Thurs 1 September Registration opens. Tea, coffee and sandwiches available in Pathfoot Building (Crush Hall)

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1 ASMCF annual conference, 1-3 September 2011, Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling Continuities and Discontinuities? France Across the Generations Thurs 1 September Registration opens. Tea, coffee and sandwiches available in Pathfoot Building (Crush Hall) Postgraduate welcome meeting (Room D1) Welcome (Pathfoot Lecture Theatre) Plenary I (Pathfoot Lecture Theatre): Peter Morris Memorial Lecture Siân Reynolds (Stirling), How many flights to Varennes? Political fallout and the generations of 1791 and 1968 Introduced by Máire Cross (Newcastle) Break Panel 1: Sponsored by the Society for French Studies Panel 1A: Women in politics (Room D1) Chair : Jan Windebank (Sheffield) Panel 1B: France s International Perspectives (Room D2) Chair: Charles Forsdick (Liverpool) Marion Charpenel (Sciences Po-Paris) Quarante ans, ça se fête? La célébration des quarante ans du MLF comme analyseur des relations intergénérationnelles au sein de l espace de la cause des femmes actuel Maggie Allison (Bradford), From Auclert to Ockrent: Spanning Generations of Women in Journalism and Politics Bronwyn Winter (Sydney), Libération des femmes an quarante Panel 1C: Afterlives of May 68 (Room C1/2) Chair: Máire Cross (Newcastle) Chris Reynolds (NTU), Nicolas Sarkozy and the Convenient Consensus on mai 68 Katarzyna Thiel-Jańczuk (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań), La génération 1968 à travers les textes de Michel Houellebecq: une rupture de filiation Nick Hewlett (Warwick), Nicolas Sarkozy and May Gavin Bowd (St Andrews), Trouble in the Tonkin: Pierre Gourou and Communist Vietnam Rachel Utley (Leeds), We are all Americans : France and the War on Terror in International Perspective Sophie L. Watt (Sheffield), Aristide and the French Press: An Insight into Neocolonial Culture in Contemporary France Amber Christino (American Graduate School in Paris), Contemporary French-African Relations: In What Way is Sarkozy Changing Gaullist Policy? Panel 1D: Reflections on Popular Music (Room D3) Chair: Chris Tinket (Heriot-Watt) Adeline Cordier (Stirling), Thirty Years after Brassens: la Chanson Today Barbara Lebrun (Manchester), In Praise of Pop, or, la chanson décomplexée Agathe Torti (Paris XIII), Gainsbourg, (vie héroïque) de Joann Sfar : portrait cinématographique d un artiste entre verbe et image Isabelle Marc Martínez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Poète ou pas poète? Evolution in aesthetic self-perception in contemporary French popular music.

2 Panel 2A: Filming Across the Generations (Room D1) Chair: Adeline Cordier (Stirling) Jeremy F. Lane (Nottingham), Et ils en redemandent! Intergenerational Conflicts in the French Postfordist Workplace Sue Harris (QMUL), Gérard Depardieu: A Mammoth Figure Jim Morrissey (QMUL), Kourtrajmé: The Latest Generation of French Collective Filmmaking. Panel 2C: Social Movements (Room D3) Chair : Maud Bracke (Glasgow) Daniel Gordon (Edge Hill), La voiture est-elle de droite? Public Transport Users Groups as Post-1968 New Social Movement Gill Allwood (NTU), Generations of Refugee Women s Activism in France Jean-Frédéric Hennuy (Bennington), Sarkozy vs Tarnac : La pensée Guantanamo face à l Ultra-Gauche Panel 2B: Memory, Amnesia and Trauma (Room D2) Chair: Fiona Handyside (Exeter) Gareth McAreavey (Stirling), Hidden Histories and Personal Accounts: the Public Face of Memory Claire Peters (Birmingham), Memory and Amnesia in the City of Light : Traces of the Past in the City of the Present Susan Bainbrigge (Edinburgh), (Beyond) devoirs de mémoire in Nancy Huston s L Empreinte de l ange. Panel 2D: Narratives of Continuity (Room C1/2) Chair: Siân Reynolds (Stirling) Owen Heathcote (Bradford), Continuities and Discontinuities in Women s Writing: From Antoinette Fouque s écriture utérine to Chantal Chawaf s Je suis née Agnieszka Karch (UCL), Lessons of Simone de Beauvoir's Ageing Protagonists for a Society Without Generation Gaps Gabrielle Parker (Middlesex), From écrivains coloniaux to écrivains de langue française : Evolutions and Continuities in the Sketching of a Literary Field Darren McCauley (Stirling), Bottom-up Europeanization Exposed: Social Movement Theory and Non-state Actors in France Break Taylor & Francis wine reception, and tour of University art collection (Oscar s Dining Room, Pathfoot Building) Buffet dinner (Oscar s Dining Room, Pathfoot Building) Béatrice Damamme-Gilbert (Birmingham), Figures de transposition, de transmission et d occultation d un passé difficile dans quelques exemples littéraires du 20ème siècle.

3 Friday 2 September For Rate A rooms: Stirling Management Centre For Rate B/C rooms: Breakfast in Haldanes (next to Link Bridge & Library, see campus map) Panel 3A: Camps in Context: Immigration, Internment and Remembrance in France (Room D1) Chair: Fiona Barclay (Stirling) Scott Soo (Southampton), Excavating the memory of the Camp de Gurs Claire Eldridge (Southampton), C est l un des plus mauvais souvenirs que je garde : Camps and the Collective Memory of the Harki Community Bill Kidd (Stirling), (Un) packing the Suitcases: Postcolonial Memory and Iconography. Panel 3B: Making Waves: Memories and Myths of the Nouvelle Vague (Room D2) Chair: Sue Harris (QMUL) Elizabeth Ezra (Stirling), One War can Hide Another: Excavating History in Jules et Jim Mani Sharpe (Newcastle), Deconstructing the Myth of la Nouvelle Vague Celia Nicholls (Warwick), Reading History Through the Archive: Henri Langlois and the Commission de Recherche Historique. Panel 3C: Commemoration and Remembrance (Room D3) Chair : Maggie Allison (Bradford) Déborah Lo Mauro (Université Libre de Bruxelles), La dichotomie fondamentale levée par les journées du patrimoine: le public face aux œuvres d art. Le cas des monuments ecclésiastiques Aurore Chéry (Lyon III-Jean Moulin), La Cité Nationale de l Histoire de l Immigration ou le musée schizophrène. Rachel White (Yale), Redeeming the Past: the 2001 Commemoration of the Paris massacre of 17 October Panel 4A: Generating Memory: Memories of Conflict in Post-war France (Room D1) Chair: Jackie Clarke (Southampton) Iain Mossman (Cardiff), Generating memory; propagating amnesia: Cinq Colonnes à la une and the Algerian War appelés Rachael Langford (Cardiff), Revenant(s) de guerre? Spectres of Decolonisation in the French Second World War Combat Film Claire Gorrara (Cardiff), Popular Memories: Revisiting Wartime Collaboration in Recent French Crime Fiction. Lunch in Pathfoot Crush Hall Panel 4B: Race and Immigration (Room D2) Chair: Jonathan Ervine (Bangor) Isabel Hollis (ULIP), Acceptable Proximities: Negotiating a Space for the Second Generation Thomas Martin (Leeds), Anti-racism in the Sarkozy Years: SOS Racisme and the Indigènes de la République Trica Danielle Keaton (Vanderbilt), Anti/blackness and Anti-racism in Contemporary French Society. Maria Flood (Cambridge), The Reparative Ellipsis and the Cinematic Memorialisation of 17 October 1961 in Caché and Nuit noire. Panel 4C: Shifting Images of Algeria (Room D3) Chair: Natalya Vince (Portsmouth) Jenny Murray (University of Ulster), Le devoir de mémoire: the poetics and politics of cultural memory in Djebar s Le Blanc d Algérie Sarah Sindaco (Liège), Le fantôme des appelés: la littérature et le cinéma français face à la mémoire de la guerre d Algérie Fiona Barclay (Stirling), Derrida s Virtual Space of Spectrality: Cinematic Hauntings and Postcolonial France.

4 Panel 5A: Franco-Mediterranean Relations in New Contexts (Room D1) Chair: Scott Soo (Southampton) Martin Evans (Portsmouth), Co-operation, Ambivalence, Hostility: The Place of France within Post-Colonial Algeria Natalya Vince (Portsmouth), Questioning Postcolonial Theory: the Algerian War as a Useful Past Emmanuel Godin (Portsmouth), A Critical Assessment of France s Mediterranean policy in Panel 6A: Legacies of Colonialism (Room D1) Chair: David Murphy (Stirling) Tony Chafer (Portsmouth), Towards A New African Policy? Anglo-French co-operation in Africa since Saint-Malo Joanna Warson (Portsmouth), Plus ça change, plus c est la même chose? The Legacy of the 4th Republic in de Gaulle s Anglophone African Policy Panel 5B: Socialist Legacies (Room D2) Chair: Steve Wharton (Bath) Sue Collard (Sussex), François Mitterrand and the Parti Socialiste: an Enduring Legacy? David Bell (Leeds), Socialist Party Politics After Mitterrand Cristina Vinuesa Muñoz (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Le théâtre de Jack Lang: un théâtre élitaire pour tous? Panel 6B : Regional Geographies and Politics (Room D3) Chair: Cristina Johnston (Stirling) Andrew Smith (QMUL), Myth in the Midi: Delineating the Mythology of Southern Viticultural Protest Andrew Tompkins (Merton, Oxford), A Revolution in Morestel? The Opposition to Nuclear Energy in Provincial France, Panel 5C: Socio-legal Affairs (Room D3) Chair: Bill Marshall (Stirling) Maks Banens (Lyon II), Pacs and Civil Partnerships: Similarities and Discrepancies Melinee Kazarian (Manchester), The HIV- Contaminated Blood Scandal in France: Analysing its Political and Legal Aftermaths Cristina Johnston (Stirling), Filiation, Citizenship and the PaCS. Nicola Frith (Bangor), Crime and Penitence: Ruadhán Cooke (NUI, Galway), Pour le Tour de Current Debates in Slavery Commemoration. France, j ai la fête qui tourne Postgraduate poster session (sponsored by Intellect) (Pathfoot Lecture Theatre) ASMCF Annual General Meeting (Pathfoot Lecture Theatre) Fringe meetings (Pathfoot Lecture Theatre) Conference Dinner (Oscar s Dining Room, Pathfoot Building)

5 Saturday 3 Sept 2011 For Rate A rooms: Stirling Management Centre For Rate B/C rooms: Breakfast in Haldanes (next to Link Bridge & Library, see campus map) Panel 7A: Echoes of conflicts (Room D1) Panel 7B: Youth Activism (Room D2) Chair: Bill Marshall (Stirling) Chair: Jeremy Lane (Nottingham) Ann Marie Condron (Northumbria), Out of the Shadows and Into the Spotlight : Female Resistance and Heroism in Les Femmes de l Ombre (Salomé, 2008) Angela Kimyongür (Hull), La Bête ne meurt jamais : Contemporary Perspectives on the Occupation in Recent French Detective Fiction Keith Reader (Glasgow), Memory wars, or two bald men fighting over a comb?: the quarrel between Alain Badiou and Eric Marty. Chris Warne (Sussex), The Lycéen Movement Against the loi Debré in the Early 1970s Manus McGrogan (Portsmouth), Continuities in the Radical Left Press of les années 68: the Case of Les Cahiers de Mai Hugh McDonnell (Amsterdam), The Féderation des étudiants nationalistes, Panel 7C: Continuity as Colonisation, Discontinuity as Ethics: Reaching Beyond the Limits of Knowledge in Post-colonial Representations (Room D3) Chair: Gillian Jein (Limerick) Lara Cox (Exeter), Re-Staging Vietnam in Arthur Adamov s Off Limits (1969): Franco-American Colonialism and the Schizophrenic Narrative Jonathan Lewis (Exeter), Filling in the Blanks? Making Visible a History of Discontinuity in Leïla Sebbar s La Seine était rouge (1999) Fiona Handyside (Exeter), Continuity and Discontinuity in the Family: Post-colonial children in Il y a longtemps que je t aime (Claudel, 2008). Plenary II (Pathfoot Lecture Theatre): Nicolas Bancel (Strasbourg II/Lausanne), Les controverses portant sur la question postcoloniale en France Introduced by David Murphy (Stirling) Panel 8A: Families Onscreen (Room D1) Chair: Ann Marie Condron (Northumbria) Will Crichton (UCL), Psychologies of loss: An exploration of parental absence and the family in French cinema Mary Harrod (KCL), Femmes, Films and Families: Popular Cinema in Contemporary France and the famille recomposée Zélie Asava (Independent Researcher), Interrogating the Transnational Family: Ideas of Identity and Cultural Bilingualism in Sous la clarté de la lune (Traoré, Burkina Faso, 2004). Panel 8B : Youth Culture and Politics (Room D2) Chair: Dougal Campbell (Glasgow) Chris Tinker (Heriot-Watt), Young and headstrong : television, popular music and nostalgia in contemporary France Jane Weston (Paris VII), Purity versus Disgust: 1960s Censorship of the Satirical Magazine Hara- Kiri by the Commission for the Protection of Youth Morality Annedith Schneider (Sabanci University), The politics of Turkish-French Rap: Rejection or Participation? Conference close/ packed lunch provided (Pathfoot Crush Hall) Panel 8C: Representing the City (Room D3) Chair: Cristina Johnston (Stirling) Mike Rapport (Stirling), Paris as a History Book: the Revolution Gillian Jein (MIC, Limerick), The Image and the City: Unitary Urbanism and JR s Paris Exhibitions Ed Naylor (QMUL), Le charme d une bourgeoisie discrète? Marseille s multicultural model on the eve of austerity.

6 14.00 Film screening La Journée de la jupe (dir. Jean-Paul Lilienfeld, 2008). (Pathfoot Lecture Theatre, Pathfoot Building) Film workshop for local school pupils (Classrooms in Pathfoot Building) End