Date: Thursday 30th June 2016 - 6:00pm to Saturday 02nd July 2016 - 1:00pm
THURSDAY 30th JUNE
18:00 – 18:15 Welcome & Introduction
18:15 – 19:15 Keynote Lecture
Chair: Philippe Roussin (CNRS / Maison Francaise d’Oxford)
Karine Le Bail (CNRS): La Jeune France de Pierre Schaeffer, ‘Polytechnicien boy-scout’
19.15 – 20.00 Drinks
FRIDAY 1st JULY
09:00 - 09:30 Coffee
09:30 - 11:15 Panel #1: Imaginings and Experiments
François Vignale (Université du Maine): Lourmarin en Algérie : les Rencontres de Tipasa (novembre 1941)
Linda Stratford (Asbury University): Abstract Painting and Tradition Française: The Call to Order
Michael Holland (St Hugh’s College, Oxford): Culture as Intransigence. Maurice Blanchot at 'Jeune France'
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee
11:45 – 12:45 Keynote Lecture
Chair: Toby Garfitt (Magdalen College, Oxford)
Sarah Wilson (The Courtauld Institute, London): Vested interests: Les Jeunes Peintres de tradition Française
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:15 Panel #2: Concealment of Place and Space
Chair / Respondent: Philip Nord (Princeton University)
Evan Spritzer (New York University): Jeune France and the competition for French youth on the air, 1939-1945
Morgan Corriou (Bibliothèque nationale de France): Jeune France "en quête de valeurs universelles" dans la Tunisie coloniale
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee
15:45 - 17:00 Panel #3: Origins - Back to the 1930s
Chair / Respondent: Sarah Shortall (University College, Oxford)
Michael Kelly (University of Southampton): ‘Le sens d’une efficacité dont le point d’insertion est autre que politique’. Emmanuel Mounier’s participation in Jeune France
Leslie Sprout (Drew University): An Uneasy Alliance: Schaeffer, Messiaen, Jolivet and the Two Incarnations of Jeune France
SATURDAY 2nd JULY
09:15 - 09:30 Coffee
09:30 - 10:00
Daniel Lee (University of Sheffield): Interview with Georges Weill, former member of Grenier and Hussenot’s Comédiens Routiers troop
10:00 - 11:15 Panel #4: Jeune France in and around the City
Chair: Martin Conway (Balliol College, Oxford)
Mary McLeod (Columbia University): On the brink of Jeune France: Le Corbusier and Vichy
Judi Loach (Cardiff University): Artists In and Out of Jeune France
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee
11:45 - 12:45 Keynote Lecture
Chair: Michael Holland (St Hugh’s College, Oxford)
Véronique Chabrol: "(En temps de crise), aucun retour en arrière n’est possible. Il faut donc inventer du nouveau"
12:45 - 13:15 Concluding Comments
Chair: TBC
Conveners
Michael Holland, St Hugh’s College
Daniel Lee, University of Sheffield
Sandrine Sanos, Corpus Christi
