Evening event (separate booking):The World Library. William Marx and Kate Mosse in conversation
18:30-18:35: Hélène Duchêne, French Ambassador in the United Kingdom: opening
Chair: Sir Roly Keating, Chief Executive Officer, the British Library
18:35-18:50: Kate Mosse, CBE, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature: Introduction
18:50-19:35: Professor William Marx (Collège de France): Lecture
19:35-19:45: Conversation between Kate Mosse and William Marx.
19:45-20:30: Cocktail
Afternoon symposium: Collections in French at the British Library
The Pigott Theatre
Knowledge Center, British Library
96 Euston Rd, NW1 2DB
12:45:13:10: Registration
13:10-13:15: 13:10-13:15: Introduction (Dr Sophie Defrance, Curator, Romance Collections, The British Library, Dr Florence Ferran, Deputy Head of the Higher education, research, innovation department, French Embassy)
13:15-14:15: France and United Kingdom Entente cordiale
Chair: Dr Charlotte Faucher (University of Bristol)
Michel Pastoureau (École Nationale des Chartes, director of studies at École pratique des Hautes Études): “Les origines britanniques du drapeau français”.
Aude Monie (Doctoral student, Université Paris-Cité, Maison Francaise d’Oxford month scholarship): “Stories behind stitches: a comparative history of clothes repair between France and Britain in the late nineteenth century”.
Lightning talks:
Richard Morel (Curator Philatelic collections), “Stamps as a chronicle of Franco-British relations”.
Dr Guillaume Périssol (Head of the Médiathèque, Institut Francais du Royaume-Uni): Short presentation of the exhibition on “When Marianne and Britannia meet”.
14:20-15:20: France and beyond
Chair: Professor Catriona Seth (Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford)<
Dr Clare Siviter (Associate Professor in French Theatre, University of Bristol): “Establishing critical editions and studying plays across borders and languages”.
Professor Clare Finburgh-Delijani (Deputy Director of the Centre for Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths University of London): “The French Revolutionary Tracts Collection, and French Theatre Today”.
Lightning talks:
Ruth Hansford (Programme Manager, EAP): “The Endangered Archives Programme: collaborations that cast light on France's former colonies”.
Daniel Lowe (Curator for Arabic collections): “Bandes dessinées from Southwest Asia and North Africa: examples from Lebanon, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco at the British Library”.
Dr Alex Fairfax-Cholmeley (Senior Lecturer, History, University of Exeter): “'Discovering and reading print networks of the 1790s on slavery, revolution and emancipation'?”
15:20-15:45: Break tea/coffee sponsored by the French Studies Library Group (FSLG stand)
15:45-16:20: Making connections through translations – roundtable
Chair: Ros Schwartz (Literary Translator and Co-director of Bristol Translates Summer School.)
Margaret Morrison (Translator and researcher)
Helen Vassallo (Associate Professor of French and Translation, University of Exeter)
Rebecca Servadio (London Literary Scouting)
16:25-17:00: Artists' books
Chair: Mark Storey (Private collector and Trustee of the Friends of the Nations’ Libraries).
Dr Dennis Duncan (Associate Professor in English, University College London): “Raymond Roussel’s portable peepshow”.
Linda Parr (book artist and writer): “Postcards for Perec: the book and project”.
Jeremy Jenkins (Curator, Contemporary British & Irish Published Collections): “La Prose du Transsibérien and Kitty Maryatt’s re-creation”.
17:10-17:45: Manuscripts, archives, and Middle Ages
Chair: Jamie Andrews (Director of Public Engagement, The British Library)
Isabel Maloney (Doctoral student, Faculty of Modern and Medieval languages, University of Cambridge) : “The First Guide to French Manuscript Collections at the BL.”
Sara Charles (Book historian, University of London): The Medieval Scriptorium.
Dr Eleanor Jackson (Lead Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library and Lead Curator of the Medieval women exhibition): “Introduction to the exhibition “Medieval women” and working with French institutions”.
17:45-18:25 Private visits of the “Medieval Women: In Their Own Words” exhibition or relax in the Knowledge Centre foyer
Evening event (separate booking):The World Library. William Marx and Kate Mosse in conversation
18:30: Hélène Duchêne, French Ambassador in the United Kingdom: opening
Chair: Sir Roly Keating, Chief Executive Officer, the British Library
Kate Mosse , CBE, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature:Introduction
Professor William Marx (Collège de France): Lecture
Conversation between Kate Mosse and William Marx.
19:45-20:30: Cocktail
