7th Annual FIGSO Conference
Mapping the Community, Mapping Language: Text, Image and Sound
The University of Texas at Austin
Department of French and Italian
April 9, 2010
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Alec Hargreaves, Director of the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies and Ada Belle Winthrop-King Professor of French at Florida State University. Dr. Hargreaves is the author, translator, and editor of many books and articles, including Multi-ethnic France: Immigration, Politics, Culture, and Society (2007), Memory, Empire, and Postcolonialism: Legacies of French Colonialism (2005), Post-colonial Cultures in France (1997).
Locations:
Registration, Breakfast and the Keynote Speech will all take place in Homer Rainey Hall (HRH) in the Department of French and Italian Lounge (HRH 2.118).
All panels will be held in the Sinclair Suite (UNB 3.128) of the Texas Student Union.
Friday, April 9, 2010
8:15 – 9:00 a.m. Registration and Breakfast
Department Lounge
9:00 -10:30 a.m. Sexuality and Gendered Communities
Sinclair Suite
1. Kathryn Droske, University of Minnesota – “Amour en mer : Community and Communication in Le Roman de Tristan”
2. Christine Deden, University of Texas - “Representing and/or Repudiating Communities: Saint-Simonianism, Feminism, and George Sand”
3. Julie Everett, University of California Los Angeles - “The Space Between : Bisexuality, Intersexuality and Albinism as Metaphors for the Postcolonial State in Williams Sassine's Mémoire d'une peau”
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Language Acquisition
Sinclair Suite
1. Libby Mallonee Gertken and Laura Ambrosetti, University of Texas - “Misinterpretations in Second Language Sentence Processing”
2. Rebekah Post, University of Texas - “The Acquisition of y and en : A Re-analysis of evidence collected by Wust (2009)”
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. French Linguistic Communities
Sinclair Suite
1. Michael Boerm, Baylor University – “E pluribus unum : The Creation of Québécois French”
2. Sandra Keller, University of South Carolina - “'C'est toi qu'est pas chez toi' : The political and interactional value of ne in French online newspaper communities”
12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Hip Hop, Education, and Speech in the Banlieue
Sinclair Suite
1. Jean-Baptiste Meunier, Louisiana State University - “Pushing edges: Myths in French Rap”
2. Mame-Fatou Niang Meunier, Louisiana State University - “'Touche pas à mon céfan' : Paroles de banlieue”
3. Nasia Anam, University of California Los Angeles - “Dismantling the Apparatus : The Shifting Walls of France in Entre les Murs”
3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Forming and Informing the Community
Sinclair Suite
1. Robert Sapp, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - “Imagining the Past, Remembering the Future : Quebec's Transcultural Community”
2. Camela Logan, University of Michigan - “When the Clothes Don't Fit : Unanticipated Un-belonging in Daniel Biyaoula's L'Impasse”
3. Robert Shelton Bellew, University of Georgia - “Understanding the Historical Influences on Italian Journalism.”
5:15 p.m – 6:15 p.m. Keynote Address
Department Lounge
Alec Hargreaves
The conference committee would like to thank the Department of French and Italian, The French and Italian Graduate Student Organization, and The Center for European Studies for their support. We would also like to thank the following people for their various and indispensable contributions to this event: Alec Hargreaves, Daniela Bini, Hélène Tissières, Cathérine Léger, Michael Gott, Karen Jones, Rolee Rios, Susan Floyd, Christine Bryce , Erika Zanetti, and all of the moderators.
Organized by the FIGSO Conference Committee
Organizers: Jonathan Evans, Margaret Becker, Charles Mignot, and Libby Mallonee Gertken
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