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
  1. Yi Song – ‘Our Bodies are Hydrophilic’: Queer Existence as Bodies of Water in Robin Campillo’s 120 BPM (2017)
  2. Chris Tinker – LGBTQIA+ Visibilities at the Out d’Or Award Ceremony
  3. Sarah Ghelam – Les hétérotopies féministes et lesbiennes dans les albums jeunesse d’Adela Turin.
  4. Oliver Wilson – On the Shores of Pharmacopornopolitics: Rancière and Preciado’s Spaces of Dissensus
Panel 1B:  Self-writing and Intimate Spaces 
  1. Katharina Simon- In the Sun. The Link Between Sun, Space and Autobiography in Cixous, Duras and de Man
  2. Hind Bensardi – L’intime comme espace hétérogène dans la Honte d’Annie Ernaux
  3. Liana Babayan – Reclaiming Spaces: Sarcasm and Humor as Tools for Fighting Pain and Exclusion from Spaces in Faïza Guene’s Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow
  4. Lauren McShane – “Rehabilitating Spaces: Mapping Family into the French Rehab Space”
Panel 1C: Reclaiming Forgotten Spaces
  1. Elizabeth Benjamin – Monuments and ‘Non-uments’: Reclaiming Spaces in the Evolving Parisian Memoryscape
  2. Carl Cornell – Reclaiming Industrial Landscapes: The Role of Public Art in Nantes and Lyon
  3. Neil Malloy – Repurposed ruins
  4. 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
  1. Nadege Norvilus – La dynamique des lieux et la poétique de l’espace dans Passages d’Émile Ollivier
  2. Bouchra Chougrani & Ibrahim Belmir – L’exil, une nouvelle appropriation de l’espace chez Abnousse Shalmani
  3. 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 
  1. Aurore Nicolas – L’enjeu symbolique de la « réappropriation naturelle » dans les œuvres d’auteurs francophones vietnamiens
  2. Léa Fougerolle – « Inspiration », « expiration »: espaces olfactifs en mutation dans le Fort-de-France de chronique des sept misères (1986) de Patrick Chamoiseau”
  3. Alina Bako – Une étude géocritique sur le roman roumain
Panel 2C: Spaces of Encounter and Political Dynamics
  1. Sophie Ellis – “Space(s) of welcome: uprooting French hospitality in the work of Iván Argote”
  2. 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
  3. Debra Kelly – The Politicised Space of the French Restaurant in London
  4. Kevin Labbé – espaces religieux et espaces civils: l’emergence douloureuse d’un nouveau monde (1789-1804)
Panel 2D: L’espace dans le roman maghrébine
  1. Souad Baba Saci-Redouane and Souraya Bouzidi – Orientation générique et représentations spatiales : De l’espace factuel à l’espace phénoménologique
  2. Khadidja Ghamri – Espaces féminins entre claustration, interdit et liberté dans Rêves de femmes de Fatema Mernissi
  3. 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
  1. Leah Powers – Il Voyait Rouge: Trauma and Disembodiment in Les Mystères de Paris
  2. Federica Ambroso – Lieu du crime, lieu de l’âme. La ville dans le roman noir contemporain (1995-2015) : Bologne, Limoges, Thessalonique.
  3. 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
  1. Vincent Bornert – The Celestial Elevation of « Banlieue Filmmaking » in Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh’s Gagarine (2020)
  2. 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
  3. 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
  1. Laura Ceia – Disrupting the Colonial Gaze: A Spatial Analysis of Resistance and Subversion in Coup de Torchon.
  2. Daddy Dibinga – La Re-figuration spatiale dans les séries sénégalaises : Pour une approche décolonialiste de l’espace.
  3. 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
  1. Agatino Lo Castro – Traduction(s) et rencontre(s) : pour une vision de l’espace traductif comme pont transculturel
  2. Sarah Eichhorn – “Il faut mélanger:” Making space for Breton and Arabic in Brittany
  3. 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
  1. Myriem El Maizi – Affective Carthography of War in Mazen Kerbaj’s Lettre à la mère (2013)
  2. Julia Ribeiro Thomaz – Faire front: building the space of the front in and through poetry during the First World War
  3. 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
  1. Armelle Blin-Rolland – Hyper-reading zoological gardens: for a more-than-human politics of space
  2. Leon Hughes – ‘C’est un superbe végétal qu’un arbre’ : Nonhuman (counter)production(s) of space in the French Revolution (1789-1799)
  3. 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
  1. Marie Cabadi – Feminists spatialities. French women’s centres and the urban embodiment of the women’s.
  2. Emma Flanagan – Spaces, Places, and Modes of Mobilisation: Analysing the Recruitment of Algerian Women into the Union des femmes d’Algérie, 1946-1956.
  3. 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
  1. Fraser McQueen – Online Spaces, Utopianism, and Community in Recent French Literature
  2. Tamzin Elliott -Taking up virtual space: intermediality and intersectionality in four French language podcasts.
  3. Olivier Salès – Transcending Space Through the Quest of Elsewhere in PNL’s Songs and Music Videos”.
Panel 5C: Contested Spaces
  1. Daniel A. Gordon – Turf Wars? The Mutualité Riot of 21 June 1973, Fifty Years On.
  2. Jonathan Lewis – ‘Contested Island Space: The Case of Ile de Ré’.
  3. Ifigenia Conis – “Occupation Odéon, Paris: renegotiating space and expanding imaginations of the public theatre”.

17.15 – 17.30: Conference Close

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