Department of French

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