Research Seminars
Autumn Semester 2011/12
Friday 18th November – 12 noon – B4
Angela O’Flaherty, University of Nottingham, ‘Ou la mort, ou le livre’ : Inappropriate death and haunted writing in works by Delbo, Duras and Langfus’.
Thursday 24th November – 6.15pm – B4
Chris Reynolds, NTU, ‘Memories of May ’68: France’s convenient consensus’
Friday 9 December – 12 noon – B4
Kathrin Yacavone, University of Nottingham, ‘A Question of Influence: Benjamin and Barthes on Photography’.
Past Research Seminars
To view past research seminar programmes, please use the links below:
Research seminars 2010-11
Autumn Semester
Thursday 21st October, 6 pm
Lesley Milne (RSS, Nottingham) ‘“La guerre est longue, mais les jupes sont courtes”: The Journal Le Rire 1914-1918.’
Friday 12th November, 12 pm
Ruth Cruickshank (Royal Holloway, London) ‘Feeding for the Plot: Re-reading Post-War French Fiction.’
Thursday 9th December, 6.15pm
Neil Kenney (Cambridge) ‘The title-page and the question of the scientific book in France, c. 1550-1650.’
Spring Semester
Friday, February 24th
February , 6.15pm - Dr Yves Gilonne (University of Nottingham)
‘Du droit à l’oblique: orthologies du regard critique.’
Thursday, March 3rd, 6.15pm – Dr Angela Kershaw (University of Birmingham)
‘Searching for Irène Némirovsky.’
Friday 20th
May, 1pm – Dr Paul Smith (University of Nottingham)
‘Storming the Luxembourg Palace: the left and the French Senate.’
Research seminars 2009-10
Autumn Semester
Friday 9 October 12pm
‘Carte de Séjour and 1980s beur protest music’
Dr Barbara Lebrun (Manchester)
‘Carte de Séjour and 1980s protest music’Dr Barbara Lebrun (Manchester)
Friday 23 October 12pm
‘“L’ancestrale foi conique”: jazz, gender, and négritude in Damas’s Pigments (1937)’
Dr Jeremy Lane (Nottingham)
Spring Semester
Friday 12 March 12pm
‘French Cybernetics’
Prof Chris Johnson (Nottingham)
Friday 19 March 12pm
‘Les plaisirs de Loches’
Dr Catherine Attwood (Nottingham)
Thursday 25 March 6pm
‘De Gaulle and the Fifth Republic: A Cultural Perspective’
Prof John Gaffney (Aston)
Research seminars 2008-09
Autumn Semester
Friday 21 November 12pm
‘Beckett’s Ethics between philosophy and psychoanalysis’
Dr Suzanne Dow (Nottingham)
Friday 5 December 12pm
‘Reflections on the postcolonial debate in France’
Prof David Murphy (Stirling)
Spring Semester
Thursday 19 February 6pm
‘“Une couverture rapsodique faite de carreaux cousus”: redemptive identities in Collard’s Les Nuits fauves (1992)’
Dr James Agar (UCL)
Thursday 12 March 6pm
‘“A West African South Bank Show?” Inclusivity and identity in an African audiovisual archive’
Dr Audrey Small (Sheffield)
Research seminars 2007-08
Autumn Semester
Friday 19 October 12pm
‘Early Modernity Without the Self: notes on the first person’
Dr James Helgeson (Nottingham)
Friday 16 November 12pm
‘Television as an Arena for “le peuple souverain”: public participation in televised debate programmes during the 2007 presidential election campaign’
Dr Sheila Perry (Nottingham)
Friday 23 November 12pm
‘Time, Reading, and the Economy of Narrative: Derrida and Ricœur’
Dr Ian MacLachlan (Merton College, Oxford)
Spring Semester
Tuesday 5 February 6pm
‘La parade classique: dompter les monstres’
Prof Michel Jeanneret (Université de Genève, Johns Hopkins University, Special Professor, Nottingham)
In collaboration with Centre for Critical Theory
Thursday 21 February 6pm
‘On Determination’
Prof Peter Hallward (Royal Holloway, London)
In collaboration with Identity, Citizenship and Migration Centre, School of Sociology
Thursday 6 March 6pm
‘Algerian women and the October 1961 protests in France: event and memorial afterlives’
Dr Jim House (Leeds)
Friday 18 April 12pm
‘Mallarmé’s Potential Images’
Dr Katherine Shingler (Nottingham)
Research seminars 2006-07
Autumn Semester
Thursday 12 October 6pm
‘Rythme de travail, rythmes de jazz: jazz, primitivism and machinisme in inter-war France’
Dr Jeremy Lane (Nottingham)
Monday 23 October 6pm
‘Colette’s Journalism’
Prof Anne Freadman (Melbourne)
Thursday 2 November 6pm
‘Calixthe Beyala: performances of migration’
Dr Nicki Hitchcott (Nottingham)
Thursday 30 November 6pm
‘Death and Liberation, French Public Opinion and the Allied Bombing of Nazi Occupied France’
Dr Simon Kitson (Birmingham)
Spring Semester
Thursday 15 February 6pm
‘Fact or Fiction? Science and Superstition in the Encyclopédie’’
Dr Rebecca Ford (Nottingham)
Thursday 1 March 6 pm
‘Marco Polo's Literary Frontiers’
Prof Simon Gaunt (King’s College, London)
Thursday 15 March 6 pm
‘Rhétorique de l’image-texte: le rapport image-texte dans l’affiche française, 1920-1950’
Prof David Scott (Trinity College, Dublin)
Tuesday 1 May 6pm
‘Le Grotesque à Versailles, ou Le retour du refoulé’
Prof Michel Jeanneret (Université de Genève, Johns Hopkins University, Special Professor, Nottingham)
Research seminars 2005-06
Autumn Semester
Thursday 3 November 6pm
‘Dada text/image and contemporary digital art’
Prof Eric Robertson (Royal Holloway, London)
Thursday 17 November 6pm
‘Balzac and the Model of Painting’
Prof Diana Knight (Nottingham)
Thursday 1 December 6 pm
‘Blanchot on the Indestructible’
Prof Chris Fynsk (Aberdeen)
Spring Semester
Thursday 9 March 6pm
‘Fortune et le prisonnier’
Dr Catherine Attwood (Nottingham)
Thursday 27 April 6pm
‘Eating (with) the Other: the Enlightenment and the New World’
Prof Judith Still (Nottingham)
Research seminars 2004-05
Autumn Semester
Thursday 14 October 6pm
‘Material Remains: Nuit et brouillard’
Dr Emma Wilson (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge)
Thursday 11 November 6pm
‘Ermenonville: The Philosophical Garden’
Dr Martin Calder (Bristol)
Thursday 25 November 6pm
‘I Walked With a Zombie: Hervé Guibert and the stakes of a fantastical death’
Dr Andrew Asibong (Nottingham)
Spring Semester
Thursday 24 February 6pm
‘Rereading Kristeva on Duras’
Dr Lisa Walsh (Nottingham)
Thursday 10 March 6pm
‘Jean-Luc Nancy: Touching the Human’
Dr Martin Crowley (Queen’s College, Cambridge)
Research seminars 2003-04
Autumn Semester
Thursday 16 October 6pm
‘Representing regicide: theatrical politics during the Terror’
Dr Mark Darlow (Nottingham)
Thursday 30 October 6pm
‘The Death of an Icon: Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulin’
Dr Elizabeth Ezra (Stirling)
Thursday 13 November 6pm
‘Definitions of exoticism in French Caribbean Literature’
Prof Celia Britton (UCL)
Spring Semester
Thursday 12 February 6pm
‘Representing trauma: acting out and working through in Lanzmann and Perec’
Prof Max Silverman (Leeds)
Thursday 18 March 6pm
‘Monsieur Poncelet’s triumph: Senate reform and decentralisation in France’
Dr Paul Smith (Nottingham)
Thursday 22 April 6pm
‘Vocation and the Writing Life in Recent French Literature’
Prof Ann Jefferson (New College, Oxford)
Research seminars 2002-03
Autumn Semester
Wednesday 9 October 4.30pm
‘Comment cuisiner son mari à l’africaine: Calixthe Beyala’s Recipes for Migrant Femininity’
Dr Nicki Hitchcott (Nottingham)
Wednesday 30 October 2.30pm
‘Teaching Resistance in Manitoba: the case of Gabrielle Roy’
Dr Rosemary Chapman (Nottingham)
In collaboration with School of English Studies
Tuesday 12 November 5pm
‘The Poet: Julius Caesar and the Democracy to Come’
Prof Nick Royle (Sussex)
Wednesday 27 November 5pm
‘Slow Cars, Dirty Bodies: 2CV travel and the reordering of “elsewhere”’
Prof Charles Forsdick (Liverpool)
Spring Semester
Wednesday 5 February 5pm
‘The French Revolution and Slave Revolts in the Americas’
Prof Dick Geary (School of History, Nottingham)
Wednesday 26 February 5pm
‘Au fil de la musique: Le “Gadjo Dilo” entre voyage, mémoire et deuil’
Dr Jean-Xavier Ridon (Nottingham)
Wednesday 5 March 5pm
‘Materialism and Morality: Sade animates Newtonian virtue’
Dr Caroline Warman (Nottingham)
Friday 2 May 5pm
‘Ethnologue mais pas trop’ : Une anthropologie du voyage est-elle possible?
Prof Jean-Didier Urbain (Université de Versailles-St Quentin-en-Yvelines)
Tuesday 6 May 5 pm
‘La Bible et le sexe’
Prof Jean Emelina (Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis)
Tuesday 20 May 5 pm
‘Against Queer Theory: On Guy Hocquenghem’
Dr James Penney (Nottingham)
Research seminars 2001-02
Autumn Semester
Friday 5 October 12pm
Electing senators under the Third Republic’
Dr Paul Smith (Nottingham)
Thursday 25 October 6pm
‘Becoming-minoritarian: some uses of Deleuze for sexuality and nation’
Prof Bill Marshall (Glasgow)
Thursday 15 November 6pm
‘Deconstruction in Africa: V. Y. Mudimbé, Ethnophilosophy and the Cogito’
Dr Michael Syrotinski (Aberdeen)
Friday 18 January 12pm
‘Constructing Identities: French Women in the Nazi Camps’
Ms Margaret-Anne Hutton (Nottingham)
Spring Semester
Friday 8 February 12pm
‘Leisure and Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Paris: Montmartre’
Prof Nick Hewitt (Nottingham)
Friday 1 March 12pm
‘When is a scandal not a scandal? Affaires politiques and the logic of Nachträglichkeit’
Dr Jeremy Lane (Nottingham)
Wednesday 24 April 5pm
‘Nouvelle cuisine and the discourse of food under the Occupation’
Prof Keith Reader (Glasgow)
Friday 10 May 12pm
‘Voltaire’s L’Ingénu’
Prof Richard Francis (Nottingham)
Thursday 23 May 5pm
‘Literary Sociability in the Old Regime: Beaumarchais, the Comédie Française and the Société des auteurs dramatiques’
Dr Greg Brown (Nevada)
Research seminars 2000-01
Autumn Semester
Friday 13 October 12pm
‘Quebeckers Abroad’
Dr Rosemary Chapman (Nottingham)
Friday 10 November 12pm
‘Lévi-Strauss, Cybernetics and the Car’
Prof Chris Johnson (Nottingham)
Friday 24 November 5pm
‘Reconciling France: the Resurrection of the Nouvelle Revue française in 1953’
Dr Martyn Cornick (Birmingham)
Friday 26 January 12pm
‘Le cinéma nombriliste’
Dr Russell King (Nottingham)
Spring Semester
Friday 9 February 12pm
‘Fortune, Nature and the Poet in Medieval Literature’
Dr Catherine Attwood (Nottingham)
In collaboration with Department of Critical Theory
Wednesday 21 February 7-9pm
'Framing Nostalgia’
Prof George Rousseau (De Montfort University)
Friday 16 March 12pm
‘Report on Natality’
Dr Alison Martin (Nottingham)
Friday 11 May 12 pm
‘Ambiguity in French’
Dr Malcolm Offord (Nottingham)
Tuesday 5 June
‘The dedication manuscript to Queen Elizabeth I of Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoires prodigieuses (1560)’
Prof Stephen Bamforth (Nottingham)