Friday, October 16, 2020 at 9 AM CDT – 4 PM PDT
Public · Hosted by French Connexions at Washington University in St Louis
Online Event
The French cultural center at Washington University in St Louis presents:
"AUTOUR DU LIVRE"
Silver Colloquium Journée d’études en l'honneur de Colette Winn
16 october 2020
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (RLL)
Washington university in St. Louis
for contact about registration : Lionel Cuillé, lcuille@wustl.edu
Schedule (all times in CDT / GMT -5)
9:00 Welcome
9:15-10:15 Session I : Book Culture
Julie Singer, Washington University in St Louis "Enseignements à mon frère? Anne of France and the Bourbon memory of Saint Louis" (BnF MS fr. 2829)
Faith Beasley, Dartmouth College "Textes et contextes: Writing Conversation"
Anne Larsen, Hope College "Salons, Network Patronage, and the Self-Representation of French Seventeenth-Century Women of Science"
10:15-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:15 Session II : Self-Fashioning Women’s Identities
Cathy Yandell, Carleton College "Reading the Bodies of Witches: The Case of Jeanne des Anges (1632-1637)"
Karen de Bruin, University of Rhode Island "Transcending the Father: Germaine de Staël and the Perfectibility of the Human Species"
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:15 Session III : Poètes courtisans
François Rouget, Queen's University (Canada) "Catherine de Retz et ses admirateurs : Complément d’enquête sur Amadis Jamyn et Cholières"
Cynthia Skenazi, University of Santa Barbara "Modes d'emploi du livre: L'exemple du "Poète Courtisan" de Du Bellay"
12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 Session IV : Visualizing the Text
Marilynn Desmond, Binghamton University (SUNY), "Visualizing Briseida in Late Medieval Manuscript Illustration"
Harriet Stone, Washington University in St Louis " Through the Dutch Doorway to the House that Lafayette Built for the Princesse de Clèves"
Andrew Clark, Fordham University "Performing Portraits: How Women in the Ancien Régime Use Portraits to Confirm and Upend Historical Truth"
2:30-2:45 Coffee Break
2:45-3:45 Session V : Defending Women
Deborah McGrady, University of Virginia "The Return of Joan of Arc: The Slow Transformation of the Heretic into a Heroine in Sixteenth-Century France"
Tili Boon Cuillé, Washington university in St. Louis "The Scepter and the Distaff: Rousseau’s "La Reine Fantasque" as Intertext"
Fabienne Moore, University of Oregon "Re-authorizing the Social Contract: Etta Palm’s "Lettre d’une amie de la vérité" (March 1791)
4:00-5:00 Celebrating Colette
Please also visit our online companion online companion "Autour du livre": https://library.wustl.edu/spec/exhibits/ curated by Zhiyuan Meng and Julie Singer and featuring Early Modern French books from Washington University Libraries’ Special Collections.
We thank the Washington University Libraries, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the estate of Isidore and Edith Silver for their generous support.
Professor Colette Winn has taught French language and literature courses at every level. She has supervised decades of Washington University students both in St. Louis and in France, including as part of the French for the Pre-Med Program in Nice, a vibrant and successful summer program which she created in 1993 and has directed ever since. Colette was named Chevalier de l’ordre des Palmes Académiques in 1995 in recognition of her extensive contributions to French Studies. Colette has always been, and remains, an extremely dedicated teacher and mentor whose students have, year after year, course after course, séjour after séjour, benefitted from her profound commitment to their education and well-being. It is in honor of her many accomplishments and contributions that we celebrate Colette today. The organizers:
Tili Boon Cuillé, Julie Singer, Harriet Stone
* For a full list of Colette Winn's publications, see https://rll.wustl.edu/files/rll/2019Winn.pdf