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Marking Loss / Marquer la perte
Marking Loss: Reading and Writing Erasure in French and Francophone Literature
February 17 2006, Maison Française, Columbia University
8:30-9:00 Registration and breakfast
9:00-9:10 Welcome
9:10-9:20 Opening Remarks by Professor Pierre Force, Department of French and Romance Philology, Columbia University.
9:20-10:40 Panel 1: Writing Erasure
Moderator: Benjamin Young
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1) Mahité Breton, Université de Montréal. « Ma mort vous rejoindra » : Georges Bataille et l’effacement par l’écriture
2) Thi Tu Huy Nguyen, Université de Paris VII. L’effacement chez Robbe-Grillet : mécanismes de la production et de la reproduction du texte
3) Olivia Harrison, Columbia University. The Palimpsest of Bi-langue in Abdelkébir Khatibi’s Amour Bilingue
10:40-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Keynote address by Professor Andreas Huyssen, Department of Germanic Languages and Center for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University. Erasure: W.G. Sebald and the Air War
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:20 Panel 2: Identity and Erasure
Moderator: Toby Wikström
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1) Hélène Hotton, Université de Montréal. Aux frontières du silence et de la perte: l’altérité diabolique et son écriture dans les traités démonologiques de la Renaissance
2) Christophe Litwin, New York University. L’effacement de soi dans les Pensées de Pascal
3) Andrea Thomas, Columbia University. Lautréamont’s Masks: Imaginary Portraits in Symbolism and Surrealism
2:20-2:40 Break
2:40-4:00 Panel 3: Erasure Across the Boundaries: Text, Image, Performance
Moderator: Matthew Udkovich
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1) Jenny Chamarette, Cambridge University. Flesh, folds, and texturality: thinking visual ellipsis via Merleau-Ponty, Hélène Cixous, and Robert Frank
2) Ben Huberman, University of Pennsylvania. Is Performed Sensibilité Lost
Sensibility? La Nouvelle Héloïse on the Viennese Stage
3) Seth Lobdell, New York University. Picnoleptic Time and the Semiotics of Disappearance: Howard Hughes, Little Ernst and Krapp on Tape
4:00-4:20 Break
4:20-5:40 Panel 4: Traces, Fragments, Memory
Moderator: Annelle Curulla
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1) Jason Earle, Columbia University. All Is Not in the Details: Erasing Revolutionary Violence in George Sand’s Nanon
2) Teresa Villa-Ignacio, Brown University. Erasure and Responsibility: Edmond Jabès’ Un Étranger avec, sous le bras, un livre de petit format
3) Jean Eudes Biem, Harvard University. Amputation mémorielle et (dé)construction nationale en France et au Cameroun: perspectives croisées de Bertrand Tavernier et Werewere Liking
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