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A reminder. Apologies for cross-posting. Agnès Varda, Marie Darrieussecq & Valérie Mréjen discuss their work in the conference Space, Place and Landscape: Women and Environments in Contemporary French Culture Thursday 26 - Saturday 28 October 2006 At the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Stewart House, Russell Square, London WC1 How are feminine identities connected to a sense of place? How can we theorize recent examples of women's spatial thinking and practice? Scholars working in a wide variety of fields come together in this conference to address such questions and to explore some of the striking ways in which women in contemporary French culture are appropriating, imagining, inhabiting, representing and reconfiguring space. Through papers on literature, cinema, the visual arts, architecture and sociology, the conference focuses on key issues such as the public and the private, journeying and exile, sites of remembrance, ethnicity and space, home space, urban space, natural space, incarceration, gallery space, textual spaces, and the void. In addition, major practitioners Agnès Varda, Marie Darrieussecq and Valérie Mréjen are to join us for a series of screenings and discussions about the importance of the conference theme within their own work. How to register: A preferential rate is available until 12 October. Registration forms are downloadable from the conference web pages: http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/events/conf_cwwf1.htm or you can send an email to Rosemary Lambeth at [log in to unmask] requesting a Word version of the form. The organizers would like to thank their generous sponsors: The Cassal Fund of the University of London, the Society for French Studies, The French Institute in London and the University of Durham. See also links on http://www.institut-francais.org.uk <http://www.institut-francais.org.uk/> Rosemary Lambeth Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies School of Advanced Study, University of London Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Tel: 020 7862 8677; fax 020 7862 8672 Web: http://igrs.sas.ac.uk