Seminars and events
2025-2026

26 September 2025 – 4-6pm

Rabih Alameddine’s novels (I the Divine, The Wrong End of the Telescope, An unnecessary Woman, The Angel of History)

• Prepared and with presentations by Karim Daanoune et Béatrice Pire. Guest : Nicolas Richard, translator of Alameddine’s novels.

Venue : Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, campus Nation. Room C434.
Online : meet.google.com/uuh-pktr-prm

1 December 2025 – 4-6pm

Riddance (2018) by Shelley Jackson (in the presence of the author)

• Prepared and with presentations by Ste ?phane Vanderhaeghe et Brigitte Fe ?lix, as a companion piece to the one-day conference « Snows » (organized at Universite ? Paris Cite ? by Aurore Clavier et Claire Cazajous on December 5, 2025.

Venue : Université Paris 8, Maison de la Recherche. Room MR107
Online : https://univ-paris8.zoom.us/j/91070765182?pwd=xuWpaIBFWaOVwak6aCxKGnXSMbery9.1

6 February 2026 – 4-6pm

Introducing J.A. Tyler’s work (in the presence of the author)

• Prepared and with presentations by Ste ?phane Vanderhaeghe on Tyler’s The Zoo, A Going (Dzanc, 2015) and Only and Ever This (Dzanc 2022). Stéphane’s translation of is forthcoming in 2026 (Quidam).

Venue : Université Paris 8, Maison de la Recherche. Room MR107
Online : https://univ-paris8.zoom.us/j/96794181124?pwd=qGJBE2zaq6crCsBoTom0bYMgKgVCtr.1

20 March 2026 (time to be confirmed)
“Very short forms/flash fiction” + Devin Jacobsen

• Prepared by Claire Fabre and Be ?atrice Trotignon, and with presentations by members of LILAC

§ ClaireFabre : on the short fiction published in Noon (e.g. Kathryn Scanlan, The Kick of the Latch)
§ Béatrice Trotignon : on Devin Jacobsen’s collection of stories, The Summer We Ate Off the China (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2025)
§ Brigitte Félix  : on Danielle Dutton’s Prarie, Dresses, Art, Other (Prototype, 2024)
§ +... to be completed with other propositions

Venue : Université Paris-Est Cre ?teil (UPEC). Room TBA
Online : link TBA

May 2026 (date and time to be confirmed)
« Criticism on contemporary American fiction »

• Prepared and with a presentation by Monica Manolescu around Adam Kelly’s New Sincerity  : American Fiction in the Neoliberal Age (Stanford UP, 2024).

Venue : Université Paris 8. Room TBA
Online : link TBA