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Conference agenda
“Noire is the New Noir” conference
Saturday November 5th, 2016
Room, C-104, American University of Paris, Combes building,
6, rue du Colonel Combes. 75007 Paris
08h30 – 09h00 – Registration
09h00 – 09h15 – Welcoming remarks (Alice Craven & Russell Williams)
09h15 – 10h45 - Panel one, ‘Contextualising Noir Transnationally’, chair – Lucas
Hollister
Natacha Levet (Université de Limoges), “Translating America through the Série Noire, from
Marcel Duhamel to Aurélien Masson”
Alistair Rolls (University of Newcastle, Australia), Clara Sitbon (University of Sydney) and
Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan (University of Newcastle, Australia), “Making Marcel Duhamel a
Great Man for French Crime Fiction”
Benoît Tadié (Université Rennes 2), “Along the Ideological Divide: Female, Gay and Lesbian
Noir between American paperback collections and the Série Noire”
10h45 – 11h00 – Pause
11h00 – 11h45 – Plenary session one
Dominique Jeannerod (Queens University, Belfast), “Spectres of French Noir: the long shadow
of the Série Noire in French Literature and Culture”
11h45 – 13h30 – Lunch
13h30 – 15h00 - Panel two, ‘The Challenges of Noir: Translation and Transformation’,
chair – Alice Craven
Cécile Cottenet (Université Aix-Marseille), “The transatlantic economics of the Série Noire”
Sophie Bélot (University of Sheffield), “Jean-Luc Godard’s conflict with-in the Série Noire”
Tyechia Lynn Thompson (Howard University), “Text Mining Race and Travel in Chester
Himes’s Ne nous enervons pas!, The Heat’s On, and Cotton Comes to Harlem”
15h00 – 15h15 – Pause
15h15 – 16h45 –Panel three, ‘Close-up on the néo polar’, chair – Russell Williams
Sophie Vallas (Université Aix-Marseille), “Jerome Charyn’s noir New York and its French
echoes”
Jean-Philippe Gury (Université de Bretagne Occidentale), “Amila, Série Noire et province”
Lucas Hollister (Dartmouth College), “Jean-Patrick Manchette, Alain Delon and the politics
of French hard-boiled masculinity”
16h45-17h00 – Pause
17h00 – 18h00 – Panel four, ‘21st Century Noir’, chair – Orlene McMahon
Jean Anderson (Victoria University of Wellington), “Noir (enfin) de femme… women of the
Série noire”
Alice Jacquelin (Université de Poitiers), “Benoît Minville et Pierric Guittaut: l'avènement d'un
country noir à la française?”
18h00 – Refreshments served
18h00 – 19h30 – Plenary session two
Aurélien Masson (Série Noire), Dominique Manotti (novelist) and Russell Williams (AUP) in
conversation