Journée d'études "Performing female bodies and creative corporeality in the English-speaking world"
Aire Irlande Poïetique & politique Journée d'étudesLe 6 février 2026: Journée d'études "Performing female bodies and creative corporeality in the English-speaking world".
Maison de la Recherche -Salle F0.13 - Campus du Pont-de-Bois à Villeneuve D'Ascq
Organisation: Hélène Lecossois, Claire Hélie et Sophia Mallek Winter (CECILLE)
PROGRAMME:
9.00 Coffee and Welcome
9.30 Keynote
Deirdre Mulrooney
“Haunted: Dancing Ghosts and Contemporary Irish Performance”
Chair: Sophia Mallek Winter
10. 30 Pannel 1 “The becomings of the female body”
Chair: Hélène Lecossois
Marine Galiné
“The abject materiality of the mutating female body in Fréwaka (2024) by Aislinn Clarke”
Pénélope Szulka
“The Body-in-Becoming: Porosity and Radical Immanence in the Work of Kae Tempest”
Jeni Peake
“Break a skin: English-Language Tattoos as Creative Corporeality on French Female Bodies”
12.30 Lunch
Room, F0.43
13.30 Pannel 2 “Performing female bodies in the early 20th century”
Chair: Nina Milonet
Léa de Truchis
“Le paradoxe des femmes de cirque aux Etats-Unis entre 1870 et 1940”
Charlotte Estrade
“Djuna Barnes’ “repulsive women”: intermedial portraits of female bodies in the performing arts (1910-1931)”
14.45 coffee
15.00 Pannel 3 “Writing female corporeality”
Chair: Claire Hélie
Molly Gilbertson
“What if the body is enough”: Ada Limón’s creative corporeality and poetic performance”
Léa Boichard
“The female body as a corporeal agent of the queer feminist gaze and voice in Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties (2017) »
16.15 closing remarks
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