Annual Conference 2023
Reclaiming Spaces: Spatiality and the (Re)occupation of Spaces in the French and Francophone World
7-8 September 2023 (ILCS, London & Online)
Conference Programme
* For a pdf of the Call for Papers, please click here: ASMCF 2023 – Call for papers/Appel à communications
* For a pdf of the Conference Programme, please click here: ASMCF 2023 Annual Conference Programme
DAY 1 – Thursday 7 September 2023
09.00 – 09.30: Registration
09.30 – 09.45: Welcome
09.50 – 11.50: Panel Sessions 1
Panel 1A: Examining LGBTQIA+ Spaces
- Yi Song – ‘Our Bodies are Hydrophilic’: Queer Existence as Bodies of Water in Robin Campillo’s 120 BPM (2017)
- Chris Tinker – LGBTQIA+ Visibilities at the Out d’Or Award Ceremony
- Sarah Ghelam – Les hétérotopies féministes et lesbiennes dans les albums jeunesse d’Adela Turin.
- Oliver Wilson – On the Shores of Pharmacopornopolitics: Rancière and Preciado’s Spaces of Dissensus
Panel 1B: Self-writing and Intimate Spaces
- Katharina Simon- In the Sun. The Link Between Sun, Space and Autobiography in Cixous, Duras and de Man
- Hind Bensardi – L’intime comme espace hétérogène dans la Honte d’Annie Ernaux
- Liana Babayan – Reclaiming Spaces: Sarcasm and Humor as Tools for Fighting Pain and Exclusion from Spaces in Faïza Guene’s Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow
- Lauren McShane – “Rehabilitating Spaces: Mapping Family into the French Rehab Space”
Panel 1C: Reclaiming Forgotten Spaces
- Elizabeth Benjamin – Monuments and ‘Non-uments’: Reclaiming Spaces in the Evolving Parisian Memoryscape
- Carl Cornell – Reclaiming Industrial Landscapes: The Role of Public Art in Nantes and Lyon
- Neil Malloy – Repurposed ruins
- Desmond Kraege – The Mutating Bridge: Popular Uses and Political Symbolism of the Paris Pont Neuf, 1788-1818
12.00 – 12.45: Lunch
12.45 – 13.30: ASMCF Annual General Meeting
13.30 – 14.30: Keynote – Dr. Pierre Hyppolite
14.30 – 14.45: Coffee break
14.50 – 16.50: Panel Sessions 2
Panel 2A: Migration and Passing through Spaces
- Nadege Norvilus – La dynamique des lieux et la poétique de l’espace dans Passages d’Émile Ollivier
- Bouchra Chougrani & Ibrahim Belmir – L’exil, une nouvelle appropriation de l’espace chez Abnousse Shalmani
- Maddison Sumner – ‘Cette entre-deux dans lequel je flotte’: Nesrine Slaoui’s Illégitimes and the Value of Being In-Between
Panel 2B: Eco and geo-critical perspectives of literary spaces
- Aurore Nicolas – L’enjeu symbolique de la « réappropriation naturelle » dans les œuvres d’auteurs francophones vietnamiens
- Léa Fougerolle – « Inspiration », « expiration »: espaces olfactifs en mutation dans le Fort-de-France de chronique des sept misères (1986) de Patrick Chamoiseau”
- Alina Bako – Une étude géocritique sur le roman roumain
Panel 2C: Spaces of Encounter and Political Dynamics
- Sophie Ellis – “Space(s) of welcome: uprooting French hospitality in the work of Iván Argote”
- Jade Arrowsmith – London as a space of Franco-British culinary and cultural exchange: an examination of the changes brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic
- Debra Kelly – The Politicised Space of the French Restaurant in London
- Kevin Labbé – espaces religieux et espaces civils: l’emergence douloureuse d’un nouveau monde (1789-1804)
Panel 2D: L’espace dans le roman maghrébine
- Souad Baba Saci-Redouane and Souraya Bouzidi – Orientation générique et représentations spatiales : De l’espace factuel à l’espace phénoménologique
- Khadidja Ghamri – Espaces féminins entre claustration, interdit et liberté dans Rêves de femmes de Fatema Mernissi
- Sihem Guettafi – Espaces et mouvances entre village et ville: Personnages entre paratopies et création des identités dans les œuvres de Aicha Lemsine
17.00 – 18.00: Vin d’honneur
19.00: Conference Dinner (at participant’s expense)
DAY 2 – Friday 8 September 2023
08.50 – 09.00: Welcome
09.00- 10.30: Panel Sessions 3
Panel 3A: Cityscapes and Spatiality in Urban Literature
- Leah Powers – Il Voyait Rouge: Trauma and Disembodiment in Les Mystères de Paris
- Federica Ambroso – Lieu du crime, lieu de l’âme. La ville dans le roman noir contemporain (1995-2015) : Bologne, Limoges, Thessalonique.
- Christopher Leffler – Elided Landscapes: Navigating the Uncanny Spaces of Marseille in Claudel’s (2007) La Petite Fille de Monsieur Linh
Panel 3B: Rurality, Marginality and the Space of the Banlieue
- Vincent Bornert – The Celestial Elevation of « Banlieue Filmmaking » in Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh’s Gagarine (2020)
- Constance Barbaresco – La classe moyenne parisienne en banlieue verte : manières de se divertir, manières d’habiter dans les récits de retraites et de parties de campagne au XIXe siècle
- Jean-Baptiste Bernard – Espaces marginaux et idéal républicain : les (joyeux) récits de voyage en France de Pierre Adrian et Philibert Humm.
Panel 3C: Spaces in Film: Subversion, Re-figuration, and (Re)claiming Identity in Films
- Laura Ceia – Disrupting the Colonial Gaze: A Spatial Analysis of Resistance and Subversion in Coup de Torchon.
- Daddy Dibinga – La Re-figuration spatiale dans les séries sénégalaises : Pour une approche décolonialiste de l’espace.
- Ry Montgomery – Sous les pavés, le Souk reclaiming (re)public(an) space in the films of Lionel Soukaz.
10.30 – 10.45: Coffee break
10.45 – 12.15: Panel Sessions 4
Panel 4A: Linguistic Spaces: Translations, Encounters, and Cultural Bridges
- Agatino Lo Castro – Traduction(s) et rencontre(s) : pour une vision de l’espace traductif comme pont transculturel
- Sarah Eichhorn – “Il faut mélanger:” Making space for Breton and Arabic in Brittany
- Élise Cantiran – Représentations de la francophonie aux États-Unis dans la correspondance à Émile Zola : construction d’un espace en mouvement
Panel 4B: Literary Spaces of War
- Myriem El Maizi – Affective Carthography of War in Mazen Kerbaj’s Lettre à la mère (2013)
- Julia Ribeiro Thomaz – Faire front: building the space of the front in and through poetry during the First World War
- Lucy Campbell Whiteley – No Man’s Land. Poetry as “the Zone” of Orphée (1950)
Panel 4C: Ecology, the Anthropocene and the connection to non-humans
- Armelle Blin-Rolland – Hyper-reading zoological gardens: for a more-than-human politics of space
- Leon Hughes – ‘C’est un superbe végétal qu’un arbre’ : Nonhuman (counter)production(s) of space in the French Revolution (1789-1799)
- Abigail Fields – Reading for the Setting: An ecocritical comparison of space in the work of Honoré de Balzac and Émile Zola
12.15 – 13.45: Lunch / PGR forum
14.00 – 15.00: Keynote – Dr. Madhu Krishnan
15.00 – 15.15: Coffee break
15.15 – 17.15: Panel Sessions 5
Panel 5A: Feminist Spaces
- Marie Cabadi – Feminists spatialities. French women’s centres and the urban embodiment of the women’s.
- Emma Flanagan – Spaces, Places, and Modes of Mobilisation: Analysing the Recruitment of Algerian Women into the Union des femmes d’Algérie, 1946-1956.
- Sean Hardy – Célébration de l’dentité femme et noire : reconquête de l’espace théâtral français contemporain.
Panel 5B: Virtual Spaces: Reality, Virtual Reality and Digital Cultures Redefining Space
- Fraser McQueen – Online Spaces, Utopianism, and Community in Recent French Literature
- Tamzin Elliott -Taking up virtual space: intermediality and intersectionality in four French language podcasts.
- Olivier Salès – Transcending Space Through the Quest of Elsewhere in PNL’s Songs and Music Videos”.
Panel 5C: Contested Spaces
- Daniel A. Gordon – Turf Wars? The Mutualité Riot of 21 June 1973, Fifty Years On.
- Jonathan Lewis – ‘Contested Island Space: The Case of Ile de Ré’.
- Ifigenia Conis – “Occupation Odéon, Paris: renegotiating space and expanding imaginations of the public theatre”.