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DANGEROUS IDEAS
3RD - 7TH JUNE 2019 | ANNUAL POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE | PARIS SCHOOL OF ARTS & CULTURE
Reid Hall, 4 Rue de Chevreuse, 75006, Paris
We are very honoured to have as part of our festival this year, a dynamic team of passionate academics, researchers, and creative artists from different disciplines and from different parts of the world to all come together to discuss their definition of dangerous ideas.
DR. SARAH CHURCHWELL
WRITER/PROFESSOR AT UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream
Sarah Churchwell is Professor in American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is the author of Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and The Invention of The Great Gatsby, The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe, and most recently, Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream. She has written for the New York Review of Books, Guardian, New Statesman, Financial Times, Times Literary Supplement and New York Times Book Review, among many others, and comments regularly on arts, culture, and politics for UK television and radio, where appearances include Question Time, Newsnight and The Review Show. She has judged many literary prizes, including the 2014 Man Booker Prize and the 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction, and was a co-winner of the 2015 Eccles British Library Writer’s Award.
DR. LAUREN ELKIN
WRITER/ACADEMIC
Flâneuse: Women Walk the City
Lauren Elkin is the author, most recently, of Flâneuse: Women Walk the City (Chatto & Windus/FSG), which was a New York Times Notable Book of 2017, and was a finalist for the PEN/Diamondstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. She is the translator of Claude Arnaud's biography of Jean Cocteau (with Charlotte Mandell), which won the 2017 French-American Foundation Translation Award, and of Michelle Perrot's The Bedroom: An Intimate History, just out from Yale UP. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the London Review of Books, the Guardian, frieze, and Vogue, among others, and she is a contributing editor at The White Review. In her next book, Art Monsters, she examines a range of female writers, artists, musicians, and fashion designers who have defied socially proscribed ideals of femininity to make work that was deliberately provocative, and even ugly. This aesthetics of monstrosity, she argues, is what unites the major work made by women over the last century. She lives in Paris and Liverpool.
YELENA MOSKOVICH
AUTHOR
Author of The Natashas and Virtuoso
Yelena Moskovich was born in 1984 in Ukraine (former USSR) and emigrated to the US with her family in 1991. After graduating with a degree in playwriting from Emerson College, Boston, she moved to Paris to study at the Lecoq School of Physical Theatre, and later for a Masters degree in Art, Philosophy and Aesthetics from Universite Paris 8. Her plays have been produced in the US, Vancouver, Paris, and Stockholm. She lives in Paris. The Natashas is her first novel.
ISIDORE BETHEL
FILMMAKER
Isidore Bethel is a French-American filmmaker. A graduate of Harvard, the École Normale Supérieure, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he has screened work as editor and producer at Cannes (Official Selection), IDFA, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Pompidou Center, receiving Mexican Academy Award and European Film Academy nominations as well as a New York Times Critics’ Pick. His work as director has screened at the Los Angeles and Atlanta Film Festivals, in the Paris and Boston LGBT Film Festivals, and in galleries in the US, the UK, and Mexico.
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He has been a Lagardère Foundation and Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Fellow, a Tribeca Film Institute Network Participant, and a Film Independent, IFP, Berlinale Talents, True/False & Catapult Rough Cut Retreat, and Eurodoc Fellow. He has also been an artist-in-residence with the Institut Français and the Villa Medici in Rome as well as a Guest Artist at CalArts, University of Kent, CUPA, Université de Toulouse, and Yale. He has taught at Sarah Lawrence College and Parsons in Paris.
HEIDI EVANS
Women of Paris
Women of Paris, was born out of a desire to illuminate the lives and achievements of women in the City of Lights. Brain child of British expat Heidi Evans, who moved to Paris to become a tour guide back in 2014, these walking tours were the first in Paris to give the focus entirely to women and their influence on the city. Having worked as a guide for some years, Heidi was tired of giving tours that only gave her the opportunity to talk about what great men have done throughout history and making occasional references to some women, very often occupying the role of muse or mistress. Instead, Women of Paris walking tours offer visitors a chance to hear a lesser told narrative; one dominated not by Gustave Eiffel or Napoleon Bonaparte but by the likes of Marie Curie, Sylvia Beach and Simone Veil.
DR. DEREK RYAN
Senior Lecturer at University of Kent
Derek Ryan is Senior Lecturer in Modernist Literature and Director of Graduate Studies (Paris) at the University of Kent. He is author of Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory: Sex, Animal, Life (2013) and Animal Theory: A Critical Introduction (2015) and has published widely on the relationship between modernist literature, philosophy and animality. His most recent projects include The Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group (2018), edited with Stephen Ross, and he is currently completing, with Linden Peach and Jane Goldman, the Cambridge Edition of Virginia Woolf's Flush: A Biography.
PROF. CHRISTELLE TARAUD
Professor at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Christelle Taraud est historienne et féministe, spécialiste des femmes, du genre et des sexualités en contexte colonial. Elle enseigne dans les programmes parisiens de Columbia et de New York University et est membre associée du Centre d’histoire du XIXe siècle (Paris I- Paris IV). Elle est notamment l’auteure de La Prostitution coloniale. Algérie, Tunisie, Maroc, 1830-1962, (Payot, 2003 et 2009) et de Amour interdit. Prostitution, marginalité et colonialisme. Maghreb, 1830-1962 (Payot, 2012). Elle a par ailleurs co-dirigé Sexe, Race et Colonies. La domination des corps du XVe siècle à nos jours (La Découverte, 2018).
PROF. CLAIRE DAVISON
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Claire Davison was born in Great Britain, and grew up between France and England. She studied French and Russian at Leeds University, and comparative literature in Paris, before completing a PhD in Franco-Russian post-revolutionary literatures of exile. She has taught at universities in England, Scotland and France, and is currently Professor of Modernist Literature at Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris, where she teaches twentieth-century literature, translation studies and intercultural and intermedial studies. The current Chair of the French Virginia Woolf Society, she participates in a broad network of European Modernist Studies extending from Russia to the British Isles. She is also a pianist.
Professor at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3