Les langages de la maladie dans le monde francophone contemporain

Languages of Disease in the Contemporary Francophone World

Online Event

 

INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH
School of Advanced Study • University of London



19 February 2021
14:00-17:30 GMT

 
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23842


PROGRAMME (all times in GMT) 

14:00 Welcome and Introduction: Hannah Grayson (University of Stirling) and Steven Wilson (Queen’s University Belfast)

14:10 Keynote: Éloïse Brezault (St. Lawrence University)

14:45 Panel 1
Elliot Evans (University of Birmingham), ‘How to Document a Plague: the Visual Language of HIV/AIDS in France and Québec’

Caroline Verdier (University of Strathclyde), ‘Écrire, dessiner, photographier: Chroniques sénologiques belges’

Hannah Clarkson (Artist, Writer and Researcher, Stockholm), ‘Rama Thiaw : « La Lutte politique, la lutte du corps et la musique »’

15:40-16:00 Break

16:00 Panel 2
Cristina Robu (Indiana University), ‘Réinventer le langage du soin : L’École des Soignantes de Martin Winckler’

Claire Jeantils (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle–Maison Française d’Oxford), ‘L’écriture à l’épreuve de l’épilepsie: le témoignage dans tous ses états’

Avril Tynan (University of Turku), ‘Collaboration and Continuity in Women’s Dementia Fiction in French’

Ghada Mourad (University of California, Irvine), ‘Violent Scars in Mohamed Leftah’s Demoiselles de Numidie’

17:05-17:15 Invited Response: Charlotte Baker (Lancaster University)

17:15 Closing remarks and next steps



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Supported by the IMLR's Regional Conference Grant scheme