Program f September 10-13

Le colloque

 L'université de New York (Buffalo)  organise en collaboration avec la revue Formules un colloque international sur le thème "Urbanités Littéraires" ["Cityscapes/Literary Escapes"]. Le colloque a pour objet d'étudier le rapport de l'écriture à son environnement urbain  et d'expliciter les rapports interactifs entre la littérature, l'architecture et l'urbanisme.

The Colloquium


 In the fall 2009, SUNY - BUFFALO in collaboration with the European journal Formules  is sponsoring  on the UB campus a bi-lingual international Colloquium entitled "Urbanités Littéraires / Cityscapes - Literary Escapes." The goal of the conference is to study the relationship between writing and the urban environment, and specify interactive engagements between literature, architecture, and urbanism.  We have planned eight academic panels.

To read the abstracts of the communications go to :  www.ieeff.org/cityscapesabstracts.html 

Colloquium Urbanités Littéraires / Cityscapes - Literary escapes

 Program
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FORMULES / University at Buffalo

INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

             «Urbanités littéraires / Cityscapes - Literary Escapes»
September 10-13 2009
 Buffalo - Niagara Marriott

Thursday, September 10
5:00 pm Arrival of participants  - Registration
6:00 pm  - 7: 30 Reception  [ Hotel]   

 Friday, September 11
 Morning : Mezzanine Second floor
8:00 am - 8:30 am Registration  

 8.30 am Opening remarks and welcome  [Salon E]

 

Stephen C. Dunnett, Vice Provost for International Education

University at Buffalo

 9:00 am-10:30 am [Salon E]
Panel 1
 Flâner || City Wandering

 

                                  Chair:  Hermes Salceda -- Universidad de Vigo

 

                                  Anne Quinney    The University of Mississippi

                                  "Flâneurs, Clochards and the Social Geography of Paris"

                            

                                  Caroline Ziolko     Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier

                                  "Ecrire la ville -- Marseille, vu par Jean-Claude Izzo, 1945-2000"

 

                                             Aurore Van de Winkel     Université Catholique de Louvain

                                             "La ville mise en récit : le cas des légendes urbaines "
 

        10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee/Tea Break

                                                

                                                                           11:00 am -12:30 pm [Salon E]
                                                                                         Panel 2
                                                                   Fenêtres/portes/entrées/couloirs/sortie    || Windows / Entrance / Corridors/ Exit

 

                                 Chair:  Christian Flaugh  -- University at Buffalo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
                 

                                 John Culbert     Scripps College

            

                                            "Boudjedra's Paris"

              
                 

                                David Castillo - University at Buffalo

          

                                           "Landscapes to Cityscapes in the Society of the Spectacle"

    

          

                                  Steve Puig     CUNY

                                            "Enfermés dehors" : représentation de la banlieue dans les romans de Rachid DDjaïdan

 

                     12:30 pm - 1: 15 pm Lunch [Salons D & C]


                       1:15 pm  - 2:00 pm Key Speaker  [Salon E]

                   Introduction: Jean-Jacques Thomas -- University at Buffalo

                   Simon Harel   Université du Québec à Montréal

                                  "Laisser-aller: l'itinéance et l'espace contraint dans L'Homme-boîte de Kobo Abe

                         et City of Forgetting de Robert Majzels"

               2:15 pm - 3:45 pm [Salon E]
              Panel 3
               Utopie et villes rêvées   || Utopia  and  Dreamed Cities

                Chair: Elisabeth Chamontin -- Formules - Paris

              
                 

                Jan Baetens   Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

       

                "Bruxelles : une forme culturelle médiatique"

        
                 

                 Daniel Laforest   University of  Alberta

            

                 "Les m�taphores trans-américaines de la banlieue littéraire au QQuébec"

   
                 

                 Henry Sussman  Yale University

         

                 "The Bicolumnar architecture of Glas"

          

 

                   3:45 pm - 4: 00 pm  Coffee/ Tea Break


               4:15 pm - 5:45 pm [Salon E]
       Panel 4
                                   Rues / boulevards / avenues/ gares    ||     Street / Boulevard / Avenue / Train Station

                                          Chair :   Amy Graves - University at Buffalo

                               Michel Clavel  Writer, Publicist  - Paris    

                               "L'écriture du trafic urbain à travers deux textes de création"  

       

                               Anne Lesley Selcer    Simon Fraser University   

                               "City and Text : Some Context for Lisa Robertson's Office of Soft Architecture"

       

                               Laura Chiesa     University at Buffalo    

                               "Experiencing and Plotting Architecture"

 

                                                                                             6:30 pm:  bus departure from Marriott

 


                                                                                         7: 00 pm - 7:30 pm  Reception buffet

                                                                        University at Buffalo - Poetry Collection (4th floor Capen Library)

 

                                                                                                           7: 30 pm  Key Speaker

                                                                                      Introduction: Justin Read -- University at Buffalo  

                                                                                           Loss Pequeño Glazier University at Buffalo

" Guaniquiqui"

 

Saturday, September 12


 8:00 am - 9:30 am [Salon E]
 Panel 5
Villes/ faubourgs/ banlieues/ campagnes   ||  Towns/Suburbs/Slums/Countrysides

 

                         Chair :  Margarita Vargas -- University at Buffalo

                    
                       

                         Domenic A. Beneventi   CELAT - UQAM

                

                         "Poverty on the Peripheries : Writing Homeless Space"

            
                       

                         Anna Botta   Smith College

                  

                         "Staying Native : Homebound Anthropologists in Paris"

            
                       

                         Roxanne Rimstead   Universit� de Sherbrooke

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                         "The Ethics and Epistemology of 'Sluming' : Notes  on Seing and

                         Constructing the Other in Reportage and Slum Novels"

 

9:45 am - 10:00 am Coffee/Tea Break


10:00 am - 11:30 am  [Salon E]
 Panel 6
Silo / entrepôt / friches industrielles   ||   Silo / Warehouse / Industrial Wasteland

 

 

                                  Chair : Justin Read  -- University at Buffalo

                
                   

                                  Christophe Reig Université de Paris III

            

                                  "Viles Villes -- L'urbanité amputée de Régis Jauffret"

        
                   

                                  Charles L. Davis II  University of North Carolina 

                                  & Jeehyun Lim  University of Pennsylvania

  

                                 "Reading the Spatio-Literary Imagination to Interpret

 

 

 

  

                                  the Black-Korean Conflicts of New York City"

 

 

 

 

  
                   

                                 Adelaide Russo  Louisiana State University

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                "What Have Our Cities Become? Michel Deguy's Reflections on the

                                 Changing Urban Landscape"

 

11:30 am -  12:15 pm: Lunch [Salon D & C]


12:30 pm - 1:15 pm   Key Speaker  [Salon E]

Introduction: Christina Milletti -- University at Buffalo

Steve McCaffery University at Buffalo

"White Pages: an Oulipean Portrait of Buffalo's Citizens"


1:30 pm - 3:00 pm [Salon E]
Panel 7
Ecrire la ville    ||     To Write the City

      Chair: Christina Milletti -- University at Buffalo

         
             

      Bénédicte Gorrillot  Université de Valenciennes

    

      "La 'géographie pathétique' urbaine de C. Prigent"

    
             

      Emma Hunt   Writer - Toronto

      

      "Changing Spaces : Post-Apartheid Johannesburg in Literature"
             

     Sri Mukherjee   Harvard University

 

 

 

     " Representing Subcultural London: Two 21st-Century Portraits

     of Urban British Asian Life"

 

                                   3:00 pm - 3:15  pm:  Coffee/Tea Break


                                            3:30 pm -  5:00 pm [Salon E]
                                                                Panel 8
           Ponts / passages / égouts     ||    Bridges / Galleria / Underground

 

      Chair:  Colleen Culleton  -- University at Buffalo

       
           

      Alain Chevrier Writer - Rouen

    

      "Métropoésie"

        
           

     Sima Godfrey University of  British Columbia

  

     "Concrete Poetry"

      
           

     Sherry Simon Concordia University

    

     "Bridges and Gallerias : Language  Negotiation in Trieste"

 

5:30 pm   Departure tour city of Buffalo

                                                                                 

                                                                                 6:15 pm - 7:00 pm

                                                                      Visit of the Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin D. Martin house complex


                                                                                                            7:00 pm - 9:30 pm  

                                                                                           Darwin D. Martin Greatbatch Pavilion

                                                                                                      designed by Toshiko Mori

                                                                                                         Colloquium Banquet
        
                                                                          Sunday, September 13


                                                                                          8: 00 am Buffet Breakfast [Salon D et C]
             

                                                                  8:30 am - 9:15 am Key Speaker  [Salon E]

                                                                                      Introduction Laura Chiesa -- University at Buffalo

                                                                                          Bernardo Schiavetta, Writer - Psychoanalyst          

                                                                                                        ' Saint Pétersbourg en 4-D"

                                                                          9:45 am Departure optional excursion  Fort Niagara / Niagara Falls


                                                                                                 9:45 am - 3:30 pm

                                                               Excursion Fort Niagara [Oldest French presence in North America outside of Canada]

                                                                                                              and Niagara Falls [US]

                                                                                                                        Lunch en route

                                                                                          3:30 pm Return to the Marriott - End of the Colloquium