Friday September 23, 2022
Keynote speaker Maria Tamboukou University of East London
Saturday September 24, 2022
Keynote Speaker: Jennifer Cooke (Loughborough University)
Université Paris Nanterre bâtiment 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
9am-9.20– Coffee & registration in conference room
9.20 – Opening Address
Workshop 1 Narrative Intimacy (1)
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. Héloïse Thomas (Lyon 3 & Bordeaux): “Meeting between the Dry Hours”: Lesbian Intimacies and Queer Timelessness in Contemporary Poetry
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’
2.15pm-3.00 pm Chair Corinne Bigot Keynote speaker : Maria Tamboukou U of East London: Epistolary narratives of love, gender and agonistic politics
Workshop 3 Pleasures and Perils of Intimacy
Chair Stephanie Genty
3.30-4.00 Noémi Albert: The Human Connection: Cases of Intimacy and Shame in Emma Donoghue’s Touchy Subjects (2006)
4.00-4.30 Johanna Hoorenman: The Life and Afterlives of Harriette Wilson, Courtesan
4.30-5.00 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)
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 hair Valérie Baisnée 2.0062.45 Jennifer Cooke: Sexual Politics in the New Audacity of Contemporary Life-Writing
Workshop 6 Empowering the female body
Chair Nathalie Saudo-Welby
3.0063.30Christina Dokou: Fur, Intimate Apparel, and Naked Power: The Politics of Clothing
in Two Contemporary American Minority Playwrights
3.3064.00 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
4.0064.30 Aurore 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
4.3065.00 judith Schreier: The Size of My Body is a Simple Fact”: Intimacy, Autotheory, and Whiteness in Fat Activist Life Writing