8–9 September 2017
An International Conference organised by the Ford Madox Ford Society and EMMA (Études Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone)
Université Paul-Valéry de Montpellier,
Salle des Caryatides, Site Saint-Charles 2,
Rue de Professeur Henri Serre
Montpellier, France
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 metadramatics 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