Dear colleagues and friends,
You are warmly invited to join us for this 2-day (September 23-24 2022) International Conference (detailed programme in pdf format also enclosed)
Intimate Politics in Anglophone Women’s Writings
Université Paris Nanterre bâtiment Max Weber September 23-24 2022
Organizers Claire Bazin & Valérie Baisnée, CREA (Paris Nanterre) ; Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni, TransCrit (Paris 8) ; Corinne Bigot, CAS (Toulouse Jean Jaurès) ; Stephanie Genty SLAM (Evry) ; Nathalie Saudo-Welby Corpus (Université Picardie Jules Verne)
Contact: faaam.nanterre
FRIDAY September 23 2022 (bâtiment Max Weber)
9am-9.20 Coffee & registration in Conference Hall
9.20 Opening Address by the head of Nanterre’s research group and the organizers
Workshop 1: Narrative Intimacy (1) 9.30-11.00
Chair Corinne Bigot
9.30-10.00 Elisabeth Bouzonviller (U. Jean Monnet St Etienne): Female and Cherokee Resilience in Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
10.00-10.30 Cedric Courtois (Université de Lille): Narrative Intimacy and Empowerment in three Nigerian Female Bildungsromane
10.30-11.00 Héloïse Thomas (Université Lyon 3 & Bordeaux): “Meeting between the Dry Hours”: Lesbian Intimacies and Queer Timelessness in Contemporary Poetry
Coffee Break 11.00-11.30
Workshop 2: Narrative Intimacy (2) 11.30-12.30
Chair Valérie Baisnée
11.30-12.00 Ana Carvalho (Minho Universidade, Portugal) : Lonely Hunters: Intimacy Between (Queer) Women in My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
12.00-12h30 Floriane Joseph (Université de Lille): Lang Leav: Navigating the Tensions of Intimacy as an ‘Instapoet-ess’
Lunch 12h45 -2.15pm
2.15pm-3.pm Chair Corinne Bigot
Keynote speaker: Maria Tamboukou (University of East London, UK)Epistolary Narratives of Love, Gender and Agonistic Politics
Coffee Break 3.00-3.15
Workshop 3: Pleasures and Perils of Intimacy 3.45-4.45
Chair Stephanie Genty
3.15-3.45 Noémi Albert (University of Pécs, Hungary ): The Human Connection: Cases of Intimacy and Shame in Emma Donoghue’s Touchy Subjects (2006)
3.45.-4.15 Johanna Hoorenman (Utrecht University, Netherlands): The Life and Afterlives of Harriette Wilson, Courtesan
4.15-4.45 Valentina Rapetti (Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Italy): The Black Seamstress in the Attic: Intimacy as Pleasure and Peril in Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel
SATURDAY 24 September 2022 Bâtiment Max Weber
Workshop 4: Reconfiguring Space 9.30-11.00
Chair Stephanie Genty
9.30 -10.00Laura Michiels (Erasmus Brussels University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Belgium): Familial Territory Reconsidered in Naomi Wallace’s Night is a Room
10.00-10.30 Leslie de Bont (Université de Nantes): Feminist Recompositions of Space in Cridge’s “How would you Like it?” (1870) and Hossain’s “Sultana’s Dream” (1905)
10.30-11.00 Mariana Pujol (Université Toulouse Capitole): Spaces of Grief and Joy in The Gates Ajar (1868)
Coffee break 11.00-11.20
Workshop 5: Intimate politics of Space 11.20-12.50
Chair Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni
11.20-11.50 Martina Domines Veliki (University of Zagreb, Croatia): Intimacy and Poverty in Kerry Hudson’s Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away
11.50- 12.20 Sabrina Zerar (University of Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria): Intimate Spaces of Colonial Algeria through the Eyes of Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Women Travel Writers
12.20-12.50 Cristina Stanciu (Virginia Commonwealth University): The Intimate Politics of Empire: Child Removal and Indigenous Women’s Writing
Lunch 12.50-2-00 pm
2.00- 2.45Chair Valérie Baisnée
Keynote speaker Jennifer Cooke (Loughborough University, UK):Sexual Politics in the New Audacity of Contemporary Life-Writing
Coffee break 2.45-3.00
Workshop 6 Empowering the female body 3.00-5.00
Chair Nathalie Saudo-Welby
3.00-3.30 Christina Dokou (the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece): Fur, Intimate Apparel, and Naked Power: The Politics of Clothing in Two Contemporary American Minority Playwrights
3.30-4.00 Christelle Ha Soon-Lahaye (Université de Rouen): Reclaiming the Female Body: Unveiling Intimacy in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior
4.00-4.30 Aurore Montheil (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès): The Intimate Politics of Rape Narratives in M Kandasamy’s The Gypsy Goddess and When I Hit You, Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife (2017) and A. Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
4.30-5.00Judith Schreier (Humbolt University Berlin, Germany): The Size of My Body is a Simple Fact”: Intimacy, Autotheory, and Whiteness in Fat Activist Life Writing
Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni (TransCrit Paris 8) – for the FAAAM team
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