FRIT Graduate Conference

Thinking Community

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Twin Cities

April 8-9 2016

Conference Schedule

Friday, April 8                                                                                                                            
2:00-3:30 pm                            Workshop with Carolyn Dean (Yale University)

Folwell Hall 112                       Paper discussed: "Minimalism and Victim Testimony" (pre-circulated) 

                                                  Coffee and refreshments provided

5:00-7:00 pm                        Opening Remarks- Bruno (Chair of the Department of 
                                                  French and Italian)

                                        Carolyn Dean (Yale University)

Nolte Center 125                      “The Making of the Secular Witness: David Rousset and the Voices of 

                                                   Suffering Humanity” 

                                                   Followed by reception

        Saturday, April 9

          9:30-10:00 am                             Breakfast 

          Folwell Hall 108
        10:00-11:30 am                           Panel 1: Representing Otherness and Communities
          Folwell Hall 108

        Presenters

         Sandra Rellier (Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese Studies, University of Minnesota)
         “The Fragmented Body in Chocolat and Tabu”


         Agnès Schaffauser (Dept. of French & Italian, University of Minnesota)
         “Silences in French Colonial History or how to “Think Community” with blood on one’s 
         hands”


         Selim Rauer (Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle / Dept. of French & Italian,
         University of Minnesota) 
        “The Impossible National Community: The Dramaturge Bernard-Marie Koltès and the 
         Issue of Otherness in France in  the 1980s”

        11:30-12:15 pm                           Lunch provided 
        Folwell Hall 108    


        12:15-1:45 pm                           Panel 2: Tracing Individuality and Community
        Folwell Hall 108


        Presenters       

        Shiloh Stone (Dept. of French & Italian, University of Minnesota) 

        “Mining Hope: Forging Community in the Depths of the Earth”

      Patrick Lyons (French Dept., University of California, Berkeley)
       “Being Together Undone: Jules Romains’ Les Copains and the Confused
        Philosophies of Friendship and Community”

       Kate Droske (Dept. of French & Italian, University of Minnesota)
       “From Yetis to Trolls: L’être at the Outer Limits of Correspondence”

      This event is not open to the public