11:10—11:30
UNIVERSITY OF SFAX FACULTY OF ARTS & HUMANITIES
11:30—11:50
Imed Chikhaoui: Silence in the Gothic World of Benito Cereno: Race Issues and the American Character Discussion
Chairperson:
SESSION 3 Dr. Henda-Ammar Guirat
11:50—12:10
13:10—13:30 13:30—15:00
Olfa Baklouti: Press Censorship in the US from the Civil War to the War on Terrorism Arafet Essoussi: Post-9/11 Media Censorship in the Middle East: Silencing the “New Free” Arab TV News Media Hajer Ben Hadj Salem: Silent no More: American Muslim Women Challenge the Stereotype Mohamed Chabchoub: The Failure of the Unspoken American Empire in the Middle East Discussion Lunch
Chairperson:
Dr. Faiçal Maalej
15:00—15:20 15:20—15:40 15:40—16:00
Mohamed Jabeur: The Sociolinguistics of Silence Abdellatif Jallouli: Listen to your Learner’s Silence Chokri Smaoui: The Silence/Talk Interplay: Fluency in Foreign Language Production Faiza Derbel: Learner Silence: Received Wisdom or Teacher Wisdom? Nadia Bouchhioua: Why Non-Native Speakers of English Prefer Silence to Speech? Discussion
Academic Year: 2006-2007 12:10—12:30
The International Conference on Silence (5-6-7 April 2007) Jointly Organised by: The English Department & The Research Unit in Discourse Analysis (GRAD)
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
12:30—12:50 12:50—13:10
SESSION 4
Thursday 5 April
08:30—09:00
Opening Speech by Faculty Dean: English Department Chair: GRAD Coordinator: Conference Coordinator:
Prof. Mohsen Dhieb Dr. Faiçal Maalej Prof. Mounir Triki Dr. Mounir Guirat
SESSION 1 Chairperson:
Prof. Ali Raddawi
09:00—09:30
10:10—10:30 10:30—10:50
Iraj Omdivar and Ann Richards: The Unheard Melody of an Unsung Woman Warrior: Translating the Ancient Epic of Lady Goshasp across Cultures and Epochs Mohamed Boubaker: The Female Body and the Barrier of Language and Silence in Alice Walker’s The Colour Purple Mounir Guirat: The History of Subjection and Silencing in Salman Rushdie’s Shame Discussion Coffee Break
Chairperson:
SESSION 2 Prof. Mounir Triki
10:50—11:10
Nessima Tarchouna: The Silent Signal: Melville’s Benito Cereno
16:00—16:20 16:20—16:40
09:30—09:50 09:50—10:10
16:40—17:00
Friday 6 April
Chairperson: 08.30—08:50 08:50—09:10 09:10—09:30 09:30—09:50 09:50—10:10 10:10—10:20
SESSION 1 Dr. Mohamed Agrebi آ د اد د اوا ا ا: ا () ا ا%'& ا$ أ"!ا و و: ا:أﺡ ا ة * ا و اد: ا !ل, ا ا: ا ا ل د او- و ا. ل ا- ا/ ل0 )ن2 ا3 ا و:! زآ!ي$ Discussion
10:20—10:30
Chairperson: 10:30—10:50 10:50—11:10 11:10—11:30 11:30—11:50
Coffee Break
SESSION 1
SESSION 2 Dr. Akila Sellami Baklouti Henda Ammar Guirat: Subversive Silence in Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop Salwa Karoui Elounelli: Ironic Self-Negation and the Play of AntiLanguage in American (Pseudo)-Confessional Narrative Nadia Boudidah: The Poetics of Silence: Ethnicity and Voice in the Fiction of Contemporary American Women Writers Discussion
Chairperson:
Dr. Neila Keskes
08:30—08:50 08:50—09:10
09:30—09:50 09:50—10:10
Mohamed Siala: Regard, silence et séduction Emanuelle del Conti: Le Silence imposé dans Le jour où Beaumont fit connaissance avec sa douleur de J.M.G Le Clézio Fatma Kammoun: Le silence ou l’expression d’une vacance d’être chez Alain Robbe-Grillet Discussion Coffee Break
Chairperson:
SESSION 2 Dr. Abdelmajid Ayadi
09:10—09:30
SESSION 3 Chairperson:
Dr. Jamel Jemni
10:10—10:30
11:50—12:10
10:30—10:50
13:10—13:30 13:30—15:00
Dorra Touzri: The Voice of Silence or the ‘Return of the Repressed’ in Shakespeare’s Hamlet Raja Wardi: Shakespeare’s Silenced Sister(s): Breaking Silence Apart Moez Marrouchi: Silence in Pinter’s Silence and The Dumb Waiter Heythem Fredj: Beyond Nihilism: Silence as a Means of Action in Beckett’s Drama Discussion Lunch
Chairperson:
SESSION 4 Dr. Mohamed Boubaker
11:50—12:10 12:10—12:30 12:30—12:50
12:10—12:30 12:30—12:50 12:50—13:10
15:00—15:20 15:20—15:40 15:40—16:00 16:00—16:20 16:20—16:40 16:40—17:00
Ihsen Hachaichi: Silence as Self-expression: Wordsworth’s Silent Rhetoric Aida Ben Ahmed: Letter Writing and the Voice of the Reader in Johnson’s Rambler Essays Lobna Ben Salem: Hysteria and the Contest of Silence in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath Issam Matoussi: Shakespeare’s “Dumb Show” of Signification: A Reading of the Sonnets: Adel Sliti: “Apaws fellow Sitisn’ts apaws”: The Idiom of Silence in E. E. Cummings’ Poetry Discussion Saturday 7 April
10:50—11:10 11:10—11:30
Hatem Zitouni: Sir Thomas More’s Heuristics in Utopia: Silent all the Way Through Neila Keskes: The Sound of Silence in Mozart’s Piano Sonata in C Major Leila Ameur: The Silent Power of Silence and Self-Discovery Discussion
Chairperson:
SESSION 3 Prof. Mounir Khalifa
11:30—11:50
12:50—13:10 13:10—13:20 13:20—15:00
Mansour Khalifa: Problematic Silence and Sense in Modern Narrative Fiction Boutheina Boughnim Laarif: Eloquent Caesuras Imen Chaabane Benneni: Silence in Emily Dickenson’s Poetry Aida Zitouni: Silence as a Cultural Concept: An Interdisciplinary Cross-Linguistic Study Discussion Mounir Guirat: Closing Statement Lunch
Thanks are due to Wanderlust for sponsoring the conference: