this is to remind you that our annual conference will take place at Kings College London on *Thursday 28 April*. The papers to be presented (circulated in advance to attenders who have paid the conference fee) are as follows:
* Mary Harrod (King’s College, London): Sweet Nothings: Imagining the Inexpressible in Contemporary French Romantic Comedy
* Annabelle Doherty (University of Sydney): Superimposition and Cultural Memory in Chabrol’s and Renoir’s Adaptations of Madame Bovary
* Thomas Pillard (Université de Paris-Ouest Nanterre): L’articulation entre la parole de l’acteur et les images génériques dans le cinéma de genre français d’après-guerre : le cas de Fernandel dans L’Ennemi Public n°1 (Henri Verneuil, 1953
* Emma Bielecki: From Page to Screen: The Shifting Identities of Fantômas
* Pascal Laborderie (Université d’Orléans): La généralisation de la parole dans les films éducatifs français des années 1930
* Sarah Leahy (Newcastle University) and Isabelle Vanderschelden (Manchester Metropolitan University): Reassessing the history of French cinema : The understated role of French screenwriters
* Codruta Morari (Wellesley College): Dire l’absence: subjectivité et cinéphilie de Rohmer à Ozon
* Alina Opreanu (University of Harvard): Envisioning Loss: Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s Cinema of Mourning
* Cécile Sorin (Université de Paris VIII): Le pasticciaccio à la française : les dialogues dans les films de Kechiche
* Alison Levine (University of Virginia): Words on Trial: Oral Performance in Abderrahamane Sissako’s Bamako
* Tijana Mamula (John Cabot University): Metaphorically Seeing: The Place Names of Marguerite Duras
* Alison Smith (University of Liverpool): Crossing the linguistic threshold: language and cultural meetings in Philippe Lioret’s Welcome and Rachid Bouchareb’s London River