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,
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
The
organizers would like to thank their generous sponsors: The Cassal Fund of the
Rosemary Lambeth
Institute
of Germanic & Romance Studies
School
of Advanced Study,
Senate
House,
Tel:
020 7862 8677; fax 020 7862 8672
Web:
http://igrs.sas.ac.uk