Programme

Below is an overview of this year’s programme. All panel sessions and plenaries will take place in the Dirac Room, Fisher Building, St. John’s College.

For more detailed information, including paper abstracts, please use the drop down lists above.

	Friday 11th May
10:00am	Conference Start
10:15am: Panel One – Self –	Jared Holley (University of Cambridge): ‘Rêveries du promenaire epicure: Spectres of the Self in Rousseau’s Rêveries’ Zoe Roth (King’s College London): ‘An Impossible Death: Anachronism, Embodiment and the Spectrum of Sensation in Maurice Blanchot’s L’Instant de ma mort’ Sara-Louise Cooper (University of Oxford): ‘Une assise prismatique de l’être’: Spectra in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Une enfance créole’ Chair: Amy Li
11:45am	Coffee
12:00pm: Keynote Address	Professor Michael Moriarty, Drapers Professor of French, University of Cambridge Chair: Francesca Hardy
1:30pm	Lunch
2:30pm: Panel Two -Politics-	Alice Holt (University of Oxford) Adrian May (University of Cambridge): ‘From Spectres of Marx to a Spectrum of Marx’ Eva-Maria Hochhauser (University of Innsbruck): ‘Breaking the (spot)light: The political spectrum of France in the 21st century’ Chair: Alex Stuart
4:00pm	Coffee
4:15pm: Keynote Address	Dr Jane Hiddleston, University of Oxford Chair: Maria Flood
6:30pm	Drinks Reception

	Saturday 12th May
10:00am: Panel Three -Vessels-	Jennifer Oliver (University of Oxford): ‘From ship to book: a spectrum of Nefs in early sixteenth-century French literature’ Sven Greitschus (Bangor University): ‘Spectral Sorrow Sung Sweetly: Socio-Critical Implications in Baudelaire’s “Les Bons Chiens”’ Rebekka Schnell (University of Munich): ‘Images spectrales: Pour une esthétique de la latence’ Chair: Giovanni Menegalle
11:30am	Coffee
11:45am: Panel Four – Colour –	Rosalind Holmes-Duffy (University of Oxford): ‘Synaesthesia, Morality, and Light in Boureau-Deslandes’ L’Optique des Moeurs’ Élodie Ripoll (Université Lumière Lyon 2): ‘Épistémologies de la couleur dans le roman français du XVIIIe siècle’ Hannah Scott (University of Bristol): ‘Le blanc et le noir: Rejecting the Spectrum in Maupassant’s Short Stories’ Chair : Jonathan Patterson
1:15pm	Lunch
2:30pm: Keynote Address	Professor Clive Scott, Professor Emeritus University of East Anglia Chair: Philippa Lewis
4:00pm	Coffee
4:15pm: Panel Five -Women-	Élise Côté-Levesque (Université Laval): ‘La négation du genre dans Tu ne t’aimes pas, de Nathalie Sarraute’ Tatiana Gavriliouk (University of Oxford) Rym Feriani (University of Westminster): ‘“Entre les Ténèbres et L’Excès de Lumières”: Light and Darkness in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Novels’ Chair: Victoria Richardson
5:45pm	Round Table
6:30pm	Conference Close