French Graduate Conference Cambridge

Organising Committee (@Cambridge_Uni): @IanCBoyd, @RSACourtier, @Xinyi_Estella & @catchantwatts. Sponsors:@asmcf, @french_studies, @MMLL_Cambridge.

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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!❤️✨

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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 )

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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 )

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chaired by @RSACourtier & @TobiasLDBarn 🌼

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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)

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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))

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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.

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

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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.

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

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chaired by @catchantwatts ✨

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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.

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

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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.

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as well as reconsidering the materiality in light of memorising.

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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.

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

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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!😆🥳

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Keynote lectures are open to the public. Separate links to register for keynotes only (FREE), as follows:

Mary Franklin-Brown (12th Jan) https://t.co/mYTQoa8j0I

@MameFatouNiang (13th Jan) https://t.co/RECKagQ4Ez

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Reminder: Join us for the @Cambridge_Uni French Graduate Conference – ‘Finding Community in and Beyond the Francosphère’, (12th-13th Jan 2023). Register here 👇:
https://t.co/v9U1RWpyfM
Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions☺️

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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.