FRIDAY, April 15, 2016
Romance Languages Lounge, 82-90 Wall Street, 3rd Floor
Participants’ registration 1.30-2.00pm
Welcome, Opening Remarks 2.00–2.15pm
Speakers: Carole Delaitre and Richard Riddick
Panel I: Displacement on the March 2.15–4.15pm
Chair: Richard Riddick (Yale)
* Théo Soula (Toulouse 2): “Les nouveaux flâneurs : écriture de la déambulation et pratique de l’espace urbain au tournant du XXIème siècle”
*Camille Carrier Belleau (McGill): “L’expérience transmigratoire d’Émile Ollivier – l’écriture cartographique du quartier Côte-des-Neiges dans La Brûlerie”
* Jacek Blaszkiewicz (Rochester): “Remembering the Cris de Paris, ca. 1860”
* David Laporte (UQTR): “Thar she blows ! : imaginaire de la fin et quête de la Nouvelle Jérusalem dans Le soleil des gouffres de Louis Hamelin”
Coffee Break 4.15–4.35pm
Keynote: Professor Andrea Goulet (UPenn) 4.35–6.00pm
Introduced by Richard Riddick
“Les Drames de la Rue: Politics, Theater, and Crime in/off the Streets of Nineteenth-Century Paris”
Conference Dinner 6.30pm
Union League Café (1032 Chapel Street)
SATURDAY, April 16, 2016
Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208 (53 Wall Street)
Panelists’ Breakfast 8.30–9.15am
Romance Languages Lounge, 82-90 Wall Street, 3rd Floor
Panel II: Displacement on the Margins 9.30–11.30am
Chair: Imane Terhmina (Yale)
* Aubrey Korneta (NYU): “’Out-of-Home’: Figures of the Transfuge in Contemporary French Autofiction”
* Miruna Craciunescu (McGill): “L’hérétique, l’inverti et le pauvre diable, ou la Renaissance vue à travers ses marges : proposition pour une théorie de la « mise en marge » dans les fictions biographiques contemporaines”
* Thomas Muzart (CUNY): “Ecrire de/au-delà de la marge : l’homosexualité et son rapport aux foules dans l’œuvre d’Abdellah Taïa”
* Claire Ménard (Rutgers): “The unbearable ‘flexibility’ of being – rhizomes and adaptability in La blessure et Paria de Nicolas Klotz”
Panelists’ Lunch 11.30–1.15pm
Wall St Pizza, 90 Wall Street
Panel III: Displacing Form(s) 1.30–3.30pm
Chair: Colin Foss (Yale)
* Carole Delaitre (Yale): “Subvertir la langue de l’occupant : un cas de résistance exceptionnel”
* Daniel Bowman (Maryland): “Bizet in Africa: The (Dis)Placement of Narrative in Joseph Gaï Ramaka’s Karmen Geï”
* Jessica Kasje (Yale): “Staël in exile: displacing Rousseau’s philosophy through fiction”
Coffee Break 3.15–3.35pm
Panel IV: Figures of Displacement 3.35–5.35pm
Chair: Jennifer Carr (Yale)
* Madeleine Wolf (Harvard): “Border Control: Displacement and Transgression in Marie Darrieussecq’s Truismes (1996)”
* Ian Curtis (Yale): “Parisian ‘Documents of Absence’ in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz”
* Jocelyn Frelier (Michigan): “Familial Estrangement: The Bondage of Alienation and Separation, and the Impossibility of Return”
* Nathalie Batraville (Yale): “Mourir est beau : La mort comme mouvement révolutionnaire chez Davertige”
Reception 5.35pm
Whitney Humanities Center Rotunda
Conference Venues
Restaurant: Union League Café
Co-organized by Carole Delaitre and Richard Riddick with the support and assistance of the graduate students, faculty, and staff.
Sponsored by: Yale Department of French, Yale University Dean’s Fund, Yale University, Whitney Humanities Center
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