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Le colloque 'New Women's Writing in French' aura lieu le 26-28 septembre 2002 a l'Institute of Romance Studies, Universite de Londres. Programme: Thursday 26 September 12.45 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE 13.45 Opening and Introduction: Gill Rye 14.00 PLENARY SESSION 1: Experimental writing Shirley Jordan (Oxford Brookes University, UK) &#8216;Un coup de pied dans le ch&#226;teau de cubes&#8217;: formal experimentation in Marie Darrieussecq&#8217;s Bref s&#233;jour chez les vivants Mark Lee (Mount Allison University, Canada) The enemy from within: narration and doubling in Cosm&#233;tique de l&#8217;ennemi by Am&#233;lie Nothomb Susan Ireland (Grinnell University, USA) Bessora&#8217;s literary ludics 15.30 TEA 16.00 PARALLEL SESSION A: Black holes Mil&#233;na Santoro (Georgetown University, USA) Writing and/in mourning: the forms of loss in recent Quebec women&#8217;s writings Kathryn Robson (University of Newcastle, UK) Virtual reality: loss, (dis)embodiment and female creativity in Marie Darrieussecq&#8217;s Naissance des fant&#244;mes and R&#233;gine Detambel&#8217;s La Chambre d&#8217;&#233;cho Cheryl Toman (Millikin University, USA) Evelyne Accad: a new approach to breaking the silence PARALLEL SESSION B: Textual violence Marie-Fran&#231;oise Chitour (Universit&#233; d&#8217;Angers, France) Des femmes et des &#238;les &#8216;en col&#232;re&#8217;: les romanci&#232;res francophones des Cara&#239;bes et de l&#8217;Oc&#233;an Indien (Ag&#233;nor, Devi, Pineau) Laureline Amanieux (Paris, France) L&#8217;amour et le langage meurtriers dans l&#8217;oeuvre d&#8217;Am&#233;lie Nothomb Marjorie Attignol Salvodon (Suffolk University, USA) Re-membering childhood: violence, gender and cultural identity in Bouraoui&#8217;s Le jour du s&#233;isme PARALLEL SESSION C: Return to origins Dora Carpenter (University of Brighton, UK) Colette Fellous, fran&#231;aise juive de Tunisie, &#233;mergence d&#8217;une voix C&#233;cile Guillard (Vanderbilt University, USA) Nancy Huston: autopsie d&#8217;une exil&#233;e Claire Boyle (Girton College, University of Cambridge, UK) Writing self-estrangement, possession and loss in Cixous&#8217;s recent autobiographical work 17.30 END OF SESSIONS 19.30 Writers' event at the Institut Francais a Londres: Linda Le, Lorette Nobecourt and Marie Rouanet will be speaking about their work. Friday 27 September 9.30 REGISTRATION 10.00 PLENARY SESSION 2: Gender Marie-Claire Barnet (University of Durham, UK) The undutiful daughter on fire: R&#233;gine Detambel&#8217;s La Verri&#232;re Michelle Denby (De Montfort University, UK) Gender, subjectivity and agency in Marie NDiaye&#8217;s postmodern fantastic texts Lucile Desblache (University of North London, UK) Food for thought: orality, animality and identity in Marilyne Desbiolles&#8217;s La Seiche 11.30 COFFEE 12.00 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Michael Worton (UCL [University College London], UK) Sexual/textual transgressions 13.00 LUNCH (own arrangements) 14.15 PARALLEL SESSION D: Intertextual dialogues Jennifer Willging (Ohio State University, USA) La fille du Gobernator&#8217;s descent into colonial hell: Paule Constant&#8217;s debt to C&#233;line and Duras Susan Bainbrigge (University of Edinburgh, UK) Experiments with identity in Jacqueline Harpman&#8217;s Orlanda Victoria Best (St. John&#8217;s College, University of Cambridge, UK) What does woman want? Psychoanalysis in the 21st century (Hausser, Laurens) PARALLEL SESSION E: Hybrid voices Simona Barello (New York University, USA) Models of voicing: the alternation of various narrative voices in three novels by Tassadit Imache Julia Waters (University of Bath, UK) Madness, marginality and marriage: challenging stereotypes in Ananda Devi&#8217;s Paglia Alison Rice (University of California Los Angeles, USA) Foreign origin, French text (Brina Svit) PARALLEL SESSION F: Crossing genres Anna Norris (Michigan State University, USA) Annie Ernaux et le rejet du romanesque France Grenaudier-Klijn (Massey University, New Zealand) La place de l&#8217;autre dans l&#8217;oeuvre romanesque de Lorette Nob&#233;court Mil&#233;na Horvath (Pecs University, Hungary) La m&#233;diation par l&#8217;&#233;criture: entre-deux et interculturalit&#233; chez Djebar 15.45 TEA 16.15 PARALLEL SESSION G: Metaphors of movement Cathy Wardle (Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UK) Perpetual motion: walking and writing in Jeanne Hyvrard&#8217;s Le Marchoir Margot Miller (University of Maryland, USA) Of &#8216;nomadism&#8217; and narration: Malika Mokeddem&#8217;s N&#8217;zid Najib Redouane (California State University, USA) Amina Sa&#239;d: po&#233;tesse des deux rives PARALLEL SESSION H: The vagaries of being a woman Nathalie Morello (University of Wales Swansea, UK) Un coupable peut en cacher un(e) autre: confrontation with the mother in Lorette Nob&#233;court&#8217;s first three novels Victoria Korzeniowska (University of Surrey, UK) Gender, space and ageing in Marie Rouanet&#8217;s La marche lente des glaciers and Du c&#244;t&#233; des hommes Catherine Rodgers (University of Wales Swansea, UK) When the Other is Man: Laurens&#8217;s Dans ces bras-l&#224; PARALLEL SESSION I: Transculturation Kimberley Healey (University of Rochester, USA) Chinoiseries (Bresner, Nothomb, Sa) Valerie Raoul (University of British Columbia, Canada) Nancy Huston: bilingualism, transplantation and betrayal of the mother/tongue Nicki Hitchcott (University of Nottingham, UK) Calixthe Beyala&#8217;s Les arbres en parlent encore 17.45 END OF SESSIONS 19.30 Conference Dinner Saturday 28 September 9.30 REGISTRATION 10.00 PARALLEL SESSION J: Private and public spaces (historical, geographical, legal) Abd-el-kader Cheref (University of Oran, Algeria) Female Prometheuses and/or thieves of language: Assia Djebar and Malika Mokeddem Ben Lebdai (Universit&#233; d&#8217;Angers, France) Yasmina, an autodiegetic character: Herstory and History in Nina Bouraoui&#8217;s Un gar&#231;on manqu&#233; Paula Ruth Gilbert (George Mason University, USA) Mothers who kill their children: Suzanne Jacob&#8217;s L&#8217;obeissance PARALLEL SESSION K: The workings of memory Emma Webb (University of Sheffield, UK) Remembering, repeating and working through: the function of memory in Marie Cardinal&#8217;s Amour&#8230;amours Sylvie Blum (University of Florida, USA) Linda L&#234;&#8217;s ghost stories Ruth Cruickshank (The Queen&#8217;s College, University of Oxford, UK) Marie Redonnet, the question of resistance, and the turn-of-the-millennium novel PARALLEL SESSION L: Gender and textuality Roseanna Dufault (Ohio Northern University, USA) Is God a feminist? Gender and omnipotence in Nancy Huston&#8217;s Dolce agonia Marinella Termite (Bari University, Italy) Autour des figures f&#233;minines de Maryline Desbiolles Sarah Capitanio (University of Wolverhampton, UK) Camille Laurens: formalism, character portrayal and language 11.30 COFFEE 12.00 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Diana Holmes (University of Leeds, UK) Romancing the text: love stories in recent women&#8217;s writing 13.00 LUNCH (own arrangements) 14.15 PLENARY SESSION 3: Sexuality Philippa Caine (University of Stirling, UK) Destructive encounters: Legendre, Despentes, Brasme Sarah Cooper (Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, UK) Reconfiguring sexual space: Jouir (Cusset) and the seduction of a gay aesthetic Margaret-Anne Hutton (University of Nottingham, UK) Hard-core, hard-sell: Marie Nimier&#8217;s La nouvelle pornographie 15.45 END OF CONFERENCE Organiser: Gill Rye (Institute of Romance Studies, University of London, UK): gill.rye@dial.pipex.com Venue: Institute of Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU (No smoking building) It is advisable to register in advance to guarantee a place. It is often possible to book on the day but places cannot be guaranteed. Registration forms (see over or the Institute's website on http://www.sas.ac.uk/irs) should be sent to the Administrators at the Institute of Romance Studies. Enquiries: Tel: +44 (0) 20 7862 8677 Fees per day: Fax: +44 (0) 20 7862 8672 &#163;25.00 Standard E-mail: irs@sas.ac.uk &#163;10.00 Members of IRS and concessions &#163;5.00 Graduate students in subscribing departments (Whole conference fee = 2&#189; days) Discounted price for registrations received and paid by Wednesday 31 July 2002: &#163;50 whole conference (standard) &#163;20 whole conference (members of IRS and concessions) &#163;10 whole conference (graduate students in subscribing departments) 