LES CAPTIVITES AMOUREUSES DE JEAN GENET
JEAN GENET’S AMOROUS CAPTIVITIES
AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM AND RELATED EVENTS

MARCH 1 – MARCH 4, 2011

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

IN CONJUNCTION WITH
ALLIANCE FRANCAISE SOUTH FLORIDA-MIAMI

AND WITH THE SUPPORT OF
THE CULTURAL SERVICE OF THE CONSULATE GENERAL OF FRANCE IN MIAMI

ON THE OCCASION OF THE CENTENNIAL OF JEAN GENET’S BIRTH
AND THE PUBLISHING OF LES PASSIONS DE JEAN GENET
(10TH VOLUME OF THE SERIES TRANSATLANTIQUE)

TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2011, 6:00-7:30 P.M.
ALLIANCE FRANCAISE - 618 SW 8TH STREET, MIAMI

AIMER : UNE FICTION DOUCE ?
ENTRETIEN DE RALPH HEYNDELS AVEC RENE DE CECCATTY SUR SON OEUVRE DE ROMANCIER

WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION TO FOLLOW

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2011, 6:00–7:30 P.M.
BOOKS AND BOOKS - 265 ARAGON AVENUE, CORAL GABLES

THE LAST GENET (1968-1986)
A PANEL DISCUSSION WITH HADRIEN LAROCHE

AT THE OCCASION OF THE PUBLISHING OF THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF HIS BOOK THE LAST GENET, A WRITER IN REVOLT (ARSENAL PULP PRESS, 2010)

CONDUCTED BY RALPH HEYNDELS WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF MELYSSA HAFFAF, NICOLAS BORDAGE AND SHAWN TEMPLE

THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2011, 6:00-8:30 P.M.
ALLIANCE FRANCAISE - 618 SW 8TH STREET, MIAMI

JEAN GENET, LE CONTRE-EXEMPLAIRE

SCREENING OF THE FILM DIRECTED BY GILLES BLANCHARD AND PANEL DISCUSSION ON Les Passions de Jean Genet
(SCHENA / ALAIN BAUDRY & CIE, 2010)

AND THE FILM Jean Genet, le contre-exemplaire

CHAIRED BY RACHIDA PRIMOV WITH RENE DE CECCATTY, ALBERT DICHY, DAVID ELLISON, RALPH HEYNDELS, HADRIEN LAROCHE, WILLIAM ROTHMAN, SUBHA XAVIER

WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION TO FOLLOW

FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2011, 2:00-6:00 P.M.
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION BUILDING
SHOMA HALL 3053, 5100 BRUNSON DRIVE, CORAL GABLES CAMPUS

SYMPOSIUM - CHAIR: LILLIAN MANZOR

OPENING REMARKS: RALPH HEYNDELS
Ce point fixe se nomma peut-être l’amour

SESSION I - CHAIR: STEVE BUTTERMAN

HADRIEN LAROCHE
When there is no reason to hope and everything is still possible

ALBERT DICHY
Jean Genet, voyage en Orient

RESPONDENTS: NICOLAS BORDAGE AND MELYSSA HAFFAF

SESSION II - CHAIR: GEMA PEREZ SANCHEZ

EDMUND WHITE
How Genet aspired to become a Muslim saint

RENE DE CECCATTY
Aimer un homme? Aimer les hommes? Haïr les hommes? Se haïr en tant qu’homme? Les ambivalences du désir

RESPONDENTS: SHAWN TEMPLE AND IRENE KOYADA

CLOSING REMARKS: DAVID ELLISON
Genet et nous

RECEPTION TO FOLLOW

BIOGRAPHIES

INVITED SPEAKERS

RENE DE CECCATTY was born in Tunis in 1952. He is the author of about thirty novels (L’Accompagnement, L’Or et la poussière, Aimer, Fiction douce) published at Gallimard and Editions du Seuil, and of numerous essays and biographies (Violette Leduc, Pasolini, Maria Calas, and most recently Alberto Moravia published by Flammarion in 2010). In April 2011 will appear Noir souci (Flammarion), on the last days of Leopardi. He has extensively written on Jean Genet, contributes to Le Monde des livres, and is member of the Reading Committee of Editions du Seuil. He has translated Italian writers, and, in collaboration with Ryôji Nakamura, Japanese classical and modern novelists. He has also published several theater plays. Three of his works have been translated in Spanish, including L’Accompagnement by Hugo Achugar at Trilce (Montevideo).

ALBERT DICHY was born in Beyrouth in 1952. The Literary Director of the Institut Mémoires de l’Edition Contemporaine (IMEC), which houses Jean Genet’s archives, he has written innumerable contributions on Genet and has co-edited at Gallimard the writer’s Théâtre complet for the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. He has also collected and critically edited Genet’s political texts and interviews under the title L’Ennemi declaré, published in French at Gallimard and in English at Stanford University Press. He most recently released, with Pascal Fouché, a book related to the first part of Genet’s life (Matricule 192.102, Gallimard, 2010). He is the author of several films and essays dedicated to French and Francophone writers (Kateb Yacine, Georges Schéhadé).

HADRIEN LAROCHE was born in Paris in 1963. Currently Cultural Attaché at the French Embassy in Dublin, he is a scholar and a writer. A former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, he completed his Ph.D. on Jean Genet at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, under Jacques Derrida. He has published essays on Genet, Paul Cézanne and Marcel Duchamp (La Machine à signatures) and has contributed to Les Passions de Jean Genet. His book Le dernier Genet has been recently translated in English (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010). He is the author of three novels: Les Orphelins (Alia / J’ai Lu, 2005), Les Hérétiques (Flammarion, 2006), and La Restitution (Flammarion, 2009). His past and on going work is devoted to the concept of “man orphaned of his humanity

EDMUND WHITE has written some twenty-five books. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an Officer in the French Order of Arts and Letters, and a Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University, he is perhaps best known for his biography of Jean Genet, for which he won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of a trilogy of autobiographical novels – A Boy’s Own Story, The Beautiful Room is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony – and of a novel entitled The Married Man that deals with the intimate repercussions of AIDS. He has written brief lives of Marcel Proust and Arthur Rimbaud, and a book about unconventional Paris called The Flaneur. He has most recently published two fictions, Chaos and Hotel Dream, and a memoir about New York in the 1970s (City Boy). He has just completed a new novel entitled Jack Holmes and his Friend.


UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI PARTICIPANTS

STEVEN BUTTERMAN (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin) is Associate Professor of Luso-Brazilian Literature and Culture. His fields of scholarship and teaching are Portuguese and Brazilian literature, queer theory, cultural studies, and aesthetic and literary theory. He is the author of Perversions on Parade: Brazilian Literature of Transgression and Post-Modern Anti-Aesthetics in Glauco Mattoso, an essay that contains a segment on Jean Genet. He is currently working on a book in which he reconsiders Brazilian cinematic production under dictatorship (1969-1971), focusing on the internal dialogues between cinema novo and cinema marginal.

DAVID ELLISON (Ph.D. Yale) is Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and chairperson of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. His areas of scholarship and teaching are French literature from the 19th and 20th/21st centuries; poetry and poetics; narrative and narratology; German-French literary relations; literature and philosophy. He is the author of The Reading of Proust, Understanding Camus, Of Words and the World: Referential Anxiety in Contemporary French Fiction, Ethics and Esthetics in European Modernism: From the Sublime to the Uncanny, and A Reader’s Guide to Proust’s Search of Lost Time. He has co-edited with Ralph Heyndels Les Modernités de Victor Hugo and Les Afriques de Rimbaud and has contributed to Les Passions de Jean Genet. He is “Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques”.

RALPH HEYNDELS is Professor of French and Comparative Literature, and former chairperson of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. He studied at the Sorbonne and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and received his Ph.D from the University of Brussels. His fields of scholarship and teaching are French classical, modern and contemporary literature; franco-arabic literature; sociology of culture; the relations between literature, philosophy and esthetics; post-colonial and gay studies. He is the author, editor and co-editor, among several other books, of La Pensée fragmentée; Ecrire, dit-elle: imaginaires de Marguerite Duras; Les Modernités de Victor Hugo; Les Afriques de Rimbaud; and, most recently, Les Ecrivains français et le monde arabe and Les Passions de Jean Genet. He is “Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques”.

LILLIAN MANZOR (Ph.D. University of Southern California) is Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, and Director of the University of Miami Cuban Theater Digital Archive. She is the former director of the Latin American Studies Program. Her fields of scholarship and teaching are Latino/a and Caribbean studies, gender studies, performance studies, literature and the visual arts. She has a great interest in Genet’s theater, particularly as performed in Latin America. Her publications include Borges/Escher, Cobra/CoBrA. She is currently working on a book entitled Marginality Beyond Return: US-Cuban Performance Politics.

GEMA PEREZ-SANCHEZ (Ph.D. Cornell University) is Associate Professor of Spanish Literature. Her fields of scholarship and teaching are 20th/21st century Spanish literature, cultural and film studies, queer and immigration studies, and feminist theory. She is interested in the relation between Juan Goytisolo and Jean Genet. She is the author of Queer Transitions in Contemporary Spanish Culture: From Franco to la movida and is currently working on a book entitled Perilous Straights: Immigration, Sexuality, and Race in Contemporary Spanish Culture which analyzes the resurgence in Spain of xenophobia and racism against recent Sub-Saharan African and Arab immigrants as represented in contemporary films and narrative.

RACHIDA PRIMOV is Senior Lecturer of French and Director of the Modern Languages and Literatures Language Lab. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Provence with a dissertation on American cinema. She is in charge of the community outreach program of the M.L.L. Department.

WILLIAM ROTHMAN (Ph.D. Harvard University) is Professor of Motion Picture at the School of Communication. The editor of the highly regarded “Studies in Film” series at Cambridge University Press, he has published numerous books, including a landmark study of Hitchcock, The Murderous Gaze, and The “I” of the Camera, Documentary Film Classics and A Philosophical Perspective on Film. He edited Jean Rouch: a Celebration of Life and Film in the series “Transatlantique” (Biblioteca della Ricerca, Schena Editore), and contributed to Les Passions de Jean Genet with a remarkable critical study devoted to “Jean Genet as Filmmaker”.

SUBHA XAVIER (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin) is Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Literature. Her fields of scholarship and teaching are migrant literature, Francophone African literature, postcolonial theory and cultural studies. She has co-edited La Littérature migrante sub-saharienne and has contributed to the Dictionnaire des écritures migrantes en France depuis 1981 and to Les Passions de Jean Genet. She is currently completing a book on the politics and economics of migrant literature in France and Quebec.

NICOLAS BORDAGE, MELLYSSA HAFFAF, IRENE KOYADA and SHAWN TEMPLE are doctoral students in the French track of the Ph.D in Romance Studies Program