Workshop Programme
Visualising the Franco-Algerian Relationship since 1954
The University of Manchester, 7 January 2010, 09.30-17.30
The aim of the workshop is to faciliate discussion and exchange of ideas between contributors to a special issue of Modern and Contemporary France to be published in May 2011. Bringing together specialists in French and Algerian visual culture from the UK, US, France and Algeria, the workshop and special issue will address the different ways in which the Franco-Algerian relationship has been represented in visual culture from the outbreak of the Algerian War to the present day. It will explore a range of work, including contemporary Algerian cinema and visual culture, and the negotiation of memories of colonisation and the War in French, pied-noir and Franco-Algerian film and photography.
Attendance at the workshop is free of charge. To register, please contact the organisers, Joe McGonagle (joseph.mcgonagle@manchester.ac.uk), or Ed Welch (e.j.welch@dur.ac.uk), by 30 November 2009. If you wish to join us for lunch, please let us know when you register (a subsidised fee of £10 will be payable on the day) and if you have any dietary requirements. The workshop will take place in Room C24, Sackville Street Building, The University of Manchester. A map of the campus can be found here (Sackville Street Building is marked No 1 on the map):
www.manchester.ac.uk/medialibrary/googlemap/
Further maps and travel details can also be found here:
www.manchester.ac.uk/visitors/travel/maps/
Programme
0900-0930
Registration and Coffee
0930-1100
Helen Vassallo (University of Exeter), ‘Re-mapping Algeria in France: Leïla Sebbar’s Mes Algéries en France’
Amy L. Hubbell (Kansas State University), ‘Returns, Ruins, and the Slipping Past: Pied-Noir Visual Returns to Algeria’
1100-1130: Coffee
1130-1300
Marie Chominot (Université de Paris VIII), ‘Photographie et guerre d'indépendance algérienne: la construction d’une invisibilité’
Libby Saxton (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘Algeria as Analogy: Terror, Torture and Mediation’
1300-1430: Lunch
1430-1600
Nadira Laggoune (École des Beaux-Arts, Algiers), ‘Le phénomène d'appropriation-réappropriation dans l’art algérien contemporain’
Amanda Crawley Jackson (University of Sheffield), ‘Architectural Modernism and Re-appropriation in the Work of Kader Attia’
1600-1630: Tea
1630-1730
Guy Austin (University of Sheffield), ‘Imag(in)ing Algeria: Film Style and Constructions of the Nation’
Roundtable discussion and conclusion
