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Locating Empire: Seduction, Domination, and Revolt in the French Cultural Reach
8:00-9:30 Registration (Room 4202) 9:45-10:00 Welcome Address (Martin E. Segal Theatre) 10:00-11:30 Panel I: Discovering Empire (Martin E. Segal Theatre) Moderator: Desmond Hosford Phillip Usher, Barnard College “The Great Frustration: Epic and National Identity in Renaissance France” Catherine Briand, Université de Paris IV, Sorbonne “Franchir le seuil de la rencontre: premiers contacts franco- amérindiens dans les récits de voyage en Nouvelle France--du choc à la relation” Vanessa Mongey, University of Pennsylvania “‘La liberté et votre indépendence sera le prix de votre dévouement’: French Revolutionaries and the American Gulf Coast in the Early Nineteenth Century” 11:30-11:45 Pause 11:45-1:15 Panel II: Gender, the Other, and Empire (Martin E. Segal Theater) Moderator: Chong J. Wojtkowski Viral Bhatt, City University of New York Louise Hardwick, Trinity College “‘Peau noire, masques blancs’: Troubled Identities in Maryse Condé’s Le Cœur à rire et à pleurer” Kate Hodgson, University College of London “France Within and Without: The Legacy of French Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century Haitian Literature” 1:15-2:30 Lunch (Room 4202) 2:45-3:45 Panel III: Queering Empire (Room 4202) Moderator: Chong J. Wojtkowski John Sorrentino, City University of New York “The Queer ‘I’ for the North African: André Gide’s Immoralist” Maxime Foerster, University of Michigan “Influence française sur la pensée queer: réception et réappropriation d’un héritage” 3:45-4:00 Pause 4 :00-5:00 Keynote Address (Martin E. Segal Theatre) Professor Eloise Brière, State University of New York at Albany 6:00 Concert (Martin E. Segal Theatre) La Musique de la Reine performs vocal and instrumental works by Chambonnières, Charpentier, Lebègue, Montéclair, and Rameau on period instruments.
8:00 Dinner (Madison Bistro--Madison Avenue at 37th Street)* *To register for the prix fixe dinner at Madison Bistro, please contact the conference organizers.
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