French Cultures of Embodiment Speakers

The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture of the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University in collaboration with the Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Comparative Literature presents a three-day international conference from March 25-27, 2010

Manola Antonioli, College International de Philosophie, France - "Le toucher: Jacques Derrida et Jean-Luc Nancy"

Dominique Berthet, IUFM, Martinique -"Corps, traces et mémoire"

Else Marie Bukdahl, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark - "The Perception of the body in Diderot's art criticism and in modern aesthetics and visual art"

Myriam J.A. Chancy, University of Cincinnati, USA- "Desecrated Bodies/Phantom Limbs: Post-Traumatic Reconstructions of Corporeality in Haiti/Rwanda."

Raphael Confiant, Université Antilles-Guyane, Fort-de-France- "TBD"

Lynda Chouiten, University of Galway, Ireland - "Gendering the Desert : Visions of the Orient in the Works of Isabelle Eberhardt, André Gide, and Pierre Benoît"

Noèmi Doyon, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada - "Le Fil de Camille (2005) et Le Cœur dans la tête d’Ariane Moffatt (2006): de la perdition à la reconstruction de soi"

Christian Flaugh, SUNY - University at Buffalo, USA - "Mind, Matter, and Manifestations: A Legacy of Caribbean Bodily Ability in the Texts of French Overseas Departments"

Hélène M. Julien, Colgate University, USA - "'Au sang ! Ô sang !': corps féminin et écriture dans La Voyeuse Interdite"

Nacer Khelouz, University of Missouri, USA - "Le corps féminin : un enjeu de pouvoir"

Hans-Peter Krüger, Universität Potsdam, Germany - "The Living Body and the Person: A Comparison of Merleau-Ponty and Plessner"

Claudia Labrosse, Université Carleton, Canada - "Un corps qui prend de la place : la femme obèse dans La danse juive de Lise Tremblay"

Wojciech Małecki, University of Wroclaw, Poland - "'Beings and Their Hideous Corporeal Vigor': Reading Houllebecq Reading Lovecraft"

Ferdi Memelli, Purdue University, USA - "The body and the spirit in Artaud"

Sarah Parvaiz, The University of Otago, New Zealand - "Marguerite Duras’ L’Amant The Space of the Other and the Pleasure of the Text"

Murielle Perrier, Princeton University, USA - "Diderot: le corps libertin abusé"

Marie Dominique Popelard (Université de Paris 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle, France) & Anthony Wall (University of Calgary, Canada) - "How to do Things with Gestures?"

Boukary Sawadogo, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA - "Guerre des sexes: Images et visages des homosexuels africains dans les films Dakan et Woubi Chéri"

Rosemarie Scullion, University of Iowa, USA - "White Bodies/Tortured Politics: Race and Anti-Colonial Resistance in Metropolitan France during the Algerian War"

Angelos Triantafyllou, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France - "Lecture Deleuzienne du Corps Surrealiste (Deleuze et Breton)"

Petra Van Brabandt, University of Antwerp, Belgium - "Catherine Breillat’s female body as 'anatomy of hell'"

David S. Vanderboegh, Creighton University, USA - "The Mutilation of the Body and Algerian Society in Yasmina Khadra’s Le Dingue au bistouri (1990)"