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September 21-23, 2006
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| En 1958, Albert Camus publiait dans Actuelles III une série d’articles dans lesquels il dénonçait la misère des indigènes en Algérie, où il affirmait entre autres que « l’ère du colonialisme est terminée », mettant déjà en garde contre une Algérie liée à un « empire d’islam ». Anti-fasciste, Camus avait fait parti de la résistance notamment avec Combat, puis, à la différence de Jean Paul Sartre, a rapidement été un des premiers intellectuels à rejeter le stalinisme. En pleine guerre d’Algérie, il avait condamné à la fois le terrorisme des uns et la torture des autres, avait été contre le système colonial et ses injustices mais aussi contre une Algérie indépendante baathiste.
Pacifiste, engagé aux côtés des pauvres et des opprimés, homme de dialogue, Camus défendait à la fois le droit des indigènes et des Français à vivre libres, dans une Algérie plurielle, démocratique, qu’il imaginait comme une nouvelle fédération suisse. La vision camusienne finissait en fin de compte par rejeter tous les systèmes totalitaires, y compris le futur « islamisme » politique. Les années 90 virent l’Algérie plongée dans une seconde guerre civile, qui débordera sur ses voisins, menaçant tout le bassin méditerranéen.
7:30 pm-9:30 pm French House, 633 N. Frances St. (Frances St. at Lake Mendota)
Reception Lecture publique de la pièce d’Alek Baylee Toumi:
« Albert Camus: entre la mère et l’injustice » (Edisud, 2004) suivie d’un débat avec l’auteur
Dans la nouvelle L’hôte (L’exil et le royaume, Gallimard, 1957), le gendarme Balducci laisse un prisonnier nommé « l’Arabe » chez l’instituteur Daru et demande à ce dernier de l’emmener au poste de gendarmerie du village Tinguit. A la fin de la nouvelle, le prisonnier choisit de se rendre à la gendarmerie plutôt que de s’enfuir chez les nomades. La pièce de théâtre imagine ce qui arrive à Tinguit, au prisonnier, au personnage de Daru ainsi qu’à l’écrivain Albert Camus.
Camus, lecteur de l’actuel
Morning and afternoon sessions at Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St. See “Today in the Union” for room assignment
8:30 am-10:00 am (session in French) Presiding: Laird Boswell, UW-Madison
Break
10:15 am-Noon (session in French) Presiding: Thomas J. Armbrecht, UW-Madison
Lunch break
1:30 pm-2:45 pm (session in English) Presiding: Ellen Amster, UW-Milwaukee
Break
3:00 pm-4:30 pm (session in English) Presiding: Elizabeth E. Covington, UW-Madison
Dinner break
7:00 pm-8:30 pm (session in English) Keynote Address French House, 633 N. Frances St.
Introduction by Gilles Bousquet, UW-Madison
“ Camus: Our Familiar Stranger ”
Raymond Gay-Crosier Emeritus Professor, University of Florida and Vice-President, Camus Studies Association
Camus et la Méditerranée
Memorial Union: see “Today in the Union” for room assignment
9:00 am-10:15 am (session in French) Presiding: Alek Baylee Toumi, UW-Stevens Point
Break
10:30 am-Noon (session in French) Presiding: Aliko Songolo, UW-Madison
ELLEN AMSTER
Assistant Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2003
Amster’s research interests include: Morocco / North Africa, history of Islamic and French medicine, traditional midwifery, modernity and Islamic intellectual movements, labor history, and French sociology of Islam.
BERNARD ARESU
Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Comparative Literature, Rice University, Houston, Texas PhD, University of Washington, 1975
Aresu has published a series of articles and book reviews on North African writers, from Kateb Yacine to Boualem Sansal. He is the author of a monograph on Yacine and a book on Tahar Ben Jelloun. He has served on the editorial boards of the French Review, the CELAAN Review and the International Journal of Francophone Studies.
THOMAS J. ARMBRECHT
Assistant Professor of French, University of Wisconsin-Madison PhD, Brown University, 1999
Armbrecht specializes in 20th-century prose fiction, theater as literature and in performance, and queer studies.
AMINA AZZA-BEKKAT
Maître de conférences en littérature française, francophone et en littérature comparée, l’Université de Blida, Soumaa, Algérie Doctorat du IIIème cycle, Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1985
Son champ d'étude s’étend aussi bien à l’Afrique subsaharienne qu’à la littérature de l’Afrique du Nord. Elle tente de démontrer comment les textes africains reprennent pour les contester les grandes œuvres de la littérature occidentale. En français, c’est Camus qui marque en filigrane les romans de Kateb, de Boudjedra et de bien des auteurs nouvellement arrivés sur la scène littéraire. Elle est l’auteur d’une série d’articles sur les littératures francophones maghrébine et africaine:
« L’image du fou dans la littérature africaine », traduit en espagnol “El personaje del loco en la literatura africana”, Clinica, Madrid (Espagne) n°82.
« La réception du texte maghrébin dans les universités algériennes », colloque sur La réception du texte maghrébin, Tunis 17-18 novembre 2000, Tunisie.
« L’image du désert dans les romans de Mohamed Dib », colloque sur Le désert, Université de Sfax (Tunisie), 21-23 novembre 2000, Tunisie.
PHILIPPE BARBÉ
Assistant Professor of French at the University of California, Irvine PhD, Northwestern University, 1999
Barbé’s research interests focus on Francophone and especially North African literatures. In addition to articles on Duras, Djebar, Khatibi, Derrida, Dib and Memmi, he just completed the first volume of a trilogy devoted to the study of the Mediterranean. This book, entitled L’anti-choc des civilisations: Médiations méditerranéennes, was published in 2006 by Les Editions de l’Aube.
LAIRD BOSWELL
Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Boswell specializes in 20th-century French social and political history. His research interests include: rural history, European socialism in the 19th and 20th centuries, French politics, the history of voting behavior, quantitative methods, and oral history.
GILLES BOUSQUET
Dean of International Studies, Director of the International Institute, and Professor of French, University of Wisconsin-Madison Doctorat, Université de Provence, 1983
Bousquet’s interests include French and European issues, contemporary French thought and cultural studies, as well as policy and pedagogical questions related to international education in an age of globalization. As dean, he coordinates the university's internationalization strategy with a particular attention to language and area-studies, interdisciplinary and global research and education alliances, and creative public-private partnerships. Among his most recent contributions is “Language Education in the 21st Century: The Challenge for Advocacy”, National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2005 conference address.
DENISE BRAHIMI
Maître de conférences en littérature comparée, Université de Paris VII (Emerita) Doctorat ès Lettres, 1976
Brahimi est ancienne élève de l’école Normale Supérieure. Elle a vécu pendant dix ans en Algérie après l’indépendance de ce pays en 1962 où elle enseignait la littérature française. Ses premiers ouvrages portent sur les récits des voyageurs européens au Maghreb et au Proche-Orient (18ème et 19ème siècles). Elle s’est intéressée à la personnalité de certains écrivains, surtout des femmes qui, comme Isabelle Eberhardt et Taos Amrouche (Taos Amrouche romancière, Paris, J. Losfeld, 1995), ont été imprégnées par une double culture, européenne et maghrébine. La littérature n’est pas son seul domaine de recherche, elle y joint la peinture (La peinture au féminin, Berthe Morisot et Marie Cassatt , Paris, J.P. Rocher, 2000) et le cinéma (Cinéma d’Afrique francophone et du Maghreb, Paris, Nathan, 1997), le plus souvent pour explorer les effets créateurs des relations interculturelles.
HÉLÈNE BROWN
Professor of French, Principia College, Elsah, Illinois PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989
Brown’s book, L’effet fantastique ou la mise en jeu du sujet, was published in 1996 in the collection Stanford French and Italian Studies by Anma Libri. She has presented papers on the fantastic in literature and on C. H. Kane’s L’aventure ambiguë. Her interests are focused on Francophonie, French colonialism and contemporary France, diversity education and, more recently, on the learning and teaching of languages other than French, such as Russian, in which she earned an MA from the Université de Bordeaux, France. Brown is a member of the association Conseil National d’Études Francophones.
SUZANNE CHAMIER
Professor of French, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas PhD, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Chamier’s research interests include the new ‘orality’ in Antillean literature, Raymond Queneau, life-writing, and translation. She has a strong personal interest in the political essay (Voltaire, Hugo, Camus, bell hooks) and has published on Queneau, Beckett, and Charles Juliet.
ELIZABETH E. COVINGTON
Executive Director, European Studies Alliance, UW-Madison PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Covington has taught European and world history, French, and English at universities in southern California and Paris and is currently teaching European studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
DAVID R. ELLISON
Professor of French, University of Miami, Florida PhD, Yale University, 1975
Ellison’s publications include: The Reading of Proust (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984); Understanding Albert Camus (University of South Carolina Press, 1990); Of Words and the World: Referential Anxiety in Contemporary French Fiction (Princeton University Press, 1993); and Ethics and Aesthetics in European Modernist Literature: From the Sublime to the Uncanny (Cambridge University Press, 2001; 2nd ed. 2006). His current project deals with the notion of culture in Gide and Proust.
RAYMOND GAY-CROSIER Professor Emeritus, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
A specialist in modern French literature, Gay-Crosier has published over ninety journal articles and book chapters, of which approximately 60 deal with Albert Camus. They appeared in, among others, French Review, Symposium, Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und Literatur, Revue des Lettres Modernes, Australian Journal of French Studies, Europe, and Orbis Litterarum. He is sole author of five books and contributing editor of 15 volumes (published by Lettres Modernes, University of Florida Press, and Gallimard).
His latest book is a commissioned study on The Stranger, an extended Forschungsbericht which appeared in October of 2001 (Gale Research series of “Literary Masterpieces” no.8). Volume 20 of the Camus series (Lettres Modernes, Paris), a special issue on Le premier homme came out in April 2004.
Gay-Crosier currently serves as editor-in-chief of vols. III and IV of the forthcoming Œuvres complètes by Albert Camus (Paris, Gallimard, Pléiade) and the Camus series published by Lettres Modernes (Paris), general editor of the Ars Interpretandi series published by Peter Lang (Munich / New York), and assistant editor of the French Review. He is a founding member and Vice-President of the Société des Études Camusiennes / Camus Studies Association and was the principal organizer of three international symposia on Albert Camus.
VINCENT GRÉGOIRE
Nichols Professor of French, Berry College, Berry, Georgia PhD, Rutgers, 1992
A member of the Société des Études Camusiennes, Grégoire is the author of L'absence et le détail dans l’œuvre romanesque de Camus (Mellen Press, Lewiston-Queenston-Lampeter, 2003). He has published a series of articles in The Romantic Review, The French Review, Symposium, Romance Notes, and other journals. Grégoire also published « Meursault ou le ‘mythe de la victime’ démystifié par l’histoire » in the French Literature Series. His article, « L’holocauste dans les écrits de Camus », will appear in The French Review in April 2007.
JANICE (JAN) GROSS
Professor of French and Seth Richards Professor in Modern Languages, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa. PhD, University of Michigan, 1980
Gross is a specialist in contemporary theater. Her recent publications on Algerian playwrights illustrate how theater is used to perform postcolonial identities, exile, terrorism, Islam, and memory in the plays of Slimane Benaïssa, Aziz Chouaki, Fatima Gallaire, and Mohamed Kacimi. She has also published on postcolonial humor and parody in Fellag and Francis Bebey. Her upcoming article in French Review discusses techniques for incorporating film into the Francophone culture course. She has translated plays by Kacimi and Benaïssa, and her translation (with Daniel Gross) of Slimane Benaïssa’s novel about 9/11, The Last Night of a Damned Soul, was published by Grove Press in 2004.
DOLORÈS LYOTARD
Maître de conférences en littérature française, Université du Littoral,\ Côte d’Opale, Dunkerque, France PhD, University of Lille, 1983
Lyotard has been Directeur de Programme at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris. Her research interests include 19th- and 20th-century French literature and contemporary philosophy. She has published several articles on Sartre, Quignard, and Camus. She coedited (with Jean-Claude Milner and Gérald Sfez) Jean-François Lyotard: l'exercice du différend, Presses Universitaires de France, 2001. Her latest book Cruauté de l’intime was published in 2003 by Presses Universitaires du Septentrion.
JAN F. RIGAUD
Associate Professor of French, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania PhD, University of Michigan, 1981
Rigaud has published a series of articles on 20th-century French literature with McMillan Presses and St. Martin Press. He is the author of the English translation of Correspondence: Albert Camus and Jean Grenier, 1932-1960 (University of Nebraska Press, 2003), originally published by Les Editions Gallimard in Paris.
HÉLÈNE RUFAT
Professeur de langue et de littérature françaises à l’Université Pompeu Fabra de Barcelone (Espagne), elle a dirigé un séminaire interdisciplinaire de recherche sur les questions d'identité et d'altérité, et a publié, entre autres, une série d’articles sur Albert Camus et la Méditerranée (notamment sur l'Espagne):
« Face à l’image miroitante de la Méditerranée camusienne », L’imaginaire méditerranéen (textes réunis et présentés par Pierrette Renard et Nicole de Pontcharra), ed. Maisonneuve & Larose, 2000, pp. 126-133.
« Des constellations méditerranéennes au mythe d’Euphorion: l’homme méditerranéen d’après A. Camus », Loxias, Éclipses et surgissements de constellations mythiques –Littérature et contexte – champ francophone, 2000. Nº2-3, pp. 255-263.
« En cachette avec L’homme révolté: Les anarchistes espagnols », Albert Camus et les écritures du XXè siècle (Dir.: Christiane Chaulet-Achour, Emmanuel Fraisse et altri), Artois Presses Université, 2003, pp. 153-171.
« Constructions des altérités méditerranéennes », Anuari de filologia. Secció G. Filologia romànica. Nº12. Arquetipologia general de la dinàmica transcultural: El problema de l’Altre (Ss. la dir. D’Alain Verjat), Universitat de Barcelona, 2004, pp. 71-82.
« Sur l’archipel méditerranéen reconstitué d'Albert Camus », Seuils & Traverses 4. Actes (Mehmet Emin Özcan), 2004, Ankara Üniversitesi.
RALPH SCHOOLCRAFT, III
Associate Professor of French, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas PhD, Emory University, 1995 Schoolcraft’s research addresses history and memory in postwar France, with particular attention to the Gaullist legacy and interactions between the world of letters and that of politics. He has translated Henry Rousso’s A Haunting Past: History, Memory, and Justice in Contemporary France (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002) and is preparing a book titled Literary Gaullism. His extensive work on pseudonymous authorship includes a published book, Romain Gary: The Man Who Sold His Shadow (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), and another in progress, The Method of the Mask.
TODD SHEPARD
Assistant Professor of History, Temple University, Philadelphia PhD, Rutgers-New Brunswick, 2002
Shepard’s scholarship explores French imperialism, national identity, and the state, concentrating on modern European and colonial North African history, with special attention to decolonization and histories of race, gender, and sexuality. His interests include the Algerian War, particularly its effects on France, and how Western governments responded to post-1945 demands for racial justice. Publications include:
“From Douai to the USA,” in Why France?, eds. Laura Lee Downs and Stéphane Gerson (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, forthcoming).
The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War And the Remaking of France (Cornell University Press, April 2006).
« ‘La bataille du voile’ pendant la guerre d’Algérie » in Le foulard islamique en questions, ed. Charlotte Nordmann (Paris: Editions Amsterdam, 2004).
ALIKO SONGOLO
Professor of French and African Languages and Literature, Chair, Department of French and Italian, University of Wisconsin-Madison PhD, University of Iowa, 1975
Songolo’s areas of specialization include French and African languages and literature; Francophone literatures; cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and North America; cultural studies; Francophone and African cinema.
Alek Baylee Toumi
Associate Professor of French, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Toumi specializes in Francophone studies, 20th-century literature, Camus-Sartre, theater, French civilization and language and culture. He has taught at Lawrence University, Middlebury College, Louisiana State University, Bates College and Franklin and Marshall College. He has published a series of articles on French and Francophone issues as well as a monograph, Maghreb Divers, on the problem of French language in post colonial North Africa. A poet and playwright, he is the author of seven plays, among them Albert Camus: entre la mère et l’injustice, Madah-Sartre, and Taxieur. His latest drama, De Beauvoir à beau voile, on the question of veil, school, and secularism, was published by Marsa editions in Paris in September 2005.
ALI YEDES
Ali Yedes is Associate Professor of French Language and Literature at Oberlin College in Ohio. He specializes in Francophone literatures from the Maghreb and is the author of a series of articles and book reviews, as well as the book, Camus l’algérien (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2003).
Sponsored by: The Division of International Studies, the Center for European Studies, the Center for Interdisciplinary French Studies, and the Anonymous Fund of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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