Equinoxes: A graduate journal of French and Francophone studies

Equinoxes 2006 Conference Schedule

“La consommation littéraire / Literary consumption”

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Friday, March 17

12:30-1:30 Registration

1:30 Opening remarks: Pauline de Tholozany (Brown University)

1:45 Panel One: « Fast-food littéraire »

Moderator: Maria Moreno (Brown University)

Geneviève De Viveiros (Université de Toronto): "Du roman-feuilleton au « roman-feuilleté » : Alexandre Dumas ou le triomphe du fast-food littéraire"

Nicolas Lhermitte (Université Paris IV): "Consommer le 'je'"

Monique Galloway ( University of Aberdeen): "Haute cuisine, cuisine familiale or fast food? Choices in contemporary French fiction"

3:00-3:15 Break

3:15 Panel Two: « La consommation et l’œuvre/à l’œuvre »

Moderator: Emilie Mauchaussé (Brown University)

Hélène Caron (Université de Toronto): "La fonction de la nourriture dans Le bonheur a la queue glissante et Splendide Solitude d’Abla Farhoud"

Robert J. Hudson ( University of California, Los Angeles): “From Seductive Resistance to Poetic Intoxication: The Threshold of Work and Inspiration in Baudelaire’s L’âme du vin”

4:15-4:30 Break

4:30 Keynote Address: "Consuming affect"
Kevin McLaughlin, Brown University

Moderator: Kathryn Chenoweth (Brown University)

5:30 Reception

Saturday, March 18

8 :30-9 :30 Breakfast

9:30 Panel Three: « Consommer le corps »

Moderator: Claudia Esposito (Brown University)

Bethany Hetrick (New York University): "Mannequins, modernity and mass-consumption in Au Bonheur des dames: The department store as ladies’ paradise?"

Charlotte Baker (Nottingham University): "Of ambiguous value: The body of the black African albino"

Séverine Rebourcet (University of Maryland): "Comment cuisiner son mari à l’africaine ? de Calixte Beyala : Vers une poétique de la cuisine et cannibalism"

10:45-11:00 Break

11:00 Panel Four: « Rencontres avec l’autre »

Moderator: Tim Freiermuth (Brown University)

Lara Eastburn (Emory University): "Albert Bensoussan's Translating Body or How to Eat an Author"

Catherine Briand (Université Paris IV Sorbonne- Université Laval): "Les rituels de la consommation dans les récits de voyage en Nouvelle France"

Kathryn Chenoweth (Brown University): "Devouring the ancients : Du Bellay’s metaphorics of life in La Deffence, et illustration de la langue françoyse"

12 :15-1:45 Lunch

1:45 Panel Five: « Le spectacle: objet de consommation »

Moderator: Shahrzad Zahedi (Brown University)

Adller Rijo Costa (University of Maryland): "Spectacle, cannibales et consommation littéraire au XVIe siècle : Le cas Jean de Léry"

Colin Dusek (University of California, Davis): “The Delicacy of Decadent Eyes: Visual Tastes of Art and Self-Fragmentation in A Rebours"

Maria Moreno (Brown University): "Avatars cinématographiques de La Princesse de Clèves"

3:00 “La Grande Bouffe” Film Screening & Discussion

Moderator: Clint Bruce (Brown University)