THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23

8:00 AM		Registration, Alhambra Room A
8:45 AM		Opening Speeches Robert Singer, AIZEN Executive Director Carl Selkin, Dean of School of Arts and Letters, California State University, Los Angeles Joseph Chrzanowski, Chair, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures, California State University, Los Angeles Anna Gural-Migdal, AIZEN Vice President

Heather L. Howard (University of California, Los Angeles, USA), "Nana mise en scène: Zola's Mythical Monster of Renoir's Stage Artist"

Yelena Matusevitch (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA), "Human Beast from Emile Zola to Fritz Lang"

Laurent Marie (University College Dublin, Ireland), "La nostalgie est toujours ce qu'elle était: Germinal de Claude Berri et le Parti Communiste Français"

Eduardo Ferreira da Silva (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil), "Aspects de la réception de l'oeuvre d'Emile Zola au Brésil"

Hervé Allet (Vanderbilt University, USA), "Communist Use of Zola: a logical consequence"

Luiz Carlos Da Silva Dantas, "Emile Zola et la critique littéraire brésilienne"

12:20 PM		"Introducing Monique Fol..." President/Founder of the AIZEN and Founder/Editor of Excavatio
12:30-1:45 PM		Lunch Break

Chester Sullivan (University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA), "Victor Hugo's Octopus embraces Emile Zola's La Joie de vivre"

Jurate Kaminskas (Queen's University, Canada), "Fonction réaliste ou fonction mythique: les scènes d'accouchement dans quelques romans de Zola"

Robert Ziegler (Montana Tech of The University of Montana, USA), "Creativity and the Feminine in Zola's La Joie de vivre"

Marie-Sophie Armstrong (Lehigh University, USA), "Le parcours zolien de Jean Echenoz"

Ida Eve Heckenbach (University of Southwestern Louisiana, USA), "Emile Zola en Louisiane: George Dessommes, naturaliste créole"

Gilbert Darbouze (Bloomsburg University, USA), "Les bouts de bois de Dieu d'Ousmane Sembène: L'esthétique naturaliste d'Emile Zola dans un roman sénégalais"

Muriel Walker (University of Toronto, Canada), "Naturalisme, crise et renaissance du moi féminin dans Vehi Ciosane d'Ousmane Sembène"

5:30-6:00 PM		Book Presentation, Alhambra Room A NEMLA Book Award: Resisting Regionalism: Gender and Naturalism in American Fiction, 1885-1915 by Donna M. Campbell (Gonzaga University, USA)
6:00-9:00 PM		NATURALIST FILM FESTIVAL, Alhambra Room A La Terre (André Antoine, France, 1920, 80 min) Black Caesar, (Larry Cohen, USA, 1973, 94 min)

Sara Beliveau (Brown University, USA), "Rethinking English Naturalism: Feminine Decadence, Hardy's Tess and the French Context"

Marzia Finocchiaro (University of Catania, Italy), "Federico de Roberto, Emile Zola and the Fin-de-siècle Literature"

Lisa Kahn (Texas Southern University, USA), "Zola's Influence on German Naturalism with special emphasis on Hauptmann, Holz, Schlaf"

Didier Maleuvre (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA), " Always the Same: Resemblance in Zola"

Robert M. Viti (Gettysburg College, USA), "Thresholds, Barricades and Boulevards: Manipulation of Space in the Rougon-Macquart"

Dorothy Diehl (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA), "Continuing the Experiment: Hypermedia and Zola's Rougon-Macquart."

Elizabeth Parr (University of St. Thomas, USA), "Leaving Las Vegas: the City as the Naturalist's Setting in American Fiction and Film"

Scott F. Stoddart (Nova Southeastern University, USA), "The Naturalist Dynamics of Scorsese's Casino"

Robert Singer (Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, USA), "The Impulses of Humanity: Naturalism and the Contemporary Urban American Film"

Carl Rollyson (Baruch College, CUNY, USA), "A Postmodern Naturalist: The Case of Susan Sontag"

Deborah B. Beyer (Western Illinois University, USA), "Resignation and Revolt: Gender Consciousness in Emile Zola's Germinal"

Anna Gural-Migdal (University of Alberta, Canada), "L'écriture de la Mort dans Germinal"

Michael Barry (University of Detroit Mercy, USA), "Germinal and the American Social Protest Novel"

Susan Barrow (CUNY Graduate Center, USA), "Zola and the Art of Japan: Aspects of Japonisme in Au Bonheur des Dames"

Fabienne-Sophie Chauderlot (Wayne State University, USA), "Capitalism and Hysteria: The Lady's Paradise on Becoming Woman in Hell"

Elizabeth Emery (Montclair State University, USA), "Zola and the Tree of Jesse"

Michel Berta (North Carolina School of the Arts, USA), "Post Tenebras Lux"

Tony Williams (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA), "Fehs, New Babylon, and Zola"

Kevin Elstob (Cleveland State University, USA), "Natural Naturalists and Impressive Impressionnists: Relocating Naturalism in the Cinema of Mike Leigh and Ken Loach"

Arundhati Banerjee (Tufts University, USA), "Stranger than Fiction? A Few Cinematic Tropes for Naturalism"

Chantal-Sophie Castro (Université Laval, Canada), "La fonction du vêtement féminin dans Pot-Bouille de Zola"

Pierre-Emmanuel Coudert (Assumption College, USA), "Figures de la souffrance humaine dans Pot-Bouille"

Sayeeda Mamoon (University of South Dakota, USA), "Framed Treasures, Untamed Pleasures: Ekphrasis in Zola's La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret and Huysmans's A rebours"

Michael Lastinger (West Virginia University, USA), "Geo-graphies: Writing and Riding on the Earth in Zola's La Bête humaine"

Christine Cano (Bates College, USA), "Celle qui n'a pas eu de chance: vie manquée ou lecture manquée? Une Vie de Guy Maupassant"

Amy Reid (New College of The University of South Florida, USA), "Le jeu de cache-cache: The Revelation and Concealment of Sexual Desire in Germinie Lacerteux and Renée Mauperin"

Don Bruce (University of Alberta, Canada), "Odd Man Out: Dégénérescence, or the Lack Thereof, in Jules Vallès Jacques Vingtras"

Amy Ahearn (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA), "Naturalism and the Female Artist in Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark"

Jacques La Mothe (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada), "La ligne de partage des eaux, creuset pour une symphonie du Nouveau Monde"

John and Cheryl Swift (Occidental College, USA), "Botany and Poetry: Cather and 'The Great Operations of Nature'"

John Murphy (Brigham Young University, USA), "Cather's Intriguing Mix: Jamesian Naturalism with Christian Themes"

Encarnaciòn Medina Arjona (Universidad de Cadiz, Spain), "Emile Zola a travès de la critica de Leopoldo Alas 'Clarin'"

Gayle Roof Nunley (The University of Vermont, USA), "Vicente Blasco Ibàñez and the Naturalist Travel Chronicle"

Oswaldo Voysest (Beloit College, USA), "Clorinda Matto and Mercedes Cabello: Reading Emile Zola's Naturalism in a Dissonant Voice"

Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt (University of Alberta, Canada), "Jeanne d'Arc and Emile Zola's J'accuse"

William Galois (University of Bristol, UK), "Zola and Modernity: Les Rougon-Macquart versus The Dreyfus Affair"

Francis Lacoste (Université de Sfax, Tunisie), "Zola critique littéraire"

10:45-11:15 AM		Book Presentation, Alhambra Room A The Realist Novel by Dennis Walder (Open University, UK)
11:15-11:30 AM		Coffee Break

Susan Hiner (Skidmore College, USA), "Scene of the Crime: Zola's Naturalized pathos in Thérèse Raquin"

Linda Beane Katner (St. Norbert College, USA), "Le regard humain, le regard animal: The Gaze in Emile Zola's Thérèse Raquin"

Lydia Belatèche (Mississippi State University, USA), "Ninon, Naïs, and Manon: Zola's 'Bavardage' with the girls"

Michelle Bloom (University of California, Riverside, USA), "Zola Fantastique: an analysis of the story, 'La Mort d'Olivier Bécaille'"

1:30-2:30 PM		Lunch Break
2:30-6:00 PM		NATURALIST FILM FESTIVAL Alhambra Room A Call of the Wild (William Wellman, USA, 1935, 81 min) Caught (Robert Young, USA, 1996, 120 min)

Donna M. Campbell (Gonzaga University, USA), "Domesticating Trilby: Norris, Phillips, and the Naturalistic Art Novel"

Linda Kornasky (Angelo State University, USA), "A Natural Woman: Darwinism and Chopin's The Awakening"

Daniel Fineman (Occidental College, USA), "Jack London and Semiotic Naturalism"

Pericles Lewis (University of California, Berkeley, USA), "Freedom in the Art of the Novel: Henry James and William James on Emile Zola"