CONFERENCE :
Here's Looking at You: France/Australia - La Rochelle/Newcastle

COLLOQUE :
Regards croisés : France/Australie - Australie/Newcastle

Theme:

   Here's Looking at You: France/Australia - La Rochelle/Newcastle
Date: Monday 3, Tuesday 4 & Wednesday 5 October 2005
Place:   Université de La Rochelle
F.L.A.S.H.
(Faculté des Langues, Littératures, Arts et Sciences Humaines)
Amphi 250A
1, Parvis Fernand Braudel
17042 La Rochelle cedex 1
France
Tel : +33 (0)5.46.45.68.00
Convenor:   Sue Ryan-Fazilleau sryan@univ-lr.fr
How to get to the 'FLASH' : http://australie-recherche.univ-lr.fr/page13.htm

PLEASE CONTACT SUE RYAN-FAZILLEAU FOR THE FOLLOWING : sryan@univ-lr.fr

1. Registration: If you wish to attend, please pre-register (no fee).
2. Copy of the abstracts and biographical notes.
3. List of hotels.
4. Tourist information about La Rochelle and the surrounding region.

NB Please specify which of the above you require.
     

PROGRAMME MONDAY 3 OCTOBER, 2005

8:30

   Registration (Salle des Actes)

9:00-10:30

 The Exchanges between La Rochelle and Newcastle
-> 9:00 Guy Martinière (University of La Rochelle)
Inaugural Address
-> 9:30

Ken Dutton (University of Newcastle and the City of Newcastle)
The exchanges, the Hartley Bequest and the city of Newcastle
-> 10:00

Marc Parnaudeau (City of La Rochelle)
"La ville de La Rochelle"
 
10:30-11:00

Coffee Break
11:00-11:30  

French-Australian Relations - Chair : Sue Ryan-Fazilleau
-> 11:00

Jeff Roach (Australian Embassy, Paris)
"La Coopération culturelle franco-australienne"
-> 11:30

Martine Piquet (Paris Dauphine)
"Australia, France and the South Pacific: a cold war in warm waters"
(mid 1960s-mid 1980s)"
-> 12:00 Discussion
12:15-13:45  

Lunch Break
14:00-16:15  

History of La Rochelle - Chair : Sue Ryan-Fazilleau
-> 14:00

Nicolas Faucherre (Université de Nantes)
Historical Itinerary in La Rochelle
-> 15:30

John Ramsland (University of Newcastle)
"The Stones of La Rochelle and l'île de Ré: a traveller's casual journey
through regional history and culture"
-> 16:00 Discussion
16:15-17:30  

The Construction of Australian Identity - Chair: Jean-Paul Delamotte
-> 16h15 Luc Vacher (Université de La Rochelle)
"Les espaces de la construction de l'identité australienne : regard de
géographe"
-> 16:45 Allan Chawner (University of Newcastle)
"Ready to be Immortalised?"
-> 17:15 Discussion
18:00   Opening Function: Art Exhibition "Australian Identities"
(University of La Rochelle Library)
    - Photos by Allan Chawner
    - Drawings and poems by Paul Kavanagh

- Tableaux de Russell Saunders

 

PROGRAMME TUESDAY 4 OCTOBER, 2005

8:30

 Registration (Salle des Actes)

9:00-11:30

 La Rochelle and Newcastle through Literature - Chair : Xavier Pons
-> 9:00 Marie Ramsland (University of Newcastle)
"Writing the Region"
-> 9:30

Alistair Rolls (University of Newcastle)
"Veiling and Unveiling Metro-Textual Space in Frédéric Cathala's
L'Arbalète: La vraie vie commence"
-> 10:00

Discussion
10:15-10:45

Coffee Break
-> 10:45

Serge Linkès (Université de la Rochelle)
"Une identité romantique rochelaise: Eugène Fromentin"
-> 11:15

Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan (University of Newcastle)
"Acier austral de l'Australienne Dymphna Cusack : le combat d'une
rebelle"
-> 11:45 Discussion
12:00-13:30

Lunch Break
13:30-17:45

Indigenous Identities - Chair : John Ramsland
-> 13:30

Annie Langlois (University of New England)
"L'homme Naturel de la Terra Australis Incognita : entre rêve et réalité. Visions croisées des membres de l'expédition française en terres Australes (1800-1803)
-> 14 :00

John Maynard (University of Newcastle)
"The Rise of Aboriginal Political Activism - with a French Connection"
-> 14:30 Discussion
-> 14:45 Valérie Djenidi (University of Newcastle)
"Différents regards sur une autobiographie : Ella Simon"
-> 15:15 Mick Davison (University of Newcastle)
"From Racism to Realisation : How the Didgeridoo Shaped an
Indigenous Identity"
-> 15:45 Discussion
16:00-16:30

Coffee Break
-> 16:30

Les Ridgeway (Worimi elder)
"Living on the Margin's : a young man's life in Newcastle"
-> 17:00

Vicki Grieves (University of New England)
"Colonial Mixed-Race Liaisons : the hidden histories of race in the Hunter"
18:00 Function at the La Rochelle Town Hall
   

PROGRAMME WEDNESDAY 5 OCTOBER, 2005

8:30

 Registration (Salle des Actes)

9:00-10:45

French Representations of Australian Identity - Chair : Alistair Rolls
-> 9:00 Xavier Pons (University of Toulouse le Mirail)
"Seeing Double - visions of Australia in two French crime novels"
-> 9:30

Richard Tholoniat (University of Maine)
"Cannibales et colonisateurs. Représentations des Australien(ne)s dans
le roman d'aventures français (1860-1914)"
-> 10:00

Jean-Paul Delamotte (Atelier littéraire franco-australien, Paris)
"Sotto voce…à la recherche d'un écrivain perdu : Paul Wenz, Français
ET Australien"
-> 10:30 Discussion
10:45-11:15

Coffee Break
11:15-12:30  

Australian Representations of French Identity - Chair : Allistair Rolls
-> 11:15

Eden Liddelow (Australian writer)
"Nihilism and the Novel in the Screen Age"
-> 11:45 Susan Barrett (University of Bordeaux)
"French kookaburras and Australian nightingales: Looking to France
and back to Australia in works by Marion Halligan and Mary Moody"
-> 12:15 Discussion
12:30-14:00   Lunch Break
14:00-15:30

La Rochelle - Chair : Peter Rawlingson
-> 14:00

Laurent Augier (Université de La Rochelle)
"L'économie de la Charente Maritime : une analyse sectorielle"
-> 14:30

Xinyu Hu and Martine Raibaud (Université de La Rochelle)
"La communauté chinoise de La Rochelle"
-> 15:00
Discussion
20:30 Literary Encounters, Centre Intermondes, La Rochelle
"Regards croisés: La Rochelle/Newcastle(Australie)"
with the participation of four local writers - Raymond Bozier, Frédéric Cathala, François Garros and Denis Montebello.
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