Women in French in Scotland
St Andrews (Ecosse)

Parliament Hall, University of St Andrews

9.15am: Welcome

9.30am-11.00am Panel I
? Maternal presence and female persuasion in Thenaud’s Le Triumphe de Force (Lidia Radi, University of Richmond)
? « Elle eust mis l’Epée à la main tout comme un homme »: Widowhood, Gender and Sexuality in La Devineresse (Sarah Townshend, University of St Andrews)
? Hélène Cixous : esthétique et éthique de/à la limite (Elsa Laflamme, Université de Montréal)

11.00am : coffee

11.30-1pm Panel II
« Author or Heroine » The Transformation of Sophie Cottin (1770-1807) by her Preface Writers (Charlotte Medland, University of Southampton)
? Citoyenne française: Madame de Genlis’s Narrative Reconstructions of Post-Revolutionary France (Danielle Berrow, University of St Andrews)
? Femmes engagées: Germaine de Staël and Claire de Duras (Stacie Allan, University of Bristol)

1pm: buffet lunch

2pm-3.30pm Panel III
? Forced Repression, Fanatical Remembrance: Leïla Marouane’s Le Châtiment des hypocrites (Jenny Kosniowski, King?s College London)
Narrating Selfhood through Gender Performance: Marie Nimier« s Multiple ?I »s (Adrienne Angelo, Auburn University)
L’invention d’une érotique dans le marquage du temps: portraits, fragments et carnets de Sabine Macher (Elodie Laügt, University of St Andrews)

4.00pm Table Ronde (open to the public)
Gender Equality in Academia Today: Myth or Reality?
Chair: Frances Andrews (Mediaeval History, University of St Andrews).
Panelists: Bettina Bildhauer (German, University of St Andrews), Fiona Gray (Chemistry, University of St Andrews), Tom Jones (English and UCU, University of St Andrews), and Àine Larkin (French, University of Aberdeen)

5.00pm Wine Reception