Graduate Student Conferences

Risk and Resolution: Literary Criticism at the End of the Millennium (1996)
Ross Chambers, keynote speaker

States of Identity: Tracing France's Cultural Self-Consciousness  (1997)
Denis Hollier, keynote speaker

Sites of Memory: Limits and Possibilities of Writing "French" (1998)
Eugen Weber and Jean-François Fourny, keynote speakers

Le Corps et L'Esprit in French Cultural Production (1999)
Toril Moi, keynote speaker

Murder, massacre and mayhem (2000)
Sylvère Lotringer, keynote speaker

La joie de re-vivre: Spectrality & Haunting in French Literary & Cultural Production (2001)
Peggy Kamuf, keynote speaker; Jacques Derrida, Samuel Weber, respondents

Crime and Punishment in Literature and the Arts (2002)
Hélène Cixous, keynote speaker

Camera ou Stylo: A Problematic Dialogue? (2003)
Alain Robbe-Grillet, keynote speaker

Haïti Pays rêvé, pays réel: A legacy of the 1804 Revolution (2004)
Dany Laferriere, Joan Dayan, keynote speakers

Exil: mode(s) d’emploi—Experiencing Exile in Literature and the Arts (2005)
Emmanuel Dongala and Christopher L. Miller, keynote speakers

L'exception française : Negotiating Identity in the French National Imaginary (2006)
Dudley Andrew and Tyler Stovall, keynote speakers

Violence, Disaster, and the Crisis of Representation (2007)
Jean-Pierre Dupuy and Eric Gans, keynote speakers