Friday 11th May

Friday 11th May 2012, Dirac Room, Fisher Building, St. John’s College, Cambridge

9:30am: Coffee

10am Conference Start

10:15am Panel One – ‘Spectres of the Self’ (Chair: Amy Li)

• 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’

11:45am Coffee

12pm Keynote One (Chair: Francesca Hardy)

• Professor Michael Moriarty, Drapers Professor of French, University of Cambridge

1:30pm Lunch

2:30pm Panel Two – ‘Political Spectra’ (Chair: Alex Stuart)

• 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’

4pm Coffee

4:15pm Keynote Two (Chair: Maria Flood)

• Dr. Jane Hiddleston, University of Oxford

6:30pm Drinks Reception

8pm Conference Dinner