Convenor: Dr Gill Rye (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies; gill.rye@sas.ac.uk)

Saturdays 2.30-4.30 pm

The CWWF Seminar meets two to three times a year, the venue alternating between the IGRS, University of London, and regional institutions. The aim of the Seminar is to provide an ongoing forum for the discussion and promotion of a wide range of contemporary writing by women. The main focus is on new and recent texts from either metropolitan France or elsewhere, but new approaches to any post-war women’s writing in French are also welcome. The format for meetings is flexible and may include reading group sessions for new texts, round-table discussions, formal papers, workshops, etc. The Seminar is open to all students, researchers and teachers interested in contemporary women’s writing in French. Six major international conferences have also taken place since 2000, as well as author study days and readings.  The seminar is an activity of the cross-cultural Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing (CCWW) at the IGRS. Note: The CCWW website is currently being re-designed.

The CWWF Seminar also has a monthly e-mail newsletter, with searchable archive - to subscribe (free of charge), please contact Gill Rye.

Programme for 2011-2012                

Saturday 12 November 2011, 2.30-4.30 p.m.

Venue: the IGRS, University of London, Stewart House (Room ST 273)

Organiser: Gill Rye (IGRS)       

Rentrée Reading Group

Texts for discussion:
Marie Darrieussecq, Clèves [POL, 2011]
Grisélidis Réal, Mémoires de l'inachevé (1954-1993) [Editions Verticales, 2011)

Saturday 17 March 2012, 2.30-4.30 p.m.

Venue: School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Leeds 

Organisers: Alison Fell, Diana Holmes, Hannah Perlin (Leeds)       

Contemporary French Women's Writing and the Historical Novel

Texts for discussion:
Chantal Thomas, Les Adieux à la Reine [2002] - introduced by Alison Fell
Nina Bouraoui, Mes mauvaises Pensées [2005] - introduced by Hannah Perlin