Interdisciplinary Research Seminars in French Studies 2008-09
In recent years the French department’s research seminar has usually been organized around a particular theme. In 2008-9 we are adopting a different approach: the seminar’s reach will be broad and interdisciplinary, and speakers will be colleagues from other departments at King’s who work on or with French/francophone material.
Seminars run from 5pm to about 6.30pm on a Wednesday, and are open to all. The seminar is in different rooms at the Strand Campus on different occasions.
8 October 2008 in room S8.08, Stand Building
Kate Averis (French)
Exile writing and politics: Denunciation and social critique in Malika Mokeddem and Laura Restrepo
12 November 2008 in room S8.08, Stand Building
Adam Sutcliffe (History)
Friendship and Materialist Philosophy in the French Enlightenment
26 November 2008 in room D11, East Wing
Alan Read (English/Theatre Studies)
The Theatre and its Poor: Performance and the Distribution of the Sensible
21 January 2009 in room S8.08, Strand Building
Barney Norman (French)
A Step on the Moon: Heidegger, Sollers and Derrida, and the Question Concerning Technology
4 February 2009 in FS2, East Wing
Ginette Vincendeau (Film Studies)
From The French Connection to multi-cultural ‘dustbin city’ – Marseille in crime cinema
25 February 2009 in S8.08, Strand Building
Sophie Fuggle (French)
Sifting through bodies or slipping through the net? Foucault's notion of 'sécurité' as secular reading of the Pauline remnant
11 March 2009 in S8.08, Strand Building
Richard Vinen (History)
Poujadism since 1953
29 April 2009 in FS2, East Wing
Sarah Cooper (Film Studies)
Devilish Movement: Jean Epstein's Late Film Theory