What forms can do - Souls College Oxford

What forms can do:
attending to the real in 20th and
21st century French literature
A conference in honour of Professor Michael Sheringham
All Souls College, Oxford
11-13 January 2016
Conference Programme
To register, please visit http://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk, go to ‘Events’, ‘Modern
Languages’ and click on ‘What forms can do’.
For further details, please contact: Patrick Crowley ([email protected]), Shirley Jordan
([email protected]) or Emily McLaughlin ([email protected])
Programme
Venue:AllSoulsCollege
Monday11Jan
2.20–Welcome.
2.30to4.00
Chair:SusanHarrow(UniversityofBristol)
PatrickMcGuinness(StAnne’sCollege,UniversityofOxford):‘Thepassagefromnotebooktopoemand
back’
EricRobertson(RoyalHolloway,UniversityofLondon):‘FormsandtheirUndoingfromSurrealismtothe
Present’
AnnSmock(UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley)‘Entredeuxilyaunchampdontlaformetourneentrenous’
4.00 tea/coffee
4.30to6.00
Chair:JaneHiddleston(ExeterCollege,UniversityofOxford)
MichaelSyrotinski(UniversityofGlasgow):‘TheEvanescenceofForm’
AndrewAsibong(Birkbeck,UniversityofLondon)‘Threeistheloneliestnumber:MarieVieuxChauvet,
MarieNDiayeandthetraumatizedtriptych’
CeliaBritton(UniversityCollegeLondon)‘Metaphors,parodyandmadness:tworeadingsofMarie
Chauvet’sFolie’
7.15 DinnerintheMainHall(DressCode,Smart)
Tuesday12Jan
9.00to11.00
Chair:JohannaMalt(King’sCollegeLondon)
EddieHughes(QueenMary,UniversityofLondon):‘S’ilfallaitaffronterleréelsanscetécran’:Filteringthe
RealinDidierEribon’sRetouràReims
IanMaclachlan(MertonCollege,UniversityofOxford):‘Avoicetakesform:thesoundsofautobiographyin
Louis-RenédesForêts’sPoèmesdeSamuelWood’
MairéadHanrahan(UniversityCollegeLondon):‘Goingon:TheachievementofforminJacquesRoubaud's
Quelquechosenoir’
ShirleyJordan(QueenMary,UniversityofLondon):‘Thetimeofourlives:repetition,variationand
fragmentationinFrenchwomen’slifewriting’
11.00 tea/coffee
11:30to1.00
Chair:AnadeMedeiros(UniversityofKent)
EmmaWilson(CorpusChristiCollege,UniversityofCambridge):‘Intimacy:PatriceChéreauandNan
Goldin’
Marie-ChantalKilleen(LadyMargaretHall,OxfordUniversity):«Toutvu»:ChloéDelaumeetHiroshima
monamour
ElzaAdamowicz(QueenMaryUniversityofLondon)‘LeirisandBreton:unmaskingadialogue’
1.00to2.00 lunchintheMainHall
2.00to3.30
Chair:SusanHarrow(UniversityofBristol)
PatrickO'Donovan(UniversityCollegeCork):Certeau’slandscapes:whatcanimagesdo?
AlisonFinch(ChurchillCollege,UniversityofCambridge):‘Aestheticformandsocial‘form’inAlarecherche
dutempsperdu:Proustontaste’
MichaelLucey(UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley):’“Larecherchequel’onpeutdireformelle”:Proustwith
Bourdieu’
3.30 tea/coffee
4.00to5.30
Chair:MargaretAtack(UniversityofLeeds)
SusanRubinSuleiman(HarvardUniversity):‘Humour,ParodyandtheQuestforJewishIdentityinPatrick
Modiano’sLaPlacedel’étoile’
MaxSilverman(UniversityofLeeds):‘ConcentrationaryArtandtheReadingofEverydayLife’
CharlesForsdick(UniversityofLiverpool)‘Verticaltravelandtheenumerationoftheeveryday’
6.30 DrinksReceptionintheMainHall(DressCode,Smart)
7.00 DinnerintheMainHall(DressCode,Smart)
Wednesday13Jan
9.00to10.30
Chair:JohannaMalt(King’sCollegeLondon)
DianaKnight(UniversityofNottingham):‘Fairececioufairecela?Barthesandthechoiceofform’
JohnnieGratton(TrinityCollegeDublin):‘TheEclipseofForminRolandBarthes’sLaChambreClaire’
Patrickffrench(KingsCollege,UniversityofLondon)‘Entrerfollementdanslespectacle:Reading
ProjectivelyinBarthes’
10.30 tea/coffee
11to12.30
Chair:MargaretAtack(UniversityofLeeds)
AnnJefferson(NewCollege,UniversityofOxford):‘TheinventionofformintheFrenchnovelofthe1940s’
PeterRead(UniversityofKent):‘“Fixéparlescrisdeshirondellesauvolgéométriquedudésir”(Picasso,7
June1936):PatternsandPermutationsinPicasso’sProsePoems’
DavidHWalker(UniversityofSheffield)‘CamusonTheatre:alostlecture’
12.30 lunchintheMainHall
1.30to3.00
Chair:AnadeMedeiros(UniversityofKent)
GunnthorunnGudmundsdottir(UniversityofIceland):‘WritingtheForgotten:MemoryandLiteraryForm’
PatrickCrowley(UniversityCollegeCork):‘EugèneSavitzkaya:FraudeurandtheConfluenceofForms’
EmilyMcLaughlin(TheQueen’sCollege,UniversityofOxford):‘HowtoThinklikeaPlant?Ponge,Guillevic,
Jaccottet’