French Graduate Conference Cambridge

Besides the academic brainstorm, she invites us to the journey of her life experience being a scholar, writer, filmmaker, artist, mother, etc. The ceramic metaphor from Kintsugi art shows a way to repair, reshape and rebuild Frenchness. Thank you so much for the amazing talk!❤️✨

The keynote speech ‘Critical Hope and Ceramic Memories: Repairing Frenchness for the 21st Century’ delivered by @MameFatouNiang is a rich, insightful and genuine sharing (chair: @RSACourtier & @Xinyi_Estella )

chaired by @RSACourtier & @TobiasLDBarn 🌼

The panel ‘(Post)colonial legacies’ refreshes our understanding of (Post)colonial studies through a wide scope, from Caribbean Communities (@OliviaWeibing) to Algiers in Elaine Mokhtefi’s memories(@PierreYvesAls), to contemporary French Black women’s life-writing(@sophiemarie_ng)

Panel: Communities side by side;👯 Chair: @Xinyi_Estella; Speakers: Sarah Eichhorn (University of Nottingham); Capucine de Rochambeau (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3) ; Danielle Hanzalik (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Though focusing on different issues/materials (linguistic, film & graffiti), Eichhorn, de Rochambeau, Hanzalik provide a rich panel rethinking cultural group identity, specific form and spatio-temporality of community, echoing to papers on space & social/artistic participations.

The chairs: @Xinyi_Estella & Carrie Heusinkveld (University of Cambridge)

Our speakers: @YiSong998, @0124_li & André Pettman 💫

The ASMCF panel forms a dialogue between different Spaces of community. Thanks to @asmcf's support so that we can have the opportunity to explore the art collaboration, poetics and resistance within the community, from Paris to Shanghai, from rural villages to Cabanes in France.

chaired by @catchantwatts ✨

Friday starts with the panel ‘Aesth(ethic) communities’ where the three speakers– @iciaudrey @TingxiaoH & Henry Zhang provide a very interesting discussion on community in temporal aesth(ethic) relations, revealing the potential path: Liberté individuel & Communauté démocratique.

and the wonderful talk is chaired by @IanCBoyd & @catchantwatts

Our 1st keynote speech is 'Oath, Language and Community in Medieval France', delivered by Mary Franklin-Brown, which starts from Sagrament, to Compaignie, then to Litany and Verse, tracing the lexicon of community, showing a coordination with oral performance & literary practice.

as well as reconsidering the materiality in light of memorising.

Great Panel composed by @ry_montgomery_ & Théo Guidarelli, discusses Queer(ing) communities in films. The tension between film archive/documentary and fiction is fascinating, offering different perspectives of narrating the AIDS, the queer community and the Activists group.

An amazing panel contributed by @YutingHeALINA & @benard_da_costa , offering a dialogue between political theory and literature. chaired by @IanCBoyd

The conference is starting! The co-convenors @IanCBoyd @catchantwatts @RSACourtier @Xinyi_Estella just did opening remarks. Great to see all of you and welcome to Cambridge!😆🥳

Keynote lectures are open to the public. Separate links to register for keynotes only (FREE), as follows: Mary Franklin-Brown (12th Jan) eventbrite.com/e/finding-comm… @MameFatouNiang (13th Jan) eventbrite.com/e/finding-comm…

This two-day graduate conference, made possible by @asmcf & the French Section of @MMLL_Cambridge , explores the idea of community across space and time in the francosphère. We are honoured to have @MameFatouNiang and Mary Franklin-Brown as our keynote speakers.

Reminder: Join us for the @Cambridge_Uni French Graduate Conference – ‘Finding Community in and Beyond the Francosphère’, (12th-13th Jan 2023). Register here 👇: eventbrite.com/e/finding-comm… Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions☺️