Conference Organizers
Tyler Stovall, History, UC Berkeley
Georges Van Den Abbeele, French and Italian, UC Davis

Welcome (9:30)
Tyler Stovall, Georges Van Den Abbeele

Session One (10:00 – 11:30)
The Changing Identities of French Intellectuals
Chair: Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Art History, UC-Berkeley

Presentations
"Going Native with Le Corbusier"
Patricia Morton, Art History, UC-Riverside

"Shame: Catherine Breillat’s Aesthetics of Intimacy"
Elizabeth Constable, French and Italian, UC-Davis

"In-Conclusion: An Ethics of Theory"
Richard Terdiman, Literature, UC-Santa Cruz

Response
Claude Imbert, Philosophy, École Normale Superieure, rue d’Ulm, Paris

Lunch Break (11:30 – 1)

Session Two (1:00 – 2:30)
Re-Assessing the Francophone World
Chair: Karl Britto, French, UC-Berkeley

Presentations
"Twenty First Century Francophonie"
Françoise Lionnet, French and Francophone Studies, UCLA

"Historically Particular Uses of a Universal Subject"
Donna Hunter, Art History, UC-Santa Cruz

"Algerian Historiography through a Biographical Lens: the Case of Germaine Tillon"
Nancy Wood, School of Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts

Response
Michele Praeger, French and Italian, UC-Davis

Session Three (3:00 – 4:30)
The Limits of Frenchness
Chair: Michael G. Vann, University of Santa Clara

Presentations
"The White Colony"
Winifred Woodhull, Literature, UC-San Diego

"Nos Ancêtres les Voyants: Making Blind People French in the Twentieth Century"
Catherine Kudlick, History, UC-Davis

Response
J. P. Daughton, History, Stanford University

Roundtable Discussion (4:30 – 5:30)
Chair: David Goldberg, Director, UC Humanities Research Institute
Participants: The presenters, the audience