SHIFFT (Sheffield Interventions in French & Francophone Texts)
TERROR: a one day conference
Wednesday 17 September 2008
Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield
Programme
9:30 - Welcome and registration
10:00
Martin Shipway (Birkbeck, University of London):
Reality and its limits: late colonial doctrines of terrorism and counter-terrorism revisited
10:45 - Coffee
11:00
Isabelle Baron (Bath): Les bouffoneries de l´épouvante : Grand-Guignol, terror and cathartic grotesque in Les derniers scandales de Paris
Claire Lozier (Kent/Sorbonne Paris 3): Between the abject and the sublime: Jean Genet´s aesthetics of terror
Mélanie Boissonneau (Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle):
La terreur au féminin: A l´intérieur , un film de Julien Maury et Alexandre Bustillo
12:30 - Lunch
2:00
Marie-Christine Clemente (Cambridge): The representation of the September 11th attacks and its limits in Frédéric Beigbeder´s Windows on the World
Benjamin Lesson (Lyon 2): La télévision construit-elle de nouvelles peurs? (Loft Story, 9/11)
3:00
Ceri Morgan (Keele): Writing the October Crisis
3.45 - Coffee
4:15 - Round table
