Commemorating and Celebrating Raymond Carver (1938-1988)
A symposium organized by the International Raymond Carver Society and TIES (IMAGER, Paris 12)
At Villa Luxembourg
121, Boulevard du Montparnasse
75006 Paris
7.00pmMeeting of international IRCS delegates-----
Friday June 6, 2008
Paris 12 -CréteilDépartement d'Anglais / Bâtiment I2
Salle 222
61, Avenue du Général de Gaulle
94010 Créteil
Métro-ligne 8 : Créteil-Université
9.30-10.00 Registration and introduction by Sandra Kleppe and Claire Fabre-Clark
10.00-11.00 Keynote SpeechRandolph Runyon, (University Ohio, USA): "'Beginners' Luck"
11.00-12:30 - WorkshopVickie Fachard (Independent Scholar, Switzerland)
"Sign vs. Symbol: The Gift in Raymond Carver's 'Cathedral'"
Enrico Monti (Université de Haute-Alsace, France/Università di Bologna, Italy)
"From 'Beginners' to 'What We Talk...': Variations on a Carver's Story"
Paul Grant, (Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Canada)
"Carver's Anti-Heroics"
12.30am-2.00pm LUNCH (La Pointe Jaune)
2.00pm-3.30pm - WorkshopSandra Lee Kleppe, (University of Tromso, Norway)
"Carver's 'Baudelaire Sandwich'"
Marie Legrix de la Salle, (Université de Pau, France)
"Intervals and blanks in a selection of short stories"
Robert Miltner, (Kent State University Stark, USA)
"'A Song of Sixpence': (Re)Reading Carver's 'Blackbird Pie.'"
3.30-4.30 pm - Workshop
Libe García Zarranz, (University of Alberta, Canada)
"'Let Them Watch': Carver's Hitchcockian Eye and Feminist Film Theory"
Greg P. Lainsbury, (Northern Lights College, Canada) "Reference Reduction: Literary Implications of Life in Raymond Carver"
5.00pm-7pm Cocktail---
Saturday June 7th, 2008Hôtel MassaSociété des Gens de Lettres
38 rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques
75014 Paris
Métro-ligne 6 : Saint-Jacques
RER : Denfert-Rochereau
10.00 am-1.00pm - Workshop
Françoise Sammarcelli, (Université de Paris 4, France)
"'Why would I want a picture of this tragedy?': the Inscription of the Eye in What We Talk about When We Talk about Love."
Laetitia Naly (Université de Paris 3, France)
"Celebrating the moment: the writing of time in Raymond Carver's 'The Calm'"
Philippe Romon (journalist and author, France)
"A reading of some letters from the Gordon Lish and Raymond Carver archives"
Claire Fabre-Clark, (Université Paris 12, France)
"Excess and lack : the economy of signs in Carver"
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10 am-12 pmAt 229 rue de Paris
91120 Palaiseau
General meeting of the IRCS Meeting of the Editorial CommitteeDiscussion about the 2009 Symposium
