7.0106 Australian French Studies Conference 9/93 (1/147)
Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 17 Aug 1993 16:10:40 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0106. Tuesday, 17 Aug 1993.
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1993 12:02:29 +0800
From: tunwin@uniwa.uwa.edu.au
Subject: AUSTRALIAN FRENCH STUDIES CONFERENCE
AUSTRALIAN FRENCH STUDIES CONFERENCE, 17-19 September 1993
VENUE: MONASH CITY CENTRE (Cnr Exhibition Street and Flinders Lane,
Melbourne)
CONVENER: BRIAN NELSON, DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES, MONASH UNIVERSITY,
CLAYTON, VICTORIA 3168, AUSTRALIA
REVISED PROGRAMME
All papers will be 20 minutes in duration, except for those of Naomi Segal,
James Lawler and Roger Laufer.
FRIDAY 17 SEPTEMBER
9.15 Registration
9.45 Opening: Philippe Baude, Ambassadeur de France en Australie
10.00 Marie Maclean, Monash University: "Giving birth to my grandmother:
_La Batarde_ of Violette Leduc"
Roda Kanawati, Macquarie University, "Temps, mort et quete de
l'eternite dans les ecrits de Claude Mauriac"
[Coffee]
11.30 Wallace Kirsop, Monash University, "Creating networks: the
strategies of scholarly communication"
Jacques Birnberg, Monash University, "Some thoughts on the history
and editorial policies of the _Australian Journal of French Studies_"
J.C. Davies, University of Adelaide, "Gide and _La Nouvelle Revue
Francaise_"
[Lunch]
2.30 Peter Cryle, with Anne Freadman and Sandra Nicholls, University of
Queensland, "On canonicity"
Peter Poiana, University of Sydney, "Mimesis et verite: la
narratologie a la derive"
[Coffee]
4.00 C.D. Boak, University of Western Australia, "The Second World War
and French writing: a reconsideration"
Colin Nettlebeck, Monash University, "The 'post-literary' French
novel: Echenoz, Pennac and company"
Jean Fornasiero, University of Adelaide. "Quete et enquete dans _La
Fee Carabine_ de Daniel Pennac"
Evening: Conference Dinner (venue to be advised) and lecture by Naomi
Segal (St John's College, Cambridge): "The Adulteress's Child"
SATURDAY 18 SEPTEMBER
10.00 Margaret Sankey, University of Sydney, "On (re)reading Cyrano de
Bergerac"
Francoise Grauby, University of New South Wales, "Portrait de
l'artiste en misereux"
Peter Brown, Australian National University, "Identite et humour
noir(s) chez Henri Lopes"
[Coffee]
12.00 James Lawler, University of Chicago, "Remembering A.R. Chisholm"
[Lunch]
2.30 Jack Burston, Monash University, and Monique Burston, University of
Melbourne, "Deconstructing the narration: the use of the imperfect tense"
Noelle Colombet-Sankey, University of Melbourne, "Acquisition of a
reading proficiency in French"
Guy Neumann, Macquarie University, "Ateliers d'ecriture"
[Coffee]
4.30 Ivan Barko, University of Sydney, "The relevance of the
Nicholsonian tradition to French studies in Australian universities at the
close of the 20th century"
Daniel Guilbaud, Macquarie University "Pour une exploitation
pedagogique du neologisme en classe de F.L.E."
Max Walkley, University of Sydney, "Introducing Francophone
literature courses at Sydney: Swiss and Canadian French literature"
[Coffee]
6.00 Business Meeting: launch of the Australian Society for French
Studies
SUNDAY 19 SEPTEMBER
10.00 Philip Anderson, Monash University, "Crossing the threshold with
Ponge: a study of a liminal text"
Corinne Mesana, University of Sydney, "L'apport des surrealistes
dans l'ecriture du roman"
Marie-Joelle Porcher, University of Melbourne, "La recherche du
centre dans _Le Genie du lieu_ de Michel Butor"
[Coffee]
12.00 Roger Laufer, Universite de Paris 8, "Un hypertexte sur Celine"
[Lunch]
2.30 Brian Nelson, Monash University, "The dream machine: Zola and the
department store"
Susan Yates, University of Wollongong, "The new confessor: the
doctor and the bourgeois wife in Balzac"
[Coffee]
4.00 John West-Sooby, University of Adelaide, "Parler eaux et clercs:
etude des images aquatiques dans _Une Histoire sans nom_ de Barbey
d'Aurevilly"
Tim Unwin, University of Western Australia, "Stories of seduction
or the seduction of stories: Barbey d'Aurevilly and Maupassant"
Leisha Lecointre, Flinders University, "Etude du personnage de
Frederick Lemaitre dans _Les Enfants du paradis_"
____________________________________________________________________________
To register, please write immediately to Professor Brian Nelson, Department
of Romance Languages, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia.
Registration fee $50 ($20 students); conference dinner/lecture by Naomi
Segal $40. Cheques payable to "Monash University".
____________________________________________________________________________