NEW FORMS OF EXPRESSION

IN THE FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE WORLDS

With the generous support of:

Yves Hervouet Fund, Lancaster University

Annual Conference
of the
Association for the Study of
Modern and Contemporary France

Lancaster University
13-14 September 2018

Images: Nicolas Vermeulin

Programme

Thursday 13th September
9-9:30am: Welcome by Chris Tinker, President of the ASMCF
9:30-11am: Panel 1: Poetic Spaces (Chair: Delphine Grass)
⁻ Aude Campmas (University of Southampton): Le Nom et l’espace: Victor Hugo et la Pieuvre
⁻ Lauren Quigley (Queen’s University Belfast): Writing the infraordinary in Roubaud’s Ode à
la ligne 29 and La forme d’une ville
⁻ Erika Fülöp (Lancaster University): Qu'est-ce que la LittéraTube? Emergent practices of ‘vidéo-
écriture’ on YouTube
11-11:30: Refreshments
11:30-12:30pm: Panel 2: Freedom of Speech and Dissent (Chair: Charlotte Baker)
⁻ Christopher O’Neill (Aston University): Sennep and the expression of dissent under Vichy
⁻ Clare Siviter (University of Bristol): ‘Out with the old and in with the new?’ Reassessing theatrical
bestsellers of the Revolution
12:30-1:30pm: Lunch
1:30-3:30pm: Panel 3: Authorial Constructions (Chair: Aude Campmas)
⁻ Ashley Harris (Queen’s University Belfast): Multimedia and post-textual authordom: Beigbeder
and Houellebecq
⁻ Chris Tinker (Heriot-Watt University): Contestation and consensus in posthumous press
coverage of Johnny Hallyday
⁻ Mike McKenna (Queen’s University Belfast): Édouard Glissant’s querelle avec l’Archive
⁻ Ruairidh Patfield (Newcastle University): ‘In Paris, like San Francisco’: The representation of
hippiedom through musical discourse in late-1960s France
3.30-4pm: Refreshments
4-5pm: ASMCF Annual Meeting
5pm: Peter Morris Memorial Lecture (Chair: Chris Tinker)
Alexandra Saemmer (Université de Paris 8): Reprendre la main sur le sens: Prolégomènes à une
littérature post-numérique
6:45pm: Small Group Meetings
7:15pm: Wine reception
8pm: Conference dinner
Friday 14th September
9:30-11am: Parallel sessions:
Panel 4A: Women and Their Representation (Chair: Christopher O’Neill)
James Illingworth (Queen’s University Belfast): ‘Cette langue nouvelle’: George Sand’s
⁻
experimentalism
⁻ Abigail Taylor (University of Sheffield): Expressing household work practices: What place for
domestic services?
⁻ Mohammed Bouaddis (Lancaster University): ‘Les voix qui resurgissent, au-delà de la
banlieue!’: Discourses and strategies of centripetal writing in Faïza Guène's Kiffe kiffe
demain (2004) and Les rêves pour des oufs (2006)
Panel 4B: Language, Technology, Pedagogy (Chair: Nicole Fayard)
⁻ Mohammed Aguidi (Mohammed I University): Les applications mobiles d’apprentissage du
français destinées aux arabophones: Quel français, quels dispositifs pédagogiques?
⁻ John McKeane (University of Reading): Queen of the sciences? Philosophy and the French
baccalaureate
11-11:30: Refreshments
11:30-12:30pm: Keynote (Chair: Erika Fülöp)
Nathalie Brillant Rannou (Université de Rennes 2): Vidéos de lecteurs, booktubing, littératube:
Nouvelle élaboration de la réception en littérature
12:30-1:30pm: Lunch
1:30-3pm: Parallel sessions:
Panel 5A: Margins and Boundaries (Chair: Fiona Barclay)
⁻ Jonathan Lewis (University of Bangor): (Im)Mobility and transgression: Representations of
dangerous travellers in Mounsi’s La Noce des fous
⁻ Chabha Ben Ali Amer (Lancaster University): The new Algerian literature at the threshold of
globalization: Across national and cultural boundaries
⁻ Charlotte Baker (Lancaster University): The Francophone African dictator-novel
Panel 5B: Politically (In)Correct (Chair: James Illingworth)
⁻ Dyhia Bia (University of Stirling): A carnivalesque disavowal of the post-independence fiasco
⁻ Laurent Binet (Cardiff University): ‘Grand remplacement, collabos et guerre civile’: New
discourses on immigration on the French fachosphère and beyond
⁻ Thomas Martin (Lancaster University): Macron’s France and the EU: A new beginning or the
same old story?
3-3:30pm: Refreshments
3:30-5pm: Panel 6: New Media, Intermediality, and Hybridity (Chair: Erika Fülöp)
⁻ Nicole Fayard (University of Leicester): Shakespeare and intermedial translation on the twenty-
first century French stage
⁻ Rebecca Rosenberg (King’s College London): Generic hybridity, popular culture, and multimedia
in Chloé Delaume’s interactive and immersive fictions
⁻ Greta Bliss (University of North Carolina): Vivid interventions: Documentary in post-revolution
Tunisia
5pm: Closing remarks and end of conference