Research Seminars 2010-11
Print versionResearch Seminar in French Studies
The Research Seminar in the Department of French will feature presentations from invited speakers and postgraduates from the Department. Participants have been asked this year to think about issues of 'post-canonicity', the extent to which their research implictly or explicitly addresses the different canons operative in French Studies, or operates in a field where the notion of the canon no longer holds sway. The seminars will take place on Wednesdays at 5pm and are open to all.
Seminars will take place on the following dates:
Friday 12 November 2010 - S8.08
Professor Mildred Mortimer (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Tortured Bodies, Resilient Souls: Algerian women combatants depicted by Djamila Amrane-Minne, Louisette Ighilahriz, and Assia Djebar.
Organised jointly with the Postcolonial Studies Network
17 November 2010 - Room D11
Dr Ruth Cruickshank (Royal Holloway, University of London)
‘Reading and Feeding for the Plot in Post-War Fiction’
8 December 2010 - Room D11
Ewa Szypula (King's College London)
'Literature as communication: Balzac and his writings to the Etrangere'
Anna Orhanen (King's College London)
‘Pas [la] Sévigné de tout le monde’: Mme de Sévigné’s letters and aspects of literary communication in À la Recherche du temps perdu’
19 January 2011 - Room S8.08
Professor Charles Forsdick (University of Liverpool)
‘Disciplinarity, canonicity and the cracking of coherence: the case of French studies'.
9 February 2011 - Room S8.08
Dr Katherine Ibbett (University College London)
‘Compassionate Conservatism’
2 March 2011 - Room S8.08
Dr Shirley Jordan (Queen Mary, University of London)
'Without the Canon: Accessing New Women's Writing'
Professor Susan Harrow (University of Bristol)
'Dirt, Debris, Disgust: Towards a Postcolonial Rimbaud'.
23 March 2011 - Room D11
Dr Jane Gilbert (University College London)
'French sans frontières: Translation and Translatio in the Fifteenth Century'.
27 April 2011 - Room S8.08
Dr Kevin Inston (University College London)
'''Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the first thinker of community": a critique of Jean-Luc Nancy's La communauté désoeuvrée'
Friday 12 November 2010 - S8.08
Professor Mildred Mortimer (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Tortured Bodies, Resilient Souls: Algerian women combatants depicted by Djamila Amrane-Minne, Louisette Ighilahriz, and Assia Djebar.
Organised jointly with the Postcolonial Studies Network
17 November 2010 - Room D11
Dr Ruth Cruickshank (Royal Holloway, University of London)
‘Reading and Feeding for the Plot in Post-War Fiction’
8 December 2010 - Room D11
Ewa Szypula (King's College London)
'Literature as communication: Balzac and his writings to the Etrangere'
Anna Orhanen (King's College London)
‘Pas [la] Sévigné de tout le monde’: Mme de Sévigné’s letters and aspects of literary communication in À la Recherche du temps perdu’
19 January 2011 - Room S8.08
Professor Charles Forsdick (University of Liverpool)
‘Disciplinarity, canonicity and the cracking of coherence: the case of French studies'.
9 February 2011 - Room S8.08
Dr Katherine Ibbett (University College London)
‘Compassionate Conservatism’
2 March 2011 - Room S8.08
Dr Shirley Jordan (Queen Mary, University of London)
'Without the Canon: Accessing New Women's Writing'
Professor Susan Harrow (University of Bristol)
'Dirt, Debris, Disgust: Towards a Postcolonial Rimbaud'.
23 March 2011 - Room D11
Dr Jane Gilbert (University College London)
'French sans frontières: Translation and Translatio in the Fifteenth Century'.
27 April 2011 - Room S8.08
Dr Kevin Inston (University College London)
'''Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the first thinker of community": a critique of Jean-Luc Nancy's La communauté désoeuvrée'
