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Consumption: Pleasures of the Text, Materiality, and Cultural Practices
The French Graduate Student Association of Columbia University
March 5th, 2010 – Maison Française
Breakfast
8:30 – 9:00
Opening Remarks
9:00
Professor Phil Watts, Chair of the French Department, Columbia
Readers
9:15 – 10:30
Discussant: Professor Elisabeth Ladenson (Columbia)
Léa Vuong (King’s College, London). Le Lecteur consumé: L’Enfant au visage couleur de la mort de Pascal Quignard
Beata Potocki (NYU). A Case of Modern Censorship: Pierre Guyotat’s Eden, Eden, Eden
Ileana Marin (University of Washington, Seattle). An English Writer as Consumer of French Literature: Charlotte Brontë
Transformations
10:45 – 12:00
Discussant: Professor Kaiama Glover (Barnard College)
Maria Vendetti (UC Berkeley). Consumption, Corporality and Rejection in Marie NDiaye's Mon cœur à l'étroit
Tara Smithson (Lousiana State University at Baton Rouge). Dishing up the Dead: Consuming Anxieties and Consolatory Pleasures in Roch Carrier’s La Guerre, Yes Sir!
Lauren Donaldson (CUNY). [En]gendering Chocolate Consumption: Representations of Ambivalent Effects on 17th-Century Women
Lunch
12:00 – 1:15
Keynote Address
1:15 – 2:15
Professor Thierry Rigogne (Fordham University)
From the Page to the Cup: Consuming Coffee in Early Modern France
Nourishment
2:30 – 3:45
Discussant: Professor Pierre Force (Columbia)
Michael Ritchie (NYU). Le Banquet d’Esther dans le théâtre de la Renaissance française
Paul Wimmer (Columbia). Le Modèle “nutritif” dans les Essais de Montaigne
David S. Mora (Vanderbilt University). Rousseau, ferment singulier
Fantasy
4:00 – 5:15
Discussant: Professor Stamos Metzidakis (Washington University in St. Louis)
Keith Harris (University of Washington, Seattle). Consumption and the (Soft) Urban Process
Gregory Bonetti (UC Berkeley). The Femme Fatale's Priapismic Narrative: Phantasies of Deferral in the 19th Century Feuilleton
Ana Oancea (Columbia). The Anticipation of Consumption
Wine and Cheese Reception
5:30 – 6:30
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