"Mothers and Death: Ethical and Esthetic Issues Around the Lethal Mother-Child relationship"
Bordeaux, France 1, 2 & 3 December, 2005
Programme :
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Social Sciences
Thursday, December 1st
Venue : “ La Machine à Lire ” bookstore, Bordeaux
8:30 AM Opening address and welcome
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Panel chair Bernard Gilbert (Professor emeritus, University of Bordeaux III)
9 h 30 Opening Conference : Marie-France Morel (Assistant Professor, ENS Fontenay St Cloud)
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10:15 AM Stéphanie Vella (PhD candidate, University of Bordeaux III)
“ Infanticide in a British Context (England and India) since the XVIIIth Century: the Hardships of Motherhood ”
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10:45 AM
Vivian da Silva Paulitsch (Post-doctoral researcher, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil-National Institute of Art History, Paris)
“ Woman in the Victorian Era : A Study of ‘The Abortionist’ by Pedro Weingartner (1853-1929) ”
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11:15 AM Break
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Panel chair Romain Garcier (Lecturer, ENS Ulm, Paris)
11:30 AM Sofiane Bouhdiba (Professor, University of Tunis, Tunisia)
“ The Practice of Waad in Arab Societies : Past and Present ”
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12:00 AM Lydia Blanc (PhD candidate, European Institute, Florence, Italy)
“ Infanticidal Mothers of Matricidal Children in Ceaucescu’s Romania ”
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12:30 AM Lunch
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Panel chair Anne-Laure Sutter (Charles Perrens Hospital, Bordeaux)
2:30 PM Conference Keynote speaker Jean-Marie Delassus (Head of the maternology ward at Saint-Cyr l’Ecole Hospital)
“ Mothers between Two Deaths : Paradoxes of the Maternal Unconscious ”
Presented by Hervé Fourtina (Professor, University of Bordeaux III)
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3:15 PM Pierre Lemonnier (Professor, University of Provence, France)
“ Of Cannibalistic Mothers and their Brothers. Life Powers and Death Rites in the Ankave-Anga Tribes (New-Guinea) ”
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3:45 PM Break
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4:00 PM Annick Houel (Professor, University of Lyon II, France)
“ The Mother-Daughter Relationship and the Death of the Mother ”
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4:30 PM Marianne Baudin, (Assistant Professor, University of Paris VII, France)
“ Can Abortion Foster Creation ? ”
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6:30 PM
Reception at the Bordeaux City Hall
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8:30 PM Play The Rosa Roberta Company (Salle Artisse, Bordeaux)
“ Le Pays où l’on arrive un jour ” by Claire-Lise Leynaud, followed by a debate with the actor and director
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Arts and Literature
Thursday December 2nd
Venue : Forum des Arts et de la Culture, Talence
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9:00 AM Conference :
Keynote speaker Xavière Gauthier (Assistant Professor, University of Bordeaux III)
“ The Dread of Abortion ”
Presented by Marie-Lise Paoli (Assistant Professor, University of Bordeaux III)
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Workshop n°1 Visual arts
Panel chair Jean-François Baillon (Assistant Professor, University of Bordeaux III)
10:00 AM Vanessa Corby (Independent Scholar, University of Leeds)
“ ‘…What You Need is A Nice Cup of Tea Dear’ or Tracey Emin; Speaking Experience Beyond Cultural Memory ”
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10:30 AM Serge Paul (PhD candidate, University of Bordeaux III)
“ Substitute Children, Irreplaceable Geniuses : Artists and the Vital Issue of Recognition ”
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11:00 AM Break
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Panel chair Hervé Fourtina (Professor, University of Bordeaux III)
11:15 AM Céline Masson (Assistant Professor, University of Paris VII)
“ Dolorosa, the Film and the Sexual: Shattered Motherhood from the Perspective of Photography ”
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11:45 AM Albane Casteleyn (Psychoanalyst, PhD candidate, University of Paris VII)
“ Sublimation and The Impossibility of Giving Birth in the Works of Frida Kahlo”
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12:15 AM Lunch
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Workshop N°2 : Cinema
Panel chair Trudy Bolter (Professor, Political Science Institute, Bordeaux)
10:00 AM Jean-Michel Durafour (Lecturer, University of Lille III)
"Mothers for Death in the Films of Kenji Mizoguchi"
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10:30 AM Marguerite Chabrol (Lecturer, University of Paris X)
“ ‘I am a widow and a...’ the Meandering Threats of Motherhood in Suddenly Last Summer by Mankiewcz ”
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11:00 AM Break
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Panel chair Christian Lerat (Professor, University of Bordeaux III)
11:15 AM Xavier Daverat (Assistant Professor, University of Bordeaux IV)
“ Xenomorphic Mothers and Pregnancies in American Films”
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11:45 AM Vito Zagarrio (Filmmaker, Professor University of Rome III, Italy)
“ Criminal Mothers in John Waters’ Films ”
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12:15 PM Lunch
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2:30 PM
Poetry Reading by Stephen Cushman (Poet, Professor, University of Virginia at Charlottesville, United States)
Presented by Elisabeth Lamothe (Doctor, University of Bordeaux III)
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Workshop n°1 English and American Literature
Panel Chair Susan Barrett (Assistant Professor, University of Bordeaux III)
3:30 PM Ingrid Pruss (Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, United States)
“ Motherhood in the Shadows of the Disabling Icon, the Blessed Virgin ”
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4 :00 PM Jane Messer (Assistant Professor, Macquarie University, Australia)
“ Being Impossible : the Mother in Contemporary Literature ”
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4:30 PM Break
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Panel Chair Yves-Charles Grandjeat (Professor, University of Bordeaux III)
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4:45 PM Elisabeth Lamothe (Doctor, University of Bordeaux III)
“ Of Mothers and Evil in Southern Literature ”
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5:15 PM Sylvie Mathé (Professor, University of Aix-Marseille I)
“ Impossible Choice and Impossible Mourning : Ethical Issues in Sophie’s Choice by William Styron ”
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5:45 PM Nicole Ollier (Professor, University of Bordeaux III)
“ Giving Birth to Death in Sylvia Plath’s ‘Three Women’ and Anne Sexton’s ‘The Death Baby ‘ ”
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Workshop n°2 : British Literature
Panel Chair Marie-Claire Rouyer (Professor emeritus, University of Bordeaux III)
3:30 PM Katerina Kitsi Mitakou (Assistant Professor, University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
“ ‘The Burthen in the Belly’: Defoe’s Voracious Mothers in Moll Flanders and Roxana ”
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4:00 PM Maria Mikolchak (Assistant Professor, University of St. Cloud, United States)
“ Infanticide as an Act of Courage : Somerset Maugham’s The Unconquered ”
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4:30 PM Break
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Panel Chair Marie-Paule Vigne (Professor emeritus, University of Bordeaux III)
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4:45 PM
Lucy Edwards (Assistant Professor, University of Bordeaux III)
“ Clarissa versus Elizabeth. The Fight for Survival and Maternal Love in the Metaphoric Fabric of Mrs Dalloway”
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5:15 PM
Nathalie Vincent (Assistant Professor, University of Toulouse II)
“ ‘Ghostly Figures’, or the Maternal Law of Silence. From the Forgotten Motherland to the Lost Mother, The Wandering Identity of Eva Figes’s Characters ”
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5:45 PM Julie Sauvage (Lecturer, University of Bordeaux III)
“ Kate Atkinson : The Dead Mother’s Book ”
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Workshop n°3 : Comparative Literature
Panel Chair M. Boscq-Lafite (Assistant Professor, University of Bordeaux III)
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3 :15 PM
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3:45 PM
Anne François (Lecturer, University of Saint-Quentin en Yvelines)
“ Marguerite’s Redemption : from Goethe to Boulgakov ”
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4:30 PM Break
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Panel Chair Isabelle Poulin (Assistant Professor, University of Bordeaux III)
4:45 PM Chantal Lapeyre (Assistant Professor, University of Auxerre)
“ Fiction, Femininity and Death ”
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5:15 PM Zoé Schweitzer (Lecturer, University of Nice)
“ Medea’s Infanticide : A Founding Myth ?”
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6:30 PM
Meeting with
Marie-Danièle Koechlin, visual artist
and Yoshiko Hirasawa, painter
Presented by Julie Sauvage (Lecturer, University of Bordeaux III and Michel Jolly, curator of the Forum des Arts et de la Culture de la ville de Talence)
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7:30 PM Opening of the Exhibition
Reception offered by the city of Talence and the University Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III
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French and Francophone Literature
Saturday, December 3
Venue : La Machine à Lire Bookstore, Bordeaux
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Panel Chair Marie-Line Piccione (Professor, University of Bordeaux III)
9 :30 AM Keynote Speaker Lori Saint-Martin (Professor, University of Quebec at Montréal, Canada)
“ The Mother, The River, The Street : Death and Motherhood in Contemporary Quebecois Literature ”
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10 :15 AM Mylène Tremblay (PhD candidate, Université Laval, Canada)
“ ‘La jouissance de la Matrie’ : a Québécois issue ? Kamouraska (1970) by Anne Hébert, Oublier (1987) by Marie Laberge, La Virevolte (1994) by Nancy Huston and Borderline (200O) by Marie-Sissi Labrèche ”
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10 :45 AM Break
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Panel Chair Jean-Michel Devésa (Assistant Professor, University of Bordeaux III)
11:00 AM Martine Fernandes (Assistant Professor, University of Florida, Saint-Petersburg, Etats-Unis)
“ First Writings, Primal Screams : Giving Birth to the Female Writer ”
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11:30 AM Augustine Asaah (Associate Professor, University of Ghana)
“ The Mothers of Death in African Literature ”
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12 :00 AM Lunch
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Panel Chair Chantal Lapeyre (Assistant Professor, University of Auxerre)
2 :15 PM Pascal Noir (Assistant Professor, University of Paris II)
“ Loathing Children : The Massacre of the Innocents in Decadent Literature ”
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2 :45 PM Sylvie Ducas (Assistant Professor, University of Paris X)
“ Annie Ernaux’s Writings on Abortion : ‘Shame’ as a Creative Strategy ”
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3 :15 PM
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3 :45 PM Break
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Panel Chair Pascale Sardin (Assistant professor, University of Bordeaux III)
4 :00 PM Ieme van der Poel (Professor, University of Amsterdam)
“ From the Lethal Mother to the Virgin Mary : Representations of Female creativity in Julia Kristeva’s Works ”
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4 :30 PM Nathalie Morello (Assistant Professor, University of Wales, Swansea)
"Bord de Mer by Véronique Olmi
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5:00 PM Reading by Marie Darrieussecq
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Fin du colloque
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