Study Day in Honour of Alec Hargreaves


Study
Day
in
Honour
of
Alec
Hargreaves
Culture,
Politics
and
Society
in
Postcolonial
France
French
Institute,
17
Queensberry
Place,
London
SW7
Friday,
22
June
2012
Organised
with
the
support
of
the
Society
for
Francophone
Postcolonial
Studies
(SFPS),
the
Association
for
the
Study
of
Modern
and
Contemporary
France
(ASMCF)
and
the
Institut
Français
du
Royaume
Uni.
PROGRAMME
10.00­10.30
Registration
10.30­10.45
Opening
Remarks:
David
Murphy
(University
of
Stirling)
10.45­11.45
Panel
1
(Sponsored
by
ASMCF):
Reflections
on
French
Studies
in
UK/Ireland
and
North
America—Area
Studies
v
Cultural
Studies?
(Chair:
Máire
Cross)
•
Phil
Dine
(NUI
Galway),
‘Personal
itineraries,
disciplinary
boundaries:
negotiating
“Frenchness”
from
Algeria
to
the
banlieue
(via
Loughborough)’
•
Roger
Célestin
(University
of
Connecticut),
‘The
Critic,
The
World
and
Academia’
11.45­12.00
Tea/Coffee
(Les
Salons)
12.00­13.00
Panel
2:
French
and
Francophone
Fiction
(Chair:
Sian
Reynolds)
•
Di
Holmes
(Leeds),
‘Nancy
Huston
and
the
ethical
art
of
storytelling’
•
Jean‐Marc
Moura
(Université
de
Paris‐Ouest),
‘L’humour
littéraire
francophone:
à
propos
d’une
inspiration
peu
étudiée’
13.00­14.30
Lunch
(Les
Salons)
14.30­15.30
Panel
3:
Postcolonial
Visual
Cultures
(Chair:
Charles
Forsdick)
•
Mark
McKinney
(Miami
University,
Ohio),
‘(Post‐)colonialism
and
bande
dessinée’
•
Carrie
Tarr
(Kingston),
‘Minority
Filmmaking
in
France
2007‐2012:
Etat
des
lieux’
15.30­15.45
Tea/Coffee
(Les
Salons)
15.45­16.45
Panel
4:
New
European
Identities
(Chair:
David
Murphy)
•
Nicki
Hitchcott
(University
of
Nottingham),
‘“Let’s
Barack
Our
Lives!”:
Black
(American)
Identity
in
Léonora
Miano’s
Paris’
•
Dominic
Thomas
(UCLA),
‘Migration
and
Grammar
in
the
New
Europe’
17.00­17.45
Interview
with
Alec
Hargreaves
and
Azouz
Begag,
conducted
by
Bill
Cloonan
(Florida
State
University)
and
presented
by
Racha
Sattati
(Florida
State
University)
17.45
Concluding
remarks:
Charles
Forsdick
(Liverpool)
18.00
Vin
d’Honneur
(Les
Salons)
For
further
information,
contact
the
organisers:
David
Murphy
([email protected]);
Charles
Forsdick
([email protected]).
Attendance
is
free
but
delegates
must
register
in
advance.