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[2015] Gimello-Mesplomb F. « Alain Resnais and the ‘Groupe des Trente’ (1953-55) : A major step towards a State recognition of quality within the early 50s French short film support scheme » Conference paper given to the Resnais... more

[2015] Gimello-Mesplomb F. « Alain Resnais and the ‘Groupe des Trente’ (1953-55) : A major step towards a State recognition of quality within the early 50s French short film support scheme »

Conference paper given to the Resnais Archipelago Conference, Duke University (USA), 29-31 October 2015 [full text : https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01877554]

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Conference Schedule
The Resnais Archipelago, Duke University 29-31 October 2015

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE (as of 05.28.2015)

All papers: 30 minutes, + 15 minutes Q & A

Thursday morning 29

9:45-:10:15: Prof. Frédéric Gimello-Mesplomb, Université d’Avignon

“Alain Resnais and the ‘groupe des Trente’ (1953-55) : A major step towards a State recognition of quality within the early 50s French short film support scheme”

10:15-10:30: discussion

10:30-11:00: Christina Rudosky, University of Colorado-Boulder

“Collecting and recollecting ‘l’art nègre’ in Les statues meurent aussi”

11:00-11:15: discussion

11:15-11:45: Dr Jennifer Cazenave, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

“From Guernica to Loin du Viêt-nam: Trauma and the Feminine Trace in Resnais’ Postwar Archipelago”

11:45-12:00: discussion

12:00-12:30: Prof. Codruţa Morari, Wellesley College

“Between Nouvelle Vague and Nouveau Cinéma: Alain Resnais and the Politics of Cahiers du cinema”

12:30-12:45: discussion

LUNCH

Thursday afternoon

2:00-2:30: Prof. Elisabeth Cardonne-Arlyck, Vassar College

“Alain Resnais et le corps pathétique”

2:30-2:45: discussion

2:45-3:15: Prof. Virginie A. Duzer, Pomona College

“Les coups de dés d’Alain Resnais : Traces mallarméennes et surréalistes dans l’Année dernière à Marienbad et Je t’aime, Je t’aime !”

3:15-3:30: discussion

3:30-4:00: Dr Ursula Tidd, University of Manchester

“Alain Resnais and Jorge Semprún: memory, masculinity and politics”

4:00-4:15: discussion

4:15-4:30: coffee break

4:30-5:30: KEYNOTE 1, Prof. Steven Ungar, University of Iowa

“Seldom Seen and Never Made: From Le Mystère de l’atelier quinze and Harry Dickson to Repérages”

6:30-7:30 Round table on La Vie est un roman

Friday morning 30

9:30-10:00: Dr Maria Flood, Cornell University

“‘I Stumbled Over Her’: Torture and (In)Visibility in Resnais’s Muriel”

10:00-10:15: discussion

10:15-10:45: Laure Astourian, Columbia University

“The foreign and the taboo: Alain Resnais and the Algerian War”

10:45-11:00: discussion

11:00-11:30: Pietro Bianchi, Duke University

“Resnais and the Real of Temporality”

11:30-11:45: discussion

11:45-12:00: BREAK

12:00-13:00: KEYNOTE (lunch served), Prof. Suzanne Liandrat-Gigues, Université de Vincennes à Saint-Denis Paris-VIII

“Alain Resnais, un monde en miniature?”

2:00-2:30: Prof. Alan Marcus, University of Aberdeen

“Representing Post-Traumatic Space”

2:30-2:45: discussion

2:45-3:15: Prof. Alain Boillat, Université de Lausanne

“Les films d’Alain Resnais au carrefour des mondes et des genres”

3:15-3:30: discussion

3:30-4:00: BREAK

4:00-4:30: Prof. Vincent Amiel, Université de Caen/Basse-Normandie

“Resnais et les multiples chemins de l’image“

4:30-4:15: discussion

4:15-4:45: paper 14 Dr Sophie Rudolph, Universität St.Gallen

“Philosophizing with Resnais“

4:45-5:00: discussion

5:00-5:30: break, refreshments

5:30-7:00: screening shorts

8:00 conference dinner at restaurant Blu, Durham.

Saturday morning

9:45-10:30: Dr Eric Costeix, Université François Rabelais de Tours

“Alain Resnais : La mémoire de l’éternité”

10:30-10:45: discussion

10:30-11:15: Prof. Catherine Du Toit, University of Stellenbosch

“Memory is a moral affair: Composition and reconstruction of the past in the documentary films of Alain Resnais”

10:45-11:00: discussion

11:15-12:00: Prof. Sylvie Blum-Reid, University of Florida

“The Persistence of Memory; Hiroshima in Alain Resnais and Nobuhiro Suwa”

14:00-14:15: discussion

12:00-12:15: coffee break

12:15-13:15: KEYNOTE Prof. François Thomas, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III

“The Dream of the Perfect Music Score”

LUNCH

(if time allows: final Round table and departure)