Programme

Monday, July 10

2.00 pm - 5.00 pm
Annual Meeting of the Heads of French Programmes
Napier Building: Room 142

5.00 pm - 5.30 pm
Registration
Napier Lecture Theatre 102: Foyer

5.30 pm -6.30 pm
Public Lecture
Napier Lecture Theatre 102

Inaugural Frank Horner Memorial Lecture
on the History of French Exploration in the Pacific

Writing and Rewriting the Baudin expedition to the Southern Hemisphere (1800-1804)
Margaret Sankey
University of Sydney

6.30 pm
Barbecue d’honneur
Mayo Refectory (Lower Campus—Student Union Building, Ground Floor)

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Tuesday, July 11

8.30 am - 9.00 am
Registration
Napier Lecture Theatre 102: Foyer

9.00 am - 9.15 am
Official Welcome and Opening
Napier 102
Professor Michael Innes
Executive Dean, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
 University of Adelaide

9.15 am - 10.15 am
Keynote Address
Napier 102

Biribi:  histoire d’un non-lieu de l’imaginaire
français, entre utopie et dystopie
Dominique Kalifa
Université de Paris I - Panthéon

10.15 am - 10.45 am
Morning Tea

10.45 am - 12.15 pm
Parallel Sessions

12.15 pm - 1.30 pm
Lunch

1.30 pm - 2.30 pm
Parallel Sessions

Napier G03	Napier G04
Utopia and Dystopia in the films of Jean Eustache Sonali Joshi - Paris The Utopian Vision of Philippe Grandrieux’s Dystopias Greg Hainge - University of Queensland	Visions méditerranéennes:  Paul Valéry and the Centre Universitaire Méditerranéen in Nice Alastair Hurst - University of Melbourne Réflexions préliminaires sur l’événement, le témoignage et la (fonction) politique chez Paul Valéry David Elder - Edith Cowan University

2.30 pm - 3.00 pm
Keynote Address
Napier 102

Montesquieu's anti-utopian politics
Philip Gerrans
University of Adelaide

3.00 pm - 3.30 pm
Afternoon Tea

3.30 pm - 5.00 pm
Parallel Sessions

Napier G03	Napier G04
Revising Marie Bonaparte in Interwar France Alison Moore - University of Queensland  Philippe Henriot’s utopia:  propaganda and the last days of Vichy Kay Chadwick- University of Liverpool « La France profonde »:  Utopian nostalgia and present-day dystopia William Dickson - University of Glasgow	Out of the frying pan and into the fire:  Reunion immigrants and the sugar industry in nineteenth-century New Caledonia Karin Speedy - Macquarie University Le Portrait du Grand Chef Amanda Macdonald - University of Queensland Le Mot « indépendance » en Nouvelle-Calédonie:  Utopie ou contre-utopie? Hamid Mokaddem - Institut de Formation des Maîtres de la Nouvelle-Calédonie

 

5.30 pm - 6.30 pm
Public Lecture - Panel
Napier 102

French Utopian Socialism:  Adelaide’s Fourierist Connections
Jean Fornasiero
University of Adelaide
Michael Bollen
Publisher, Wakefield Press

7.30 for 8.00 pm
Conference Dinner
Jah’z Café
Ebenezer Place, Adelaide

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Wednesday, July 12

9.00 am - 10.30 am
Parallel Sessions

Napier G03

Napier G04

Structure narrative dans les romans du Graal Andrea M.L. Williams - University of Sydney  Escaping from convention:  the role of the train in André Gide’s fiction William Jennings - University of Waikato Jean Rouaud à la recherche du roman Colin Anderson - Massey University

Acier austral de l’Australienne Dymphna Cusack:  guerre, travers et misères ou la contre-utopie novocastrienne Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan - University of Newcastle That Wonderful Lacuna:  Creative Writing in French as a Second Language Emma Carmody - University of Adelaide Les écrivains et les langues:  réalité et fiction.  Sur l’apprentissage des langues et les interactions en langue étrangère Rémy Porquier - Université de Paris X - Nanterre

10.30 am - 11.00 am
Morning Tea

11.00 am - 12.00 noon
Keynote Address
Napier 102

Romain Gary’s New Frontier
David Bellos
Princeton University

12.00 noon - 1.30 pm
Lunch

1.30 pm - 2.30 pm
Parallel Sessions

Napier G03	Napier G04
Une aveuglante absence de lumière:  Univers contre-utopique de Ben Jelloun Maria-Suzette Fernandes-Dias - Australian National University « Tu rêves? »:  utopies à responsabilité limitée des écrits beurs Hélène Jaccomard - University of Western Australia	Family Romance as Utopia in the plays of Olympe de Gouges (1745-1793) Althea Arguelles-Ling - University of Sydney  Thomas Couture’s Les Romains de la décadence:  Republican Utopia or Decadence? Lyn Stocks - University of Adelaide

 
2.30 pm - 3.30 pm
Parallel Sessions

Napier G03	Napier G04
Glissant’s and Chamoiseau’s Competing Caribbean Utopias Peter Poiana - University of Adelaide Utopia and Dystopia in Gisèle Pineau’s L’Exil selon Julia Bonnie Thomas - University of Western Australia	Vernotopia (technotopia, heterotopia, retrotopia, dystopia) Tim Unwin - University of Bristol Après la Commune:  suite et fin de l’utopie quarante-huitarde Jean Fornasiero - University of Adelaide

3.30 pm - 4.00 pm
Afternoon Tea

4.00 pm - 5.00 pm
Parallel Sessions

Napier G03	Napier G04
Robert Challe utopiste Driss Aissaoui - Dalhousie University   Expiation in the Antipodes: A Utopian Endeavour for the French? Jacqueline Dutton - University of Melbourne	Le personnage du post-humain dans La Cité des enfants perdus Judith Nicogossian - Queensland University of Technology Une utopie/dystopie thérapeutique:  la séance de magnétisme dans Le Protocole compassionnel d’Hervé Guibert Françoise Grauby - University of Sydney

5.15 pm - 6.30 pm
Annual General Meeting
of the
Australian Society for French Studies
Napier 102

6.45 - 8.00 pm
George Rudé Seminar Reception
Napier 102: Foyer

A vin d’honneur to be followed by
Keynote Address
Napier 102

Le Cri comme objet d’histoire
Nicolas Offenstadt
Université de Paris I - Panthéon

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Thursday, July 13

9.00 am - 9.15 am
XVth George Rudé Seminar in French History and Civilisation
Official Welcome and Opening
Napier 102
Professor Fred McDougall
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), University of Adelaide

9.15 am - 10.00 am
Keynote Address
Napier 102

Eternal France:  Crisis and National Self-Perception (1870-2005)
Robert Gildea
University of Oxford

10.00 am - 10.30 am
Morning Tea

10.30 am - 12.30 pm
Joint ASFS/Rudé Seminar Panel
In Honour of Colin Nettelbeck
Napier 102

Patriotism Authoritarian and Democratic:
Nationalism and Republicanism in French Political Discourse, 1895-1914
Charles Sowerwine
University of Melbourne

“Marseille qui Jazz”:  Popular Culture in the Second City Between the Wars
Nicholas Hewitt
University of Nottingham

Colette’s Early Writing on the Cinema
Anne Freadman
University of Melbourne

Kechiche and the French Classics:
On the Difficulty of Safeguarding an Outsider’s View
Colin Nettelbeck
University of Melbourne

Close of the XIVth Annual Conference
of the
Australian Society for French Studies

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