Programme

Please find the programme below. Please note that this is subject to change; any alterations will be updated as soon as possible.

Femmes Créa(c)tives: The Life and Work of Francophone Women in the Arts and Media

Queens Building, University of Exeter, 13-14 June 2016

Monday 13th June

09:30-10:30:   Registration and Refreshments (Queen’s Building Reception and Margaret Rooms 2&3 (MR 2&3))

10:30-11:30:   Opening Keynote Address (Chair: TBC); Lecture Theatre 1 (LT1)

  • Dr Siobhan Shilton (University of Bristol) – ‘Art, Women and the “Arab Spring”: Aesthetics of Revolution and Resistance’.

11:45-13:15:    Panel Session 1

Women Authors and Tunisia: Social, Artistic and Political Dialogues (Chair: Anna Rocca); Margaret Room 1 (MR1)

  • Marzia Caporale (Scrampton University) – “Creativity and the Feminine: Sexual Politics and Cinematic Aesthetics in Nadia El Fani’s Documentary-Making”
  • Dora Carpenter-Latiri (University of Brighton) – “Tunisiennes du Livre. Rencontres avec des créa(c)trices. Exposition textuelle-visuelle et communication”
  • Anna Rocca (Salem State University) – “Prisons Within, Prisons Without”

13:15-14:15:   Lunch; MR2&3

14:15-15:45:   Panel Session 2

Algerian Women’s Writing (Chair: Marzia Caporale); LT1

  • Edward Still (University of Oxford) – “Early Assia Djebar and the Politics of Reflexive Representation”
  • Jocelyn Wright (The University of Texas at Austin) – “La jeune fille contre sa mère? Female Strife and the Francophone Auteure”
  • Maria Tomlinson (Universities of Reading and Bristol) – “‘On dirait que c’est honteux de devenir une femme’: The Representation of Menstruation in Algerian Women’s Writing”

19th and 20th century perspectives (Chair: Dr Fiona Cox); MR1

  • Giada Alessandroni (University of Exeter) – “Créativité, Solidarité et Emancipation Féminine à la Belle Epoque”
  • Victoria Duckett (Deakin University) – “A public precedent: Sarah Bernhardt, Gabrielle Réjane, and the early French double feature film”
  • Kathryn E. Devine (Vanderbilt University) – “Camille Claudel and the politics of madness: [De]censoring Folie Féminine”

15:45-16:15:   Break and refreshments; MR 2&3

16:15-17:45:   Panel Session 3 

Dramatic and Visual Arts Practitioners (Chair: Dr. Clare Horáčková); LT1

  • Adrianne Barbo (Oberlin College) – “The Woman of Many Colors and the Art of Passing ‘Invisible’.”
  • Laurel Frederickson (Southern Illinois University) – “Zenib Sedira: The Fate of the Decolonial in Art.”
  • Fiona Handyside (Unviersity of Exeter) – “Mia Hansen-Løve as Postfeminist Auteur.”

18:00-19:15: Reading and Q&A with Darina al-Joundi; LT1

19:30: Meet for conference dinner; MR1

20:00: Conference dinner at Harry’s Restaurant

 

Tuesday 14th June

09:30-10:30:   PGR Workshop with Dr Tom Hinton; LT 1 

10:00-11:00:   Morning refreshments; MR 2&3

11:00-12:30:   Panel Session 4 

The Work of Women on Film (Chair: Gemma Edney); LT1 

  • Corinne Maury (Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès) – “Puissances créatives du quotidien dans les films Saute ma ville et Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles  de Chantal Akerman”
  • Albertine Fox (Royal Holloway, University of London) – “Experiences Not Yet Told: listening to the gestures in the work of Miéville and Akerman”
  • Philippe Depairon (Université de Montréal) – “Les quatre saisons de Françoise Sullivan: Danse dans la neige” 

12:30-13:30:   Lunch; MR 2&3

13:30-15:00:   Panel Session 5 

20th Century Theory, Visual and Literary Forms (Chair: Sandra Daroczi); LT1 

  • Jacqueline Taylor (Birmingham City University) – “Thinking Difference Differently: An exploration of l’écriture féminine through the lens of postfeminism”
  • Kierran Horner (King’s College London) – “Mother and Beloved Equals Other: Varda’s Critique of the Feminine as Annex to the Masculine Subject”
  • Polly Gallis (University of Leeds) – “Porno-Erotic Representation in Annie Ernaux’s Ce Qu’Ils Disent ou Rien, and L’Usage de la Photo”

15:00-15:30:   Break and refreshments; MR 2&3

15:30-16:30:    Panel Session 6

Femmes (cré)actives francophones: Creativity as Agency (Chair: Helena Thomas); LT1

  • Antonia Wimbush (University of Bermingham) – “Women, Migration and Agency in French Caribbean Literature.”
  • Ruth Bush (University of Bristol) – “‘Mesdames, il faut lire!’: reading, literacy, and the construction of Pan-African icons in African women’s magazines.”

16:30-17:00:       Roundtable Discussion

Femmes Créa(c)tives 2016: What’s Next?; LT1

17:15-18:15:         Closing Keynote Address; LT1

  • Prof. Ruth Hottell (University of Toledo, Ohio) – “From Exclusion to Inclusion: Francophone Women and Film

18:15-18:30:             Closing Remarks; LT1

18:30:                  Drinks Reception; MR2&3

 

 

 

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