Thursday 7th September
| 12:30-1:30pm | Registration (Foyer, Main Arts Building) | |
| 1:30-1:45pm | Welcome address (Main Arts Lecture Theatre) | |
| 1:45-3:15pm | PETER MORRIS LECTURE (Main Arts Lecture Theatre) Sarah Waters (University of Leeds) |
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| 3:15-3:30pm | Coffee break
Refreshments will be available in Pritchard Jones Hall |
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| 3:30-5pm | PARALLEL SESSION 1A: Movement, text and theory Sam La Vedrine (Nottingham): Communities of désœuvrement: Pierre Joris’ Nomadic Poetics and the Work of the Clinamen Luke Healey (Manchester): Barthes the Smark: Mythologies, Camera Lucida and the epistemology of professional wrestling |
PARALLEL SESSION 1B: Labour, neo-liberalism and ideology John Marks (Nottingham): La Novlangue managériale Benjamin Dalton (King’s College London): NSFW: Catherine Malabou and the Unemployable Brain |
| 5.15-6.15pm | Wine reception, sponsored by Liverpool University Press
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| 6.30-7.30pm | Dinner (Terrace Conference Room 3) | |
Friday 8th September
| 9:00-10:30am | PARALLEL SESSION 2A: Work, Play and Cinema Martin O’Shaughnessy (Nottingham Trent): Sex tourism, Empowered Consumption, Emotional Labour: Laurent Cantet’s Vers le sud Douglas Morrey (Warwick): From Playing at Work to the Work of Play: Olivier Assayas between Irma Vep (1996) and Sils-Maria (2014) Jeremy Lane (Nottingham): Victims or Workers? Representing the Sans-Papiers within and outwith the Political Economy of Precarious Labour. |
PARALLEL SESSION 2B: Work, Play and History (1) Mason Norton (Edge Hill): The Moral Economy of the Réfractaires, 1942-44 Scott Soo and Aude Campmas (Southampton): Staging Order? Depictions of Work, Play and Daily Life at the Gurs Camp. Kirrily Freeman (St. Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada): The Work of Play: Framing Leisure as Labour in Vichy, Queen of Spas |
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| 10:30-10:45am | Coffee break |
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| 10:45-12:15 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS (Main Arts Lecture Theatre) |
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| 12:15-1:45pm | Buffet lunch (Pritchard Jones Hall) | ||
| 1:45-3:15pm | PARALLEL SESSION 3A: Work and Play in the banlieues (1) Christina Horvath (Bath): Boxer avec les mots: Les Multiples usages de la métaphore pugiliste dans le récit de banlieue contemporain Isabelle Vanderschelden (Manchester Metropolitan): Working and Playing with Language in the Film Dialogue in the 21st Century banlieues” |
PARALLEL SESSION 3B: Work, Play and History (2) Stacey Davis (Evergreen State College): Old Age During the Early Third Republic
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| 3:15-3:30pm | Coffee break
Refreshments will be available in Pritchard Jones Hall |
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| 3:30-5:00pm | PARALLEL SESSION 4A: Work and Play in the banlieues (2) Gillian Jein (Bangor): Inventing Greater Paris: Visual Play and Violence in the banlieues Timo Obergöker (Chester): Édouard Louis and Didier Eribon – Masculinities in La France périphérique |
PARALLEL SESSION 4B: Experimentation Susan Laxton (University of California Riverside): War on Work: French Surrealism, 1925-1929 Rebecca Starr (Leeds): Work and Play in the Art of Pierre Huyghe Ting Chang (Nottingham): War and Play: Games and the Ideological Work of Empire in Nineteenth-Century France |
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| 5:00-6:00pm | Annual General Meeting of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France (Main Arts Lecture Theatre) Please note that the AGM is only open to association members | ||
| 6:00-6:30pm | Fringe group meetings | ||
| 7pm onwards | Conference dinner, followed by twmpath dawnsio (traditional Welsh dancing) |
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Saturday 9th September
| 9:00-10:00am | PARALLEL SESSION 5A: Work and play in literature (1) Susannah Ellis (Bibliothèque Nationale de France): Virtually Work – Reading Digital Technologies Kevin Kennedy (Paris III): Puerile Sovereignty: Childhood and Fiction in George Bataille's Theory of Work and Play |
PARALLEL SESSION 5B: Women, Work and Power-play Maggie Allison (Bradford): Jeu de dames? Femmes sur la touche politico-médiatique en France Jackie Clarke (Glasgow): Dirty Work, Clean Bodies: Gender, Everyday Life and Social Conflict in the Post-68 Factory |
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| 10:00-10:15 | Coffee break |
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| 10:15-11:30 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS (Main Arts Lecture Theatre) |
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| 11:30-1:00 | PARALLEL SESSION 6A: Work, Play and Education Dorothea Fronsman-Cecil (UCLA): Work, Play, Competition, and Capitalist Pedagogy in Nathalie Kuperman’s Nous étions des êtres vivants Rebecca Rosenberg (King’s College London): False Independence: Women, Education and Work in Hizya (2015) by Maïssa Bey Michelle Harrison (Leicester): Revitalising a Minorised Regional Language: The Impact of Formal and Informal Language Learning Initiatives on Attitudes and Practices in Alsace |
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| 1:00-2:00 | Lunch and close of conference | ||