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French Autopathography
Queen’s University Belfast, 21-22 November 2014
Conference Schedule
All sessions, including registration, will take place in the Auditorium, McClay Library
Friday 21st November
8.45 – 9.15
Registration
9.15 – 10.30
Welcome from Head of the School of Modern Languages.
Keynote 1
Hannah Thompson (Royal Holloway, University of London): ‘De
simple malade j’étais devenu un handicapé’: (re)negotiating
medical and social models of disability in French (from ThérèseAdèle Husson to Jacques Sémelin)
10.30 – 10.50
Tea/Coffee
10.50 – 12.20
Panel 1: L’atroce beauté des corps malades. Esthétisations,
érotisations et mises en scène de la souffrance dans l’écriture
autopathographique contemporaine (19e–20e siècles)
Chair: Jutta Fortin (Université de Vienne)
Adrien Guignard (Swiss National Science Foundation): Eros et
bacille (de Koch): au régime sanatorial et testimonial
Aude Fauvel (University of Lausanne): I cut my breast, therefore I
am. Representations of Self-Mutilated Bodies in NineteenthCentury First-Person Narratives of Madness
Noémie Christen (University of Saint Gall, Switzerland): L’effroi et
la grâce: le corps oxymoron d'Hervé Guibert
12.20 – 1.30
Lunch, Old Staff Common Room
1.30 – 3.00
Panel 2: Séropositivité
Chair: Anna Elsner (King’s College London)
Enda McCaffrey (Nottingham Trent University): The Intelligence of
Illness: an Epistemology of HIV/AIDS
Michael Deml (Pennsylvania State University): Le Séropositif est
maintenant une espèce: Discursivité, altérité, séropositivité
Jean-Pierre Boulé (Nottingham Trent University): Hervé Guibert:
autoportraits photographiques et séropositivité
3.00 – 3.20
Tea/Coffee
3.20 – 4.50
Panel 3: Locked-in Syndrome
Chair: Sam Haigh (University of Warwick)
Claire Boyle (University of Edinburgh): ‘Sais-tu que B[auby] est
transformé en légume?’: Corporeality, Humanity and the FirstPerson Perspective in Julian Schnabel’s Film Le Scaphandre et le
Papillon
Marie-Christine Clemente (University of Cambridge):
Scaphandre et le papillon: A Voice Beyond the Body
Le
Áine Larkin (University of Aberdeen): Philippe Pozzo di Borgo and
Philippe Vigand: A Comparative Analysis of their Accounts of
Paralysis and Locked-in Syndrome
4.50 – 5.10
Tea/Coffee
5.10 – 6.40
Panel 4: The Social Construction of Illness and Disability:
Voice and (inter)subjectivity
Chair: Marie-Christine Clemente (University of Cambridge)
Dawn Sherratt-Bado (University of Edinburgh): Postcolonial
Pathologies: Labour Migration and Disordered Subjectivities in
Gisèle Pineau’s Devil’s Dance
Vivienne Orchard (University of Southampton) ‘De-pathologise,
anti-pathologise, auto-pathologise’: The Ethics of Visual LifeWriting and Autism
Sam Haigh (University of Warwick):
Autopathography and ‘handicap psychique’
Recovering
6.45
Drinks Reception, The Naughton Gallery at Queen’s
7.45
Conference Dinner, Beatrice Kennedy’s
Minds:
Saturday 22nd November
10.15 – 11.45
Panel 5: The Poetics of Suffering
Chair: Áine Larkin (University of Aberdeen)
Steven Wilson (Queen’s University Belfast): “Dictante dolore”:
Language and Pain in Alphonse Daudet’s La Doulou
Anna Elsner (King’s College London): ‘Je-sans-moi’: Dying and the
absence of pain in Malraux’s Lazare
Carolyn Rickett (Avondale College of Higher Education, Australia):
‘Live and invent’: The bibliotherapeutic function of Samuel
Beckett’s Malone Dies in Brenda Walker’s breast cancer narrative
11.45 – 12.00
Tea/Coffee
12.00 – 1.00
Keynote 2
Tamar Tembeck (McGill University): Expanding the Boundaries of
the Genre: Contemporary Québécois Autopathographies in the
Visual and Performing Arts
1.00 – 1.30
Lunch
1.30 – 3.00
Panel 6: The Writing Process and the Limits of
Autopathography
Chair: Jean-Pierre Boulé (Nottingham Trent University)
Jutta Fortin (Université de Vienne): « La lumière de l’ombre » :
Hervé Guibert journaliste
Cécile Decousu (MIC – University of Limerick): L’écriture en
protocole: Les histoires d’amours de Violette Leduc et Hervé
Guibert
Loren Wolfe (Barnard College, NYC): Jean-Luc Nancy: L’immunité,
l’ex-criture and a change of heart
3.00 – 3.15
Tea/Coffee
3.15 – 4.45
Panel 7: Pathology and the Poet
Chair: Steven Wilson (Queen’s University Belfast)
Brenton Hobart (The American University of Paris): The Malady of
Clément Marot: From the End of Adolescence to the Start of the
Renaissance
Solène Thomas (Université Lyon III – Jean Moulin): « Dans la fade
odeur de l'iodoforme et du phénol » : Verlaine à l'hôpital
Marthe Compain-Benguigui (Université Toulouse 2 Le Mirail): « La
lassitude glacée » du corps de Mireille Havet
Closing remarks