SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES
WELCOMES YOU TO OUR TWO DAY BILINGUAL & INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
Thursday 3rd & Friday 4th April 2003
The Auditorium, WIT, Cork Road, Waterford, Republic of Ireland
VIVRE EN MARGE, VIVRE AU SEUIL DES POSSIBILITÉS
LA FRANCOPHONIE, L’IRLANDE, TERRE NEUVE : NAISSANCE D’UNE EXPRESSION DÉMARGINALISÉE
IRELAND, NEWFOUNDLAND, THE FRANCOPHONE WORLD : THE BIRTH OF A NEW, DEMARGINALISED CREATIVITY
Thursday 3rd April : La Journée Francophone : Guest speakers : Azouz Begag (CNRS) Writer & Sociologist; & Dr Grace Neville, UCC
Friday 4th April : Humanities Day : Ireland & Newfoundland : Speakers from Memorial University Newfoundland, and Ireland.
The publication of the conference proceedings will be sponsored by Le Service Culturel de L’Ambassade de France en Irlande, & The Embassy of Canada
Conference Organiser : Christine O’Dowd-Smyth (codowdsmyth@wit.ie; 00.353.51.302065)
Conference Fee : 85 Euros (fully inclusive of VAT) includes 2 days, lunches and conference banquet on Thursday 3rd April at WIT Cork Road Campus
35 Euros per day session
Special postgraduate entrance fee of 40 euros to cover both days (excluding conference banquet)
WIT personnel & students admittance free
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
THURSDAY 3RD APRIL : LA JOURNÉE
FRANCOPHONE
8.30am Registration, Tea & Coffee
9.00am Official Opening of the Conference by the
Director, WIT
In the presence of our distinguished guests,
Mr Patrick Thomas, Conseiller Culturel et
De France en Irlande ;
Mr Bill Gusen, Consul, The Embassy of Canada,
Dr Azouz Begag
Dr Grace Neville
10.00-11-00 : VIVRE EN MARGE, VIVRE AU SEUIL
PLENARY SESSION AND DISCUSSION
WITH AZOUZ BEGAG
11.00-11.15 : Tea & Coffee
11.15-12.15 : IS FRENCH DOOMED?
PLENARY SESSION AND DISCUSSION : GUEST SPEAKER:
DR GRACE NEVILLE, DEPT OF FRENCH,
UCC
12.15-.1.00PM : LIGHT LUNCH
1PM –2.30.PM :PLENARY SESSION :
DE LA PÉRIPHÉRIE AU CENTRE :
LA LITTÉRATURE MAGHRÉBINE D’EXPRESSION
FRANÇAISE
ET LA LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE D’ORIGINE
Avenue de France de Colette fellous : de la périphérie au centre,
Allers et retours
Dr Dora Carpenter Latiri, University of Brighton.
Hassiba Lassoued, La Sorbonne Nouvelle
2.30-4PM : PLENARY SESSION :
De l’identité fragmentée à l’identité multiple :
les écrivains haïtiens contemporains
face à la diaspora
Paola Ghinelli, l’Université de Bologne
La science fiction canadienne, un révélateur de
L’identité canadienne : Des héros malgré eux
Dr Henry Leperlier, Dublin Institute of Technology
Simona Cutcan, NUI Maynooth
5pm : Launch of the Ireland/Newfoundland
poetry anthology
7.30pm : Conference Banquet,
CERT Restaurant, WIT,
Cork Road Campus.
FRIDAY 4TH APRIL 2002 : HUMANITIES DAY
IRELAND/NEWFOUNDLAND
9.00AM : Registration, Tea & Coffee
9.15-10.00am : GUEST LECTURE : A History of Newfoundland
& Labrador since 1800 : Living on the Atlantic Edge
Rex Brown, Memorial University, Newfoundland
10.00-11.00am : PLENARY SESSION :
The Cutting Edge : Contemporary Aboriginal Literature
in Newfounland & Canada
Dr Stephanie McKenzie, Memorial University, Newfoundland
Dr John Ennis, Waterford IT
11.00-11.30 : Tea & Coffee
11.30-12.15 : GUEST LECTURE : Emerging at the Edge :
Assessing the cultural climate for new and developing artists
in Newfoundland & Labrador
Michael Pittmann, Memorial University, Newfoundland
12.15-1.30 : LUNCH
1.30-3PM : PLENARY SESSION OF GUEST SPEAKERS
Women from the Periphery To the Centre of the Migration & Settlement Narrative
Willeen Keough, Memorial University, Newfoundland
In an Irish Peripheral Community
Dr Mary O’Malley, Villanova University
Anglicanism, a minority voice in an expanding pluralist society :
Reflections on a local situation.
The Rev Derek Sargent, Vicar of Tramore
3PM-4.30PM : PLENARY SESSION : THE WIT CENTRE FOR FILM STUDIES
Between the Country and the City: Images of Suburbia in GUILTRIP
Richard Hayes, Waterford IT
Marginality in BLOODY SUNDAY
Dr Catherine Lowry-O’Neill, Waterford IT