Dear colleagues,
A reminder that the Women in the Wake of May 68 interdisciplinary conference, will
be held at King’s College London on the 16th of May, 9:00-18:30, followed by a wine reception. The conference is free, but pre-registration is required (closes Tuesday at noon). Please note that the full programme is now available for download at https://womenaftermay68.wixsite.com/kclconference
This
one-day conference will examine how May 68 affected the status of French women in the following years, especially how this is represented in the culture-at-large. Papers cover a wide range of topics, including those on female artists, writers, philosophers,
directors and stars, as well as the representation of women in art, literature and popular, auteur and militant cinema. Professor Margaret Atack, author ofMay 68 in French Fiction and Film: Rethinking Society, Rethinking Representation, and Dr. Rakhee
Balaram, whose forthcoming bookCounterpractice: Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Art of ‘French Feminism’ examines art in post-May 68 France, are the keynote speakers.
SCHEDULE
Conference
will be held in the Nash Lecture Theatre
Tea
and coffee breaks and wine reception will be hosted in the River Room
9:00
- 9:30 – Registration with Tea and Coffee (River Room)
9:30
- 10:25 – Radical Art
Maria-Rosa
Lehmann (Institut National d’histoire de l’art, Paris): ‘An artist bound, a woman unleashed: Francoise Janicot’s Encoconnage (1972), a quest for freedom’
Susana
Mouzinho (Universidade Nova de Lisboa): ‘Present: militant cameras’
Chair:
Sophia Satchell-Baeza (King’s College London)
10:30
- 11:45 – Women On-Screen: Wives, Couples and Teens
Elizabeth
Miller (King’s College London): ‘“Erotissimo is the way of today:” post-May 68 modernity in Gérard Pirès’ Erotissimo (1969)’
Dr.
Emilie Wacogne (Université Lyon 2): ‘Forbidden romance: a threat to patriarchal power and national unity in Elise ou la vraie vie (Michel Drach, 1970)‘
Karolina
Westling (King’s College London and University of Gothenburg): ‘Becoming a desiring subject: the teenage girl in Néa and Une vraie jeune fille’
Chair:
Dr. Alice Guilluy (King’s College London)
11:45
- 12:00 – Tea and Coffee Break (River Room)
12:00
- 13:30 – Opening Keynote: Theorising Women Artists in France
Dr.
Rakhee Balaram, (University at Albany, SUNY):
‘La
beauté est dans la rue: women artists in France before and after May ’68’
Chair:
Professor Sarah Wilson (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
13:30
- 14:30 – Lunch
14:30
- 15:25 – Opposing Stardoms: Delphine Seyrig and Romy Schneider
Alexandre
Moussa (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3): ‘Not only “an apparition”: Delphine Seyrig in 1968, a political shift to a polished star image’
Marion
Hallet (King’s College London): ‘Romy Schneider and the vulnerable feminine identity in 1970s France’
Chair:
Dr. Kulraj Phullar (King’s College London)
15:30
- 16:45 – Reading the Female Body
Katie Pleming (University of Cambridge): ‘Reading the body after May 68: Deleuze and the films of Marguerite Duras’
Rebecca Rosenberg (King’s College London): ‘Body/Mind/Text:
the representation of mental illness and psychiatric institutions in La Malcastrée (1976) and L’Itinéraire Psychiatrique (1977) by Emma Santos’
Maria Tomlinson (University of Reading): ‘A contemporary
“parole de femme?”: writing the menstruating body in Virginie Despentes’s Baise-moi’
Chair:
Dr. Carla Ambrósio Garcia (King’s College London)
16:45
- 17:00 – Tea and Coffee Break (River Room)
17:00
- 18:30 – Closing Keynote: Gender, Sexes, Sexualities
Professor
Margaret Atack (University of Leeds):
‘Genders,
sexes, sexualities: the epistemological and literary legacies of May 68’
Chair:
Professor Ginette Vincendeau (King’s College London)
18:30
- 19:30 – Wine Reception (River Room)
We
look forward to seeing you there!
Best,
Marion Hallet and Elizabeth Miller
King's College London
