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PresentationAs director of the Leeds Centre for French and Francophone Cultural Studies, I am delighted to announce the programme of our International Conference entitled War, Memory, Amnesia: Francophone Perspective on postwar Lebanon taking place 6-7 June at Hinsley Hall, Leeds, GB.This is the first conference in the UK to bring colleagues from across the globe to discuss francophone memory cultures and has been generously funded by the Leverhulme Trust, the Society for French Studies, the Institut fran&#231;ais, SMLC and our own French subject area. Registration (see day rates) is open at the following site: http://store.leeds.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=480&#38;modid=1&#38;compid=1. As part of the conference there is going to be a free screening of Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige's film Je veux voir which stars Catherine Deneuve and Rabih Mrour&#233; at the Hyde Park Picture House on the Thursday afternoon. Max Silverman will be presenting and there's a planned Q&#38;A with one of the directors. Do come along if you can.Registration feesFull residential (incl. Conference Dinner): &#163;200PG* residential (incl. Conference Dinner): &#163;150Full non-residential: &#163;70PG* non-residential: &#163;50Day rates: &#163;30/&#163;20Programme6 June 2013: Hinsley Hall9h00 : Introduction &#8211; Claire Launchbury (Leeds) and Nayla Tamraz (Universit&#233; Saint-Joseph)9h15 : PHOTO-TEXTS (Chair : Stuart Green)Isabelle de le Court (ALBA) : Wounded Places : Architecture and Landscape&#160;in the Photographic Work of Paola Yacoub.Leslie Hakim-Dowek (Portsmouth) : The City that Exploded Slowly : Photo- text Series Mapping a Personal Archaeology in War-Torn Beirut.Andy Stafford (Leeds): Raymond Depardon, Denis Roche and That Photograph of Beirut in 1978; or: Iconicity in Text and Image.11h15: Coffee11h30: Keynote: Nayla Tamraz (USJ): Le roman contemporain libanais et l&#8217;histoire.Chair : Jim House12h30 : LunchHyde Park Picture House (in assocation with Leeds Centre for World Cinemas).14h00 : CINEMA(chair : Diana Holmes).Claire Launchbury (Leeds) : Staging Khiam : Documentary, Theatre and Archive in postwar Lebanon.Thomas Richard (Sciences Po) : M&#233;moires et repr&#233;sentations filmiques de la guerre au Liban.15h00 : Coffee15h15 : SCREENING Je veux voir (Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, 2008) presented by Max Silverman (Leeds) followed by Q and A with director(s) Joana Hadjithomas and/or Khalil Joreige.18h30 : Wine Reception offered by Maney Publishing.19h30 : Conference Dinner7 June 2013: Hinsley Hall10h00 : MEMORY (chair : Claire Launchbury)Marilyn Matar (Maryland) : Mise en sc&#232;ne de la m&#233;moire : le proc&#232;s pour crimes de guerre dans Incendies (1999) de Wajdi Mouawad&#8217;.Aude Campmas (Southampton) : l'espace de la m&#233;moire chez MouawadClaudia Polledri (Montr&#233;al) : Photographier la ville, construire la m&#233;moire.11h15 : Coffee11h30 : NARRATIVE(chair : Margaret Atack)Felix Lang (Marburg) : A view from the shelter: the archival turn in the works of second generation post-war novelists in Lebanon.Elizabeth Marcus (Columbia/ENS) : A War of Words: Etel Adnan, politics and the violence of language.12h30: Lunch13h30: NEW VISUAL CULTURES (chair: Andy Stafford)Myriem El Ma&#239;zi (Newcastle) : Bande Dessin&#233;e, Autobiography and the Lebanese Civil War.Judith Naeff (Amsterdam) : Beirut and the Mirror.Johnny El Alam (Carleton University) : Post-traumatic representations from Lebanese War Generation Artists.15h00: Coffee15h15 : KEYNOTE SESSION (chair : Claire Lozier)Albert Dichy (IMEC) : Genet et le &#171; Voyage en Orient &#187;Clare Finburgh (Essex) : Stagings of &#8216;Quatre heures &#224; Chatila&#8217;.Mme Leila Shahid (Palestinan Ambassador to the European Union) : Genet &#224; Chatila.17h00 : Closing Remarks and discussion (CL and NT).End of Conference