The Winthrop-King Institute

Panel 1A - Theorizing and Historicizing Memory 
Gardenia Room, Radisson Hotel

• Nicolas Russell (Smith College) – Collective Memory before Halbwachs

• Ariane Smart (University College, London, UK) – Michelet et la Mythification de l’histoire: les limites de la notion de mémoire collective 

• Rebecca DeRoo (Washington University in St. Louis) - Personal or Cultural Memory? Christian Boltanski’s Critique of the Museum

  Chair : Reinier Leushuis (Florida State University)

Panel 1B - Institutionalizing Memory (I) 
Camellia Room, Radisson Hotel

• Audra Merfield (Pennsylvania State University) - Vive le Livre: Collective memory and the village du livre phenomenon in France

• Anne McCall (Tulane University) – Epistolary Monuments and Authentic French Literature

  Chair : Aimée Boutin (Florida State University)

Panel 1C - Institutionalizing Memory (II)
Azalea Room, Radisson Hotel

• Jolanta T. Pekacz (Dalhousie University, Canada) – The Invention of the Salon in Post-Revolutionary France

• Laurent Marie (National University of Ireland) – Saving Colonel Fabien: The PCF as lieu de mémoire

  Chair : William J. Cloonan (Florida State University)

Plenary session: Dynamics of Cultural Memory 
Camellia Room, Radisson Hotel

• Annette Becker (Université Paris X, France) - Halbwachs et ses trous de mémoire 

• Ann Rigney (Utrecht University, Netherlands) - Scarcity and Dynamics of Cultural Memory

  Chair : Reinier Leushuis (Florida State University)

Panel 2A - Memory and Identity in Early Modern France 
Gardenia Room, Radisson Hotel

• Lori Walters (Florida State University) – Performing the Self, Performing the Nation: Christine de Pizan, France's Memorialist 

• Suzanne Chamier (Southwestern University) – Cultural Memory and Narrative in French Protestant Life-Writing 

• Michael Wolfe (Pennsylvania State University, Altoona) - Antiquarianism and Urban Identity in Early Modern France 

  Chair : Aimée Boutin (Florida State University)

Panel 2B - Republican Constructions of National Memory
Azalea Room, Radisson Hotel

• Sharmishtha Chowdhury (University of Connecticut-Stamford) The Ambivalent Past: The French Army, Republicanism and the French Revolutionary Heritage, 1870-1939 

• Jean-Philippe Mathy (University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana) - Remembering Marianne. Republican Intellectuals as Guardians of the Faith

  Chair : Reinier Leushuis (Florida State University)

Panel 2C - France-Algeria: Divided Memories (I)
Camellia Room, Radisson Hotel

• Kristine Aurbakken (Drew University) – Passé commun: mémoires plurielles, mémoires croisées : Un imaginaire national en construction

• Jo McCormack (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) - Recent Renewed Efforts to Remember the Algerian War in France

• Susan Ireland (Grinnell College) - The Algerian War Revisited

  Chair : William J. Cloonan (Florida State University)

Panel 2D - (Post-)Colonial Cinema 
Magnolia Room, Radisson Hotel

• Alexandre Dauge-Roth (Bowdoin College) – Histoires de l’Afrance· Alison J. Murray (University of North Carolina at Wilmington) Film and Colonial Memory: La croisière noire 1924-2003 

• Dayna Oscherwitz (Southern Methodist University) - Decolonizing the Past: Re-visions of History and Memory and the Evolution of a (Post)Colonial Heritage

• Mireille Rosello (Northwestern University) – “Inch Allah Dimanche” de Yamina Benguigui: Encontres mémorielles

Chair: Rebecca Ruquist (Florida State University)

Panel 3A - Picturing Memory 
Camellia Room, Radisson Hotel

• Jeanette Den Toonder (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Cultural Memory in Contemporary French Film

• Mary B. Vogl (Colorado State University) - Reevaluating the Rural in the Photos and Cinema of Raymond Depardon

• Béatrice Fleury - Vilatte & Jacques Walter (Université de Nancy 2, France) - (Université de Metz France) - Les lieux de la mémoire audiovisuelle : identités immigrées, identité(s) nationale(s) 

  Chair : Lori Walters (Florida State University)

Panel 3B - Historical Memory and Politics: Revisions and Renewals
Azalea Room, Radisson Hotel

• Chris Flood (University of Surrey, UK) – The Politics of Counter-Memory on the Extreme Right 

• Laurence Bell (University of Surrey, UK) – Between Tradition and Modernity: Lionel Jospin’s “Reconstruction” of Socialism in the 1990’s 

• Nick Hewlett (Oxford Brookes University, UK) – Liberal Reinterpretations of the Revolutionary Heritage

  Chair : Michael Creswell (Florida State University)

Panel 3C - Memory and the Colonial Periphery
Gardenia Room, Radisson Hotel

• Jean-Luc Desalvo (San Jose State University) - L’Image de la France et des Français et la mémoire collective du peuple acadien

• Catherine Reinhardt (California State University, Fullerton) - Slavery and Commemoration: Remembering the French Abolitionary Decree 150 Years Later

• Nicole Zehfuss (Randoph-Macon College) - Sincere Tribute or exotic reminiscence? The 1996 exhibit catalog “Mémoires d’outre-mer: les colonies et la Première Guerre mondiale” 

  Chair : Rebecca Ruquist (Florida State University)

Panel 3D - Paris (I)
Magnolia Room, Radisson Hotel

• Maria Adamowicz-Hariasz (University of Akron) – Natif de Barbès chante Douce France

• Katherine Foshko (Yale University) – Immigrants in Contemporary Paris, Keepers of Urban Memory 

• Jeffrey H. Jackson (Rhodes College) - Memories of Montmartre in a Changing City, 1920-1925

  Chair : Reinier Leushuis (Florida State University)

Panel 4A - Forgetting
Magnolia Room, Radisson Hotel

• Sheila Crane (University of California) - Marseille as lieu d’oubli: Losing and Finding the ville antique

• Stephen Forcer (University of Leeds, UK) – “Parler seul”: Remembering, Forgetting and the Prose Poetry of Tristan Tzara

  Chair : Reinier Leushuis (Florida State University)

Panel 4B - Europeanizing Memory
Azalea Room, Radisson Hotel

• Evlyn Gould (University of Oregon) – Turning Points in Multicultural Affairs: From Dreyfus to the European Union 

• Astrid Swenson (St. John’s College, Cambridge, UK) - Using foreign memories: the conceptualisation of cultural heritage in France, Germany and Britain 1870-1914 

• Mark Ingram (Goucher College) - Cultural Memory in Avignon: Municipal Cultural Policy and Alternative Voices

  Chair : Lori Walters (Florida State University)

Panel 4C - Francais, Juifs et Arabes: Mémoires partagées 
Camellia Room, Radisson Hotel

• Johann Sadock (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - Les Juifs d’Algérie: réflexions sur une mémoire plurielle dans le cadre de l’histoire républicaine 

• Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller (Vanderbilt University) – Le “malgérien” d’Hélène Cixous 

• André Benhaim (Princeton University) – Marcel Proust: Mémoire d'un Etranger 

  Chair : Rebecca Ruquist (Florida State University)

Panel 4D - Paris (II)
Gardenia Room, Radisson Hotel

• Colette Wilson (Royal Holloway, UK) - Distant Echoes and Sites Unseen: Paris, the Commune, and the 1878 Exposition Universelle 

• Elizabeth Emery (Montclair State University) – Reliving the past at the 1900 World’s Fair: Cultural memory in Le Vieux Paris exhibit 

• Stephen W. Sawyer (University of Chicago) – Parisians into Frenchmen: Writing the Center into History 

  Chair : Aimée Boutin (Florida State University)

Plenary session: Literary Vectors of Cultural Memory
Broad Auditorium, Claude Pepper Center

• Lawrence D Kritzman (Dartmouth College) - Mourning Becomes the Subject: Memory and Trauma in Perec’s “W”

• Nelly Furman (Cornell University) – Viewing Memory 

  Chair : Aimée Boutin (Florida State University)

Panel 5A - World War II
Camellia Room, Radisson Hotel

• Leah Hewitt (Amherst College) – Female Icons of French Identity in Film: Jean Pierre Melville's Ambiguous War Heroines 

• Ethan Katz (University of Wisconsin) – Memory at the Front: The Struggle Over Revolutionary Commemoration in Occupied France, 1940-1944

• Angela Kimyongur (University of Hull, UK) - ‘Fais de cela un monument’: Louis Aragon, war, memory and commemoration

  Chair : William J. Cloonan (Florida State University)

Panel 5B - France-Algeria: Divided Memories (II)
Azalea Room, Radisson Hotel

• Sylvie Durmelat (Georgetown University) – De la torture comme lieu de mémoire?

• Janice Gross (Grinnell College) - Algeria Revisited: Performing the “Impossible Memory” of a Shared Past? 

• Joshua Cole (University of Georgia) - Colonial Violence and the Borders of French History: Sétif 1945, Madagascar 1947 and Paris 1961

  Chair : Rebecca Ruquist (Florida State University)

Panel 5C - Re(-)Membering Regions (I)
Camellia Room, Radisson Hotel

• William Calin (University of Florida) – The Pierre-Jakez Hélias Controversy; or, How Breton Militants and Writers Negotiate Old Cultural Memory and New Cultural Identities 

• Bill Kidd (University of Stirling, UK) – Debatable Lands and Transfrontier Memory: from the Moselle to the Pyrénées orientales 

  Chair : Reinier Leushuis (Florida State University)

Panel 6A - (Post-)Colonial Literature and History 
Gardenia Room, Radisson Hotel

• Michael O’Riley (Colorado College) - Remembering France's Colonial Other in Myth and Counter-Myth of World War II 

• Annedith Schneider (Sabancy University, Turkey) – “Minority” Thought in Leila Sebbar’s Sherazade Trilogy 

• Nicole J. Simek (Princeton University) - The Past is passé: Time and Memory in Maryse Condé’s “La Belle Créole” 

  Chair : Rebecca Ruquist (Florida State University)

Panel 6B - Re(-)Membering Regions (II)
Azalea Room, Radisson Hotel

• Marie-Laure Legay (Université Charles de Gaulle Lille III) – La province : lieu de construction de l’identité nationale, XIVe-Xxe siècles 

• Daniel Pujol (Université de Monpellier/Université de Perpignan, France) – Mémoire, patrimoine, identité : une étude comparative sur la construction du patrimoine en France et en Catalogne 

• Philip Whalen (Coastal Carolina University) - Reactionary Modernism, Inter-war Regionalism, and Burgundian Folk Identity

  Chair : Aimée Boutin (Florida State University)

Panel 6C - Screening Memory
Camellia Room, Radisson Hotel

• Maggie Flinn (Harvard University) – The Fabulous Destiny of René Clair’s “Paris”

• Valérie Orlando (Illinois Wesleyan University) – The Way Things Never Were: Cultivating Nostalgic Memories through the French Cinematographic Imagination in “Amélie” and “Chacun Cherche son chat” 

• Alison Murray Levine (University of North Carolina at Wilmington) – Film and Colonial Memory: La croisière noire 1924-2003 

  Chair : Reinier Leushuis (Florida State University)

Panel 6D - Art and the Nation in the 1950’s
Magnolia Room, Radisson Hotel

• Natalie Adamson (St Andrews University, UK) - National Tradition and Collective Identity in the Work of Jean Bazaine 

• Steven Harris (University of Alberta, Canada) – The Gaulish and the Feudal as Lieux de mémoire in Postwar French Abstraction 

• Linda Stratford (Asbury College) – Cultural Memory and the 1959 Paris Biennale

  Chair : Adam Jolles (Florida State University)

Panel 7A - Trauma, Exorcism, Memory
Magnolia Room, Radisson Hotel

• Caroline Garand (Université d’Ottawa, Canada) - Exorcismes d’une figure de la Révolution : Trois portraits du Marquis de Sade

• Max Silverman (University of Leeds, UK) - Trauma, Testimony and Memory After Auschwitz 

  Chair : Lori Walters (Florida State University)

Panel 7B - Invocations of the French Revolution and World War II during the                  “Events in Algeria”
Azalea Room, Radisson Hotel

• Hee Ko (University of California) – Judgements of Torture in Algeria: Rene Cassin and the Human Rights Tradition

• Marie-Pierre Ullua (Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris, France) – Conflicting Legacies: the Instrumentation of World War II and the French-Algerian War: the Case of the Jeanson Network 

  Chair : William J. Cloonan (Florida State University)

Panel 7C - Memory or Immemory? : Chris Marker and the Paradox of Cultural                  Memory 
Camellia Room, Radisson Hotel

• Rebecca Graves (Haverford College) – Tracking Marker 

• Eric Trudel (Bard College) – Chris Marker ou L’invention du commentaire

• Sam DiIorio (Hunter College, CUNY) – Cultural Capital: Mapping Marker’s Everyday Paris 

• Ahmet Bayazitoglu (Princeton University) – The Zone of Memory 

  Chair : Reinier Leushuis (Florida State University)

Panel 7D - Assia Djebar: Reading, Writing the Blanks Space of History
Gardenia Room, Radisson Hotel

• Dominique Fisher (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Assia Djebar, la littérature en “état d’urgence”, les “nulle part” de la mémoire historique et l’opération de la lecture 

• Anne Donadey (San Diego State University) – Memory and the Algerian War: Assia Djebar’s “La femme sans sépulture”

• Flo Martin (Coucher College) – History “re-lit”: the poetics of memory in Assia Djebar’s “La femme sans sépulture”

  Chair : Rebecca Ruquist (Florida State University)

Plenary session: Framing Cultural Memory
Broad Auditorium, Claude Pepper Center

• Malcolm Bowie (Christ’s College College, Cambridge, UK) – Proust Remembers Italian Painting 

  Chair : Lori Walters (Florida State University)