previous meetings from 2004 to 2012
Friday, 4 March, 2011, Hervé Mayer (ENS Ulm): « Crossing Space and Gender Politics in Ridley Scott’s Thelma & Louise »
Friday, 21 January, 2011, one-day conference about Janet Frame organized by Claire Bazin and Alice Braun.
Friday, December 10, 2010, 2-4:30pm, room V 210 :
Presentation by Alice Braun (Paris West Nanterre) of Fabienne Moine’s book, Poetry and Female Identity in England. Gender at Stake (1830-1900) (in French).
Presentation by Fabienne Moine of « Nature in Victorian Women’s Poetry » followed by a discussion.
Friday, November 19, 2010, 3-5pm, room V210 :
Meet novelist Annie Ernaux (La Place, Une Femme, Journal du dehors, La Honte, La Vie extérieure, Se perdre).
Friday, May 14, 2010, 2:30 – 4:30 room E 108
Presentation: “Filiation and Creation: The Voice of Jennifer Lynch” by Thérèse Guilbert
(University of Paris 3).
Comparing Jennifer Lynch’s best seller The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (written with Mark Frost, available online) and acclaimed TV Series Twin
Peaks: Fire Walk With Me directed by David Lynch.
Friday, March 26, 2010, 2:30 – 4:30 room A 302
Presentation: Marie-Claude Perrin-Chenour (University of Paris Ouest-Nanterre) on Michelle Perrot’s Histoire de chambres.
Friday, February 19, 2010, 2:30 – 4:30 room E 103
Presentation: “From Silent Author to Speaking Actress, or how Women’s Voices moved to the other side of the screen” by Marguerite Chabrol (University of Paris Ouest-Nanterre). Recommended reading: Women Filmmakers in Early
Hollywood by Karen Ward Mahar and Into the Vortex: Female Voice and
Paradox in Film by Britta Sjogren.
Friday, January 29, 2010, 2:30 – 4:30 salle A 302
Graduate Student Symposium. TBA
Friday, January 8, 2010, 2:30 – 4:30 room A 302
Presentation: Brigitte Zaugg (Université de Metz) on Constante Gonzalez Groba’s On their Own Premises : Southern Women Writers and the Homeplace.
Friday, December 4, 2009, 2:30 – 4:30 room A 302
Presentation: Maggie Gillespie (Université de Besançon) on Helen Levy’s, Fiction of the Home Place.
Friday, May 22, 2009 at 10am, room A 310
“Cinema and Gender” presented by Dominique Sipière and Anne Crémieux
Laura Mulvey’s 1975 “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”, (Originally Published – Screen, 16.3 Autumn 1975, pp. 6-18)
“The Sexual Subject, A Screen Reader in Sexuality”, Routledge, 1992, 340p. Esp. Part III: The Female Spectator, pp. 223 à 311.
Suggested Reading:
Pam Cook, The Cinema Guide, BFI, pp. 353-365
The Oxford Guide to Film Studies, ed. John Hill & Pamel Church Gibson, Oxford U.P., 1998, ‘Feminism and film’ by Patricia White.
Robert Stam, ‘The Feminist Intervention’, in Film Theory. An Introduction, Blackwell, 2000, pp. 169-178.
Mary Ann Doane, The Desire to Desire, Bloomington, Indiana, U.P., 1987.
Tania Modleski, The Women Who Knew Too Much, Routledge.
Friday, 27 mars 2009 at 10am, room A310
Reading: Laure Adler’s “La vie quotidienne dans les maisons closes 1830-1930” presented by Claire Bazin
Reading: Kim Akass and Janet Mc Cabe’s “Reading Desperate Housewives: Beyond the White Picket Fence”, presented by Alice Braun. Read online
Friday, February 6, 2009 at 10am, room A310
Reading: Adrienne Rich’s “On Lies, Secrets and Silence” presented by Marie-Claude Perrin-Chenour
Reading: Ann Romines’ “The Home Plot: Women Writers and Domestic Ritual” presented by Anne-Laure François.
Friday, June 20, 2008 at 10am, room E105
Presentation: “The Problematic Representation of Masculinity in Cinema”, Marianne Kac-Vergne.
Reading: 3 articles
1. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”
2. Richard Dyer, “Don’t Look Now”, Screen 23, 3-4, 1982, pp.61-73

3. Steve Neale, “Masculinity as Spectacle: Reflections on Men and Mainstream Cinema”, Screen, 24, 6, 1983, pp.2-17, also in Cohan, S. and Hark, I. (ed.) Screening the Male, Exploring Masculinities in Hollywood Cinema, Routledge, London and New York, 1993.
For articles 2 and 3, email Anne Cremieux
Friday, April 4, 2008 at 10am, room G614.
Reading: Tania
Modleski’s The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock.
Presentation: Taïna Tuhkunen
Also See: http://www.erudit.org/revue/rf/2003/v16/n2/007778ar.pdf
Friday, January 11, 2008 at 1:30pm, Conference Room, K Building.
Reading: Teresa De Lauretis’ Alice Doesn’t: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema.
Presentation: Anne Crémieux (Université Paris X)
Friday, October 26, 2007 at 2pm “salle de convivialité”, first floor, Building B.
Reading: Cristina Bacchilega’s Postmodern Fairy Tales. Gender and Narrative strategies.
Presentation: Anne Chassagnol (Université Paris X)
Cristina Bacchilega is guest of honor at the annual FAAAM Congress (June 6 and 7, 2008), with the opening speech.
Friday, May 4, 2007, at 2pm, room E 104 (Building E, first floor).
Reading: Sara Mills’ Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women’s Travel Writing and Colonialism.
Presentation: Brigitte Marrec (Université Paris X)
Reading: a selection of articles by Jack Zipes on the writing and rewriting of fairy tales.
Presentation: Anne Chassagnol (Université Paris X)
Friday, February 9, 2007, at 2:30, room E 102bis (Building E, first floor).
Reading: Marina Warner’s From the Beast to the Blonde – on Fairy Tales and their Tellers
Presentation: Alice Braun (Université Paris X)
Anne Chassagnol comments her bibliography on the study of myths.
Friday, November 24, 2006, at 2pm, room E304 (Building E, third floor).
presentation/discussion of the book by Jack Zipes, Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, by Laurence Talairach (University of Toulouse Le Mirail)
presentation/discussion of Vladimir Propp’s
Morphology of the Folk Tale,
Presentation: Marie-Claude Perrin-Chenour (University of Paris X)
Friday octobre 13, 2006 at 2pm, room B 016 (Building B, ground floor).
Reading: Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth (1990)
Presentation: Fabienne Moine (University of Paris X)
Reading: “Clothes make the [wo]man : The Age of
Innocence d’Edith Wharton.
Presentation: Brigitte Zaugg (University of Metz)
Friday March 2, 2006 at 2pm, room E 104 (Building E, first floor).
Reading: Valerie Steele’s book, The Corset
Presentation: Brigitte Zaugg
and Nathalie Heinich’s Etats de Femmes
Presentation: Claire Bazin
Friday Novembre 18, 2005 at 2 pm
, room E 307 (Building E, third floor).
Reading: Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing & Cultural Anxiety by Marjorie Garber.
Presentation: Anne Crémieux
Friday April 1, 2005 at 2 pm, room E 307 (Building E, third floor).
Reading: Technologies of Gender : Essays on Theory, Film and Fiction (Theories of Representation and Difference) by Teresa de Lauretis
Presentation: Christopher Robinson
Friday January 14, 2005 at 2 pm, room E 203 (Building E, second floor).
Reading: Le Corps de l’oeuvre by Didier Anzieu
Presentation: Anne Ullmo
Friday June 4, 2004 at 2 pm, room E 307 (Building E, third floor).
Reading: Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative by Peter Brooks
Presentation: Claire Bazin
Friday April 30, 2004 at 2 pm, room E 307 (Building E, third floor).
Reading: Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex” by Judith Butler
Presentation: Anne Crémieux