Events

Department of French Graduate Student Conference

Thursday, April 13

2:00 pm   Registration
 
2:30 pm   Le goût de l’abject
Moderator: Janos Kun, New York University, Department of French and French Studies
Marine Theunissen, UQAM, Faculté des arts
L’orgie, le monstre et l’hybridation corps-machine : la notion d’abject et du paradoxe de sa figuration érotique à travers les représentations de la chair
Ben Massaoud Mouna, Université de Tunis, Faculté des sciences humaines et sociales
Le dégoût de la laideur
Vitalie Cannone, University of Delaware, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
La figure de la laideur dans Au revoir là-haut

4:00 pm   Seeing Taste
Moderator: Gabriella Lindsay, New York University, Department of French and French Studies
Madeleine Leisk, University of Toronto, Art Department
Subverting Bourgeois Taste: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century European Decadent Prints
Matt Reeck, UCLA, Department of Comparative Literature
“Le goût de l’ethnographie,” Aesthetics, and the Problem of Ethnographic Description in Eugène Fromentin
Tamara Tasevska, Northwestern University, Department of French and Italian
Class and Taste in “2 ou 3 Choses que je sais d’elle” and “Le Weekend” by Jean-Luc Godard

6:00 pm   Keynote Address
Allen S. Weiss, New York University, Performance Studies
Identity Politics & Culinary Identity

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Friday, April 14

11:30 am   Discerning Taste(s)
 Moderator: Amelia Fedo, New York University, Department of French
Katherine Magruder, New York University, Food Studies
‘Radio Cuisine’: Aural Tastemaking on Early French Radio
Kathryn Haklin, John Hopkins University, Department of French
No Exit: ‘Goût’ and Article Claustrophobia in Diderot and D’Alembert’s Encyclopédie
Samantha Presnal, New York University, French and French Studies
Between Connoisseur and Cuisinière: The Language and Limitations of Domestic Cooking Instruction

3:00 pm   Deviant Tastes
Moderator: Masha Beliaeva, New York University, Department of French
Jennifer Carr, Yale University, French
Mauvais goût, mauvais genre: The Writing and Performances of Wendy Delorme
Kaliane Ung, New York University, French
Pédophilie et fantasme d’auto-engendrement chez Violette Leduc

4:30 pm   L’écriture du goût et le goût de l’écriture
Moderator: Camilo Frias, New York University, Department of French
Joseph Boju, McGill University, French
Le goût-peuple de la manière funambulesque chez Théodore de Banville
Anthony Nicolas Radoui, University of Wisconsin-Madison, French
Thirst, Satiation, Green and Ripe Fruit, and Feasting: The Multi-sensorial Imagery of Metaphors for Ageing in Charles d’Orléans’s Later Poetry
Benjamin Ransom, University of Chicago, French
Somatic Physiognomy and Textuality in the Essais of Montaigne

6:00 pm   Keynote address
Jennifer Tsien, University of Virginia, Department of French

In French and English