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WIFIS 2012

15 septembre 2012
(Plusieurs interventions concernent le domaine « Femmes, Genre et Ancien Régime »)

9-9.30: Registration
9.30-9.45: Welcome

9.45-11: Theatre, Masks and Masquerade

Julia Prest (St Andrews): Putting the Caen back into Controversy: Garaby« s »Tartuf, aisné de celuy de Molière de sept à huit ans’
Elizabeth Lindley (Cambridge): Disguise and Social Identity in Yasmina Reza?s Trois versions de la vie and Le Dieu du carnage
Sarah Townshend (St Andrews): Playing the Man, Performing the Woman: Cross-Dressing in Le Vieillard amoureux and La Folle enchère

11: COFFEE

11.30-12.30: Transgressing Narratives of the Self

Adrienne Angelo (Auburn University): Autobiography and the Fait divers: Diane de Margerie?s L’Étranglée
Morven Fraser (St Andrews): Disruptions in masculinity and femininity in the works of Catherine Cusset

12.30-2: LUNCH, accompanied by WIFIS Open Forum

2-3.30: Translations

Martine Reid (Lille III) : Anne-Marie Du Bocage traductrice
Marie Brogly (St Andrews): Traduire Pierre Reverdy, un travail de poète?
Pauline Henry-Tierney (Manchester): (De)Sexing the Whore: Examining the translation of gendered language in the English translation of Nelly Arcan’s Putain

3.30-4.30: Gens/Femmes de lettres

Christie Margrave (St Andrews): Should Women Write? The Mysterious Case of Sophie Cottin’s Vanishing Chapter.
Nelly Sanchez (Bordeaux III): La Société des Gens de Lettres et les Femmes de Lettres (1880-1914)

4.30: TEA

5-6.30: Politics and Policies

Emily St Denny (Stirling): French Prostitution Policy since the 1970?s: a symphony in three movements
Jutta Hergenhan (Humboldt University Berlin): Gender-related Language Reform in Present day France
Barbara Giraud (Oxford Brookes): Le sens de l’hygiène dans les classes
populaires: les romans d’André Léo

6.30: Reception in memory of founder member Dr Amy Wygant.

Venue: Institut Français d’Ecosse, 13 Randolph Crescent, Edinburgh EH3 7TT Fee: « 25 waged / »15 students and unwaged

Contact details:
Susan Bainbrigge/Véronique Desnain
DELC (French)
The University of Edinburgh
59/60 George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9JU
susan.bainbrigge@ed.ac.uk
veronique.desnain@ed.ac.uk

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