Friday
8:00 - 5:00
8:00 - 8:30
9:00 -10:30
8:30 - 9:00 |
21 November, All Sessions at the
Carolina Inn in Alumni Room
Registration
Opening Remarks , Martine Antle; Fred
Clark; Cecil Wooten, Chair, Williamson Committee; Ruth Mitchell-Pitts,
Center for European Studies; David Teague, University Program in Cultural
Studies
Coffee
Session One
Locating Homoerotic Desire in Medieval
and Renaissance Texts
Chair and Organizer : Noah Guynn (University
of Iowa)
1. Ralph Hexter (University of California-Berkeley)
"Ovid against the Sodomites"
2. Marc Schachter (University of California-Santa
Cruz) "On ne plaint iamais ce que lon a iamais eu : La Boétie's
'Servitude Volontaire' and the Invention of Montaigne"
3. Catherine Newman (University of
California-Santa Cruz) "Prosthetic Bodies Ambroise Paré, Early Modern
Medical Technology, and Desire" |
|
| 10:45
-12:15 |
Session
Two
Sexual Deviance and State Formation
in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Organizer: Noah Guynn (University
of Iowa)
Chair: Sahar Amer (UNC-Chapel Hill)
1. Jim Cain (Columbia University) "Fear
of a Queer Nation: Translations of Empire in the Oxford Roland and the
Roman d'Eneas "
2. Noah Guynn (University of Iowa)
"The Eternal Flame: State Building, Deviant Architecture, and the Monumentality
of Sexual Deviance in the Roman d'Eneas "
3. Carla Freccero (University of California-Santa
Cruz) "Hetero-erotic Homosexuality? Queering Early Modern Encounters with
the New World"
4. Guy Poirier (University of British
Columbia) "Mignons and Bougerons: Priapic Eschatology and the Court of
the Last Valois Kings (1547-1589)" |
|
| 12:15
-1:45
1:45 -3:15 |
Lunch
Session Three
Mapping Gender Performance in the
18th-Century
Chair and Organizer: Barbara Knauff
(St. Mary's College of Maryland)
1. Lise Leibacher (University of Arizona)
"Une troisième espèce d'hommes. Eunuchisme et homosexualité
au XVIIIe siècle"
2. Pamela Cheek (University of New
Mexico) "Tribade Politics : Performance, Property and the Public Sphere"
3. Barbara Knauff (St. Mary's College
of Maryland) "'Quelle femme, monsieur!' La Religieuse as an 18th-Century
Gender- Bender" |
|
| 3:15
-3:30
3:30 -5:00 |
Coffee
Session Four
National and Institutional Boundaries:
Homophobia, Heterosexism and Resistances
Chair : Rose-Marie Scullion (University
of Iowa)
1. Jeffrey Merrick (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
"Representations of Sexual Relations between Men in Parisian Police Records"
2. Jim Creech (University of Miami)
"Queer Desire from Balzac to Zola: A 19th-Century Burden in Modern French
Thought"
3. Lawrence Sohner (University of Iowa)
"Anti-Semitic and Homophobic Discourses from Proust to Céline"
4. Frédéric Canovas (Reed
College) "Dis-moi qui tu hais, je te dirai qui te hante: surréalisme
et homophobie" |
|
| 5:30
-6:30 |
Key
Note Address I
Lawrence R. Schehr
(North Carolina State University-Raleigh)
"Approaching Gay & Lesbian Studies
through the Canon: the Example of Balzac's Old Goriot" |
|
| 6:30 |
Reception,
Alumni Room |
|
Saturday
8:30 -9:00
9:00 -10:30
10:45 -12:15 |
22 November, All Sessions Held in
Carolina Inn in Alumni Room
Coffee
Session Five
The Politics of Ghosting (I): Staging
Sameness and Differences in the Canon,
Chair : Michèle Longino (Duke
University)
1. Brigitte Mahuzier (Bryn Mawr College)
"Pity and the Ethics of Sado-Masochism in Proust"
2. Lynne Huffer (Yale University) "Proust
in Gomorrah"
3. Anne Herrmann (The University of
Michigan) "Queering the Modern : Colette's Le Pur et l'impur "
Session Six
AIDS: Cultural Hegemony and the
Rhetoric of Tolerance/Intolerance
Chair: Anne-Marie Scullion (University
of Iowa)
1.. David Caron (University of Michigan)
"Bleu, Blanc, Rose : AIDS and the Queering of the French Republic"
2. Martine Delvaux (Université
du Québec à Montréal) "Teaching AIDS: Toward a Compassionate
Protocol"
3. Ross Chambers (University of Michigan)
"AIDS & the Culture of Accompaniment in France" |
|
| 12:15
-1:45
1:45 - 3:15 |
Lunch
Session Seven,
Postmodern/Postcolonial Contexts
: Queerness in the Margins
Chair: Rosa Perelmuter (UNC-Chapel
Hill)
1. Alexandre Albert-Galtier (University
of Oregon) "Renaud Camus ou la superbe solitude d'un contemporain capital"
2. Ralph Sarkonak (University of British
Columbia) "A la recherche de Vincent: Hervé Guibert et l'hétérosexuel"
3. Keith Mitchell (UNC-Chapel Hill)
"Writing the (Homosexual) Body in Caribbean literature" |
|
| 3:15
-3:30
4:00 -5:00 |
Coffee
Key Note Address II
Anne Garréta (Université
de Rennes II) "The Figure of the Lesbian in French Literature : Shadows
and Screen Memories" |
|
| 5:00 |
Reception,
Club |
|
Sunday
8:30 -9:00 |
23 November : All Sessions at the
Carolina Inn in Alumni Room
Coffee |
|
| 9:00
-10:15 |
Session
Eight,
The Politics of Ghosting (II) :
The Institution of Invisibility
Chair: Larsya Mykyta (North Carolina
State University, Raleigh)
1. Melanie Hawthorne (Texas A&M
University) "'Un peu de Philo' : Female Paedophile Literature in French"
2. Joel Argote (UNC-Chapel Hill) "Plus
ça change : Screening Difference in French Film"
3. Elisabeth Ladenson (University of
Virginia) "Translating Queerness at the Movies"
4. Laurence Enjolras (College of the
Holy Cross) "En être n'est pas être, ne pas en être est
n'être pas" |
|
| 10:30
-11:45 |
Session
Nine,
Postmodern/Postcolonial contexts
(II) : Decolonizing Representations of the Other
Chair: Angelika Von Wahl (UNC-Chapel
Hill)
1. Bénédicte Mauguière
(The University of Southwestern Louisiana)
"Homo/textualité dans les écritures
des Femmes au Québec"
2. Isabelle Favre (University of Nevada-Reno)
"Lesbian Kitsch : History and Trash in Marie Blais' L'Ange de la solitude
"
3. Jarrod Hayes (The University of
Michigan) "Queer Roots in Africa" |
|
| 11:45 |
Closing
Remarks
Dominique D. Fisher
Registration
Registration fee (By October 15) $40.00
Late Registration (After October 15)
$50.00
(Requests for audio-visual equipment
must be made by October 15).
Make check payable to Center
for European Studies/Rhetoric of the Other
Send your check to:
“Rhetoric of the Other”
Center for European Studies, CB#3449
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3449
Accommodationsand
local transportation:
Cabs are available at the airport.
Fare is approximately $25.00
The Carolina Inn
The newly renovated Carolina Inn is
located on UNC campus, in the heart of Chapel Hill.
Reservations must be made by October
30, 1997.
1-800-962-8519
(identify yourself as “Rhetoric of
the Other”).
Overnight Guest’s self-parking is
$3.00.
(DQ) Deluxe-two queen beds: $139.00
per night
(HQ) Historic-queen bed: $124.00 per
night
Directions
to Carolina Inn
Omni Chapel Hill Hotel
Located 3 miles from UNC campus (car
is necessary for transportation)
Reservations must be made by October
22, 1997
1-800-THE-OMNI.
(identify yourself as “Rhetoric of
the Other”).
$99.00 per night (single/double/triple/quad).
Holiday Inn Chapel Hill
1-800-HOLIDAY
Located 3 miles from UNC campus (car
is necessary for transportation)
$ 79.00 -$111.00
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