Monday 9 December 2013 D i s t a n c e/proximité ASFS conference, UQ 9:30-12:00 Bldg 32 Room 210

Meeting of Heads of French teaching programs in Australian universities Morning tea provided

10:00-12:00 Bldg 32 Room 208 Postgraduate Roundtable Chairs: Natalie Edwards and Amy Hubbell Morning tea provided

12:00-1:00 Conference Registration Desk Open Bldg 32 Room 212 1:00-1:30 Bldg 14 (Sir Llew Edwards Bldg) Room 212 Welcome

Opening Address: Professor Fred D’Agostino, Executive Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Queensland Chair: Barbara E. Hanna

1:30-2:30 Bldg 14 Room 212 Plenary Address: Dr Charlotte Dejean Thircuir (Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3) Chair: Béatrice Atherton Title: Construire de la proximité à distance : lien social et travail collectif dans la formation en ligne

2:30-3:00 Afternoon tea and Intext book display Bldg 32 Level 4 foyer Conference Registration Desk Open

3:00-5:00 Papers

Bldg 32 Room 208 Apprendre à distance ? Chair: Juliana de Nooy

Bldg 32 Room 209 Cinema and Memory Chair: Joe Hardwick

Bldg 32 Room 210 Extremities Chair: Françoise Grauby

Bldg 32 Room 215 Islands and New Worlds Chair: Tess Do

Céline DOUCET (Edith Cowan) Le français : une langue de proximité en Australie ?

Sylvie BLUM-REID (Florida) Revisiting the colonial plot – Marguerite Duras and Rithy Panh

Bertrand BOURGEOIS (Melbourne) Distance in proximity: from the first (1884)

to the second edition (1888) of Huysmans’ Un dilemme

Edith J. BENKOV (San Diego) New World-Old World: The Bridge in Montaigne and Las Casas

Christine DEVELOTTE (ENS de Lyon) Le présentiel par écran : réflexions sur la sensation de proximité à distance suscitée par la visioconférence poste à poste

Thierry JUTEL (Victoria U of Wellington) Beau Travail (1998), Post-Colonial Spaces, Memory and Embodiment

Jade PATTERSON (Melbourne) A place for monsters: between distance and proximity

Anne-Bénédicte ANDRÉ (UWA) Distance imposée, distance intériorisée : le vécu de l’île-paradis dans Train fou (2000) et L’aimé (1990) d’Axel Gauvin

Elize DU PLESSIS (University of South Africa) Views of distance education students on

teaching practice at schools

Annabelle DOHERTY (Sydney) Auteurism and Cinematic Cultural Memory in Claude Chabrol’s adaptation of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary

José Luis FERNÁNDEZ CASTILLO (UQ) Henry Michaux, connaisseur des gouffres

Hamid MOKADDEM (CNEP/UNC) Si proche et si lointain. L’exemple de la Nouvelle-Calédonie

Béatrice ATHERTON (UQ) Enseigner le français par visioconférence :

Discussion d’une expérience vécue

Michelle ROYER (Sydney) ‘Tu me tues, tu me fais du bien’ (Hiroshima mon Amour, Resnais, 1959) : la mémoire spectatorielle dans Amour de Michael Haneke (2012)

Caroline STOTT (Sydney) Writing up close and from a distance: Transatlantic representations of Belleville (Paris) in contemporary roman noir

Anne LE GUINIO (UQ) Pays émergents et frontières discursives: légitimation d’une distanciation postcoloniale

Evening 6.00 for 6.30 pm Informal buffet dinner + optional trivia evening (Soirée quiz): deck at St Leo’s college.

Tuesday 10 December 2013 D i s t a n c e/proximité ASFS conference, UQ 9:30-10:30

Bldg 32 Room 208 Science and Discovery Chair: Peter Cryle

Bldg 32 Room 209 Contemporary Wanderings Chair: Murray Pratt

Bldg 32 Room 210 Traditions of Story-telling Chair: Christopher Hogarth

Bldg 32 Room 215 Poster Session

Paul GIBBARD (UWA) Science and emotion in the journal of Théodore Leschenault, botanist aboard the Baudin expedition

Craig ADAMS (Franche-Comté) Commerces de proximité et grande distribution: Networks of Food in Houellebecq

Carole EDWARDS (Texas Tech) La théâtralisation du conteur ou le conte théâtralisé aux Antilles

POSTER SESSION

Kim HAJEK (UQ) Wondrous illusion or universal fact: Scientific & literary views of magnétisme as precursor to hypnotism in late 19th century France

Klem JAMES (UNE) Flâneries Local and Distant in the Writings of the Surrealists and Michel Houellebecq

Médoune GUÈYE (Virginia Tech) Aminata Sow Fall's "Smuggling" of Traditional Narrative Strategies into the African Novel

10:30-11:00 Morning tea and Intext book display Bldg 32 Level 4 foyer + drop off a book for the exchange 11:00-12:00 Bldg 14 Room 212 Plenary Address: Emeritus Professor Peter Cryle, University of Queensland

Chair: Juliana de Nooy Title: Teaching foreignness: why we ought to maintain the intellectual challenge of the unfamiliar 12:15-2:00 Lunch Provided Bldg 32 Level 4 foyer ASFS AGM – 12:45 – 2:00 Bldg 32 Room 210 2:00-3:00

Bldg 32 Room 208 Modern Geographies Chair: Jacqueline Dutton

Bldg 32 Room 209 Occupying Political Spaces Chair: Sonia Wilson

Bldg 32 Room 210 Theorizing Distance (i) Chair: Leslie Barnes

Bldg 32 Room 215 Historical Perspectives Chair: Peter Cowley

Murray PRATT (Nottingham Trent) Uncounter

Chantal CROZET (ANU) L’enseignement du ‘fait religieux’ en Etudes françaises

Ashok COLLINS (UWA) The (A)theology of Distance and Proximity in Marion and Nancy

Charlotte CHAMBERS (UQ) The French influence on Middle English: An interdisciplinary approach

Angela GIOVANANGELI (UTS) The ‘ins’ and ‘offs’ of cultural programs: Marseille European Capital of Culture 2013

Liz RECHNIEWSKI (Sydney) ‘Il ne s’est rien passé au Cameroun’. Comment une guerre peut en cacher une autre

Margaux PORTRON (Paris 8) Distance et proximité dans l’œuvre de Michel Foucault

Véronique DUCHÉ-GAVET (Melbourne) Je donc ay traduit au plus propre et près. Traduire à la Renaissance

3:00-3:30 Afternoon tea and Intext book display Bldg 32 Level 4 foyer + book exchange 3:30-5:00 Bldg 32 Room 208

Translation and cultural distance Chair: Véronique Duché-Gavet

Bldg 32 Room 209 Cinematic Spaces Chair: Jean-Pierre Boule

Bldg 32 Room 210 Theorizing Distance (ii) Chair: Ashok Collins

Bldg 32 Room 215 Création, invention Chair: Bertrand Bourgeois

Esther HEBOYAN (Artois) Traduire l’Amérique de Grace Paley ou l’escale manquée : « Lavinia : An Old Story »

Helga ERICHSEN (UQ) The Crumpled Handkerchief: Seeing Time as both Proximity and Distance; A Bridge Between Theory and Practice for Effective Set Design.

Rhonda SIU (UNSW) Distance/proximity in the relation between music, philosophy and language in Merleau-Ponty’s existential phenomenology

Ian FOOKES (Paris 8, Auckland) Victor Segalen: la proximité à travers un réseau de distances

Sarah REED (Adelaide) Navigating the Literary Spaces of Cultural Understanding through the French translation of Richard Flanagan’s Death of a River Guide (1994)/À contre-courant (2000)

Greg HAINGE (UQ) On the Illusion of Distance and the Possibility of a Unified Space of Proximity in the Cinema: Jean-Jacques Beineix’s Diva and (the Erasure of) Diegetic and Non-diegetic Space

Quan WANG (Beijing Normal University) The Influence of Chuang Tzu’s Concept of Language on Jacques Lacan

Clara SITBON (Newcastle) Elles se rendent pas compte: De la contiguïté paratextuelle du hoax

Marie-Laure VUAILLE-BARCAN, Alistair ROLLS (Newcastle)

Où est l’original ? Le dernier avatar du premier roman de Douglas Kennedy

Benjamin ANDREO (Monash) Métamorphose poétique : La Belle et la Bête de Jean Cocteau – proximité et distance de l’adaptation

Françoise GRAUBY (Sydney) Distance/proximité de la création : sur deux rêves de A la Recherche du temps perdu

6.45 for 7.00 pm Conference Dinner at Aquitaine Brasserie, River Quay, South Bank, 07 3844 1888 www.aquitainebrasserie.com.au

Wednesday 11 December 2013 D i s t a n c e/proximité ASFS conference, UQ 9:30-11:00 papers

Bldg 32 Room 208 The West Reads the Other Chair: Hélène Jaccomard

Bldg 32 Room 209 Up Close and Personal Chair: Ben McCann

Bldg 32 Room 210 Accumulating the Self Chair: Angela Giovanangeli

Bldg 32 Room 215 Travel, Belonging, Positioning Chair: Alistair Rolls

Amir AHMADI (UQ) Persepolis: Negotiating exile

Derek ALLAN (ANU) Vanquishing temporal distance: Malraux, Art, and Metamorphosis

Amy HUBBELL (UQ) Layering Memories of Exodus on the Trauma of the Algerian War

Juliana DE NOOY (UQ) Distant (be)longings: contemporary Australian memoirs of life in France

Lois CUTMORE (UQ) Paratext and proximity in Les Arbres en parlent encore by Calixthe Beyala

Jean-Pierre BOULE (Nottingham Trent) Hervé Guibert photographe

Christopher HOGARTH (UNISA) Gendering Capital Accumulation in Fatou Diome’s Celles qui attendent

Jacqueline DUTTON (Melbourne) The Travel Ideal in Sans soleil & Sansa

Cathy O’CONNELL (Macquarie) Post-colonial Authenticity? A case study of selected works of New Caledonian author Georges Baudoux

Sonia WILSON (Sydney) Now you see me ...... : Show and tell in Jean Eustache's Les Photos d'Alix

Natalie EDWARDS (Adelaide) Accumulation and Archives: Sophie Calle’s Prenez soin de vous

Céline DOUCET (Edith Cowan) Implication et distanciation dans une recherche de « l’intérieur » : comment gérer les tensions ?

11:00-11:30 Morning tea and Intext book display Bldg 32 Level 4 foyer 11:30-12:30 papers

Bldg 32 Room 208 The Intercultural Classroom Chair: Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan

Bldg 32 Room 209 Machines and Screens Chair: Michelle Royer

Bldg 32 Room 210 Bearing Witness Chair: Natalie Edwards

Hayssam KOTOB (Université Libanaise) La communication interculturelle entre espace et temps

Elizabeth STEPHENS (UQ) Screen Organology: Rereading the French Pre-Cinematic Screen Through Canguilhem

Hélène JACCOMARD (UWA) Franchir la distance sociale : Le Quai d’Ouistreham de Florence Aubenas à la lumière de Pierre Bourdieu

Serge DREYER, (Tunghai) Les dimensions culturelles dans la classe de français à l’épreuve du proche et du lointain

Enda McCAFFREY (Nottingham Trent) Virtuality’s Challenge to Sexual Subjecthood: A Décalage of Proximity and Distance

Peter COWLEY (UQ) Louis Guilloux : The no man’s land between war diary and fiction

12:30-1:20 Lunch Provided Bldg 32 Level 4 foyer 1:20-2:20 papers

Bldg 32 Room 208 Grammar of Distance and Proximity Chair: Barbara E. Hanna

Bldg 32 Room 209 Supporting Roles Chair: Michelle Royer

Bldg 32 Room 210 Bearing Witness (suite) Chair: John West-Sooby

Lynn WALES (UQ) The semantics of future-referring verb forms in French

Ben McCANN (Adelaide) “The Eccentric Excentric”: Raimu and the Art of Acting Drunk

Narelle FLETCHER (UTS) My neighbour, my killer: the impact of distance and proximity on the discourse of survivors of the 1994 Tutsi genocide in Rwanda

Carl ORD (UQ) Grammatical concepts and L2 development: Australian university students of French learn the grammatical concept of aspect

Miriam THOMPSON (Sydney) Servante et Maîtresse : la mise en scène spatiale des rapports de pouvoir dans La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol) et La Tourneuse de pages (Denis Dercourt)

Leslie BARNES (ANU) "J'entendais l'abîme": Sound and the Space of Mourning in Marie Darrieussecq’s Tom est mort

2:30-3:30

Bldg 23 (Abel Smith lecture theatre) Plenary Address: Professor Marc Augé Chair: Greg Hainge Title: L'âge, le temps et la mémoire

3:30-4:00 Afternoon tea and end of conference Bldg 32 Level 4 foyer. Chair: Amy Hubbell