March 25th & March 26th, 2022 at the Pyle Center

Please join us on Friday, March 25th and Saturday, March 26th at the Pyle Center
for the 2022 GAFIS Symposium, entitled :

Trauma: Renovation and (Re)action

hosted by the Department of French & Italian
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Friday, March 25th, 2022

• 3:30 pm CST: Registration – (Alumni Lounge)
• 4:00 pm CST: Keynote Speaker,  Dr. Eden Wales Freedman (Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty at Clarke University). “Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma: Confronting Violence in Literature and Life.” (Alumni Lounge)
• 5:15 pm CST: Welcome Reception – (Alumni Lounge)

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Saturday, March 26th, 2022

• 8:00 am: Registration and morning refreshments – (Rm. 225)
• 8:30 am: Opening Remarks – Prof. Grazia Menechella (University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of French & Italian). – (Rm. 226)

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9:00 am – 10:15 am CST:

Panel 1: Private Pain, Public Trauma (VIRTUAL) (Rm. 226)

• Kimberly Rooney – (University of Wisconsin- Madison) – Porous Walls: School as a site of corruption in Scholastique Mukasonga’s Notre-Dame du Nil
• Rose Moreau – (Universitè Grenoble Alpes) – Evaluating traumatic experience: Agency in narratives of child abuse
• Andrea Garza Erdmann – (Harvard University) – The Intimate and the Traumatic: How Narrative Style Turns Reader into Accomplice

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10:15 am – 10:30 am: Morning Break (Rm. 225)

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10:30 am – 11:45 am CST

Panel 2: Pathologizing Trauma (Rm. 226)

• Tatiana Feshchenko – (University of Wisconsin Madison) – Worn out shoes and the historical trauma
• Jennifer Kellett – (Indiana University) – Phèdre and #MeToo: A Rereading of the Classic

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12:00 am – 01:10 pm: Lunch Break (Rm. 225)

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1:15 pm – 2:30 pm CST

Panel 3: Space, Place, and Trauma (Rm. 226)

• Peter Russella – (University of Wisconsin Madison) – The lighthouse, traumatic memories, and comics form: A study of nested chronotopes in Emmanuel Lepage’s Ar-men: L’Enfer des enfers (2017)
• Danielle Hanzalik – (UCLA) – Uncanny Repetitions: Bridging Individual and Collective Memory in Mehdi Lallaoui’s Une nuit d’octobre
• Daniele Santucci – (University of Wisconsin- Madison) – Mourning through Movement in Pier Vittorio Tondelli’s Camere Separate

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2:30 pm – 2:45 pm: Afternoon Break (Rm. 225)

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2:45 pm – 3:45 pm CST

Panel 4: Familial Trauma (Rm. 226)

• Valentina Morello – (University of Wisconsin Madison) – Historical trauma in Moravia’s novel Two Women
• Jacqueline Ebelabena – (University of Wisconsin Madison) – Silence and bitterness: A story of a “poisoned” mother-daughter relationship in Marie N’Diave’s Ladivine

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4:00 pm – 5:30 pm CST

Please join us for the Round Table discussion, featuring (Rm. 225):

• Dr. Eden Wales Freedman (Clarke University)

• Prof. Ernesto Livorni (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Italian)

• Prof. Richard Goodkin (University of Wisconsin-Madison, French)

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5:30 pm Closing Remarks