12-13 October 2023
Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Site Saint Charles, Salle des colloques 2
Organisers: Katia Marcellin and Carine Nibakure.
PROGRAMME
Thursday 12th October 2023
9.45: Welcome coffee
10.30: Opening of the conference by Jean-Michel Ganteau, co-director of EMMA, and the organisers.
PANEL 1: Uncontained Bodies. Chair: Héloïse Lecomte (ENS Lyon)
– 10.50: Constance Pompié (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3) – “Contagious Bodies in Sarah Hall’s Burntcoat”
– 11.15: Nodhar Hammami Ben Fradj (University of Kairouan) – “Foreign Female Bodies in Sarah Waters’s Tipping the Velvet: From Victorian Exclusion to Contemporary Inclusion”
– 11.40: Discussion
12.25-2.25 pm: Lunch
PANEL 2: Becoming Hybrid Bodies. Chair: Monica Michlin (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3)
– 2.25: Quitterie de Beauregard (Sorbonne Université) – “‘Xenogenesis’: Alien Bodies, Community and Identity in Octavia Butler’s Post-Apocalyptic Rebirth Stories”
– 2.50: Himangshu Sarma (Gauhati University) – “Embodied Empathy and the Boundaries of Humanity in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower (1993)”
– 3.15: Discussion
3.40-4.10: Coffee break
KEYNOTE LECTURE 1
Harry Parker: “Dreams of a Broken Body”. Chair: Catherine Bernard (Université Paris Cité) – 4.10-4.30
– 4.30: Discussion with Catherine Bernard + the audience.
– 5.00: Interview with the Graduate students of English Literature at Paul Valéry University.
8 pm: Dinner in town
Friday 13th October 2023
10.15-10.50: Welcome coffee
PANEL 3: Bodies in Crisis and Vulnerable Belongings. Chair: Isabelle Brasme (Université de Nîmes)
– 10h50: Héloïse Lecomte (ENS Lyon) – “Private Grief, National Crisis: Salena Godden’s Embodied Politics of Mourning in Mrs Death Misses Death (2021)”
– 11.15: Laurent Trèves (ENS Lyon) – “Loneliness as Dis-Integration in Jon McGregor’s Even the Dogs”
– 11.40: Maxence Gouleau (Sorbonne Université) – “In/Excluding Pregnancy/ies in Pat Barker’s The Women of Troy (2021), Jessie Greengrass’s Sight (2018) and Julie Myerson’s Sleepwalking (1994)”
– 12.05: Discussion
12.30-2 pm: Lunch
PANEL 4: Dis-placed Bodies: Configuring New Bodily Spaces. Chair: Vanessa Guignery (ENS Lyon
– 2.00: Jaine Chemmachery (Sorbonne Université)– “The Refugee Tales: Bearing witness to the plight of refugees through literary and artistic re-incorporation”.
– 2.25: Sarah Back (University of Innsbruck) – “Navigating the Non-White, Non-Male Body Through Online Spaces: Ch. N. Adichie’s and B. Evaristo’s Intermedial Body Narratives”
– 2.50: Mohan Dharavath (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyberabad) – “Adivasi Studies vis-à-vis Literary Postmodernism in India: Disrupting the Norm Through Memory, Intersectionality and Critique”.
– 3.15: Discussion
3.40-4.10: Coffee break
KEYNOTE LECTURE 2
Catherine Bernard (Université Paris Cité)
“Becoming subject(s): of Part(s), Whole(s) and Multitude(s) in Contemporary British Fiction”
Chair: Jean-Michel Ganteau (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3) – 4.10-5.30
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Organising Committee: Lise Lefebvre, Katia Marcellin, Carine Nibakure and Joséphine Sourgnes.
Scientific Committee: Isabelle Brasme, Jean-Michel Ganteau, Georges Letissier, Katia Marcellin, Judith Misrahi-Barak, Carine Nibakure, Vanessa Guignery.
International conference organised with the support of Doctoral School 58 and the Department of Anglophone Studies of Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3.