Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France
New Forms of Expression in the French and Francophone Worlds
Lancaster University 13-14 September 2018
Programme
Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France
New Forms of Expression in the French and Francophone Worlds
Lancaster University 13-14 September 2018
Programme
Thursday 13 September
9.00-9.30 Welcome by Chris Tinker, President of the ASMCF
9.30-11.00: Panel 1: Poetic Spaces
- Aude Campmas (University of Southampton), Le Nom et l’espace: Victor Hugo et la Pieuvre
- Lauren Quigley (Queen’s University Belfast), Writing the infraordinary in Roubaud’s Ode à la ligne 29 and La forme d’une ville
- Erika Fülöp (Lancaster University), Qu'est-ce que la LittéraTube? Emergent practices of ‘vidéo-écriture’ on YouTube
11.00-11.30 Refreshments
11.30-12.30: Panel 2: Freedom of Speech and Dissent
- Christopher O’Neill (Aston University), Sennep and the expression of dissent under Vichy
- Clare Siviter (University of Bristol), ‘Out with the old and in with the new?’ Reassessing theatrical bestsellers of the Revolution
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.30 Panel 3: Authorial Constructions
- Ashley Harris (Queen’s University Belfast), Multimedia and post-textual authordom: Beigbeder and Houellebecq
- Chris Tinker (Herriott-Watt University), Contestation and consensus in posthumous press coverage of Johnny Hallyday
- Mike McKenna (Queen’s University Belfast), Édouard Glissant’s querelle avec l’Archive
- Ruairidh Patfield (University of Newcastle), ‘In Paris, like San Francisco’: The representation of hippiedom through musical discourse in late-1960s France
15.30-16.00 Refreshments
16.00-17.00 ASMCF Annual Meeting
17.00 Peter Morris Memorial Lecture
Alexandra Saemmer (Université de Paris 8), Reprendre la main sur le sens: prolégomènes à une littérature post-numérique
18.45 Small Group Meetings
19.15 Wine reception
20.00 Conference dinner
Friday 14 September
9.30-11.00 Parallel sessions:
Panel 4A: Women and Their Representation
- James Illingworth (Queen’s University Belfast), ‘Cette langue nouvelle’: George Sand’s Experimentalism
- Abigail Taylor (University of Sheffield), Expressing household work practices: What place for domestic services?
- Mohammed Bouaddis (Lancaster University), ‘Les voix qui resurgissent, au-delà de la banlieue!’: discourses and strategies of centripetal writing in Faïza Guène's Kiffe kiffe demain (2004) and Les rêves pour des oufs (2006)
Panel 4B: Language, Technology, Pedagogy
- Tlili Ameni (Université de Rouen), Nouvelles formes d’expression dans le monde francophone: le cas de la Tunisie
- Mohammed Aguidi, Les applications mobiles d’apprentissage du français destinées aux arabophones: quel français à apprendre ? Quelle est la nature des dispositifs pédagogiques introduits?
- John McKeane (University of Reading), Queen of the Sciences? Philosophy and the French Baccalaureate
11-11.30 Refreshments
11.30-12.30: Keynote:
Nathalie Brillant Rannou (Université de Rennes 2), Vidéos de lecteurs, booktubing, littératube: nouvelle élaboration de la réception en littérature
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Parallel sessions:
Panel 5A: Margins and Boundaries
- Jonathan Lewis (University of Liverpool), (Im)Mobility and Transgression: Representations of Dangerous Travellers in Mounsi’s La Noce des fous
- Chabha Ben Ali Amer (Lancaster University),The New Algerian Literature at the Threshold of Globalization: Across National and Cultural Boundaries
- Charlotte Baker (Lancaster University), The Francophone African dictator-novel
Panel 5B: Politiquement (In)Correct
- Dyhia Bia (University of Stirling), A Carnivalesque disavowal of the Post-independence Fiasco
- Laurent Binet (Cardiff University),‘Grand remplacement, collabos et guerre civile’: new discourses on immigration on the French fachosphère and beyond
- Thomas Martin (Lancaster University), Macron’s France and the EU: a new beginning or the same old story?
15.00-15.30 Refreshments
15.30-16.30 Parallel sessions :
Panel 6A: New Media, Intermediality, and Hybridity
- Nicole Fayard (University of Leicester), Shakespeare and Intermedial Translation on the twenty-first Century French Stage
- Rebecca Rosenberg (King’s College London), Generic hybridity, popular culture, and multimedia in Chloé Delaume’s interactive and immersive fictions
Panel 6B: Digital Memories
- David Cummings (Université d’Avignon), Websites of memory: Pied-noir digital returns to l’Algérie française
- Greta Bliss (University of North Carolina), Vivid interventions: documentary in post-revolution Tunisia
16.30 Closing remarks and end of conference