FICTIONS OF THE MACHINE

 

 10th Annual French Graduate Student Conference

Columbia University

 

 

 

Tentative Conference Schedule

 

Coffee and Bagels

9:00-9:30

 

·        Welcoming Remarks

9:20

 

 

Session 1                                            Early Modern Machines

9:30 – 10:45

 

1.  Shannon Clute                                 “A faire la guele d'un four sont trois pierres

     Cornell University                         necessaires”: The form of diegetic navigation and

meta-narrative commentary in Francois Rabelais'

Quart Livre

 

2.      Zachary Polsky                               Molière, the Machine-comic and the Text-trap

UC Davis

 

3.      Martial Poirson                               Les classiques ont-ils cru à leurs machines?

Johns Hopkins University

 

 

 

Session 2                                            Modernization and Mechanization in the

11:00 – 12:15                                      Age of Industrial Capitalism

 

1.      Stacey Loughrey                             William Morris’ Mechanical Aesthetic:

U. of Southern California             Wallpaper and the Machine

 

2.      Eurydice Prentoulis                         Zola’s Superstore in The Ladies’ Paradise:

Columbia University                     Dynamics and Paradoxes of the Machine

 

3.      Stephen Donovan                           The Stop/Start Fantasy in Early 20th Century

Gothenburg University                 Literature and Film

 

 

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Lunch Break

12:15 – 1:30

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Session 3                                            Perception, Sensibility, Recording

1:30 – 2:45

 

1.      Daniel Leonard                               Animated Statues: Going Beyond Mind and

Columbia University                     Machine in the Writing of Buffon and Condillac

 

2.   Julie B. Napolin                              The Phonograph's Horned Mouth: Voice in

      UC Berkeley                                  Tomorrow's Eve

 

3.   Maria Muresan                               Phonographe, dictaphone, graphophone: de la

      Columbia University                     conservation idéale jusqu’à la perte de l’actuel

 

 

 

Session 4                                            The Mechanization of Method: Instruments of

3:00 – 4:15                                          Analysis

 

1.      Massimo Leone                              The Kaleidoscope

University of Siena / École

Pratique des Hautes Études

 

2.      Kalliopi Nikolopoulou                     Une Conquête méthodique: Valéry’s Search

Vanderbilt University                   for a Method

 

3.      Hans Hartje                                    Die Maschine de Georges Perec

Université de Pau

 

 

 

Session 5                                            Filmic Machines and Bodies

4:30 – 5:45

 

1.      Sophie Levy                                   Man/Ray: The Camera as (Bachelor) Machine

University of Toronto                   in Surrealist Photography

 

2.      Dana Stevens                                 Cinema and the Fall

UC Berkeley

                             

3.      David Copenhafer                          La Jetée: Cinema as Time Machine

UC Berkeley

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