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Programme
Friday 8 September
10:30 Ford Madox Ford International Society Annual General Meeting
13:00 Registration and welcome
13:30-15:00: Alterity in The Good Soldier
Chair: Christine Reynier
- Natalie Amiama: ‘Being Between’: the narrator in The Good Soldier
- Seamus O'Malley: Ford and Freud, Dowell and Dora
- Leslie De Bont: ‘I am so Near to All these People’: Alterity and the Fictions of the Self in Ford’s The Good Soldier and Sinclair’s Tasker Jevons
15:00-16:30: Ford and Others
Chair: Georges Letissier
- Harry Ricketts: The Great War and Othering the Self: Siegfried Sassoon and Ford Madox Ford
- Alice Baily Cheylan: Mutual Admiration and Discord: The friendship between Katherine Anne Porter and Ford Madox Ford
- Marine Bernot: The purpose of otherness in Ford Madox Ford and Anatole France’s autobiographical narratives
16:30-17:00 Refreshments
17:30-18:30: Keynote Lecture
Robert Hampson: Touch and intimacy in The Good Soldier and Parade's End
Chair: Sara Haslam
20:00: Conference Dinner: Le Grillardin, 3 Place de la Chapelle Neuve
Saturday 9 September
Morning Session
9:30-10:30: The Other in Ford’s Making
Chair: Isabelle Brasme
- Sara Haslam: The Other in Ford’s Making (1): Elsie, letters, fairy tales and the meta-dramatics of it all.
- Helen Chambers: The Other in Ford’s Making (2): Reader, Critic, Co-writer
10:30-11:00 Refreshments
11:00-12:30: Experiencing Alterity
Chair: Dominique Lemarchal
- Fiona Houston: Haunting the Reflective Consciousness: Ford Madox Ford, Time and The First World War
- Pia Dellson: Stoppard’s adaption of Parade’s End: Staging the Inarticulate Trauma
- Omar Sabbagh: Heavenly Others: Ford and the Strange ‘Impression’ of Transcendence
12:30 Lunch at Saint Charles (provided)
Afternoon Session
14:00-15:00: Ford’s Other Country: Germany
Chair: Harry Ricketts
- Zineb Berrahou: The Huefferian Years: Ford's Germany between greatness and illusion
- Lucinda Borkett Jones: Ford’s ‘German Period’: Constructing the German ‘Other’
15:00-15:30: Refreshments
15:30-16:30: The Historical Other
Chair: Robert Hampson
- Georges Letissier: Napoleonic Fiction Twinning: Ford Madox Ford’s A Little Less Than Gods (1928) and Joseph Conrad’s Suspense (1926)
- Laurence Davies: A Teeming of Alterities: Ford’s Historical Fiction
16:30: Presentation and Viewing of Paul Lewis’s film It Was the Nightingale
Introduced by Seamus O’Malley
CALL FOR PAPERS
‘Ford and the Other’
Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier
September 8–9, 2017
Salle des colloques n°1, Site Saint-Charles
A conference organised by the Ford Madox Ford Society and EMMA
Proposals are invited for an international conference on Ford Madox Ford and 'the other'.
The principle underlying Max Saunders’s magisterial biography on Ford is that of duality; of a man forever oscillating between differing versions of himself; between public and inner life; tradition and modernity; reality and authenticity. As Saunders reminds us, a writer’s life, according to Ford, is ‘a dual affair’; and this tenet seems relevant both as regards Ford’s life as a writer and his theoretical and literary writing. At the core of duality lies the idea that one is also always another.
The concepts of alterity and otherness could include the following approaches to Ford and his contemporaries:
- Ford and empathy;
- Ford and altruism;
- the autobiographic dimension of his fictional and critical work – reinventing oneself as other, and conversely, discovering oneself in others;
- questions of race, nationality, and gender.
- Another fruitful topic is the question of alterity in terms of other times – for instance with reference to Ford’s historical novels – and other modes of being.
- Questions of otherness could also involve the Doppelganger motif, which is central to such novels asHenry for Hugh or The Rash Act, but also prevalent in much of Ford’s fictional work.
We welcome papers from established and new scholars which investigate connections with other writers, such as Richard Aldington, Vera Brittain, Elizabeth Bowen, Joseph Conrad, H.D., T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Oliver Madox Hueffer, Violet Hunt, Henry James, David Jones, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, Rose Macaulay, Marcel Proust, Siegfried Sassoon, May Sinclair, Edward Thomas, Rebecca West, Edith Wharton, and Virginia Woolf.
Suggested theoretical frameworks may involve, but should not be limited to, Sigmund Freud; Emmanuel Lévinas; Alain Badiou; Paul Ricœur; Derek Attridge.
We welcome proposals of around 300 words for 20-minutes papers. These should be sent to the conference organiser, Isabelle Brasme (isabellebrasme@gmail.com), by 1 May 2017.
