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Program 

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 SplendidHôtel 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’sAusterlitz
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

 

 

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