News & Events

• Four French Research Cluster members delivered papers at the 2019 Australian Society for French Studies conference, “Making and Breaking Rules” (« Règles et dérèglements » ) held at the University of New England in Sydney:

  Leslie Barnes, “Reckoning with Forced Marriage in the Era of #MeToo: Noces rouges and Phka Sla Krom Angkar”.

  Gemma King, “Jacques Audiard’s The Sisters Brothers as cinéma-monde: Testing the Limits of National Cinemas”.

  Christie Margrave, “An Ecopoetics of Madagascar: Drawing Attention to Landscape Violence Through the Hybridity of Poetic Form and Language”.

  Robert Wellington, “Ludwig II of Bavaria’s Rule-breaking Fascination with ancien-régime France”.

• Check out Ben Mercer's new book: Student Revolt in 1968: France, Italy and West Germany. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
• New article by Christie Margrave 'Environment and Identity in the Nineteenth-Century French Caribbean Novel: Traversay’s Les amours de Zémédare et Carina and Bergeaud’s Stella' , Dix-Neuf, Volume 23, 2019 - Issue 3-4.
• New chapter by Gemma King 'Denis Villeneuve’s multilingual cinema: Decentring space, time and language in Arrival', in Multilingualism in Film, eds. Ralf Junkerjürgen and Gala Rebane, Peter Lang, 2019.
• The latest issue of the Australian Journal of French Studies was guest edited by Leslie Barnes, Ashok Collins and Gemma King: ‘Truth and Representation in French and Francophone Studies’, based on the 2017 Australian Society for French Studies conference, Australian Journal of French Studies, July 2019 (volume 56, issue 2). This issue also contains articles by Gemma King ('Multiculturalism Obscured: Paris Museum Cultures and the Musée de l’Institut du monde arabe') and Ashok Collins ('Testifying to the Truth: Paul Ricœur and Jean-Luc Nancy on the Theological Turn')
• New publications by Bert Peeters: 
  • (2019) 'Un train peut en cacher un autre… Bling: blog de linguistique illustré'
  • (2019) 'Jean-Marie Le Pen et l’imparfait du subjonctif, ou: quand l’imaginaire linguistique s’emballe'. La linguistique. 2019/2 (vol. 55), pp. 51-76
  • (2018) '(White) lies and (pieux) mensonges: ethnolinguistic elaborations on not telling the truth'. Etnolingwistyka 30, pp. 169-188. DOI: 10.17951/et.2018.30.169
• New publications by Dr Annabelle Doherty:
  • Doherty, A. 'Stardom and historical thinking in Isabelle Adjani’s French heritage film Camille Claudel', Studies in French Cinema, 8 July 2019.
  • Doherty, A. 'A Cinematic Cultural Memory of Courtship, Weddings, Marriage, and Adultery in July Monarchy France through Heritage Films Claude Chabrol’s Madame Bovary, Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s The Horseman on the Roof, and Catherine Breillat’s The Last Mistress' , Adaptation, vol. 12, no. 2, 2019, pp. 118-148.
• On 30 August 2019 Dr Alex Cook will discuss Diderot's Encyclopédie in the HRC Books that Changed Humanity series: http://hrc.cass.anu.edu.au/events/books-changed-humanity-encyclop-die
• On 18 September 2019 Dr Gemma King will be giving the penultimate 2019 Works that Shaped the World public lecture in the Kambri cinema, focusing on Georges Méliès’ classic 1902 short film Le Voyage dans la lune: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-lunar-origins-of-cinema-georges-melies-and-le-voyage-dans-la-lune-tickets-63542558503
• New publication by Dr Christie Margrave: Writing the Landscape: Exposing Nature in French Women's Fiction 1789-1815.
• The FRC congratulates Dr Solène Inceoglu, who has been awarded a Vice-Chancellor's Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning!
• New publications by Dr Gemma King:
  • King, G. 'No laughing matter? Navigating political (in)correctness in Intouchables', Francosphères, vol. 7, no. 1, 2018, pp. 1-14.
  • King, G. 'Merry Christmas in No Man's Land: European Borders, Language Barriers and Front Lines in Christian Carion's Joyeux Noël', in Michael Gott and Thibaut Schilt (ed.), Cinéma-monde: Decentred Perspectives on Global Filmmaking in French, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018, pp. 175-191.
  • King, G. 'Contemporary French cinema and the langue de passage: From Dheepan to Welcome', French Cultural Studies, vol. 29, no. 1, 2018, pp. 39-48.
  • Edwards, N, Hogarth, C & King, G 2018, 'Introduction: Mobility across media in the Francophone world', French Cultural Studies, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 3-7.
  • King, G. Decentring France: Multilingualism and power in contemporary French cinema, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2017.
• The FRC welcomes its newest member, Dr Christie Margrave!
• New publications by Dr Leslie Barnes:

  • Barnes, L. “Sur les pas de Linda Lê: Paris, Exilic Heterotopia.” Paris and the Marginalized Author: Treachery, Alienation, Queerness, and Exile. Eds, Pamela Pears and Valérie K. Orlando, Lanham: Lexington Press, 2018. 109-22.

  • Barnes, L. “Linda Lê, On Writing and Not Writing,” Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, Vol. 15, No. 1-2 (2018): 20-30.

  • Barnes, L. “‘Un cinéma sans image’: Palimpsestic Memory and the Lost History of Cambodian Film.” Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France. Eds, Kathryn Kleppinger and Laura Reeck, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2018. 79-95.

  • Barnes, L. “Exposed: The Scandalous Story of Sex Work in Cambodia.” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Vol. 22, No. 1 (2018), 40-48.

  • Barnes, L. “Bride Hunters.” The Mekong Review, Vol. 4, No. 1 (2018): 27.

  • Barnes, L. “Lire et vivre par empathie: Un Entretien avec Clément Baloup.” Nouvelles Etudes Francophones, Vol. 33, No. 1. (2018): 26-38.

  • Barnes, L. “False representations of sex workers.” ANU Reporter, Vol. 49, No. 3 (2018): 9.

• The FRC has had two projects successfully funded in the latest ARC DECRA 2019 funding round. Dr Robert Wellington's project on art and cultural diplomacy aims to investigate questions about cross-cultural communication through the circulation of art objects across the globe (http://soad.cass.anu.edu.au/news/dr-robert-wellington-awarded-discovery-early-career-researcher-award-decra), and Dr Guillaume Molle's ethnoarchaeological investigation of religious systems in Ancient Polynesia aims to document and compare the long-term historical trajectories of Eastern Polynesian chiefdoms by developing a new perspective on ancient ritual practices and monuments (http://cass.anu.edu.au/news/researchers-across-cass-awarded-2019-arc-grants)
• FRC members are currently working on an ARC Discovery Project entitled Performing Transdisciplinarity which aims to use the illustrated songbook to study the transdisciplinary nature of 18th-century print culture and create a multimedia digital interface for linking deep disciplinary knowledge and the recreation of the sounds, sensibilities, and social mores of 18th-century France
• New publication by Dr Guillaume Molle - 'Pitcairn before the Mutineers: Revisiting the Isolation of a Polynesian Island' in The Bounty from the Beach (ANU Press, 2018)
• New publication by Dr Tania Colwell - Women and Work in Premodern Europe: Experiences, Relationships and Cultural Representation, c. 1100-1800 (Routledge, 2018)

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