La Représentation du Loser - Texas Tech University Departments

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LaReprésentationduLoser
Organizedby
Carole Edwards; David H.J. Larmour; Starra
Priestaf
TexasTechUniversity
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March2-4,2016
Conference Program
Wednesday March 2nd, 2016
19h: Introduction à la poésie SLAM sur le thème Réussir/Echouer (French Club avec Andrea
Jonsson)
Qualia Room, Foreign Language Building
Thursday March 3rd, 2016
8h45 Registration Formby Room
09h15 Welcome breakfast- Coffee and pastries
09h30 Opening Remarks
9h40 "Rétrospective du loser dans la culture populaire française: du tendre loser au beauf
détestable"
Formby Room, Southwest Collection.
Carole Edwards, Texas Tech University
10h05 Michel Houellebecq (modératrice Starra Priestaf)
Formby Room, Southwest Collection
1) "D'abord j'ai trébuché dans un congélateur": représentations du loser dans La
Poursuite du bonheur (1991) de Michel Houellebecq.
Olivier Parenteau, Collège de Saint-Laurent (Montréal / Québec, Canada)
2) Les faux-gagnants dans Les Particules élémentaires de Michel Houellebecq.
Carlos Tello, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7 (France)
11h05 Coffee Break
11h20 (Mis-)narrating Identity: Russians and Losers (Chair: Peter I. Barta)
Formby Room, Southwest Collection
1) Introduction: Whitewashing the 'National' Poet: Losers and Losers
Peter I. Barta, Texas Tech & University of Surrey (UK)
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2) Losers as Winners in post-Soviet Literature for Young Adults
**Distinguished Speaker**
Marina Balina, Isaac Funk Professor of German and Russian, Illinois Wesleyan Univ.
3) The Soviet Loser as a Symbol of Lost Russianness in late Soviet Literature
Anthony Qualin, Texas Tech University
13h05 Lunch
14h30 Le film français (modératrice Carole Edwards)
Formby Room, Southwest Collection
1) L’échec le plus réussi : Pierrot le fou comme un loser métamorphique
Abigail RayAlexander, Johns Hopkins University
2) And the loser is… Patrick Dewaere.
Rémi Fontanel, Université Lumière Lyon 2 (France)
3) Du « loser » au « beauf » : caractérisations sociales et archétypes fictionnels.
Autour du film Le goût des autres (Agnès Jaoui, 2000).
Lucile Dumont, EHESS (Paris, France)
15h45: Coffee Break
16h00-17h15: Plenary Speaker- Professor Philip Powrie, University of Surrey (UK)
Formby Room, Southwest Collection
"Loss, destitution and ignominy: the ageing star in contemporary French cinema"
19h00 Private dinner for conference participants
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Friday March 4, 2016
9h00 Late Registration Formby Room
09h15 Welcome breakfast- Coffee and pastries
09h30 Le roman français (modératrice Andrea Jonsson)
Formby Room, Southwest Collection
1) Lazare ou le loser dans La Joie de vivre d’Émile Zola
Abdullatif Acarlioglu, Université Anadolu (Turkey)
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2) Politique du loser: le perdant post-exotique, arme de conviction massive?
Rémi Astruc, Université de Cergy-Pontoise (France), 2016 Visiting Professor at NYU
3) Frédéric Boyer et l'art de banaliser des personnages
Glenn Fetzer, New Mexico State University
11h00 Coffee Break
11h15 Le roman francophone (modératrice Carole Edwards)
Formby Room, Southwest Collection
1) Le loser dans l’œuvre culte de Mohamed Choukri : Le Pain nu
EL ARBI EL BAKKALI, Al Hoceima (Morocco)
2) Dieuswalwé Azémar ou le personnage du loser dans la série policière de Gary Victor
Françoise Cévaër, University of The West Indies, (Mona Campus, Jamaica, W.I.)
3) Loser beur ! Bouge pas, Djaidani Rachid te prend en photo.
Lounis Zakia et Kazi-Tani Ilham, Université de Boumerdes (Algeria).
11:15 Images of Losers in German Culture (Chair Marina Balina)
Qualia Room, Foreign Languages
1)“‘Gods, Heroes, and Losers’: The imagery of failure in German Storm and Stress
Fiction.”
Charles Grair, Texas Tech University
2)"Victims of the War: Images of the Loser in Early 20th-century German Literature."
Allison Cattell, Texas Tech University
3)"Losers of Society / Champions for Weakness: Re-reading the Loser in light of the
early 20th-century Cult of Health and Beauty"
Belinda Kleinhans, Texas Tech University
12h45 lunch
13h30 L'entre-deux-guerres (modérateur Philip Powrie)
Formby Room, Southwest Collection
1) L’évolution de la représentation du loser dans les films d’entre-deux-guerres de Jean
Renoir
Frederic Leveziel, University of South Florida St. Petersburg
2) Échec et destin. Le loser dans quelques romans de l’entre-deux- guerres.
Iacopo Leoni – Université of Pisa (Italy)
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14h15 Classics Panel: is there a 'Loser' in the Classical World? (Chair: Marina Balina)
Formby Room, Southwest Collection
1) Also-Ran and Underdog: Representing Losers in Greek Athletics
Peter Miller, Texas Tech University
2) Demosthenes and the Value of the Loser in Cicero’s Philippics
Caroline B. Bishop, Texas Tech University
3) The Satirist as Loser: The case of Juvenal
David H. J. Larmour, Texas Tech University
15h30 Coffee Break
15h45 Télévision française: séries et musique (modératrice Starra Priestaf)
Formby Room, Southwest Collection
1) Playing the Loser and Winning: Stromae and the Formidable Minable
Andrea Jonsson, Texas Tech University
2) Losers and Winners in the French TV Series Fais pas ci, fais pas ça
Otto Selles, Calvin College
16h45 Closing remarks
19h00 Private Reception for Conference participants
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