2005 Press Releases
University College Cork (UCC) hosts French Studies Conference, 27 May
The French Studies conference La Mémoire du livre, one of UCC's
Capital of Culture events, brings together specialists in the
international field of textual genetics, from France, Britain and
Ireland, with generous sponsorship from the French Embassy, the Arts
Faculty and the French Department UCC. Keynote speakers at this event
which takes place on Friday, 27 May and organised by Dr Angela Ryan,
French Department, include Professor Jacques Neefs and Professor
Béatrice Didier, two of the most prominent academics in international
French Studies.
Professor Neefs holds tenured Chairs at the Université de Paris 8 and
at Johns Hopkins University (USA). He is author of many publications on
textual genetics, and is Director of a research centre at the
prestigious French national research body, the CNRS. Textual genetics
deals with the trace of the book: manuscripts, notebooks, editions,
versions and archives, and uses innovative IT technology.
Professor Didier holds a tenured Chair at the École normale supérieure, the prestigious Parisian Grande école.
She is the author of seminal texts on women's writing, George Sand, and
other nineteenth-century authors. Her influential contribution to
French Studies is marked by her direction of the complete scholarly
critical edition of George Sand's fiction (Dr Angela Ryan is one of the
international team of editors.) Textual genetics is one of the
most important areas of French Studies research: Jacques Neefs and
Beatrice Didier are world leaders in the field, as are Professor Edric
Caldicott, Professor of French at UCD (author of
internationally-celebrated works including a new critical edition of
Molière), Professor Claude Mouchard, Professor at the université de
Paris 8 (a well-known author, critic and translator from English,
German and Japanese) and Professor Tony Williams, Professor of French
at the University of Hull (author of seminal works on Flaubert).
This international meeting of minds on 27May 2005 foregrounds the most
up-to-date international French Studies research and is a major
scholarly event for UCC. Web page
http://www.ucc.ie/french/Memoire2005.htm: all welcome.
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