Program
Details
are subject to change. Consult the conference web-site regularly for updated
information http://www.fsu.edu/~icffs/.
Except where stated, all sessions take place in the Doubletree Hotel.
THURSDAY,
APRIL 1
| 10:00
am- 5:00 pm - Registration |
10:30 am
- 12:00 noon -
Panels
| Panel
1A - Adams Park, Doubletree Hotel |
Cinémas
Sans Frontières
Chair: Annie
D. Trégouët (University of Florida) |
- Véronique
Flambard Weisbart (Loyola Marymount University) -
Cinéma transnational français: Les films de
Christophe Gans
- Lenuta
Giukin (SUNY Oswego) - The Dilemma of Cultural
Encounters: Representations of Gypsies in French Television
and Cinema
- Laurence
Huughe (Mount Holyoke College) - Asterix et Obelix
Mission Cléopâtre d’Alain Chabat: Multiculturalisme
à la française
|
| Panel
1B - Salon A, Doubletree Hotel |
Morocco
Chair:
Doris Gray (Florida State University)
|
- Samira
Hassa (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- De l’Avenue de France au Boulevard Hassan II: 50
ans de transformation dans les dénominations de l’espace
urbain de Fes (Maroc)
- Victoria
B. Korzeniowska (University of Surrey, UK) –
Space, Performativity and Identification in French language
women’s magazines in Morocco
|
| Panel
1C - Salon B, Doubletree Hotel |
Corps enlacés: le couple tourmenté
France-Algérie
Chair
Organizer: Valérie Loichot (Emory University) |
- Valérie
Loichot (Emory University) – Portrait de
Pépé en odalisque: l’Orientalisation de
la France dans Pépé le Moko
- Nabil
Boudraa (Oregon State University)
– Violence, métissage et partage dans
Nedjma de Kateb Yacine
- Stéphanie
Boulard (Emory University) –
Hélène Cixous: la porte ou les stigmates d’une
perte
|
| Panel
1D - Florida Room Center (2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
Private/Public
Differences
Chair:
Lori J. Walters (Florida State University) |
- Regina
Bartolone (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
- Spheres of Pain: Private Pain in to Public Art in the
Works of Marguerite Duras and Frida Kahlo
- Alex
Hughes (University of Birmingham, UK) - Beijing
Bodies
- Stéphane
Spoiden (University of Michigan-Dearborn) - Clivage
|
| Panel
1E - Florida Room East (2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
Gender/Genre
Difference and the Love Story
Chair
and Organizer:
Diana
Holmes (University of Leeds, UK) |
- Diana
Holmes (University of Leeds, UK) - Best-sellers
and Literary Hits: Contemporary Romance in France
- Gill
Rye (University of London, UK) - L’histoire
d’amour chez Christine Angot: Romance or Betrayal
- Elizabeth
Fallaize (University of Oxford, UK) - Short Stories
and the Romance Narrative
|
| Panel
1F - Florida Room West (2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
Asia
Chair:
Samuel
Jamier (Cultural Services of the French Embassy)
|
- Sylvie
E. Blum-Reid (University of Florida)
- Khmer Memories or filming from the Franco-Cambodian Diaspora
Perspective
- Dauda
Yillah (University of Oxford, UK) – Silencing
Diversity In Pursuit of A Supposed Totality: The Aporias of
Duras’s Universalizing Gaze
- Samuel
Jamier (Cultural Services of the French Embassy) -
Médiations surréalstes dans le cinéma
coréen contemporain
|
| 12:00
noon-1:30 pm – Lunch Break |
1:30 pm
- 3:00 pm - Panels
| Panel
2A - Salon A, Doubletree Hotel |
Entre
Chair et Chimère: Le Corps Contemporain au Croisement des Sciences
et de la Littérature
Chairs and
Organizers: Christine Détrez (Ecole Normale Supérieure
de Lyon, France) and Anne Simon (CNRS, France) |
- Christine
Détrez (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France) -
La construction sociale du corps féminin dans le
roman contemporain
- Bénédicte
Gorrillot (Université de Valenciennes, France) - Le
corps éclaté de la poésie moderne à
l’épreuve du travail de la cohérence
- John
Lambeth (Washington and Lee University) - Marasmes:
Figurations du corps féminin dans Splendid Hôtel de
Marie Redonnet
- Anne
Simon (CNRS, France) - L'organique dans le roman
féminin contemporain
|
| Panel
2B - Adams Park, Doubletree Hotel |
September 11
Chair:
Steve Puig (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
- Kevin
Elstob (California State University)
- September 11th, 2001- France/USA: Recent works by Michel
Vinaver and Damien Perez and Frédéric Vignale
- Paul
Kelley (Midlands Technical College) – 9/11
and the French Contemporary Novel: Beigbeder’s Windows
on the World, Goupil’s Le jour de mon retour
sur terre, and Lang’s 11 septembre mon amour
- François
Lagarde (University of Texas) – Penser au
11 Septembre, Penser à Soi
|
| Panel
2C - Leon Room (2nd floor), Doubletree
Hotel |
Cinéma post-colonial: du hijab à
l'écran
Chair:
Martine Guyot-Bender (Hamilton College)
Organizer:
Florence
Martin (Goucher College) |
- Florence
Martin (Goucher College) – Satin Rouge de
Raja Amari: les dessous de la toile
- Maryse
Fauvel (College of William and Mary) – Inch’Allah
Dimanche de Yamina Benguigui: portrait de femme sans voile
|
| Panel
2D - Salon B, Doubletree Hotel |
The French Atlantic (I)
Chair:
Darrin McMahon (Florida State University) |
- Bill
Marshall (Glasgow University, UK)
- The French Atlantic
- Charles
Stivale (Wayne State University) - Hot Fusion in
the Summertime: Zydeco Will Never Die
- Jarrod
Hayes (University of Michigan) - Eatin’ Tail,
Suckin’ Head: Queer Talk about Food in French America
|
| Panel
2E - Florida Room East (2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
Theorizing Postcolonialism
Chair:
Martine Antle (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
- David
Murphy (University of Stirling, UK) - Is there
a Francophone Postcolonial Theory?
- Gerald
Prince (University of Pennsylvania) - On a Postcolonial
Narratology
-
Jane Hiddleston (University of Warwick, UK) - Specific
Difference and Singular Diversity in the Work of Assia Djebar
|
| Panel
2F - Florida Room West (2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
Differences in the Regions: Language, Literature, Identity, Recognition
Chair
Organizer: William Calin (University of Florida) |
- Matthew
Lazen (Harvard University)
- Regional Cultures and the Politics of Recognition
- Stanley
F. Levine (University of South Carolina at Aiken) –
Imagined Communities: The Representation of ‘Occitanophonia’
in Occitan Prose Fiction
- Danièle
Buchler (University of Florida) – Le Cercle
dystopique dans L’Icòna dins l’iscla, roman
occitan de Robert Lafont
|
| 3:00
pm-3:30 pm – Coffee |
3:30
pm - 5:00 pm - Panels
| Panel
3A - Room Name (Leon Room, 2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
Les
nouveaux westerns: Post(colonial) Reinventions and Borrowings
Chairs and
Organizers: Peter J. Bloom (University of California,
Santa Barbara) and Sylvie Durmelat (Georgetown
University) |
- Peter
J. Bloom (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- Ousmane Sow’s Battle of Little Bighorn: Cinematic
Sculpture and Transformations of the Battle Scene
- Mark
McKinney (Miami University, Ohio) - The Maghrebi
Western in Comics and Graphic Novels
- Philip
Watts (University of Pittsburgh) - France’s
Far West, 1950-1970
|
| Panel
3B - Florida Room East (2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
La
laideur dans tous ses états
Chair
Organizer: Martine Guyot-Bender (Hamilton College) |
- Catherine
Poisson (Wesleyan University)
- Du visage au monument
- Véronique
Maisier (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)
– Visions, cauchemardesques dans Mangeclous d’Albert
Cohen
- Martine
Guyot-Bender (Hamilton College) – Délectation
envers les moches et les méchants chez Amélie
Nothomb
- Frédérique
Chevillot (University of Denver) – Gargouilles,
sorcières et autres lilliputiennes dans l’œuvre
de Béatrix Beck
|
| Panel
3C - Florida Room West (2nd floor),
Doubletree Hotel |
Governing Regional Diversity
Chair:
Michael Creswell (Florida State University) |
- Alistair
Cole (Cardiff University, UK) – Decentralisation
in France: Back to Grass Roots or Steering at a Distance
- Anne
Judge (University of Surrey, UK)
– Linguistic Legislation & Governmental Intervention
since the Signing of the Charter
- Michael
Leruth (The College of William and Mary) –
The Republican Faith in Pieces
|
| Panel
3D - Florida Room Center (2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
Cosmopolitisme
et Universalisme Chez Marguerite Yourcenar
Chair
and Organizer: Anne
Berthelot (University of Connecticut) |
- Alain
Lescart (University Of Connecticut) - Le Cosmopolitisme
errant oriental de Marguerite Yourcenar dans le conte Wang-Fu
fut sauvé: Une spirale imaginaire de sublimation
de l’oppression
- Margaret
Colvin (University of Connecticut) - Yourcenar’s
Protagonists and the Entre-Deux
- Anne
Berthelot (University of Connecticut) - Le Leurre
cosmopolite dans Souvenirs Pieux et Le Tour de
la Prison
|
| Panel
3F - Adams Park, Doubletree Hotel |
Secrets
et révélations: la sexualité dans les écrits contemporains
Chairs
and Organizers: Frédérique Arroyas (University of Guelph,
Canada) and Dawn Cornelio (University of Guelph,
Canada) |
- Frédérique
Arroyas (University of Guelph, Canada)
- La lecture dans tous ses états: réactions
médiatiques à la littérature érotique
nouvelle vague
- Dawn
Cornelio (University of Guelph, Canada) – Le
je(u) des perspectives: l’art de la séduction chez
Camille Laurens
- Peter
Consenstein (Borough of Manhattan Community College)
– Perec et Garrétta: Tu m’es qui je suis
|
| 5:00
pm-5:25 pm – Complimentary bus shuttle to the Florida State
University Campus |
5:30
pm - 6:35 pm - Plenary Session
5:30
pm-5:35 pm – Welcoming Address :
Dean Donald J. Foss, College of Arts &Sciences, Florida State
University
|
| Plenary
Session |
Location:
Werkmeister
Reading Room, Dodd Hall
Chair: Alec
G Hargreaves (Florida State University) |
La
Différence en France:
Réalités sociales et culturelles, débats d'idées et politiques publiques.
Trois cas distincts. |
| Speaker:
Michel
Wieviorka (CADIS, Paris) |
| 6:35
pm-7:00 pm – Complimentary bus shuttle to Doubletree Hotel |
| 7:00
pm-8:00 pm – Cash Bar, Doubletree Hotel |
FRIDAY,
APRIL 2
| 8:00
am- 5:00 pm - Registration |
8:30 am -
10:00 am - Panels
| Panel
4A - Salon A, Doubletree Hotel |
Envisioning
Difference
Chair: Lucy
McNeece (University of Connecticut) |
- Sam
DiIorio (Hunter College) - Introduction to the
Art of Combat: Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and Présence
Africaine
- Jane
Kuntz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- The Call of the Wild: Dance in Two “Tunisian”
Films
- Lucy
McNeece (University of Connecticut) - Culture
écrite en trompe l’oeil: Une lecture idéographique
du cinéma arabe
|
| Panel
4B - Adams Park, Doubletree Hotel |
Amélie pas jolie? Constructions/Deconstructions of French Identities
Chair
and Organizer: Alain Gabon (Virginia Wesleyan College) |
- Marie-Pierre
Caquot Baggett (South Dakota State University)
- Amélie, vraiment ‘pas jolie’?: Globalization
Anxiety in Jeunet’s Amélie
- Sylvie
Waskiewicz (New York University) – Ça
c’est Paris? Identity and Community in Le Fabuleux
Destin d’Amélie Poulain and Chacun cherche
son chat.
- Helga
Druxes (Williams College) – A Nation of Bricoleurs
in Amélie and Les Triplettes de Belleville
|
| Panel
4C - Salon B, Doubletree Hotel |
The Mise en scène of Art and Artist
in Twentieth-Century France
Chair
Organizer: Priya Wadhera (Columbia University) |
- Jorge
Calderon (McGill University) – Aléas
de l’art : “Jonas ou l’artiste au travail”
d’Albert Camus
- Priya
Wadhera (Columbia University)
– A prescient reflection: protagonist as narrator
in the oeuvre of Georges Perec
- Cybelle
McFadden Wilkens (Duke University) –
Filmmaking, Gleaning, and Painting: Agnès Varda’s
meditation on art
|
| Panel
4D - Florida Room West (2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
Writing Difference
Chair:
William J. Cloonan
(Florida State University) |
- Jordan
Stump (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)- The Marginal
Manuscript
|
| Panel
4E - Florida Room East (2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
The Maghreb and its Diaspora
Chair:
Zeina Schlenhoff (Florida State University) |
- Monique
Rodrigues Balbuena (Harvard University) - The Harp,
the Lyre, in Major and Minor Chords: Francophonie Revisited
in a Reading of Sadia Lévy
- Giulia
Fabbiano (Università degli studi di Siena Italy) -
L’ethnicité anormale des enfants de harkis
- Michael
Willis (Al Akhawayn University, Morocco) - Political
Dimensions of Berber (Amazigh) Identity in North Africa: The
Persistence of French and Francophone Influences?
|
| Panel
4F - Leon Room (2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
Verbalizing
Difference
Chair:
Esa Christine Hartmann (University of North Carolina at
Greensboro) |
- Grace
An (Cornell University)
- A Barbarian to His Book: Michaux’s Vision for a
Technology of Encounter
- Lionel
Cuillé (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lettres et Sciences Humaines,
Lyon, France) – Le paradoxe Alain Finkielkraut
ou: “comment peut-on être français”?
- Christopher
Johnson (University of Nottingham, UK) – Before
Babel: language and languages of Lévi-Strauss
|
| 10:00
am-10:30 am – Coffee |
10:30
am - 12:00 noon - Panels
| Panel
5A - Adams Park, Doubletree Hotel |
Film
through the Lens of Difference: Chris Marker and Alain Resnais
Chair and
Organizer: Sarah Cooper (University of Cambridge, UK) |
- Sarah
Cooper (University of Cambridge, UK) - Chris Marker’s
Images of Difference
- Emily
Tomlinson (University of London, UK) - Mourning
the Other, Mourning the Self: Difference and Derangement in
the Work of Chris Marker and Alain Resnais
- Emma
Wilson (University of Cambridge, UK) - Oblivion,
Difference and the Modern City: Hiroshima mon amour
|
| Panel
5B - Salon A, Doubletree Hotel |
Diasporas
Chair:
Steve Ungar (University of Iowa) |
- David
Caron (University of Michigan)
- How I Remember What I have Never Known: Diaspora and the
Formation of Communities
- Corinne
D. Mann-Morlet (Pennsylvania State University) –
The Interior Diaspora in Hélène Cixous’s
Le jour où je n’étais pas là
- Steve
Ungar (University of Iowa) – Walking in Another’s
Footsteps: Tracking Modiano’s Dora & Sebald’s
Austerlitz
|
| Panel
5C - Salon B, Doubletree Hotel |
(Un-)Veiling Difference
Chair:
Sahar Amer (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
- Nicholas
Harrison (University College London, UK) – The
Literary Veil
- Nacira
Guénif-Souilamas (Université Paris 13, France)
–
Le masque vertueux de l’assignation à la difference
dans la France post-coloniale et post-nationale
- Dayna
Oscherwitz (Southern Methodist Unversity) –
100% Invisible: Islam, Integration and Cinema
|
| Panel
5D - Florida Room East (2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
Theorizing
Diversity
Chair:
Ora Avni (Yale University) |
-
Philippe Carrard (University of Vermont) - Diversity:
The Historians’ Take
- Martin
Crowley (Queens College, UK) - Les Amitiés
de Robert Antelme
- Judith
Still (University of Nottingham, UK) - The figure
of l’hote
|
| Panel
5E - Florida Room West (2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
Trans-Atlantic
Crossings
Chair:
James G. Mitchell (Florida State University) |
- Jessica
S. Miller (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Valeurs marchandes des anglicismes : images symboliques
de modernité, de nouveauté et de désir
- Laurence
Porter (Michigan State University) - “Comment
peut-on être Franglais?” L’homéopathie
culturelle dans la presse populaire
- Pierre
Verdaguer (University of Maryland, College Park) -
Francité hollywoodienne: représentations de la
France et des Français dans le cinéma américain
depuis les années 50
|
| Panel
5F - Leon Room (2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
Les Pays des racines? Women Writers in/and Algeria
Chair
and Organizer: Jeanne
Garane (University of South Carolina) |
- Nancy
Lane (University of South Carolina) - Phantasms
and Politics: The Paradox of Algerian Women in Marie Cardinal’s
Work
- Dana
Strand (Carleton College) - Hélène
Cixous’s Malgériance
- Margaret
Wade Krausse (Linfield College) - L’Identité
‘bigarrée’ de Leïla Sebbar
- Alison
Rice (University of California, Los Angeles) - Time
Lags and Name Tags: Women and Recall in Maissa Bey’s Cette
fille-là.
|
| 12:00
noon-1:30 pm – Lunch Break |
1:30
pm - 3:00 pm - Panels
| Panel
6A - Florida Room East (2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
The
Poetry of Anne Portugal
Chair and
Organizer: John Stout (McMaster University, Canada) |
- Anne
Portugal - Fantaxe et parataxe
- Michael
Sheringham (Royal Holloway College, London, UK)
- Possible Worlds and Improbable Words in the Poetry of
Anne Portugal
- Anne
Mairesse (University of San Francisco) – Définitif
bob: poème d'architecture principale
- John
Stout (McMaster University, Canada)
- Un féminisme ludique?: La poésie d’Anne
Portugal et de Liliane Giraudon
|
| Panel
6B - Salon B, Doubletree Hotel |
Gendering
Ethnic Difference
Chair:
Marie-Pierre Le Hir (University of Arizona) |
- Mark
Reid (University of Florida) - A Post/Negritude
Kind of Thing: Black and Arab Women in French Urban Cinematic
Space
- Carrie
Tarr (Kingston University, UK) - Family Differences:
Beur and Maghrebi Families in French Cinema
|
| Panel
6C - Leon Room (2nd floor), Doubletree
Hotel |
In Search of a Francophone Proust
Chair
and Organizer: Jérôme J. Cornette (Reed College) |
- Jérôme
J. Cornette (Reed College) - A la recherche du temps
perdu comme “tout-monde”
- Sam
Bloom (University of Haifa, Israel)
- Anatomy of the Proustian Lie: A Cross-cultural Autopsy
- James
Austin (Connecticut College)
- Proust: Too French for the Screen?
|
| Panel
6D - Adams Park, Doubletree Hotel |
Photographing
and Filming Difference
Chair:
Adam Jolles (Florida State University) |
-
Katharine Conley (Dartmouth College) - Angelic
Head Photographs by Cahun, Ray, and Miller
- Joseph
McGongale (University of Manchester, UK) - Photographing
the Other in Luc Delahaye’s L’Autre
- Colin
Davis (University of Warwick, UK) - Of Ghosts and
Men: Second Chances and Alternative Worlds in Sartre and Zizek
|
| Panel
6E - Florida Room West (2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
Le Roman aux frontières des genres, des arts et des cultures
Chair
and Organizer: Jean-Louis
Paurtot (Saint Louis University) |
- Carol
Murphy (University of Florida)
– Tel père, telle fille? Filiations paternelles
dans les romans de Marie Nimier
- Bruno
Thibault (University of Delaware) – La France
et l’Europe dans l’accélération de
l’histoire: l’écriture polyphonique dans
Passage de l’Est et dans Les Trois Minutes du diable de
Danièle Sallenave
- Nadia
Saleh (Syracuse University)
– Culture mondialisée et lieux de renouvellements
de l’activité littéraire contemporaine en
France
- Jean-Louis
Pautrot (Saint Louis University) – Pascal
Quignard, le romanesque et la musique
|
| Panel
6F - Salon A, Doubletree Hotel |
Des Cultures maghrébines
Chair
and Organizer: Lawrence
R. Schehr (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
- Lawrence
R. Schehr (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
– Albert Memmi’s Tricultural Tikkun: Renewal and
Transformation through Writing
- Hafid
Gafaïti (Texas Tech University)
– Problématiques interculturelles entre la France
et le Maghreb
-
Robert Harvey (State University of New York-Stony Brook)
– Liberté d’expression en Algérie:
Hypothèse pour une “nouvelle” langue politique
|
| 3:00
pm-3:30 pm – Coffee |
3:30
pm - 5:00 pm - Panels
| Panel
7A - Leon Room (2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
Proust:
Distinctions et Adaptations
Chair: Claudia
Moscovici (University of Michigan)
Organizer: Pascal Ifri (Washington University)
|
- William
Carter (University of Alabama)
- Homosexuality as a Social Leveling Force: the Servant
Class and Class Distinctions in A la recherche du temps
perdu and in Proust’s Life
- André
Benhaïm (Princeton University)
- La Synagogue de Proust
- Pascal
Ifri (Washington University) - Proust au cinéma:
le scénario de Pinter
- Laurence
Enjolras (College of the Holy Cross)
- Trans-fiction; ou Marcel: la BD
|
| Panel
7B - Salon B, Doubletree Hotel |
Banlieues
Chair:
Annie D. Trégouët (University of Florida) |
- Laurence
Allard-Chanial (Université Lille 3, France) & Olivier
Blondeau (CEVIPOF, IEP de Paris)- Express
Yourself? Les pages perso à l’école des
banlieues
- Susan
Ireland (Grinnell College)
- Representations of the Banlieues in the Contemporary
Marseillais Polar
- Derek
Schilling (Rutgers University)
- Comment une cité de paroles et pourquoi: Hop
là! Un deux trois de Gérard Gavarry
|
| Panel
7C - Florida Room West (2nd floor),
Doubletree Hotel |
André Malraux ou la culture
de la différence
Chair
and Organizer: Michel Lantelme (University of Oklahoma) |
- John
Romeiser (University of Tennessee) - The Unbearable
Otherness of War
- Karen
Levy (University of Tennessee)
- Malraux en Haïti
- Michel
Lantelme (University of Oklahoma) - D’une
main l’autre
|
| Panel
7D - Salon A, Doubletree Hotel |
Sexual
Difference
Chair:
Susan McCready (University of South Alabama) |
- Christine
Cano (Case Western Reserve University)
- Histoire d’O At Fifty
- Armine
Kotin Mortimer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Sex, Art, and Three Videotapes
- Keith
Reader (Glasgow University, UK) – The Policing
of Desire in the Gabrielle Russier Affair
|
| Panel
7E - Florida Room East (2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
Linda
Lê
Chair:
Christian Reyns-Chikuma (Lafayette University) |
- Marie-Magdeleine
Chirol (Whittier College) - Histoires de ruines:
Calomnies de Linda Lê
- Sabine
Loucif (Hofstra University) - Linda Lê: la
Tentation de l’universel
- Jane
Winston (Northwestern University)
- “Sampling” in Les Trois Parques
|
| Panel
7F - Adams Park, Doubletree Hotel |
The
France-USA Connection: From the Enlightenment to “Irak II”
Chair
and Organizer: Roger Celestin (University of Connecticut)
|
- Alice
Kaplan (Duke University)
- D-Day Turns Sixty: The View From France
- Kristin
Ross (New York University)
- The French Declaration of Independence
-
Jean-Philippe Mathy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- God
and my Country: l’Amérique, la France, les Lumières
|
| Panel
7G - Florida Room Center (2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
Sub-Saharan
Africa
Chair:
Joseph Hellweg (Florida State University) |
- Rebecca
Ruquist (Florida State University)
- Race and Universalism in the 1930s: Michel Leiris’
L’Afrique fantôme and Léopold Sédar
Senghor’s L’esthétique négro-africaine
- Harry
Gamble (College of Wooster)
- "Envisioning the Future of French West Africa under
the Popular Front: The
Colonial Section of the 1937 Paris World's Fair"
-
Jill Capstick (Leeds University, UK) - Inscribing
Genocide: Trauma, Memory and Writing in Rwandan Francophone
Testimony
|
| 5:00
pm-5:30 pm – Complimentary bus shuttle to the Florida State
University Campus |
5:30
pm - 6:30 pm - Plenary Session
| Plenary
Session |
Location:
Werkmeister
Reading Room, Dodd Hall
Chair: William
J. Cloonan (Florida State University) |
| Paroles
d'écrivain |
| Speaker:
Olivier
Rolin |
| 6:30
pm-7:00 pm – Complimentary bus shuttle to Doubletree Hotel |
| 7:00
pm-8:00 pm – Cash Bar, Doubletree Hotel |
| 8:00
pm – Complimentary Buffet Dinner, Doubletree Hotel |
SATURDAY,
APRIL 3
| 8:00
am- 5:00 pm - Registration |
8:30 am -
10:00 am - Panels
| Panel
8A - Salon A, Doubletree Hotel |
Paris
on the Screen
Chair and
Organizer: Lynn Higgins (Dartmouth College) |
- Brett
Bowles (Iowa State University) - Paris Traumatized:
Healing the Cinematic Wounds of the Second World War
- Katherine
Golsan (University of the Pacific) - La Fille seule:
The Site of Urban Maternity
- Sue
Harris (University of London, UK) - Transatlantic
visions: modern Parisian mythologies
- Nathalie
Rachlin (Scripps College) - Mais où sont
les Gavroches d’antan? Paris, cinéma et mouvement
social dans Nadia et les hippopotames de Dominique
Cabrera
|
| Panel
8B - Salon B, Doubletree Hotel |
World
War II and After
Chair:
Rebecca
Ruquist (Florida State University)
|
- Janette
Bayles (Utah State University)
- Difference, Spectacle and Imagined Community in The
French Way
- Rosemarie
Scullion (University of Iowa) - Traces of History:
Resnais, Duras and Perec
|
| Panel
8C - Adams Park, Doubletree Hotel |
Les voix/voies musicales de la contestation
Chair:
Olivier Bourderionnet (Tulane University)
Organizer:
Matthieu Dalle (University of Louisville)
|
- Joseph
Mwantuali (Hamilton College) - Chanter la liberté:
La musique africaine à l’ère des exorcistes
- Alain-Philippe
Durand (University of Rhode Island)
- Des supporters fans de hip-hop
- Matthieu
Dalle (University of Louisville)
- Dominique A, ou les dents de velours de la “nouvelle
chanson française”
|
| Panel
8D - Florida Room East (2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
Representations
of Violence
and Other Issues in Contemporary French Caribbean Culture
Chair
and Organizer: Maeve McCusker (Queen’s University,
UK) |
- Maeve
McCusker (Queen’s University, UK) – Une
violence qui défaisait l’ordre du monde: Slavery
and the Body in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Biblique des
derniers gestes
- Lorna
Milne (University of St Andrews)
- Violence and Difference in the Work of Gisèle Pineau
- Typhaine Leservot (Wesleyan University) - Franco-Antillano-Américain: le néo-Antillais dans La Belle Créole de Maryse Condé
|
| Panel
8E - Leon Room (2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
Ethnic
Minorities in the Colony and Postcolony
Chair
and Organizer: Jonathan Gosnell (Smith College)
|
- Jonathan
Gosnell (Smith College) - Colonial and Postcolonial
Arab-Jewish Relations: Algeria, France, Israel
- Valérie
Orlando (Illinois Wesleyan University) - Algeria’s
Engagés: Writing from the Front Lines of Exile; Salim
Bachi’s Le Chien d’Ulysse and Malika Mokeddem’s
La Transe des insoumis
- Pamela
Pears (Washington College)
- De-classifying Immigrant Identity: The Example of Le Chinois
vert d’Afrique
|
| Panel
8F - Florida Room West (2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
Paris,
Ile de France: Egocentrisme et Insularité
Chair
and Organizer: Serge Bourjea (Université Paul-Valéry/Montpellier-III)
|
- Marie
Bourjea (Université Paul-Valéry/Montpellier-III,
France) - Sur les traces de Jean Follain: Jaques
Réda, un provincial à Paris
- Serge
Bourjea (Université Paul-Valéry/Montpellier-III,
France)
- Comment peut-on être Mau(r)icien à Pa(r)is?
De l’insularité de Jean Fanchette
- Michelle
Warren (University of Miami) - The Creole Diaspora:
Joseph Bédier – Réunionnais, Parisien, Médiéviste
|
| 10:00
am-10:30 am – Coffee |
10:30
am - 12:00 noon - Panels
| Panel
9A - Leon Room (2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
Vernaculars
and Popular Culture
Chair: Ivy
Dyckman (Florida State University) |
- Michael
Abecassis (University of Oxford, UK)
- Is the Parisian Vernacular Still Alive? An Analysis of
a 1930s Film Corpus
- Jean-Marc
Braem (Lebanon Valley College)
- L’Argot, la langue populaire et la nomenclature
de la diversité en France
- Michelle
Scatton-Tessier (University of North Carolina-Wilmington)
- Amélie, fée du logis: le petisme and Jean-Pierre
Jeunet’s Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain
|
| Panel
9B - Salon A, Doubletree Hotel |
Les
Ecritures de la postcolonialité en France: Roman et cinéma
Chair
and Organizer: Michel Laronde (University of Iowa)
|
- Martine
Fernandes (University of South Florida) - Les étrangers
invisibles? L’immigration portugaise en France en films
- Jeanne
Garane (University of South Carolina)
- Aller chez nos ancêtres les Gaulois: la représentation
de l’immigration à l’écrit et sur
l’écran
- Michel
Laronde (University of Iowa) - Paris, 17 octobre
1961:représenter l’Histoire forclose
|
| Panel
9C - Adams Park, Doubletree Hotel |
Represéntations de l’Amérique
Chair
and Organizer: Sabine Loucif (Hoftra University) |
- Nora
Cottille-Foley (Georgia Institute of Technology)
- Antiaméricanisme et politiques identitaires dans
Copies Conformes de Monique Larue
- Annie
Jouan-Westlund (Cleveland State University)
- L’Amérique de Beauvoir et Doubrovsky
- Philippe
Moisan (Grinnell College)
- Amnésie et dystopie: La vision de l’Amérique
dans XIII
|
| Panel
9D - Florida Room East (2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
Intellectuels
algériens des deux bords
Chair
and Organizer: Patricia Geesey (University of North Florida)
|
-
Patricia Geesey (University of North Florida) -
Trauma and Madness: Women Survivors in the Novels of Leila Marouane
- Alek
Baylee Toumi ( University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point)
- Yasmina Khadra: entre le marteau militaire et le mépris
quituquiste
- Mary
Jean Green (Dartmouth College) - Assia Djebar’s
Women Warriors: Rewriting Postcolonial Histories
|
| Panel
9E - Salon B, Doubletree Hotel |
Surréalisme:
Une crise de modèles
Chair
and Organizer: Jacqueline Chénieux-Gendron (Universités
de Paris 1 et Paris 7, France) |
- Jacqueline
Chénieux-Gendron (Universités de Paris 1 et Paris
7, France) - L’Insuffisance des théories
prenant en compte le(s) surréalisme(s) peut-elle être
tenue pour responsable de la montée d’un nouveau
“révisionnisme,” d’ordre politique?
- Effie
Rentzou (Princeton University) - Surréalisme
ailleurs : repenser l’avant garde
- Carrie
Noland (University of California, Irvine)
- Red Front/Black Front: Aimé Césaire and
the Affaire Aragon
|
| Panel
9F - Florida Room West (2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
Le
Journal [intime]: Mémoire(s), identité(s), patrie(s)
Chairs
and Organizers: Terri
Gordon (Barnard College) and
Peter Schulman (Old Dominion University) |
- Terri
Gordon (Barnard College) - Collaborative Memory:
Robert Brasillach, Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, and the Politics
of the Self
- Peter
Schulman (Old Dominion University) - Identité
personnelle, identité corse: Le journal de Marie di Lola
- Yaëlle
Azagury (Barnard College) - Shifting Spaces: The
Paradox of Private and Public in the Diary
|
| 12:00
noon-1:30 pm – Lunch Break |
1:30
pm - 3:00 pm - Panels
| Panel
10A - Salon A, Doubletree Hotel |
Blacks,
Blancs, Beurs
Chair: Cheira
Belguellaoui (Florida State University) |
- Felicia
McCarren (Tulane University) - Global Gestures:
the Difference of le hip-hop
- Samira
Hassa and Christopher Stewart (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Black, Blanc, Beur: dimensions symboliques de langue et
ethnie dans les textes rap
|
| Panel
10C
- Adams Park, Doubletree Hotel |
Regions and Peripheries
Chair:
Sandrine Teixidor (Duke University) |
- Vincent
Meyer (Universitéde Metz)
- Transmettre une mémoire des conflits: un enjeu
pour l’apprentissage de la différence et le développement
de la diversité culturelle
- Charles
Batson (Union College)
- Panique celtique, or, Fest-noz in Paname: Manau, Celtic
Rap, and Breton Cultural Expression
- Maxime
Blanchard (The City College of the City University of New York)
- L’aberration québécoise: Des Nouvelles
d’Edouard de Michel Tremblay
|
| Panel
10D - Salon B, Doubletree Hotel |
Gender, Sexual Orientation, Politics
and the Republic
Chair:
Michael Creswell (Florida State University) |
-
Marie-Marthe Gervais-le Garff (Plymouth University, UK) - Feminisation
Langagière et Enjeux Politiques
- Sheila
Perry (University of Nottingham, UK) - Gender Parity
in French Politics: Differentialism in Theory and Practice
- Denis M. Provencher (University of Wisconsin) - French Articulations of the Closet: Coming-Out in the Republic
|
| Panel
10E - Leon Room (2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
Fiction
Chair:
Lori J. Walters (Florida State University) |
- David
Bellos (Princeton University)
- Romain Gary
- David
Ellison (University of Miami) - Proust and the
(Fateful) Question of Culture: or, Art and its Phantoms
- Martine
Gantrel (Smith College)
- Proust et les milieux de droite: à propos de Guermantes
I et II
|
| Panel
10F - Florida Room East (2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
(Post-)Colonial
Spaces
Chair:
Rebecca
Ruquist (Florida State University)
|
- Phyllis
Taoua (University of Arizona) - Of Maquisards,
Martyrs and Madmen: Conflicting Narratives of Decolonization
in Africa
- Anny
Dominique Curtius (University of Iowa)
- Exotisme ou dé/sacralisation dans les chroniques
coloniales des années 1930 et la littérature antillaise
contemporaine
-
Richard Watts (Tulane University) - Product
Displacement: Water as Fetishized Commodity in Tran Anh Hung’s
Cyclo
|
| 3:00
pm-3:30 pm – Coffee |
3:30
pm - 5:00 pm - Panels
| Panel
11A - Salon A, Doubletree Hotel |
Teaching
Diversity
Chair: Susan
McCready (University of South Alabama)
|
- Robert
Daniel (St. Joseph’s University)
- Teaching the Rich Dynamic of Difference with Chocolat
(1988), by Claire Davis
- Charles
Nunley (Middlebury College)
- Teaching Diversity in the French Classroom: Imagined Communities
in Modern French Film and Fiction
- Johann
Sadock (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - (Auto-)Critique
d’“Au-delà du regard: rencontres multiethniques”,
un projet Web sur la diversité culturelle et ethnique
française
|
| Panel
11B
- Leon Room (2nd floor), Doubletree
Hotel |
La Littérature se fait son
cinéma
Chair
and Organizer: Anne Mairesse (University of San Francisco) |
- Elisabeth
Cardonne-Arlyck (Vassar College) - Entrer de moi-même
comme dans un plan de John Ford: Ariane Dreyfus
- Philippe
Met (University of Pennsylvania)
- Cinematic Ghosts
- Agnès
Disson (Osaka University, Japan)
- Le DVD est un livre : les ciné-poèmes de
Pierre Alferi
|
| Panel
11C - Adams Park, Doubletree Hotel |
Edward
Said (1935-2003): Legacies for French and Francophone Studies
Table
Ronde
Chair
and Organizer: Panivong Norindr (University of Southern
California) |
- Peter
Bloom (University of California-Santa Barbara)
- Cilas
Kemedjo (University of Rochester)
- David
Murphy (University of Sterling, UK)
- Panivong
Norindr (University of Southern California)
- Jane
Winston (Northwestern University)
|
| Panel
11D - Florida Room West (2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
Sounding
Different
Chair:
Aimée Boutin (Florida State University) |
- Olivier
Bourderionnet (Tulane University)
- Brassens et Gainsbourg: contemporains? Des Sabots d’Hélène
à Melody Nelson, visages changeants d’une
musique populaire résolument hexagonale
- Emilie
Da Lage-Py (Université Lille 3, France) - Sounds
from the World between a Thinking of Diversity and Post-Colonial
Representations
- François
Debruyne (Université Lille 3, France) - Mes
disquaires préférés, la production de quelques
sociabilités musicales diverses
|
| Panel
11E - Florida Room East (2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
Contemporary
Poetry: Modalities and Manipulations
Chair
and Organizer: Pamela A. Genova (University of Oklahoma) |
- Pamela
A. Genova (University of Oklahoma)
- White on Black on White: Yves Bonnefoy’s Début
et fin de la neige.
- Michael
Bishop (Dalhousie University, Canada)
- Cette homonymie qu’est la poésie
-
Susan Harrow (University of Wales Swansea, UK) – Margins,
Mess and the Material Sublime: Jacques Réda
|
| Panel
11F - Florida Room Center (2nd floor), Doubletree Hotel |
Ces
femmes qui travaillent…
Chair
and Organizer: Anne-Marie Obajtek-Kirkwood (Drexel University) |
- Michèle
Chossat (Seton Hill University)
– De l’obsession chez Redonnet et Nothomb
- Pascale
Feuillée-Kendall (University of Reading, UK)
– La juge Eva Joly: femme et professionnelle atypiques
-
Juliette Rogers (University of New Hampshire, Durham) - Romance
at Work: Two Contemporary Quebecois Portraits of Women at Work
- Anne-Marie
Obajtek-Kirkwood (Drexel University)
– Question de travail ou question de regard? Sans
moi de Marie Desplechin et Les Bonnes intentions
d’Agnès Desarthe
|
| 5:00
pm-5:40 pm – Complimentary bus shuttle to the Florida State
University Campus |
5:45
pm - 6:45 pm - Plenary Session
| Plenary
Session |
Location:
Student
Life Building. FSU Campus
Chair: Steven
Ungar (University of Iowa) |
| The
Make-Up, Démaquillage and Make-Over of French Cinema |
| Speaker:
Dudley
Andrew (Yale) |
| 6:45
pm-7:30 pm – Complimentary bus shuttle to Doubletree Hotel |
| 7:30
pm-8:30 pm – Reception, Doubletree Hotel |
| 8:30
pm – Conference Banquet, Doubletree Hotel |
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