Dear colleagues and friends,<\/p>\n
You are warmly invited to join us for this 2-day (September 23-24 2022) International Conference (detailed programme in pdf format also enclosed)<\/p>\n
Intimate Politics in Anglophone Women\u2019s Writings<\/strong><\/p>\n Universit\u00e9 Paris Nanterre b\u00e2timent Max Weber September 23-24 2022<\/p>\n Organizers Claire Bazin & Val\u00e9rie Baisn\u00e9e, CREA (Paris Nanterre) ; Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni, TransCrit (Paris 8) ; Corinne Bigot, CAS (Toulouse Jean Jaur\u00e8s) ; Stephanie Genty SLAM (Evry) ; Nathalie Saudo-Welby Corpus (Universit\u00e9 Picardie Jules Verne)<\/p>\n Contact: faaam.nanterre<\/p>\n FRIDAY September 23 2022 <\/strong> (b\u00e2timent Max Weber)<\/p>\n 9am-9.20 Coffee & registration in Conference Hall<\/p>\n 9.20 Opening Address by the head of Nanterre\u2019s research group and the organizers<\/p>\n Workshop 1: Narrative Intimacy (1) 9.30-11.00<\/strong><\/p>\n Chair Corinne Bigot<\/p>\n 9.30-10.00 Elisabeth Bouzonviller (U. Jean Monnet St Etienne): Female and Cherokee Resilience in Betty<\/em> by Tiffany McDaniel<\/p>\n 10.00-10.30 Cedric Courtois (Universit\u00e9 de Lille): Narrative Intimacy and Empowerment in three Nigerian Female Bildungsromane<\/p>\n 10.30-11.00 H\u00e9lo\u00efse Thomas (Universit\u00e9 Lyon 3 & Bordeaux): \u201cMeeting between the Dry Hours\u201d: Lesbian Intimacies and Queer Timelessness in Contemporary Poetry<\/p>\n Coffee Break 11.00-11.30<\/p>\n Workshop 2: Narrative Intimacy (2) 11.30-12.30<\/strong><\/p>\n Chair Val\u00e9rie Baisn\u00e9e<\/p>\n 11.30-12.00 Ana Carvalho (Minho Universidade, Portugal) : Lonely Hunters: Intimacy Between (Queer) Women in My Autobiography<\/em> of Carson McCullers<\/p>\n 12.00-12h30 Floriane Joseph (Universit\u00e9 de Lille): Lang Leav: Navigating the Tensions of Intimacy as an \u2018Instapoet-ess\u2019<\/p>\n Lunch 12h45 -2.15pm<\/p>\n 2.15pm-3.pm Chair Corinne Bigot<\/p>\n Keynote speaker: Maria Tamboukou <\/strong>(University of East London, UK)Epistolary Narratives of Love, Gender and Agonistic Politics<\/p>\n Coffee Break 3.00-3.15<\/p>\n Workshop 3: Pleasures and Perils of Intimacy 3.45-4.45<\/strong><\/p>\n Chair Stephanie Genty<\/p>\n 3.15-3.45 No\u00e9mi Albert (University of P\u00e9cs, Hungary ): The Human Connection: Cases of Intimacy and Shame in Emma Donoghue\u2019s Touchy Subjects<\/em> (2006)<\/p>\n 3.45.-4.15 Johanna Hoorenman (Utrecht University, Netherlands): The Life and Afterlives of Harriette Wilson, Courtesan<\/p>\n 4.15-4.45 Valentina Rapetti (Universit\u00e0 degli Studi della Tuscia, Italy): The Black Seamstress in the Attic: Intimacy as Pleasure and Peril in Lynn Nottage\u2019s Intimate Apparel<\/em><\/p>\n SATURDAY 24 September 2022 B\u00e2timent Max Weber<\/strong><\/p>\n Workshop 4: Reconfiguring Space 9.30-11.00<\/strong><\/p>\n Chair Stephanie Genty<\/p>\n 9.30 -10.00Laura Michiels (Erasmus Brussels University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Belgium): Familial Territory Reconsidered in Naomi Wallace\u2019s Night is a Room<\/em><\/p>\n 10.00-10.30 Leslie de Bont (Universit\u00e9 de Nantes): Feminist Recompositions of Space in Cridge\u2019s \u201cHow would you Like it?\u201d (1870) and Hossain\u2019s \u201cSultana\u2019s Dream\u201d (1905)<\/p>\n 10.30-11.00 Mariana Pujol (Universit\u00e9 Toulouse Capitole): Spaces of Grief and Joy in The Gates Ajar<\/em> (1868)<\/p>\n Coffee break 11.00-11.20<\/p>\n Workshop 5: Intimate politics of Space 11.20-12.50<\/strong><\/p>\n Chair Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni<\/p>\n 11.20-11.50 Martina Domines Veliki (University of Zagreb, Croatia): Intimacy and Poverty in Kerry Hudson’s Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away <\/em><\/p>\n 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<\/p>\n 12.20-12.50 Cristina Stanciu (Virginia Commonwealth University): The Intimate Politics of Empire: Child Removal and Indigenous Women\u2019s Writing<\/p>\n Lunch 12.50-2-00 pm<\/p>\n 2.00- 2.45Chair Val\u00e9rie Baisn\u00e9e<\/p>\n Keynote speaker Jennifer Cooke <\/strong>(Loughborough University, UK):Sexual Politics in the New Audacity of Contemporary Life-Writing<\/p>\n Coffee break 2.45-3.00<\/p>\n Workshop 6 Empowering the female body 3.00-5.00<\/strong><\/p>\n Chair Nathalie Saudo-Welby<\/p>\n 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<\/p>\n 3.30-4.00 Christelle Ha Soon-Lahaye (Universit\u00e9 de Rouen): Reclaiming the Female Body: Unveiling Intimacy in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye<\/em> and Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior<\/em><\/p>\n 4.00-4.30 Aurore Montheil (Universit\u00e9 Toulouse Jean Jaur\u00e8s): The Intimate Politics of Rape Narratives in M Kandasamy\u2019s The Gypsy Goddess <\/em>and When I Hit You, Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife <\/em>(2017) and A. Roy\u2019s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness<\/em><\/p>\n 4.30-5.00Judith Schreier (Humbolt University Berlin, Germany): The Size of My Body is a Simple Fact\u201d: Intimacy, Autotheory, and Whiteness in Fat Activist Life Writing<\/p>\n Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni (TransCrit Paris 8) – for the FAAAM team
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