Réseau-F launch event 7 June 2011, Southampton, photograph courtesy of Marilyn Mallia

 
Réseau-F Postgraduate Consortium for French and Francophone Studies

Transfer and Transformation

Réseau-F Postgraduate Consortium for French and Francophone Studies Friday 10 May 2013, 10:30am – 5pm

10:30 – 11:00

Registration and Welcome

Coffee, tea and biscuits

Strathcona Lecture Theatre 1

11:00 – 12:00

Panel 1: Traversing the Arts

Eleanor Hodgson, University of Sheffield
Being Double: the Dual Identity of Abd Al Malik

Victoria Richardson, University of Cambridge
Hélène Cixous and Rembrandt: Writing with Painting

Strathcona Lecture Theatre 1

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch

Foyer, Ashley Building

13:00 – 14:00

Panel 2: Narrating Boundaries

Laure Philip, University of Warwick
The Noblewomen ‘émigrées’ in London in the 1790s and their Literary Activities: a Fine Line between Novels and Memoirs

Laura Jackson, QMUL
The Body as Tube in Amélie Nothomb

Strathcona Lecture Theatre 1

14:00 – 15:00

Keynote

Professor Tim Unwin
Building a Publications Portfolio in the Arts and Humanities

Strathcona Lecture Theatre 1

15:00 – 15:15

Break

Tea, coffee, biscuits

Foyer, Ashley Building

15:15 – 16:15

Panel 3: Translation and Transformation

Aneesh Barai, QMUL
“Children and cats in the alley”: Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats de T.S. Eliot et ses traductions françaises

Jingchao Jiang, University of Birmingham
Camus’s ‘La Méditerranée’: A Geographical Region and An Imagined Culture

Strathcona Lecture Theatre 1

16:15 – 17:00

Workshop: Finishing your PhD and What To Do Next

Strathcona Lecture Theatre 1

17:00

Networking and Drinks

This conference has been generously funded by the Society for French Studies, and the University of Birmingham College of Arts and Law Graduate School.

To attend, contact
Elizabeth Benjamin
feu540@bham.ac.uk
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