International Conference University of Haifa, Monday- Tuesday 22nd -23rd May, 2017

The Representation of the Relationship between Center and Periphery in the Contemporary Novel

University of Haifa (Israel) - University of Lille 3 (France) - Ofer Observatory Hall, Eshkol Tower, 30th Floor

Monday, 22 May09:00–09:30 Gathering and Registration Greetings- Prof. Gur Alroey - Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Haifa

09:30–12:45 - Session 1- IntroductionChair: Silvia AdlerRuth Amar, University of Haifa"Some Philosophical Notions on Center and Periphery and their Influence on the French Contemporary Novel"Stéphane Chaudier, Lille 3, Joël July, Aix Marseille University"Center and Periphery in the Contemporary Novel: a Typology Outline"Nitza Ben Dov, University of Haifa "The Establishment of Center and Periphery in the Contemporary Israeli Novel"Robert Elbaz, University of Haifa "Center and Periphery in the Maghrebian Novel"11:30 Coffee BreakLarisa Fialkova, University of Haifa"Center and Periphery in Contemporary Russian and Ukrainian Fantastic Novels"Dennis Sobolev, University of Haifa"Out of the Center, the Problem of Freedom and 'the Right Thing to Do' (in Firefly)"

12:45 Lunch14:00–15:30 Session 2 - Writing strategies and ReterritorializationChair: Dennis SobolevNicolas Dreyer, Germany"Humour, the Absurd, Shock and Satire: Post-Soviet Literary Strategies of Coping with Marginality"Natasha Gordinsky, University of Haifa"Writing on the Border: Anya Ulinich’s Petropolis and the Post-Soviet Literature"Yona Hanhart-Marmor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem"Pierre Michon: The Borders of Writing" 15:30 Coffee Break

15:45- 17:15 Session 3 – Marginality and Intermediary Spaces Chair: Larisa FialkovaSilvia Adler, Galia Yanoshevsky, Bar-Ilan University "Centre and Periphery in Ilana Zeffren's Autobiographical Graphic Novel Pink Story (2005)" Christiana Constantopoulou, Panteion University"Crisis, Crime and Punishment: Success Stories of Social Margins" Nurit Levy, University of Lille 3" La marginalité à l'œuvre : l'île imaginaire ou les espaces clos dans la ville. Voyage dans le labyrinthe de la mémoire chez Georges Perec et Paul Auster"

Dinner

Tuesday, 23 May9:30-11:00 - Session 4 – Revisited Urban Spaces Chair: Nelly Wolf

France Grenaudier-Klijn, Massey University "Modiano’s not so Neutral 'zones neutres'" Maria Giovanna Petrillo, Naples University"La ville italienne dans l’œuvre de Jean-Philippe Toussaint" Fiorenza Gamba, Sassari University"Les lieux de l’imaginaire dans l’œuvre d’Italo Calvino"

11:00 Coffee Break

11:15–13:15 - Session 5- When Periphery Becomes CenterChair: Stéphane Chaudier

Christina Horvath, University of Bath"Connecting the Margins: Borders, Places and International Networks in the French Banlieue Novel" Nelly Wolf, University of Lille 3"Extra-muros/Intra-muros Entre les murs de François Bégaudeau" Françoise Saquer Sabin, University of Lille 3"The Internal Exile or the impossible Passage towards the Center – Sami Berdugo and Dudu Bussi"Michèle Tauber, Paris 3 – Sorbonne"L’entre-deux, un brouillage d’identité entre centre et périphérie dans Pour inventaire / Zikhron devarim de Ya‘aqov Shabtaï (1977) et Naissance d’un pont de Maylis de Kerangal (2010)"

Lunch14:30- 17:15 - Session 6- Modality of Confrontation and Construction of identityChair: Michèle TauberYaakov Herskovitz, University of Michigan"Literary Depiction of West Bank Settlements – from Periphery to Center"Rachel Quastel, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Levinsky College "Biblical Fantasy as a pre-Zionist Chora in Shimon Adaf's A Mere Mortal and Eli Bar-Chen's Sinai's Scar"

15:30 Coffee BreakSadia Agsous, EHESS-CESSP"Langues, identités et rapports Centre-Périphérie chez Émile Habibi et Anton Shammas" Gary D. Mole, Bar-Ilan University"Breaking Barriers: Passionate Love and Dispassionate Hate in Wilfried N’Sondé’s Berlinoise"Anthony Zielonka, Assumption College (Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)"The Exploration of Center and Periphery in two Novels by Michel Houellebecq and Marie N’diaye" Dinner

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