Chantal Zabus :: Papers read

Professeur des Universités, UParis 13, France

Papers read

(1999-2006) (before 1999: available upon request)

• « Heart of Lavender : African Same-Sex ‘Marriages’ and Their Narratives,» International Comparative Literature Association Conference, Seoul, South Korea, August 2010. 

• “Le post-colonial en France: ‘Franco-phony,’ éthique, écoles de pensée,” Perspectives européennes des etudes littéraires francophones, Daniel Lancon & Claude Coste, Grenoble, March 2010.

   

• “Sexuality and Body Modification in the West and the ‘non-West’,” English and Comparative Literary Studies, Warwick University, Coventry, UK, February 2010.

• “Digital Connections: Dromology in the Novel,” Comparative Studies in the Twentieth Century Division, MLA [Modern Language Association of America] Convention, Philadelphia, USA, December 2009.

• "Transgenders: New Identities and Visibilities/ Les Transgeres: Nouvelles Identités et Visibilités,” an Intrenational Conference organized by Chantal ZABUS and David COAD, EHESS, May 2009.

• “Vases communicants: Marquages et démarquages dans les sociétés occidentales et non-occidentales du 2oième siècle,” Peser les matières du corps : l’organique dans tous ses états, an International Colloquium organized by Melina Balcazar et Sarah-Anaïs Crevier Goulet, Maison de la Recherche, UParis 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle, April 2009.

• “Afrosporic Trauma: Genital Alterations and Related Literature in the New Europe,” Between the ‘Urge to Know’ and the ‘Need to Deny’: Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary Narrative in English,” An Intrenational Conference organized by M. Dolores Herrero & Sonia Baelo Allué, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain March  2009.

•  « ‘Cyaan Live Split’ : Underdresssing, Overperforming and the Uses of Camouflage in Michelle Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven », Oxford University, UK, February 2009.

   

• "Male and Female Circumfictions: the Early Twentieth-First Century Debate around Genital Alterations in Literature," ACLALS (Commonwealth Literature Association), Vancouver, Canada, August 2007.
• "Cracked Communicating Vessels: Bodies and Cultures in Transit between the West and the Non-West," Stuttgart, Germany, July 2007.

• “Middlesex in the Novel,” Comparative Studies in the Twentieth Century Division Panel, MLA Convention, San Francisco, USA, December 2008.

• “ Qu’Ouïr dans les textes coloniaux de la fin de siècle ?: colonialisme, ‘homosexualité, et théorie queer,» Limoges, France, CIEF [Comité International des Etudes Francophones] Conference, July 2008 ;

• “ La théorie ‘queer’ à l’épreuve des textes: le cas de My Kalulu de Henry Morton Stanley, » Nice, France, SIELEC [Société Internationale d’Etude des Littératures de l’Ere Coloniale] Conference, May 2008 ;

• “From Freud to the Feminine: African Genital Alterations and Cultures in Transit,” Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France – April 2008;

• “Out in Africa: Human Rights, Same-Sex Desire, and the Limits of Queering in African Texts and Contexts,” Venice, Italy, EACLALS [Commonwealth Literatures] Conference, May 2008;

• “Fearful Symmetries: the Early Twenty-First Century Debate around Genital Alterations in Literature,” and a mini-cycle of conferences, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, January 2008 & Cairo, April 2008;

• "'Franco-phony': éthique, écoles de pensée, et le 'Postcolonial' en France," Paris 3, "Le Post-colonial," Jean Bessière & Joanny Moulin, June 2007.
• "Behind the Seine and Other Scenery: African and European Homosexual Intimacies in Western Cities," SAES Colloquium, Avignon, May 2007.
• "Family Jewels and Other Cases: How Sexuality Speaks in Western and non-Western Texts," UWarwick, U.K., Socrates Exchange Program, March 2007.
• "The Body under Siege," Keynote address, Sul Corpo: Culture, Politiche, Estetiche Conference, Università degli Studi di Milano, May 2006.
• "Rites of Entry: Excision and Gender-Based Asylum in the U.S.," Colloquium on Exile, Migration, Creation, UParis12, April 2006.
• «Fatal Attractors: Homer, Prospero, Crusoe, Walcott," UParis3, March 2006.
• "Remembrance of Bodies Past," UTrento, ACUME Conference, Italy, June 2005.
• "Sur Derrida: La Traduction de l'autre" (with Marie-Dominique Garnier), UParis 8, May 2005.
• "The Text That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Contextual Heterosex and Same-Sex Desire in African Fiction," SAES Conference, UToulouse-le-Mirail, May 2005.
• "Felix Bryk, Freud and Marie Bonaparte: the Role of Psychoanalysis, Cultural Anthropology and Literature in the Excision Debate," MLA Conference, Philadelphia, December 2004;
• "Womanly Interstices: E.W. Said and Gender," Said Conference, UParis 7, September 2004;
• "Two Margins of 'Error': Derek Jarman, Peter Greenaway and Changing The Tempest," Race, Genre et Marge dans l'Angleterre moderne, U Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, June 2004;
• "The New Wretched of Europe," L'Aquila University, Italy, June 2004.
• "Acquiring Body: New Developments in African Female Self-Writing," French Cultural Center, "Lire en Fête" and "Women in Focus" (Nairobi, Kenya), October 2003 ;
• "Women's Bodies, Texts, and the Excision Debate," a Humanitech Semester Event. State University of New York at Albany, April 2003.
• "Dissymmetry Embodied? Male vs. Female 'circumcision'," Faculty seminar, University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Five-College Consortium [Smith College, Amherst College, Hampshire College, UMass at Amherst et Amherst College], U.S.A., April 2003.
• "The Clitoris, Its History, Rediscovery, and Other Avatars," Faculty seminar, University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Five-College Consortium, U.S.A., April 2003.
• "Excision and Infibulation in Arab Countries: Religious Justifications," Faculty Seminar, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the Five-College Consortium, U.S.A., April 2003.
• "Excision and the Cult of Culture: the Example of Kenya," Faculty Seminar, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the Five-College Consortium, U.S.A., April 2003.
• "Representations of the Exciser in Literature," Faculty Seminar, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the Five-College Consortium, U.S.A., April 2003.
• "Excision and Human Rights: UNC, UDHR, and ICCPR," Faculty Seminar, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the Five-College Consortium, U.S.A., April 2003.
• "Rites of Entry: the U.S. Togolese Asylum Case of Fauziya Kasinga," Faculty Seminar, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the Five-College Consortium, U.S.A., April 2003.
• "Introduction" to A Tongue to Form, A Tale to Tell: Making Up Stories in a New Time, (with Marina Warner, St Andrews, Scotland, and UEssex), Paris 13, March 2003.
• "Body Modification in Literature," Victoria and Albert Museum, "Metamorphing" Conference and Exhibit, Curator: Marina Warner, London, February 2003.
• "Speaking from Memory: Trauma Theory and Excision" for the "What the Body Remembers" Conference, Paris, Maison de l'Inde, June 2002
• «Embodiment and Disembodiment in Postcolonial Drama," Strasbourg, Université Marc Bloch, congrès ESSE, August 2002.
• Round Table for the launching of Tempests after Shakespeare, St Martin's Press/Palgrave and the City University of New York, May 2002.
• "Two Colonial Encounters and the Philosophy of the Gift," University of Massachusetts, Amherst (USA), Dept of Comparative Literature, April 2002.
• "Plenary Lecture: Bodies and Voices," Copenhagen, EACLALS, European Association of Commonwealth Literature, March 2002.
• "Representational Avatars of the Clitoris in Medicine and Literature," Signe e Donne, Centre for Semiotics, Università Urbino, Italy, June 2001.
• "On the Cutting Edge: Women and Excision," Dept of English and non-Western Studies, Symposium on Colonial Literatures, ULeyden, the Netherlands, September 2001.
• "The Pochahontas-John Smith Encounter," The Five-College (UMass, Amherst College, Smith C., Mount Holyoke C., Hampshire College, Massachusetts, U.S.A.), November 2000.
• "Excision and the Case of Fauziya Kassindja," Dept of Comparative Literature, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, U.S.A., June 2000.
• (SOCRATES exchange) "Shakespeare, Ethnopsychiatry, and Africa" Centre for the Study of Comparative and British Studies," UWarwick, Coventry, U.K., April 2000.
• "The Power of Sycorax: Gynocracy, Algiers, and Shakespeare," University Mohamed I, Oujda, Morocco, March 2000.
• (with Peter Hulme et Marina Warner), "Dragging The Tempest Around," Shakespeare Conference, Covent Garden, London, December 1999.
• "Caliban in British Cinema : Derek Jarman vs. Peter Greenaway," Centre for Critical Theory, UCardiff, Wales, October 1999.

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