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
Speakers include:
Elza Adamowicz
Andrew Asibong
Celia Britton
Patrick Crowley
Alison Finch
Charles Forsdick
Patrick ffrench
Johnnie Gratton
Gunn Gudmundsdottir
Mairéad Hanrahan
Eddie Hughes
Ann Jefferson
Shirley Jordan
Marie-Chantal Killeen
Diana Knight
Patrick McGuinness
Ian Maclachlan
Emily McLaughlin
Michael Lucey
Patrick O’Donovan
Peter Read
Eric Robertson
Max Silverman
Ann Smock
Susan Rubin Suleiman
Michael Syrotinski
David Walker
Emma Wilson
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
2h20–Welcome.
2h30to4.00
Chair:SusanHarrow(UniversityofBristol)
PatrickMcGuinness(StAnne’sCollege,UniversityofOxford):‘Thepassagefromnotebook
topoemandback’
EricRobertson(RoyalHolloway,UniversityofLondon):‘FormsandtheirUndoingfrom
SurrealismtothePresent’
AnnSmock(UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley)‘Entredeuxilyaunchampdontlaforme
tourneentrenous’
4.30to6.00
Chair:JaneHiddleston(ExeterCollege,UniversityofOxford)
MichaelSyrotinski(UniversityofGlasgow):‘TheEvanescenceofForm’
AndrewAsibong(Birkbeck,UniversityofLondon)‘Threeistheloneliestnumber:Marie
VieuxChauvet,MarieNDiayeandthetraumatizedtriptych’
CeliaBritton(UniversityCollegeLondon)‘Metaphors,parodyandmadness:tworeadingsof
MarieChauvet’sFolie’
Tuesday12Jan
9.00to11.00
Chair:JohannaMalt(King’sCollegeLondon)
EddieHughes(QueenMary,UniversityofLondon):‘S’ilfallaitaffronterleréelsanscet
écran’:FilteringtheRealinDidierEribon’sRetouràReims
IanMaclachlan(MertonCollege,UniversityofOxford):‘Avoicetakesform:thesoundsof
autobiographyinLouis-RenédesForêts’sPoèmesdeSamuelWood’
MairéadHanrahan(UniversityCollegeLondon):‘Goingon:Theachievementofformin
JacquesRoubaud'sQuelquechosenoir’
ShirleyJordan(QueenMary,UniversityofLondon):‘Thetimeofourlives:repetition,
variationandfragmentationinFrenchwomen’slifewriting’
11:30to1.00
Chair:AnadeMedeiros(UniversityofKent)
EmmaWilson(CorpusChristiCollege,UniversityofCambridge):‘Intimacy:PatriceChéreau
andNanGoldin’
Marie-ChantalKilleen(LadyMargaretHall,OxfordUniversity):«Toutvu»:ChloéDelaume
etHiroshimamonamour
ElzaAdamowicz(QueenMaryUniversityofLondon)‘LeirisandBreton:unmaskinga
dialogue’
2.00to3.30
Chair:SusanHarrow(UniversityofBristol)
PatrickO'Donovan(UniversityCollegeCork):Certeau’slandscapes:whatcanimagesdo?
AlisonFinch(ChurchillCollege,UniversityofCambridge):‘Aestheticformandsocial‘form’in
Alarecherchedutempsperdu:Proustontaste’
MichaelLucey(UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley):’“Larecherchequel’onpeutdire
formelle”:ProustwithBourdieu’
4.00to5.30
Chair:MargaretAtack(UniversityofLeeds)
SusanRubinSuleiman(HarvardUniversity):‘Humour,ParodyandtheQuestforJewish
IdentityinPatrickModiano’sLaPlacedel’étoile’
MaxSilverman(UniversityofLeeds):‘ConcentrationaryArtandtheReadingofEveryday
Life’
CharlesForsdick(UniversityofLiverpool)‘Verticaltravelandtheenumerationofthe
everyday’
Wednesday13Jan
9.00to10.30
Chair:JohannaMalt(King’sCollegeLondon)
DianaKnight(UniversityofNottingham):‘Fairececioufairecela?Barthesandthechoiceof
form’
JohnnieGratton(TrinityCollegeDublin):‘TheEclipseofForminRolandBarthes’sLa
ChambreClaire’
Patrickffrench(King’sCollegeLondon)‘Entrerfollementdanslespectacle:Reading
ProjectivelyinBarthes’
11to12.30
Chair:MargaretAtack(UniversityofLeeds)
Ann Jefferson (New College, University of Oxford): ‘The invention of form in the French
novelofthe1940s’
PeterRead(UniversityofKent):‘“Fixéparlescrisdeshirondellesauvolgéométriquedu
désir”(Picasso,7June1936):PatternsandPermutationsinPicasso’sProsePoems’
DavidHWalker(UniversityofSheffield)‘CamusonTheatre:alostlecture’
1.30to3.00
Chair:AnadeMedeiros(UniversityofKent)
GunnthorunnGudmundsdottir(UniversityofIceland):‘WritingtheForgotten:Memoryand
LiteraryForm’
PatrickCrowley(UniversityCollegeCork):‘EugèneSavitzkaya:FraudeurandtheConfluence
ofForms’
EmilyMcLaughlin(TheQueen’sCollege,UniversityofOxford):‘HowtoThinklikeaPlant?
Ponge,Guillevic,Jaccottet’