Bare lives: Dispossession and Exposure in 20th and 21st Centuries British Literature and Visual Arts
The 2016 SEAC Conference – Convened by EMMA
University Paul‐Valéry Montpellier Site St Charles – October 21st & 22nd, 2016
Friday 21 October
9. 00: Welcome
Opening of the conference
9. 30: Caroline Pollentier (University Paris 3‐Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Touching Untouchability: Haptic Aporias in E. M. Forster, Mulk Raj Anand, and Jacques Derrida
10. 00: Leila Haghshenas (University Paul‐Valéry Montpellier, EMMA)
Excavating ‘Bare Lives’ in Leonard Woolf’s Short Stories
10. 30: Xavier Le Brun (University Paul‐Valéry Montpellier, EMMA)
‘Ourselves’, Bare Life and the Lifeworld: Exposure as Communion and Repossession in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
11. 00: Coffee break
11.30: Keynote lecture
Stephen Ross (University of Victoria, B.C., Canada) The Secret Agency of Dispossession
12.30: Buffet lunch in St Charles
14.00: Laura Lainväe (University Paul‐Valéry Montpellier, EMMA)
Bowen’s Revealed Bodies: Exposure and Dispossession in The Heat of the Day
Exposing Bare Lives in Philip Larkin’s ‘Ambulances’ (1964) and ‘The Building’ (1974)
15.00: Adeline Arniac (University Paul‐Valéry Montpellier, EMMA)
‘I was simply obeying the law of the body’: Dispossession and Exposure of the Vulnerable Body in Harold Pinter’s A Kind of Alaska
15.30: Coffee break
16.00: Alice Braun (University Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense)
‘A compound fenced off from the rest of the world’: Motherhood as the Stripping of One’s Self in Rachel Cusk’s A Life’s Work.
16.30: Catherine Rovera (University Paris‐Dauphine, ITEM)
Unclaimed Bodies, Feeble Minds: Anna Hope’s Voices from the Asylum
17.00: Catherine Bernard (University Denis Diderot‐Paris 7)
The Barest of Lives: Looking at War from the Heart of Things in Harry Parker’s Anatomy of a Soldier (2006)
19.45: Dinner in town
Saturday 22 October
9.00: June Pham (University Paris‐Sorbonne)
Have I None – ‘I’d Kill You Both Before I Let Anyone Hurt You’: The Ethics of Loss in Contemporary British Dystopian Plays
9.30: Sylvie Maurel (Université Toulouse 2 Jean‐Jaurès)
Representing Precarious Lives in ‘Raw Material’ by A.S. Byatt
10.00: Mari‐José Yebra (University of Zaragoza)
Be(com)ing Dispossessed Now and Then: Naomi Alderman’s The Liars’ Gospels
10.30: Coffee break
11.00: Alexandre Privat (University Paul‐Valéry Montpellier, EMMA)
Bare Life and the Politics of Memory in Adam Thorpe’s Ulverton
11.30: Georges Letissier (University of Nantes)
Voicing Inarticulate Childhoods in Troubled Times: Barry Hines’s A Kestrel for a Knave, James Kelman’s Kieron Smith Boy and Stephen Kelman’s Pigeon English.
12.00: Buffet Lunch in St Charles
13.30 Valérie Morisson (University of Bourgogne)
14.00: Bastien Goursaud (University Paris-Sorbonne)
A “miraculous fragility”: Male Vulnerability in Andrew McMillan’s Physical
14.30: Pascale Tollance (University Lyon 2)
Dispossession and Dis-location in J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron
15.00: Coffee break
15.30: Carole Sweeney (Goldsmith College, University of London)
Bare Life, Precarious London: Dreams of a Life (dir. Carol Morley 2011) and Zadie Smith’s The Embassy of Cambodia
16.00: Catherine Lanone (University Paris3-Sorbonne nouvelle)
Black House, Badminton and Bare Lives: Recording the Margins in Zadie Smith’s NW and ‘The Embassy of Cambodia’
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