About this Event
Colleagues in the Department of French at Trinity College Dublin are delighted to invite you to its hybrid conference on francophone political poetry to be held both in person in Dublin and on Zoom on 27 May.
This conference seeks to explore the relationship between poetry and politics from the early modern to contemporary eras to examine the evolution, impact and significance of political poetry across historical, geographical and cultural contexts. Programme below.
Keynote Speaker: Dr Nathalie Wourm.
Contact: Dr Ashley Harris ([email protected]) or Dr Dalila Villella ([email protected]).
Register to attend in person, or join us through the Zoom link below (no registration necessary if attending online).
Zoom link:
Topic: Francophone Poetry and Politics
Time: May 27, 2024 08:30 AM Dublin
Link: https://tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/98302618348?pwd=clZNU0hIRUxnWlRwNXZEZDhvaXoyZz09
Meeting ID: 983 0261 8348
Passcode: 150414
PROGRAMME
8.30 – 9.00: Registration and Welcome
9.00 – 10.15: Poetical Methodologies of the 20th-21st Century (Chair: Dr Dalila Villella)
Dr Olivier Gallet (Sorbonne Université): ‘Le Poetrytelling politique : un détournement de la poésie ?’
Mr Gareth Hughes (Royal Holloway University of London): ‘Manifeste = je: Sound and subjectivity in Christophe Tarkos’s manifesto-poems’
Dr Abigail Alexander (Kennesaw State University): ‘Playing the Fools: 19th-century poetic Pierrots in Godard’s political film’
10.15 – 10.55: The Poetry of World War I (Chair: Dr Ashley Harris)
Dr Julia Thomaz (Université Paris Nanterre): ‘« La Politique précède-t-elle la Poétique ? »: the political disappearance of French and Francophone poetry of the First World War’
Dr Max McGuinness (Trinity College Dublin): ‘Horror and Heroism in Apollinaire’s War Poetry’
10.55 – 11.15: Coffee Break
11.15 – 12.15: Keynote Lecture (Chair: Dr Dalila Villella)
Dr Nathalie Wourm (Birkbeck, University of London): ‘Nicolas Sarkozy’s Legacy to French Poetry: The Tarnac Affair, Jean-Marie Gleize and Nathalie Quintane’
12.15 – 1.00: Lunch (provided)
1.00 – 1.55: Diplomacy and Poetry in Life and Death (Chair: Dr Alexandra Corey)
Dr Jean-Nicolas De Surmont (Association La Porte Dorée): ‘Félix Leclerc: la diplomatie culturelle canadienne-française’
Dr Sarah Alyn Stacey, FTCD (Trinity College Dublin): ‘“Quand tu verras des Grans l’estat si peu durer”: some observations on the political dimensions of Ronsard’s ‘Le Tombeau de Marguerite de France’
1.55 – 2.15: Pause
2.15 – 3.15: La Francophonie and Decolonial Poetics (Chair: Dr Ashley Harris)
Dr Valentin Duquet (Rice University): ‘Citizen of an Algerian Utopia: The Revolutionary and Postwar Poetry of Jean Sénac’
Dr Stéphanie Jabre Hage (Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth): ‘Eloge, violence et politique identitaire dans les poèmes de Césaire et de Senghor’
Drs Lynda Chouiten and Farid Benmezal (University of Boumerdes, Algeria): ‘Gender and nation-building in Anna Gréki’s Poetry’
3.15 – 3.30: Closing Remarks of Francophone Poetry and Politics: Across the Centuries
With thanks to the French Embassy in Ireland and TCD Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Events Fund for their generous support of the event.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Trinity Long Room Hub, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
GBP 0.00