Women in French in Scotland: Annual Colloquium 2014 Parliament Hall, University of St Andrews Friday 19 September 2014

9.55am: Welcome

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  Maternal presence and female persuasion in Thenaud’s Le Triumphe de Force (Lidia Radi, University of Richmond)
  
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  “Elle eust mis l’Epée à la main tout comme un homme”: Widowhood, Gender and Sexuality in La Devineresse (Sarah Townshend, University of St Andrews)
  
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  Hélène Cixous : esthétique et éthique de/à la limite (Elsa Laflamme, Collège Gérald-Godin / IMLR, University of London)
  

11.30am: coffee

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  “L'amour, l'amitié et la beauté de l'art”: searching for meaning in Muriel Barbery's L'Elégance du hérisson (Katie Jones, University of St Andrews)
  

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  Femmes engagées: Germaine de Staël and Claire de Duras (Stacie Allan, University of Bristol)
  
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  Citoyenne française: Madame de Genlis’s Narrative Reconstructions of Post-Revolutionary France (Danielle Berrow, University of St Andrews)
  

1.15pm: buffet lunch

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  Forced Repression, Fanatical Remembrance: Leïla Marouane's Le Châtiment des hypocrites (Jenny Kosniowski, King’s College London)
  
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  Narrating Selfhood through Gender Performance: Marie Nimier’s Multiple “I”s (Adrienne Angelo, Auburn University)
  
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  L'invention d’une érotique dans le marquage du temps: portraits, fragments et carnets de Sabine Macher (Elodie Laügt, University of St Andrews)
  

Chair: Frances Andrews (Mediaeval History, University of St Andrews).