SOCIETY OF DIX-NEUVIEMISTES The inaugural meeting and conference of the new Society of Dix-Neuviémistes is to be held on the afternoon of 4 July 2001 in Dublin, following the conclusion of the conference of the Society for French Studies. There will

SOCIETY OF DIX-NEUVIEMISTES

The inaugural meeting and conference of the new Society of
Dix-Neuviémistes is to be held on the afternoon of 4 July 2001 in
Dublin, following the conclusion of the conference of the Society for
French Studies. There will be four papers given on the theme "Alterity
and Marginality", followed by a meeting to launch the new society and
to propose an interim executive.

First session (2:00-3:00), chaired by Di Holmes
-- Hannah Thompson (Darwin College, Cambridge): "Demarginalising the
Perverse: Rachilde and the Erotic Body"
-- Caroline Berson (Royal Holloway, University of London): "La 'nouvelle
femme' dans la littérature féminine à la Belle Epoque: éducation,
marginalité et dissidence"
-- Discussion

Second session (3:30-4:30), chaired by Larry Schehr
-- Owen Heathcote (University of Bradford): "'Cet être amphibie qui
n'est ni homme ni femme': marginalizing gender and gendering the
marginal in Balzac's Camille Maupin"
-- Caroline Warman ( De Montfort University, Leicester): "Authorising
pederasty: the discourse of 'sexual inversion' in nineteenth-century
France"
-- Discussion

4:45: General Meeting to inaugurate the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes

Conference fee: £5 or IR£6, reduced fee of £2 or IR £2.50 for
postgraduates. Please send your cheque to the conference organizer,
Nigel Harkness (to whom any queries should be
addressed), at The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN,
Northern Ireland. Your cheque should be made out to the "Society of
Dix-Neuviémistes". If you will be needing extra accommodation for that
night, please contact Sarah Capitanio ,
specifying that you will be attending the SDN conference.

The Society of Dix-Neuviémistes wishes to thank the Society for French
Studies for its support in putting on this inaugural conference.