14th Annual Graduate Student Conference, French and Francophone Studies, October 15-16
Thursday, October 15, 2009
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Royce 306
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Throughout history, cities have been contact zones where the past, present and future coexist, where urban and suburban meet and where (im)migrants, urban explorers, and local inhabitants mix anonymously. This conference seeks to investigate the points of view and strategies of those who have decided to make their mark on or brand the city. The "branded city" implies both the city as it has been recorded by artists as well as literal and figurative inscriptions on the city.
THURSDAY 15
9:00am BREAKFAST Opening Remarks: Evelyne PÉNIA FODOR
10:00am PANEL 1
Social Spaces in 18th Century Paris
Moderator: Trevor MERRILL
Julien GUILLEMET UC, Santa Barbara
Paris, capitale des jeux de hasard au siècle des Lumières
Sandra GAMSON UCLA
Diderot’s imprint: Paris and the Salons in the Enlightenment
11:30am PANEL 2
Images of Paris in the Age of Realism
Moderator: Denis PRA
Antonia BONILLA University of British Columbia
La Ville complice: Paris dans La Curée d'Emile Zola
Caroline STROBBE Indiana University
Le marquage de la ville par la caricature
Karen TURMAN UC, Santa Barbara
Modern Transitions in Paris: Baudelaire, Monet and Renoir
1:00pm LUNCH on the Terrace
2:20pm PANEL 3
The Dark Side of the City of Lights
Moderator: Kate SCHLOSSER
Ophélie CHAVAROCHE PARIS 8 Vincennes‐Saint Denis/ Cornell
Petite hantologie du surréalisme. La part de l'ombre de la villelumière
Susan WAGER Columbia University
'Les Dadas Visitent Paris': Toward a New Definition of the Dada
Diagram
Céline PISER UC Berkeley
The City as Archive: Mapping Silence in Patrick Modiano's
Dora Bruder
4:00pm PAUSE
5:00pm KEYNOTE
Welcome from the Chair
Dominic THOMAS UCLA
Introduction: Michelle BUMATAY
Belleville : Two Perspectives from Three Angles
Marja WAREHIME University of South Carolina
FRIDAY 16
9:00am BREAKFAST
9:30am PANEL 4
Researching, Reinventing, and Escaping Traces of the City
Moderator: Marine AYKAZYAN
Elisabeth TISO City University of New York
Re‐Branding Post 1945 Paris: Exhibiting Powers & Contemporary art
Marie SANQUER University of Notre Dame
De la ville marquante à la ville marquée, les latino‐américains et Paris
James ROWLINS University of Southern California
Highway Escapes from the Metropolis: Tales of "Marked" Men and
Women in French New Wave Cinema
11:30am PANEL 5
Decoding Urban Spaces
Moderator: Katie MULLEN
Samuel Jones BEALL University of Virginia
Marseille: Corbusier, Place, Habitation
Amrita MAHINDROO Massachusetts Institute of Technology
GEN, CON & EVAL
Chong J. WOJTKOWSKI City University of New York
Cette France du sous‐sol: Karim Dridi's Khamsa
1:00pm LUNCH on the Terrace
2:30pm PANEL 6
Marks of and on the City
Moderator: Ruth JONES
Nathalie FOUYER City University of New York
Graffiti: Subversion to Immersion
Linda BRINDEAU University of Wisconsin
De la ville marquée à la ville stigmatisée
Katelyn KNOX UC Los Angeles
The Brand of Paris: Images of Opulence and Lyrics of Resistance in Ivorian
Coupé‐Décalé Music
4:00pm PAUSE
5:00pm ROUNDTABLE
The Branded City Today
Introductions : Katelyn KNOX
Andrea LOSELLE UCLA Moderator
Peter BLOOM UC Santa Barbara
Charles TSHIMANGA–KASHAMA University of Nevada
Marja WAREHIME University of South Carolina
6:30pm CLOSING RECEPTION
Sponsor(s): Center for European and Russian Studies, French and Francophone Studies, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA Program Activities Board