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Franco-Maghrebi Crossings International Conference November 3-5, 2011 Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies Florida State University, Tallahassee Conference Director: Alec G. Hargreaves Administrative Coordinator: Racha Sattati Program All sessions take place in the Diffenbaugh Building on the FSU campus. Details are subject to change. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3 11:45AM, 12:30PM, 1:15PM – Complimentary Bus from Hotel Duval (pick-up at North Monroe entrance) to FSU Campus 12:00 noon-6:00 pm – Registration, 4th floor, Diffenbaugh 1:30 pm-3:00 pm – Panels 1A, 1B, 1C Panel 1A, Diffenbaugh 009 From Colonial Conquest to Decolonization Chair: Lindsey Scott (FSU) Alisha Valani (University of Toronto) - Entre brassage et homogénéité : colonisation, exil et folie au Maghreb Jennifer Fredette (SUNY Albany) and Richard Fogarty (SUNY Albany) - Forever apart: Enduring themes of “otherness” in French discourse on North African Muslims and Islam, 1914-1918 and 1989-2011 Doris Gray ( Florida State University) - Tunisia after the revolution: the end of post- colonialism? Panel 1B, Diffenbaugh 129 Memory I Chair: Robyn Cope (FSU) Janice Gross (Grinnell College) - Slimane Benaïssa: Performing the Tightrope of Franco-Algerian Memory Eveline Caduc (Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis) - « Un futur pour héritages déterritorialisés » Patricia Reynaud (School of Foreign Service-Qatar Georgetown University) - Fractures et cicatrices dans Bent Keltoum Panel 1C, Diffenbaugh 005 Women Writers Chair: Virginia Osborn (FSU) Oana Panaite (Indiana University, Bloomington) - I Do Not Speak My Father's language" - The Severed Heritage in the Works of Leïla Sebbar and Nina Bouraoui Melinda Mod (Université de Paris 8 - Etudes Féminines et Etudes de Genre et CNRS- CRESPPA) - Les fugueuses : analyse de la figure de jeunes femmes dans Poisson d’or de Le Clézio et Shérazade de Leïla Sebbar Susan Crampton-Frenchik (Penn State University, Fayette) - Friendship as Agency in the Works of Malika Mokeddem 3:00 pm-3:30 pm – Refreshments 3:30 pm-5:00 pm – Panels 2A, 2B, 2C Panel 2A, Diffenbaugh 009 Art and Space Chair: Kathryn Haklin (FSU) Siobhán Shilton (University of Bristol, UK) - Franco-Maghrebi Crossings in Contemporary Art Sandra Rousseau (The Pennsylvania State University) - Faits et gestes du quartier : l’espace urbain et ses usagers dans les textes de Fellag Panel 2B, Diffenbaugh 005 Gender and Sexuality Chair: Mireille Rebeiz (FSU) Paul Descloitres (New York University) - En quête d’une tradition Jean Sénac, Abou- Nowâs et Jean Cocteau Névine El Nossery (Université du Wisconsin-Madison) - Délocalisation identitaire chez Malika Mokeddem et Fatima Mernissi 2 Panel 2C, Diffenbaugh 129 Exile Chair: Coralie Seizilles de Mazancourt (FSU) Jeanne Fouet-Fauvernier (Lycée Viette, Montbéliard) - Exil, décentrement, déplacement: petit voyage avec Driss Chraïbi Edwige Tamalet Talbayev (Yale University) - Mediterranean Criss-Crossings: Exile and Wandering in Tahar Bekri Abdelkader Cheref (University of Connecticut) – “Le Rapprochement des Peuples”: Resettlement and Relocation in Selected works by Isabelle Eberhardt, Robert Randau, Myriam Ben, and Boualem Sansal 5:00 pm-5:30 pm – Refreshments 5:30 pm-6:30 pm – Plenary Session 5:30 pm-6:30 pm – Plenary Session, Diffenbaugh 009 Chair: Aimée Boutin (FSU) Cixous et Derrida, ‘sujets de culture française’ Speaker: Marta Segarra (University of Barcelona) 7:00PM – Complimentary Bus from FSU (pick-up at intersection of Copeland St. and College Ave) to Hotel Duval 7:30-9:30 pm – Reception & Light Supper 7:30-9:30 pm – Reception & Light Supper hosted by the Winthrop-King Institute Opal Room, Hotel Duval Welcoming Remarks by William J Cloonan (Chair, Modern Languages & Linguistics, FSU) 3 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4 10:00AM - Complimentary Bus from Hotel Duval (pick-up at North Monroe entrance) to FSU Campus 10:00 am-6:00 pm – Registration, 4th floor, Diffenbaugh 10:00 am-10:30 am – Refreshments 10:30 am-12:00 noon – Plenary Session 10:30 am–12:00 noon – Plenary Session, Diffenbaugh 009 Chair: Alec G Hargreaves (Florida State University) Round Table: The Arab World in Transition With the Arab Spring of 2011 now giving way to a new phase marked on the one hand by bloody struggles in Libya and Syria and on the other by Tunisia’s first free elections, what has been achieved during the past year and where are developments heading? Speakers at this Round Table will draw on their first-hand knowledge of the region to explore these issues. Speakers Doris Gray (Florida State University) Will Hanley (Florida State University) Gleya Maatallah (Université de Manouba, Tunisia) 12:00 noon-1:30 pm – Lunch Break 1:30-3:00 pm – Panels 4A, 4B, 4C Panel 4A, Diffenbaugh 005 Cinema I Chair: Leslie Kealhofer (Westminster College, PA) Serge Bokobza (University of Alabama at Birmingham) – Identity in Contemporary French Cinema: From Sephardic Jews to Beurs Sandrine Teixidor (Randolph-Macon College) - Amnesia, Fantasy and Nostalgia; Remembering Algeria. 4 Panel 4B, Diffenbaugh 129 Beurs I Chair: Marda Messay (FSU) Jean Beaman (Northwestern University) – “When I dream, I dream in French”: Articulations of French National Identity Among Second-Generation Maghrebi Immigrants in France Sabrina Fatmi –Sakhri (Université d'Alger) - « L’hybridité franco-algérienne à l’épreuve dans Little Big Bougnoule de Nor Edine Boudjedia ». Panel 4C, Diffenbaugh 009 Memory II Chair: Martin Munro (FSU) Joseph McGonagle (University of Manchester, UK) - Heading south: borders, migration and returns in contemporary Franco-Algerian cinema Edward Welch (University of Durham, UK) - (Re)visions of History and Memory: The Visual Economy of France’s Algerias Lisa Weiss (Vanderbilt University) - La Guerre des Mémoires: Approaches to Remembering Algeria 3:00 pm-3:30 pm – Refreshments 3:30 pm-5:00 pm – Panels 5A, 5B, 5C Panel 5A, Diffenbaugh 129 Women Across Borders Chair: Mireille Rebeiz (FSU) Mary Jean Green (Dartmouth College) - Assia Djebar in the 21st Century: Rewriting History and Identity Megan MacDonald (SUNY Buffalo) - When is l’Algérie?: Death Across Borders in Assia Djebar’s Le Blanc de l’Algérie C. Wakaba Futamura (Bennington College) - Cendrillon or Scheherazade? Unraveling the Franco-Algerian Legend of Baya. Panel 5B, Diffenbaugh 009 Prisoners and Refugees Chair: Doris Gray (FSU) Emma Chubb (Northwestern University) - Imprisoned in Faransa: Faouzi Bensaidi’s Mille mois Claudia Esposito (University of Massachusetts-Boston) - Smugglers, Prisoners and Outlaws: Mahi Binebine’'s Pictorial and Fictional Encounters Wajih Guehria (Univ. Paris Ouest/Centre Universitaire de Souk-Ahras, Algeria) - Les réfugiés algériens, l’autre clivage oublié 5 Panel 5C, Diffenbaugh 005 Créateurs d’héritage sépharade Chair: Mechtild Gilzmer (TU Berlin) Safoi Babana-Hampton (Michigan State University) - Réinvention du Sujet Diasporique Sépharade Mechtild Gilzmer (TU Berlin) Revisiter une sépharadité imaginée Ieme van der Poel (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) - Joann Sfar, Le Chat du rabbin : Comment recycler les clichés orientalistes pour les dépasser. 5:00 PM - Complimentary Bus from Hotel Duval (pick-up at North Monroe entrance) to FSU Campus 5:00 pm-5:30 pm – Refreshments 5:30 pm-6:30 pm – Plenary Session 5:30 pm-6:30 pm – Plenary Session, Diffenbaugh 009 Chair: Alec G Hargreaves (FSU) Retour sur images: de Sétif à Lyon en BD Speaker : Azouz Begag 7:00PM - Complimentary Bus from FSU (pick-up at intersection of Copeland St. and College Ave) to Hotel Duval 6 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5 10:00AM - Complimentary Bus from Hotel Duval (pick-up at North Monroe entrance) to FSU Campus 10:00 am-12:00 noon – Registration, 4th floor, Diffenbaugh 10:30 am-12:00 noon – Panels 6A, 6B, 6C Panel 6A, Diffenbaugh 009 Albert Memmi Chair: Doris Gray (FSU) Deborah Hess (Drew University) - La complexité identitaire dans Le scorpion d'Albert Memmi Gleya Maatallah (Université de Manouba, Tunisia) - «De la diversité tiraillée à l’impossible intégration chez Albert Memmi » Michael Lejman (University of Memphis) - Is the Immigrant Colonized? Albert Memmi and the Immigrant Condition Panel 6B, Diffenbaugh 129 Jews, Arabs. Muslims Chair: Leslie Kealhofer (Westminster College, PA) Olivia Harrison (University of Southern California) - Rethinking Jews and Arabs Through Palestine: Maghrebi Literature and the Politics of Cross-Colonial Representation Leslie Kealhofer (Westminster College, Pennsylvania) - “Elle et moi, on est comme des sœurs”: the dynamics of intercultural female friendship in Philippe Faucon’s Dans la vie (2007) Deborah Gruber (CUNY Graduate Center) - Forging an Identity: The Case of The Franco Arab Jewish Writer and Appartenance Francaise Panel 6C, Diffenbaugh 005 Harkis Chair: Coralie Seizilles de Mazancourt (FSU) Lucie Knight (Franklin and Marshall College) - Friends without benefits: Mustapha Benfodil’s new generation of harkis in Algeria Laura Reeck (Allegheny College) - Home and Hospitality chez Zahia Rahmani 12:00 noon-1:30 pm – Lunch Break 7 1:00 PM - Complimentary Bus from Hotel Duval (pick-up at North Monroe entrance) to FSU Campus 1:30-3:00 pm – Panels 7A, 7B, 7C Panel 7A, Diffenbaugh 009 Pieds noirs Chair: Shanaaz Mohammed (FSU) Safoi Babana-Hampton (Michigan State University) - Au delà des clichés et de l’oubli : Récits de mémoire des Pieds-Noirs dans Le sable et le répit : Chimères d’un Pied Noir et 1962, l’été du Malheur Fiona Barclay (University of Stirling, UK) The pied noir Colonial Family Romance in André Téchiné’s Les Roseaux sauvages.