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12:00 PM Registration, Department of French Studies
Rochambeau House
84 Prospect Street
Providence, RI
1:00 Opening Remarks: Shannon Bragg
1:15 Panel One: Defying the Genre Norm (Mod. Bryan Zandberg)
Nancy Knezevic (University of Chicago): “This Woman I Play—Transgression and Jouissance in Les Liaisons Dangereuses.”
Makhmouth Dia (University of Delaware): “In Pursuit of African Tragedy: Why Do We Laugh?”
Raphaël Sigal (NYU): “Artaud rate son entrée.”
Break
2:45 Panel Two: Visual Insanity – Rethinking the Other (Mod. Valentine Balguerie)
Tamar Mayer (University of Chicago): “Rethinking Transgression: Otherness in Théodore Géricault’s Portraits of the Insane.”
Audrey Doussot (Brown University): “Impudiques et impudents: les nus transgressifs de Degas (1834-1917).”
Seth Watter (Brown University): “Cinema and the Hysterical Impulse: The Case of Loudun on Film.”
Timothy Wilson (CUNY): “Putain de taré!: Negative Transgression in Albert Dupontel’s Bernie.”
4:30 Dramatic Reading of Jean Genet’s Les Bonnes (The Maids)
Performed by Amanda Gann and Olga Zhulina (Harvard University)
Moderator: Anne-Caroline Sieffert
Reception
8:30 AM Breakfast
9:30 Panel Three: The Bounds of Identity (Mod. Justin Gibson)
Annie de Saussure (Yale): “Breton Identity as Transgression: Exploring Notions of Postmodern Breton Nationality Through the Pierre-Jakez Hélias Controversy.”
Emma Catherine Howell (UNC Greensboro): “The Negritude Movement as Transgression in Cahier d’un retour au pays nata.”
Jenny Kosniowski (King’s College London): “Nomadic Transgressions: Fiction as Feminist Nomadic Practice in the Texts of Malika Mokeddem.”
Break
11:00 Panel Four: Transgressive Philosophies (Mod. Chris Robison)
Eric Turcat (University of Wisconsin): “L’honnêteté transgressée: l’honnête homme et son habileté dans les Maximes de La Rouchefoucauld.”
Arianne Kiatibian (Paris IV-La Sorbonne): “Une esthétique de la transgression lucide: l’écriture d’Emile Cioran et de René Char.”
Sébastien Dominguez-Llacer (Université de Dijon/Brown): “Fourier et les transcendantalistes américains.”
Break
1:30 Panel Five: Writing the Sexual Taboo (Mod. Anne-Gabrielle Roussel)
Annie Brancky (NYU): “Genre Trouble: Colette’s Les vrilles de la vigne.”
Marion Phillips (UC Berkeley): “ ‘Tu vendrais ton sexe à ton porte-plume’: Prostitution and Writing in La Bâtarde and La Folie en tête.”
Rebecca Krasner (Brown): “Building the Transgressive Family in M. Vénus.”
Break
3:00 Panel Six: The Monstrous Other – Redefining Humanity (Mod. Jack Sieber)
Fiona Moreno (Université de Genève/UPenn): “Figure(s) du pédophile. Une diphonie à l'étude.”
Elizabeth Leet (UVA): “Translatio inperfecta : confluence des êtres pour une hybridité formaliste chez Marie de France.”
Laurielle Turcat (University of Wisconsin): “Le sadisme de Peau d’Âne.”
4:30 Keynote: Sylvaine Guyot: “Magnetic Bodies: A New Approach to French Classical Tragedy”
(Mod. Shannon Bragg)
Closing Remarks: Anne-Caroline Sieffert