ProgrammeConference Programme
Thursday, November 17 2016
8:00-8:45 Registration (PhD students/doctorants) 8 :30 – 12 :30 : Poster presentation session Session 1 : Scottish women in history and myth (Chair : Karyn Costa) 8 :30 – 8 :50 : Rachel Meredith Davis, University of Edinburgh, “Elite Women in Late Medieval Scotland,c.1300-1450” 8 :50 – 9 :10 : Anette Bächstädt, Université de Reims, “Marie de Lorraine-Guise (1515-1560), reine et régente d'Écosse” 9:10 – 9 :30 : Alice Lemer-Fleury, Université de Nantes, “l’Amérique du Nord britannique dans les politiques de l’Empire de l’Ecosse et de l’Angleterre entre 1783 et 1815” 9:30-9:50: Céline Savatier-Lahondès, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand, "Deirdre, Grainne and Mab: Women in the Celtic mythology common to Ireland and Scotland" 9:50 –10:10 : Tea or coffee break Session 2 Mapping a female space (chair : Marie Odile Pittin-Hedon) 10 :10 – 10:30 : Christelle Ferrere, Université de Toulouse, “Les femmes Makars: ambassadrices de l’Ecosse contemporaine” 10:30 – 10:50 : Loisa Landragin, Aix-Marseille Université, “Rethinking The Scottish Nation in Jackie Kay’s Poetry” 10:50 – 11:10 : Jess Orr, University of St Andrews, “Rediscovering the currency of Scottish women’s voices in Ali Smith’s Shire” 11:10 – 11:30 : Julie Briand, Glasgow University, ‘Things Nice Girls Don’t Do’: Challenging Class and Morality in Writing the Female Voice in Irvine Welsh’s Porno (2002) and Kirsten Innes’s Fishnet (2016)” 11:30 – 11:50 : Dóra Vecsernyés, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, “Mapping the Visceral: The Female Experience of Spaces and Places in Janice Galloway’s Short Stories”
11:00-1:30 Registration
1:30-2:00 Opening of the conference by Professor Anne Page, Head of the LERMA research group, Aix-Marseille University.
2:00-3:00 Keynote Speech : Professor Glenda Norquay, Liverpool John Moores University : “Mothers and the Motherland in Contemporary Scottish Women’s Literature” (introduced by Karyn Wilson-Costa) Session 1 : 3:00-4:30 : Women writers in the 20th century (chair : Jean Berton) 3 :00 – 3 :20 : Margery Palmer McCulloch, University of Glasgow, “National and International Testimony in Willa Muir’s Life-Writing” 3:20 – 3 :40 : Andrew Monnickendam, University of Barcelona, “Divided loyalties and identities in the fiction of Josephine Tey.” 3 :40 – 4 :00: David Clark, University of A Coruña, Spain, “’Caught in a grey dawn of history’: Neil M. Gunn’s female characters” 4 :00 – 4 :20 : Benjamine Toussaint, Université de Paris IV, “Agnes Owens’s ‘fighting women’”
4 :20- 4 :40 : discussion
4:40-5:00 Tea and coffee Break
5:00-6 :30 : What place for women ? (Chair : Gilles Leydier) 5 :00 – 5 :20 : Sabrina Juillet Garzon, Université Paris 13 (USPC), “La place de la femme dans le mouvement covenantaire du XVIIe siècle” 5 :20 – 5 :40 : Christian Auer, Université de Strasbourg, “Legitimizing and propagating the ideology of domesticity: the People’s Journal of Dundee (1858-1867)” 5 :40 – 6 :00 : Karyn Wilson-Costa, Aix-Marseille Université, “The Makar and the Doctor”
6:00 – 6: 20 : discussion
6 :30 – 7 :30 : Book launch
Friday, November 18 2016
8:00-8:45 Registration
9:00-10:00 Keynote Speech : Janice Galloway : « Who’s making up Scotland ? » (introduced by Marie Odile Hedon)
10:00-10:30 Tea and coffee break
Session 1 : 10:30-12:00 : XXth and XXIst century literature. (Chair : Philippe Laplace) 10 :30 – 10 :50 : Marie Odile Pittin-Hedon, Aix-Marseille Université, “Heading for the edge: Contemporary Scottish Women’s writing” 10 : 50 – 11 :10 : Sarah Bisson, ESPE Paris – Université Paris-Sorbonne, “Rewriting myths and writing herstory in Ali Smith’s Girl Meets Boy” 11 :10 – 11 :30 : Camille Manfredi, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, “Women Writing the Wild”. 11h30 – 11h50 : Emeline Morin, University of Glasgow, “Rewriting Scottish Folklore, Rewriting Scottish Women: Kirsty Logan’s Gender Bending Narratives” 11 :50 – 12 :10 : discussion
12:10-2 :00 Lunch Break/Pause Déjeuner
Session 2 : 2 :00-3 :00 : The domestic and the iconic (Chair : Ian Brown)
2 :00 – 2 :20 : Danièle Berton-Charrière, Université de Clermont-Ferrand, “Morna Pearson et la comédie tragique domestique « Doric » : cherchez la femme…” 2 :20 – 2 :40 : Lesley Graham, Université de Bordeaux, “Margaret Isabella Balfour Stevenson: Being Scottish in the South Seas” 2 :40 – 3 :10 : Alison Taylor McCall, Dundee University, “The ‘Lass o’Pairts’ ; the working class female student in literature and reality in Victorian Scotland.”
3 :10 – 3 :30 : discussion
3 :30– 3 :50: Tea or coffee break Break
Session 3 :40 -5 :00 : Representation and living culture. (chair : Lesley Graham) 3 :50 – 4 :10 : Jean Berton, (Université de Toulouse), "Calédonia, cette femme qui est l'Ecosse" 4 :10 – 4 :30 : Alison McCleery, Edinburgh Napier University, “Living Culture in Scotland: cherished by women, commandeered by men?” 4 :30 – 4 :50 : Alistair McCleery, Edinburgh Napier University, “Woman Readers and the Scottish Imaginary”
4 :50 – 5 :10 : discussion
6 :00 : AG de la Sfeec
8 :00 : Conference Dinner/ Restaurant: Le Jardin de Mazarin (Rue du 4 Septembre)
Saturday, November 19 2016 9 :00-10 :00 : Keynote Speech : Professor Ian Brown, Kingston University : “Before Mary (1977), Margaret (2000): A male dramatist's perspective on two Queens of Scots” (Introduced by Danièle Berton)
Session 1 : Politics, the suffrage and feminism (chair : Nathalie Duclos) 10 :00 – 10 :20 : Sarah Pedersen, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, “The contribution of the Women’s Freedom League to the cause of women’s suffrage in Scotland”
10 :20 – 10 :40 : Tea and coffee Break
10 :40 – 11 :00 : Élisabeth Mège-Revil, (CPEG. Lille), “Feminism in Scotland in the xxi century : the importance of social media” 11:00 – 11:20 : Edwige Camp-Pietrain, Université de Valenciennes, “Les politiques publiques du Parlement écossais : l'impact des femmes” 11 :20 – 11 :40 : Christian Civardi, “Les militantes du mouvement ouvrier écossais (1900-1939)” 11 :40 – 12 :00 : Gilles Leydier, Université de Toulon, “Les femmes écossaises et l’enjeu de l’indépendance”
12 :00 – 12 :20 : discussion
12 : 20 : End of the conference |