beaton (Archives and Special Collections Co-ordinator)

4.15 Tea/Coffee Break

4.45– 5.45                       Plenary Lecture                       

Françoise Thébaud (Université d’Avignon)

L’aventure intellectuelle de l’histoire des femmes et du genre en France

6.00  Drinks reception followed by optional conference dinner

For further details contact Elisabeth Campbell (Elisabeth.Campbell@uws.ac.uk), Joy Charnley (j.charnley@strath.ac.uk) or Caroline Verdier (caroline.verdier@strath.ac.uk)

The fact that 2008 marks the centenary of Simone de Beauvoir’s birth allows us to reflect on the place of women intellectuals in contemporary French society. Even if the last twenty years haven’t seen the rise of a Beauvoir-like figurehead who typifies the qualities of the intellectual, nevertheless, women have become increasingly involved in many different areas of intellectual life. Women have intervened in a range of domains: politics, culture, journalism, art, literature in a context which shows the growing interaction between the public and the private. 

This conference seeks to establish a picture of the different types of women’s interventions since Beauvoir’s death; it will also evaluate the role of French and French speaking women intellectuals in France and beyond. Throughout the course of this conference, we will look at the reasons why women intervene in the public arena and by what methods, for example, through the means of political/militant associations, academia as well as more formal politics. We hope, through this conference, to reappraise the link between engagement and women intellectuals and to consider the role played, and indeed, the role still to be played by women intellectuals in the sphere of culture, art, science, society and politics. 

Though the focus of the conference will be mainly on the two decades since Beauvoir’s death, papers that draw comparisons with historical exempla and thus allow us to extend the historical and/or geographical parameters in order to trace and compare the trajectories and characteristics of French and French speaking women intellectuals throughout the ages will also be welcomed.  

Proposals may include, but are not limited to, the following themes: 

-women and engagement-the concept of the intellectual in France, the evolution of the definition of the intellectual

-women intellectuals and the French speaking world

-women and the ‘death of French culture’

-journalism, new technologies and engagement

-literature and engagement-philosophy and intellectual life

-feminism today in France

-the heritage of women intellectuals

-the impact of feminism on women today and the future of feminism

-women intellectuals and political parties

-the debates on parité and laïcité

-the role of associations in engagement (Chiennes de gardes, Ni putes ni soumises…)

-engagement in art (plastic arts, cinema, music)

-French feminists and transnational links

 Abstracts for papers (in English or in French) of 300 words approx should be sent to the conference organisers: Elise Hugueny-Léger and Imogen Long, before 30th June 2008. We expect to publish the conference proceedings. 

Elise Hugueny-Léger, St Andrews University (esmh@st-andrews.ac.uk)

Imogen Long, Leeds University (i.j.t.long00@leeds.ac.uk) 

CALL FOR PAPERS

A one-day conference to be held at the Mitchell Library (Glasgow) on Saturday 18 October 2008 The annual Women in French in Scotland conference is organised by women academics in French departments at Scottish Universities and has two broad aims:

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We are pleased to inform you that Oxford Journals has published Joy Charnley’s article entitled Ni ennemie, ni rivale: Female friendship in works by Alice Rivaz, Anne-Lise Grobéty and Noëlle Revaz in Forum for Modern Language Studies.      

Abstract 

This article studies the theme of female friendship in work by three women writers from French-speaking Switzerland: La Paix des ruches by Alice Rivaz (1947), Pour mourir en février by Anne-Lise Grobéty (1969) and Rapport aux bêtes (2002) by Noëlle Revaz. The writers chosen for this study represent three generations, having been born in 1901, 1949 and 1968 respectively. The article compares and contrasts their different representations of friendships between women. Rivaz, writing before Le Deuxième sexe and the modern women’s movement, has a very idealistic view of relations between women, which she contrasts strongly with male–female interaction; Grobéty, writing in the wake of 1968 and during the early days of modern feminism, is perhaps more realistic but again sees men as potential threats to relationships between women; finally, Revaz is completely different since her female character is isolated from other women, dominated by the male narrator and sidelined. This article thus seeks to show how, over a period of sixty years, the theme of female friendship has been dealt with in different ways by women writers, and establishes links with changing attitudes to the women’s movement.

Key Words: Switzerland • women’s writing • feminism • friendship • littérature romande • novel • Rivaz, Alice • Grobéty, Anne-Lise • Revaz, Noëlle 

Here are the free-access links to the online article:  

Abstract: http://fmls.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/cqm118?
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Full Text: http://fmls.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/cqm118?
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PDF: http://fmls.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/cqm118?
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The 2009 event will be held at the University of Aberdeen and will be organised by Elizabeth Macknight and Clemence O’Connor.

 *‘The Legacies of Simone de Beauvoir’*

 University of Northumbria

 Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

 13th -15th June 2008

 Keynote Speakers: Professor Elizabeth Fallaize, Oxford University, UK and Sonia Kruks, Danforth Professor of Politics, Oberlin College, USA.

 CALL FOR PAPERS

 This international conference aims to re-evaluate Simone de Beauvoir’s contribution to 20th century fiction, autobiography, philosophy and politics. Her influence as a major intellectual figure in the history of post-war France will be considered. The conference will assess Beauvoir’s legacies in terms of her influence on subsequent  generations of writers and critics, both in France and internationally. Questions of reception, dissemination and translation of Beauvoir’s oeuvre will also be addressed, particularly in the light of recent publications. It is hoped that this focus on Beauvoir’s legacies will be of interest not only to Beauvoir scholars but also to those working in Gender Studies, Philosophy, 20th Century French fiction and life writing.

 Proposals are invited for papers lasting twenty minutes in French or English. Please send abstracts, in English or French, of not more than 350 words, to the conference organisers, Dr Alison Holland (alison.holland@northumbria.ac.uk) and Dr Susan Bainbrigge (susan.bainbrigge@ed.ac.uk), by Monday 19th November 2007.

New extended deadline: end January 2008.