Work Stories

Work Stories
Documenting, Narrating and Representing the French Workplace
Friday, 15 and Saturday, 16 April 2016
Venue: IMLR, University of London, Room G34 Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Programme
Friday, 15 April 2016
9.15
Registration / Coffee
9.45
Welcome
10.00
Chair: Jeremy Lane
Jackie Clarke (Glasgow): Biographies of the Factory; Audrey Evrard (Fordham): The Vanishing Workplace;
Elweya Soliman Al Hakim (Université de Ain Shams, Cairo): Le monde du travail dans l’oeuvre de François Bon
11.20
Chair: Oliver Davis
Jeremy Lane (Nottingham): Not ‘moules’ but ‘modulation’: tracing Logics of ‘control’ in the ‘compétences’ agenda, the
2013 Loi sur la sécurisation de l'emploi and the Projet de loi El Khomri; Alex Corcos (Warwick): Ne travaillez jamais: the
Refusal of Work and the Production of Subjectivity according to the Situationist International and Maurizio Lazzarato
12.20
Lunch
13.50
Keynote Paper – Chair: Sarah Waters
Christophe Dejours (Conservatoire national des arts et des métiers): La clinique du travail: un opérateur d’intelligibilité
des transformations sociales et politiques dans la France contemporaine
14.50
Chair: Jackie Clarke
Linda Evans (Leeds): On est en deuil: the French Academy as Workplace, seen through the Lens of Institutional Merger;
Oliver Davis (Warwick): Policing the New Proletariat
15.50
Tea
16.05
Chair: John Marks
Anne Mulhall (Kings College London): Philosophy, Redemption and the New Literature of the Office; Andy Stafford
(Leeds): Clothes for Work. Reading the Face and the Outfit in Charles Fréger’s Bleus de travail
17.30
Vin d’honneur
19.00
Conference dinner (optional)
Saturday, 16 April 2016
9.30
Chair: Audrey Evrard
Martin O’Shaughnessy (Nottingham Trent): No Exit: French and Belgian Film and Worker Suicide; Sarah Waters
(Leeds): Workplace Suicide and States of Denial: the France Télécom and Foxconn Cases Compared; Duarte Rolo
(Université René Descartes): Le suicide au travail ou le paradoxe de Durkheim
10.50
Coffee
11.05
Keynote Paper – Chair: Jeremy Lane
Thierry Beinstingel: Ecrire sur le travail: être dedans et dehors - oeuvres emblématiques et histoires singulières
12.05
Chair: Martin O’Shaughnessy
Jan Windebank (Sheffield): The Household as Workplace: an Evaluation of French Policy to Promote Personal and
Household Services; John Marks (Nottingham): Capitalist Realism in Nathalie Kuperman’s Nous étions des êtres
humains (2010) and Pierre Mari’s Résolution (2005). D’accord? Non, pas d’accord. Enfin si’ d’accord. Ça veut dire quoi,
ne pas être d’accord?
13.05
Close of conference
The organisers are grateful for British Academy/Leverhulme sponsorship, and the Association for the
Study of Modern and Contemporary France for support of this conference