The Graduate Association of French and Italian Students
is pleased to announce its 20th Annual
GAFIS Symposium
2007
Books, Texts and Readers in French and Italian Studies
Keynote Speaker
Michael H. Shank
Professor, History of Science and Integrated Liberal Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
March 23-24, 2007
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Writing and reading texts on stone, wood, parchment, paper and electronic interfaces as well as transposing them in visual arts and film are practices that cut across the history of French, Francophone and Italian Literature. These practices can be intended in their material side (e.g. the way the material support of a text is designed, crafted, used) and in their discursive side (e.g. the way a text integrates the design, craft and use of its material support). The material and discursive aspects of writing and reading can enforce or subvert within the same inscription, manuscript, book, journal, newspaper and film. Further, they can be represented, parodied, challenged and ridiculed in textual and visual representations. Therefore, the study of these practices extends across the boundaries of disciplines such as philology, bibliography, art history and textual criticism, and sets out the terms for a dialogue, the goal of which is to rethink the approach to the literary objects we investigate.
The GAFIS Symposium is made possible with the generous support from the Brittingham Fund and the .
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Mission statement of the GAFIS symposium
The Graduate Student Symposium of GAFIS, now in its 20th year, provides a forum for intellectual and scholarly exchange in a positive collegial atmosphere. Interdisciplinary in nature, this national event gives future colleagues the chance to meet each other and to hear about current issues in upcoming research. Excellence and pertinence are assured through an anonymous and peer juried selection process.
Basic criteria for the selection process:
- Presentations must address the topic of the symposium, respecting all constraints given in the call.
- Presentations should be innovative, problematizing the chosen issue within a theoretical framework.
- Presentations should be organized into focused panels that clearly complement each other.
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Call for Papers
We welcome papers related to the topic of books, texts and readers. Possible topics ( among others) could include:
1. Study of writing communities, their language and material resources.
2. Representations of readers/reading in literary texts.
3. Filmic transposition of literary texts.
4. History of printing and book-binding.
5. Authorship, censorship and publication.
6. "La mise en ab yme."
7. Texts and their material support.
We recommend that Symposium presentations be in English, twenty minutes in length, and they may address a topic from any period or discipline. Please submit the 250-350 word abstract by e-mail attachment no later than January 31st, 2007 to Nabil Khawla and Matteo Soranzo, symposium co-chairs, at . A link to the abstract submission form is located at the very end of this page.
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2007 Schedule
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Friday, March 23
The French House
633 N. Frances Street
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3:15 - 4:15 pm
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Registration
Music provided by pianist Anna C. Bachman
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4:15 - 4:30 pm
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Opening Remarks
Nabil Khawla and Matteo Soranzo, Symposium Co-chairs
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4:30 - 5:30 pm
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Keynote address
Michael H. Shank, Professor, History of Science and Integrated Liberal Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Book as Object in, and around, the Galileo Affair
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5:30 - 6:00 pm
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Opening Reception
Music provided by pianist Anna C. Bachman
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Saturday, March 24
The Pyle Center
702 Langdon Street
Room 325
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8:30 - 9:00 am
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Registration and Coffee
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9:00 - 10:15 am
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References, Influences, Intertext
Moderator: Monica Seger
Jeanette Goddard, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Dept. of Comparative Literature
Reading the Cross-Dressed Body: Making the Body Legible in Gl'ingannati
Cathy Blunk, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Dept. of French and Italian
Mise en page, Illumination, and the Tournament Convention in the British Library Cotton Nero D IX Manuscript of Jehan de Saintré
Chad Shorter, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Dept. of French and Italian
(T)high on a Rocky Cliff: The Role of Phidias in Recasting Olimpia in Orlando Furioso
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10:15 - 10:30 am
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Break |
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10:30 - 11:45 am
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Books As Texts
Moderator: Mouhamedoul Amin Niang
Peter Vantine, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Dept. of French and Italian
The Goncourt’s Charles Demailly: A New Kind of Novel About a New Kind of Novel
Aaron Jossart, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Dept. of French and Italian
Defining Publication as a Narrative Construct (or): How Books Create the Stories They Tell
François Proulx, Harvard University
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
‘Cette ivresse imaginaire’: The Reader’s Seduction in Stendhal and Albert Sueur
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11:45 - 1:00 pm
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Lunch -- The French House
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1:15 - 2:30 pm
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Transposing Texts
Moderator: Nataša Bašić
Anna C. Bachman, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Dept. of French and Italian
Harmony of Poetry and Piano: Debussy’s Musical Rendering of Charles Baudelaire’s “Harmonie du soir”
Christopher Bolander, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Dept. of French and Italian
Michel Tremblay’s C’t’à ton tour, Laura Cadieux on Film and TV: A Pablumization in Progress
Chiara De Santi, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Dept. of French and Italian
Giovannino Guareschi and the Comrade don Camillo: How Book and Film Serve Ideology
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2:30 - 2:45
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Break
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2:45 - 3:50 pm
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Rethinking Texts and Books
Moderator: Loren Eadie
Patrick Chappuis, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Dept. of French and Italian
From Paper to Letter: Semiology in Claudel’s Cent phrases pour éventails
Matteo Gilebbi, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Dept. of French and Italian
Rose Shaped Interface (Interfaccia in forma di rosa)
Sandra Simmons, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Dept. of French and Italian
The livre d’artiste(s) of poets André du Bouchet, Michel Butor, and Bernard Noël
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3:50 - 4:00 pm
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Break
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4:00 - 4:45 pm
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Roundtable Discussion
Moderator: Matteo Soranzo
Participants:
Stefania Buccini, Professor of Italian
Keith Busby, Professor of French
Deborah Jenson, Associate Professor of French
Christopher Kleinhenz, Professor of Italian
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4:45 - 5:00 pm
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Closing Remarks
Linda Brindeau, GAFIS Co-president
Aliko Songolo, Professor of French and African Literature
Chair, Department of French and Italian
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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5:15 - 7:00 pm
Angelic
322 W. Johnson St.
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Closing Reception
Cash Bar
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Contacts
General Inquiries:
Please Send all questions regarding the Symposium to Nabil Khawla and Matteo Soranzo, symposium co-chairs, at:
Housing & Transportation:
Dear Symposium Guest,
I have taken the time to put together some information regarding various housing and transportation options which you may find useful when planning your trip. It is also helpful for us to know of your plans. Please be sure to complete and return your housing and transportation form (scroll down to the bottom of this page) by March 1st to me, Linda Brindeau. If you have any questions, please contact me through email or by phone at (608) 698-8490.
Sincerely,
Linda Brindeau
Chair
Housing and Transportation Committee
IT : Please send all inquiries to Ali Vander Woude (Tehcnology Chair) : To request any type of equipment, please download and fill out the equipment request form found at the bottom of this page. E-mail back to Ali Vander Woude.
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