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The Modern French Research Seminar

Programme 2009/2010

Michaelmas Term 2009

Please note change of seminar day to Tuesdays.

  • 20 October 2009
    Anne Green (King's College London)
    Writing about clothes in Second Empire France.
  • 3 November 2009
    David Gascoigne (St Andrews)
    Georges Perec's La Vie mode d'emploi, or How to fill in empty spaces.
  • 17 November 2009 - CANCELLED
    Chris Johnson (Nottingham)
    French cybernetics.
  • 1 December 2009
    PhD workshop

Lent Term 2010

  • 19 January 2010
    (please note exceptional meeting to fit with funding deadlines)
    PhD funding workshop

  • 9 February 2010
    Gerald Moore (Wadham College, Oxford)
    Gay science and (no) laughing matter: the eternal returns of Michel Houellebecq.

  • 23 February 2010
    Francesco Manzini (Christ Church, Oxford)
    Cows, cats and the communion of saints: Zola's La Faute de l'abbé Mouret and Huysmans' En rade.

  • 9 March 2010
    Damian Catani (Birkbeck)
    The dichotomy of evil: Victims and perpetrators in Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes and Raphael Confiant's L'archet du Colonel.

All meetings will be held in the Lecturers' Common Room (Room 106), Raised Faculty Building, at 5:15 pm for 5:30 pm start. All are welcome to attend.

For further information please contact the organisers, Dr Miranda Gill (Jesus College) mfg24@cam.ac.uk or Dr Chris Watkin (Murray Edwards College) cmw36@cam.ac.uk


Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages
University of Cambridge
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Cambridge, CB3 9DA

Tel: 01223-335009
Fax: 01223-335062
Email: french-department@lists.cam.ac.uk
Last updated on 15 January 2010 at 16:11