Research seminars take place in Room 422, Ashley Building, Main Campus, 17.15 (unless otherwise indicated).
For further information on any meeting, contact the organiser of the event, or the French Studies Secretary, Mrs J Turner.
Autumn 2012-13
Tuesday 6 November 2012
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Speaker: Jenny Charamette
Tuesday 27 November 2012
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Speaker: Denis Provencher
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Title: 'Maghrebi-French Disidentifications: Queer Performances of Gender, Religion, and Citizenship.
Spring 2012-13
Tuesday 19 February 2013
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Speaker: Oliver Davis
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Title: "‘French Republican Universalism’ and the ‘Event’ of Queer Theory”
Tuesday 5 March 2013
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Speaker: Dr Maria Rubins (UCL)
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Title: ‘Double-Coded Fiction: Russian Parisian Writers of the Inter-War Period as a Transnational Community’
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Venue: Ashley Building, Room 322
Past seminars
France in the 1930s
(organised by Martyn Cornick, Angela Kershaw)
Tuesday 8 March 2011
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Dr. David Drake (Middlesex University). ‘Jean-Paul Sartre: Intellectual of the 20th Century, Intellectual for the 21st Century.’
David Drake is Emeritus Reader at Middlesex University and maître de conférences associé at the Institut d’études européennes, Paris VIII University. He is the author of a number of important publications on French intellectuals in post-war France, including French Intellectuals and Politics from the Dreyfus Affair to the Occupation (Palgrave MacMillan, 2005) and Intellectuals and Politics in Post-War France (Palgrave MacMillan, 2002), as well as a biography of Sartre (2005).
Tuesday 10 May 2011
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Daniel Allington: 'Frenchness, literariness, and the Némirovsky media event: British reading groups discuss Fire in the Blood'
Daniel Allington is a Lecturer in English Language Studies and Applied Linguistics in the Centre for Language and Communication at The Open University. His research is mainly in the field of reception study. His work seeks to set reception in a much broader context, seeing it as an aspect of cultural production. He has recently been involved with an AHRC funded project at the OU entitled ‘Discourse of Reading Groups’.
Conferences and workshops
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Major international conference 'Women's Film-making in France 2000-2010'. French Institute and IGRS, 2-4 December 2010. (Keynote lecturers: Martine Beugnet, Ginette Vincendeau, Emma Wilson.) Co-organiser: Kate Ince (with Carrie Tarr). See http://womenfilmfrance.wordpress.org or IGRS website for full programme.
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Major international conference ‘Dirt and Debris’, Ninth annual conference of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, University of Birmingham, 7-9 April 2011. Organiser: Andrew Watts.
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Synergies/IFRU sponsored conference on « Dialogue des cultures : les rapports entre le monde francophone et le monde anglophone dans le domaine des langues et des cultures, » 13-14 mai 2011, Institut Français de Londres. Organiser: Martyn Cornick with Mike Kelly (Soton) and Debra Kelly (Westminster).
Past events
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Colloquium ‘Montesquieu's Vision of a United Europe: “One Nation Made Up of Many.”’ 29 April 2010. Organiser: Ursula Haskins Gonthier
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Lecture Birmingham Centre for Contemporary History Annual Guest Lecture: John MacKenzie on ‘Imperialism and Popular Culture in Britain and Europe’ (5 May 2010). Organiser: Berny Sèbe.
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Public event and launch for research project ‘The French in London’. 2 July 2010. Co-organiser Martyn Cornick with Debra Kelly (Westminster).
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Major conference ‘Poetic Practice and the Practice of Poetics in French since 1945’. 16-17 July 2010, IGRS and Magdalene College, Cambridge. Speakers including Mary-Ann Caws, Philippe Met, Jean-Pierre Bobillot, Susan Harrow, and performances by practising poets. Co-organiser: Emma Wagstaff.
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Major public and academic event: ‘The Hundredth Anniversary of the Institut Français de Londres: Heritage for the Future’. 16 September 2010, Institut Français du Royaume Uni, London. Round table: Lisa Appignanesi (President of English PEN), Sylvestre Clancier (President of French PEN), Christopher MacLehose (MacLehose Press). Co-organisers: Jennifer Birkett, Martyn Cornick, in conjunction with the Institut Français.
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Major international conference: 17th Annual Conference of the UK Sartre Society, September 2010. Co-organiser Angela Kershaw, Secretary of the Society. (Also co-organised 16th Conference, 2009.)