Intimate Politics in Anglophone Women’s Writing (University of Paris-Nanterre, 23-24 September 2022) An international conference organized by FAAAM (CREA, EA 370)

Bêtiment Max Weber September 23-24 2022
Organizers Claire Bazin & Valérie Baisnée, CREA Paris Nanterre ; Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni, Paris 8 Transcrit ; Corinne Bigot, Toulouse Jean Jaurès CAS ; Stephanie Genty Every SLAM ; Nathalie Suado-Welby Picardie Jules Verne Corpus.

FRIDAY September 23

Workshop 1 Narrative Intimacy (1) 9h30-11.00
Chair Corinne Bigot
9.30-10.00 Elisabeth Bouzonviller (St Etienne Jean Monnet): Female and Cherokee resilience in Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
10.00-10.30 Cedric Courtois ( Lille): Narrative Intimacy and Empowerment in three Nigerian Female Bildungsromane
10.30- 11.00 Héloïse Thomas (Lyon 3 & Bordeaux): “Meeting between the Dry Hours”: Lesbian Intimacies and Queer
Timelessness in Contemporary Poetry

Coffee Break 11-11.20

Workshop 2 Narrative Intimacy (2)
Chair Valérie Baisnée
11.20-11.50 : Ana Carvalho : Lonely Hunters: Intimacy Between (Queer) Women in My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
11.50- 12.20 Floriane Joseph: Lang Leav: navigating the tensions of intimacy as an ‘Instapoet-ess’

Lunch 12.30-2.15pm

2.15pm-3.00 pm Chair Corinne Bigot Keynote speaker : Maria Tamboukou: Epistolary narratives of love, gender and agonistic politics

Coffee Break 3.00-3.15
Workshop 3 Pleasures and Perils of Intimacy
Chair Stephanie Genty
3.15-3.45 Noémi Albert: The Human Connection: Cases of Intimacy and Shame in Emma Donoghue’s Touchy Subjects (2006)
3.45-4.15 Johanna Hoorenman: The Life and Afterlives of Harriette Wilson, Courtesan
4.15-4.45 Valentina Rapetti: The Black Seamstress in the Attic: Intimacy as Pleasure and Peril in Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel

SATURDAY 24 SEPTEMBER
Workshop 4 Reconfiguring Space
Chair Stephanie Genty
9.30 -10.00 Laura Michiels: Familial Territory Reconsidered in Naomi Wallace’s Night Is a Room 10-10.30 Leslie de Bont: Feminist recompositions of space in Cridge’s “How would you Like it?” (1870) and Hossain’s “Sultana’s Dream”(1905)
10.30-11.00 Mariana Pujol: Spaces of grief and Joy in The Gates Ajar (1868)

Coffee break 11.00-11.20
Workshop 5 Intimate politics of Space
Chair Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni
11.20-11.50 Martina Domines Veliki: Intimacy and Poverty in Kerry Hudson’s Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away
11.50- 12.20 Sabrina Zerar (University of Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria): Intimate Spaces of Colonial Algeria through the Eyes of Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Women Travel Writers
12.20612.50 Cristina Stanciu: The Intimate Politics of Empire: Child Removal and Indigenous Women’s Writing

Keynote speaker 2 : 2.00 -2.45 Chair Valérie Baisnée Jennifer Cooke: Intimacy and Audacity

break
Workshop 6 Empowering the female body
Chair Nathalie Saudo Welby
3.00-3.30Christina Dokou: Fur, Intimate Apparel, and Naked Power: The Politics of Clothing in Two Contemporary American Minority Playwrights
3.30-4.00 Christelle Ha Soon-Lahaye: Reclaiming the Female Body: Unveiling Intimacy in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior
4.00-4.30Aurore Montheil: The Intimate Politics of Rape Narratives in M Kandasamy’s The Gypsy Goddess and When I Hit You, Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife (2017) and A. Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
4.30-5.00 Judith Schreier: The Size of My Body is a Simple Fact”: Intimacy, Autotheory, and Whiteness in Fat Activist Life Writing