WIF 2015 Final Version Conference Programme

WOMEN IN FRENCH CONFERENCE 2015
LES FEMMES S’ENTÊTENT:
FEMINISM, WRITING, ART AND FILM 1975-2015: BILAN(S) ET
AVENIR(S)
SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES, CULTURES AND SOCIETIES, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
HINSLEY HALL LEEDS MAY 8-10 2015
FRIDAY MAY 8 2015
12.00 REGISTRATION
2.00
2.30
WELCOME FROM THE ORGANISERS
CHAIR : ALISON FELL
PLENARY : Christine Bard, Université d’Angers, ‘L’année 1975’
Margaret Clitherow Room
3.30
Tea
4.00
THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY FRANCE PLENARY
CHAIR: MARGARET ATACK
Maggie Allison, University of Bradford: Parole(s) de femmes from Le Torchon brûle to Les
Nouvelles News
Margaret Clitherow Room
4.30
VALÉRIE MRÉJEN: FILMS FOLLOWED BY DISCUSSION WITH MARIE-CLAIRE BARNET
Margaret Clitherow Room
6.00
DRINKS with presentation of Antoinette Fouque, There are two sexes, by Michèle Idels
introduced by Maggie Allison
7.00
DINNER
SATURDAY MAY 9 2015
Margaret Clitherow Room
John Wesley Room
Mary Ward Room
CHAIR: TAMARA CHAPLIN
CHAIR : AUDREY LASSERRE
CHAIR : MARIE-ANDRÉE
BERGERON
MODIFIER L’IMAGINAIRE:
NEGOTIATING HISTOIRE(S)
(RE)PENSER L’HERITAGE
LITTERAIRE ET POLITIQUE
DE MONIQUE WITTIG
PERTURBATIONS ET
MÉTAMORPHOSE :
QUÉBEC ET AILLEURS
Margaret Atack, University of
Leeds:
Désirs/Délires: Valentine
Goby’s Occupation Novels
Audrey Lasserre, Université
Paris 3 – Sorbonne
nouvelle :
« Un jour mon prince
viendra » : l’héritage
politique complexe du
matérialisme littéraire
wittigien
Anne Caumartin, Collège
militaire royal de St-Jean :
Avidité, dénégation,
coercition : lorsque
l’héritage paternel se
soumet aux réponses des
filles
Alison Fell, University of
Leeds:
La Femme du soldat inconnu:
Feminism and French lieux de
mémoire from the 1970s to the
present
Yannick Chevalier,
Université de Lyon 2 :
La Réception critique du
Corps lesbien
Marie-Andrée Bergeron,
Université du Québec à
Montréal :
Filiation et prospection
dans le discours des
féministes de la troisième
vague au Québec : le cas du
fanzine Dirty Plottes (19881991)
Bronwen Winter, University of
Sydney :
A Mediterranean Bazaar: The
Bazar du Genre exhibition at
the Musée des Civilisations de
l’Europe et de la Méditerranée
(MUCEM) in Marseille, 2013
Chloé Jacquesson,
Université de Lyon 2 :
Le Brouillon pour un
dictionnaire des amantes :
du sens des mots au sens de
l’histoire chez Monique
Wittig
Gabrielle Parker, Middlesex
University
The Gendering of Space :
Michèle Perrein and Ying
Chen
9.00
10.30
COFFEE
Margaret Clitherow Room
John Wesley Room
CHAIR: IMOGEN LONG
CHAIR: KATE AVERIS
INTERSECTIONS: CLASS, GENDER AND
RACE
LA PERTURBATION DE LA VIEILLESSE :
40 YEARS OF FEMALE AGEING IN FRENCH
WOMEN’S WRITING
Annick Durand, Zayed University Dubai
A Twisted Use of Autobiography:
NinaBouraoui’s La Voyeuse interdite
Kate Averis, University of London Institute in
Paris:
Writing Female Ageing into the 21st Century:
Annie Ernaux and Nancy Huston
Elliott Evans, Kings College London:
Materiality of Embodiment in Preciado
and Wittig
Susan Ireland, Grinnell College:
Explorations of Ageing in Michèle Sarde’s
Constance a la cinquantaine
Nadia Kiwan, University of Aberdeen:
Secular Muslim Women in the French
Public Arena: the Case of Dounia Bouzar
Siobhán McIlvanney, Kings College London:
Grandmother Through the Looking Glass:
Perspectives on (Anti)Ageing in Noëlle
Châtelet’s Au Pays des vermeilles
Lyn Thomas, University of Sussex:
Voix blanche? Annie Ernaux and the
challenge of intersectionality
Gillian Ni Cheallaigh, Kings College London:
Ageing and Madness in Simone de Beauvoir’s
Les Belles Images and La Femme rompue
11.00
1pm
LUNCH
2pm
EXCURSIONS TO LEEDS/FREE TIME
3.30
TEA
Margaret Clitherow Room
John Wesley Room
Mary Ward Room
CHAIR: GABRIELLE
PARKER
CHAIR: GILL RYE
BACK TO THE FUTURE:
RE-IMAGINING FEMINIST
REALIZATIONS OF THE
1970S
Audrey Evrard, Fordham
University:
Nouvelles Filiations:
Mémoire et luttes
sociales « au féminin »
dans le documentaire
social
TURNING FULL CIRCLE?
CIXOUS’S REVOLUTION 40
YEARS ON
DEBATING DIFFERENCE AND
OTHER BINARIES
Mairéad Hanrahan, University
College London:
A Laughing Anniversary : ‘Le
Rire de la méduse’ after 40
years
Diana Holmes, University of
Leeds:
'Les hommes et les femmes,
c'est vraiment pas pareil':
Nancy Huston's Passions
d'Annie Leclerc
4.00
CHAIR: CARRIE TARR
Imogen Long, University
of Hull:
Ainsi soit-elle, aujourd'hui
encore : Benoîte Groult
forty years on
Beatrice Ivey, University of
Leeds:
Cixous and Mnouchkine,
L’Indiade ou l’Inde de leurs
rêves: Questions of
Orientalism
Annabel Kim, Duke
University :
Reviving the Universal: Anne
Garréta's Radical
Egalitarianism and the Legacy
of Monique Wittig.
Jan Windebank,
University of Sheffield:
Does the Introduction of
the ‘Daddy Quota’ to
Parental Leave in France
Represent a Feminist
Turn in work-Family
Reconciliation Policy?
Maribel Peñalver Vicea,
Universidad de Alicante/Paris
3-Sorbonne nouvelle :
La Douleur du rétrécissement:
autoportrait à la mère
mourante
Emma Murdoch, University of
Birmingham:
(Re)reading Trauma and
Schizophrenia in the work of
Emma Santos
Martina Williams, University of
Nottingham:
Looking again at La jeune née:
Feminine Poets in Hélène
Cixous’s Voile noire voile
blanche
Judith Still, University of
Nottingham:
From Expelling the Animal to
Welcoming Animals
6.00
Conference reception sponsored by Peter Lang
Nicole Fernandez Ferrer, Director of the Centre Simone de Beauvoir, introduced by Diana
Holmes:
Introduction to tonight’s screening of Encore Elles!
7.00
DINNER
8.30
–
9.30
FILM : ENCORE ELLES ! - LES COMBATS DES FEMMES DE 1970 À NOS JOURS.
Margaret Clitherow Room
SUNDAY MAY 10 2015
Margaret Clitherow Room
John Wesley Room
CHAIR : MARGARET ATACK
CHAIR: SIOBHÁN McILVANNEY
9.00
BOULEVERSER LES NORMES : CHALLENGING
RECOUNTING THE SELF THROUGH
CINEMATIC CONVENTIONS
AUTOFICTION(S)
Grace An, Oberlin College Ohio:
Alice Blackhurst, University of Cambridge:
Delphine Seyrig, Feminist Filmmaker : From
Anorexic Texts: Writing as Restraint in
Muse to Insoumise
recent works by Sophie Calle and Annie
Ernaux
Carrie Tarr, Kingston University:
Actresses of Maghrebi origin in recent
French cinema
Rebecca DeRoo, Rochester Institute of
Technology New York:
Autofiction and Feminist Strategy in Varda's
Plages d'Agnès
Nam Lee, Chapman University:
Écriture feminine in Film: Agnes Varda’s
Cinematic Portrait/Self-portrait in Jane B par
Agnes V. and The Gleaners and I
Marie-Chantal Killeen, University of
Oxford :
Esquives, obstacles et désaveux : les « antiConfessions » de Nelly Arcan et d’Anne
Garréta
10.30
11–
12.30
Coffee
Margaret Clitherow Room
John Wesley Room
CHAIR: MAIRÉAD HANRAHAN
CHAIR: IMOGEN LONG
LES FEMMES S’ENTÊTENT : PROTEST
THROUGH EXPERIMENTATION
RECEPTION AND MEDIATION
Rakhee Balaram, State University of New
York:
Artistic Utopias? Women’s Groups in France
after May ‘68
Fanny Mazzone, Université de Toulouse:
Feminist publishing and legitimization
strategies : from activist capital to symbolic
capital
Tamara Chaplin, University of Illinois:
Sous pli fermé: Writing Lesbian Identity in
late 1970s Lyon
Michèle Schaal, Iowa State University:
Third Wave Manifestoes: What do Feminists
Still Want?
Maria-Rosa Lehmann, Panthéon-Sorbonne:
Surrealist Legacy in 1970s Feminist
Performance
Stephanie Schechner, Widener University:
Marguerite Duras and Mireille Best: A
Forgotten Literary Legacy?
12.30
WIF plenary: planning WIF 2017
Margaret Clitherow Room
1pm
Lunch and departure
Website: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/WIF2015
Twitter: @WomeninFrenchUK