Provisional Programme - The Association for the Study of Modern

Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France
Annual Conference 2013
University of Leicester
5-7 September 2013
Renegotiating social divisions in France and the Francophone world
Les divisions sociales en France et dans le monde francophone en renégociation ?
Provisional Programme
Please note that the details and timings of this programme are provisional and subject to change.
Thursday 5 September 2013
Conference exhibitors and PG posters may be found in the Quenby Suite
11:00-13:00
ASMCF Executive Committee meeting (Executive Committee only)
Tilton Suite
12:30-13:30
Arrival and registration
John Foster Ground Floor Foyer
13:45
Welcome by the President of the ASMCF, Maire Cross
Rothley and Oakham Suite
14:00
Plenary session - Peter Morris Memorial Lecture
Guy Austin
Rothley and Oakham Suite
15:30
Refreshments
Quenby Suite
16:00-17:30
Parallel sessions 1, 2 and 3
Parallel session 1: Social divisions and class
identifications
Parallel session 2: Identity and (self)
representation
Parallel session 3: Migration and social
belonging
Rothley and Oakham Suite
Swithland Suite
Tilton Suite
Jackie Clarke (University of Glasgow)
The ‘new spirit of capitalism’ or the nonappropriation of the spirit of 68: a case study
Brenda Garvey (University of Chester)
Social identity and (self) representation: the case
of urban Wolof in Senegal
Christine O’Dowd Smith (Waterford Institute of
Technology, Cork)
Les Enfants de l’Immigration: Diasporic Identity
& Social Belonging
Mason Norton (Edge Hill University)
'La Résistance d'en haut, La Résistance d'en bas'.
Social classes and divisions in the French
Resistance in Upper Normandy, 1940-1944
Sarah Reed (The University of Adelaide)
Catriona MacLeod (University of London
Renegotiating Australian identity through the
French translation of Philip McLaren’s crime novel Institute in Paris)
Woman inherits the earth: Gender, Ethnicity
Scream Black Murder / Tueur d’Aborigènes
and the Passage of Power in Le Combat
Ordinaire
Sarah Wood (University of Manchester)
Silences, space and ecology: Representing the
Stéphanie Brown (Queen's University, Belfast)
‘Amerindian’ in contemporary Guyane
Interdisciplinary Study Of Nulle Part Dans La
Maison De Mon Père By Assia Djebar
Francis Kierszenbaum (Paris 3 Sorbonne
Nouvelle)
Réparation et non réparation
18:00-19:00
Wine reception
Southmeade Room 2 Digby Hall (University Botanic gardens)
19:15
Dinner
John Foster Hall Dining Room
20:30-23:00
Cash bar
John Foster Hall Bar
Friday 6 September 2013
Conference exhibitors and PG posters may be found in the Quenby Suite
08:00-09:00
Breakfast (for residential delegates)
John Foster Hall Dining Room
9:00-10:30
Parallel sessions 4, 5 and 6
Parallel session 4: L’Avenir perdu de la classe
ouvrière
Parallel session 5: Shifting hierarchies in
cultural representation
Parallel session 6: Power relationships in and
between ‘communities’
Rothley and Oakham Suite
Swithland Suite
Tilton Suite
Bruno Levasseur (University of Roehampton)
Face à l’exclusion: luttes et discours de la presse
locale dans une banlieue parisienne
emblématique (1971-1981)
Mame-Fatou Niang (Carnegie Mellon University)
From “Goorgui dolli nu” to “Goorgui na dem” :
New Types of Relations Between Arts and Politics
in 21st-century Senegal
Natalia Bremner (University of Leeds )
Social Inequality or Cultural Malaise?
Renegotiating the Zorey-Kreol Division in La
Réunion on the Intersection of Ethnicity and
Social Class
Audrey Evrard (Drew University, USA)
Misère, précarité…quand survivre n’est plus
lutter.
Dr. Ferdulis Zita Odome Angone (Madrid)
D/écrire la frontière: paratexte, apories et
littérature-monde. De la transversalité langagière
chez l’écrivain afropéen.
Eglantine Colon (Duke University, USA)
Voix précaires et diffraction politique. Réinventer
la polyphonie dans la France contemporaine
10:30
Refreshments
Quenby Suite
Nadhim Chaouche (Oran)
L'idée religieuse dans le roman algérien du début
du XXe siecle
Caroline Williamson (University of Nottingham)
What is posttraumatic growth at the collective
level?: Examining the case of Rwanda
Dan Feather (Liverpool John Moores University)
How does France’s postcolonial relationship with
Africa conform to the traditional theory of neocolonialism?
11.00
Plenary session
Catherine Wihtol de Wenden
Rothley and Oakham Suite
12:30
Lunch
John Foster Hall DiningRoom
13:30-15:00
Parallel sessions 7, 8 and 9
Parallel session 7: Social Divisions and Sport
1
Parallel session 8: Representation of social
landscapes in literature and film
Parallel session 9: Social movements and
political mobilisation
Rothley and Oakham Suite
Swithland Suite
Tilton Suite
Hugh Dauncey (Newcastle University)
French Paralympism and mass and elite sport: the
sporting body and the social divisions of 'different
ability', 1960-2012
Helena Chadderton (University of Hull)
Renegotiating social divisions: François Bon’s
political and aesthetic protest
Douglas Morrey (University of Warwick)
Renegotiating May ’68: Politics, Nostalgia and
Intertextuality in Film Representations of the
Events of May’
Cathal Kilcline (Université Lyon 1 / NUI Galway)
Elite Sport and Social Divisions in France:
Contemporary discourses on class and national
identity
Jonathan Ervine (Bangor University)
Football and Social Division in France: is France
really a single and indivisible nation?
15:00
Refreshments
Quenby Suite
Will Crichton (University of Warwick)
Le mensonge utile: Nostalgia, narration and
future-production in Houellebecq's contemporary
societies
Jamie Steele (University of Exeter)
From Documentary to Fiction Feature Films: the
shifting social landscape in the works of the
Dardenne Brothers
Thomas Martin (University of Leeds)
Does race have a role to play in anti-racism? The
cases of SOS Racisme and the Mouvement des
Indigènes de la République
Daniel Poitras (Université de Montréal)
Mouvements étudiants québécois des années
1960 : l’influence de la France et des États-Unis
sur les représentations sociales et identitaires
15:30-17:00
Parallel sessions 10, 11 and 12
Parallel session 10 : Social Divisions and
Sport 2
Parallel session 11: Banlieue and social class
in/through cinema
Swithland Suite
Rothley and Oakham Suite
Paul Dietschy (Université de FrancheComté/Centre d'histoire Sciences Po.)
Le sport et le discours sur l'égalité: l'exemple du
football français
Jamal Bahmad (University of Stirling)
Can the Suburban Speak? Social Class and the
Failure of Postcolonial Representation in Laila
Marrakchi’s Marock (2005)
Marion Fontaine (Université d'Avignon-Centre
Norbert Elias)
Le sport, un support de l’identité ouvrière ? Les
ambiguïtés du mouvement communiste français
Keith Reader (University of Glasgow)
The banlieue in 1930s French cinema
Philippe Liotard (Université Claude-Bernard,
Lyon 1)
Sport, sexisme et homophobie: Renégociation ou
assignation des identités de genre?
Raphaël Verchère (Université Claude-Bernard,
Lyon 1)
Le sport en France, ou la « passion de l'égalité »
de Tocqueville en question
17:00
PG Poster session
Quenby Suite
17:45
ASMCF annual meeting
Rothley and Oakham Suite
Martin O'Shaughnessy (Nottingham Trent
University)
Rethinking filmic boundaries with the works of
Abdellatif Kechiche and Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
Parallel session 12: French London
Tilton Suite
Debra Kelly (University of Westminster)
The French in London: Liberty, Equality,
Opportunity
Jon Mulholland and Louise Ryan (Middlesex
University)
Performing Frenchness Outre-Manche: The
French Highly-Skilled in London
Sue Collard (University of Sussex)
French Political Culture in London
18:30
Small group meetings
Rothley and Oakham Suite
Swithland Suite
Tilton Suite
Quenby Suite
19:15
Vin d’honneur
John Foster Hall Bar
20:00
Conference dinner
John Foster Hall Dining Room
21:30 - 23:00
John Foster Hall Bar
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Saturday 6 September 2013
Conference exhibitors may be found in Quenby Suite
08:00-09:00
Breakfast (for residential delegates)
John Foster Hall Dining Room
9:00-10:30
Parallel sessions 13 and 14
Parallel session 13: Gender negotiations
Parallel session 14: Politics of social divisions
Rothley and Oakham Suite
Swithland Suite
Aminat Easat (Aston University)
The Islamic Headscarf and Political Participation in Francophone Europe: A
Study of France and Belgium
Aurélien Mondon (University of Bath)
Reshaping History: Nicolas Sarkozy: Liberty, Equality and Fraternity as
exclusion
Bronwyn Winter (The University of Sydney)
“Je pensais être victime, pas l’accusée”: The State and violence against
women on both sides of the Mediterranean
Abigail Taylor (University of Sheffield)
Social divisions among partnered unemployed parents in France and the
UK: a neighbourhood study of work and care interaction
10:30
Refreshments
Quenby Suite
11:00
Plenary session
François Bon
Rothley and Oakham Suite
12:45
Lunch
John Foster Hall Dining Room
14:00
Close of conference
Samuel Matuszewski (University of Nottingham)
Forming Citizens or Human Resources? Capitalist investment in Republican
values and the public space of the French School
Ruth Kitchen and Ruth Swanwick (University of Leeds)
Thinking deafness - constructing and deconstructing deafness and language
Supported by the School of Modern Languages and the University of Leicester, the Service Culturel de l’Ambassade de France, the ASMCF, the Society for
French Studies, Liverpool University Press, Intellect Books, University of Wales Press, Ms Wisniewska.