'French Ecocriticism'/'L'Écocritique française'
Friday 8 May 2015
Trinity College, Cambridge
(with the support of the Society for French Studies and the School of Arts and Humanities)
Keynote speakers:
Stephanie Posthumus (McGill University)
Martin Crowley (Queens' College, University of Cambridge)
Please register using the University of Cambridge Online Store: <http://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=294&catid=947&prodid=1324>
Full rate: £50
Student rate: £25
(refreshments and a buffet lunch are included)
Closing date for bookings: 6 May 2015
Enquiries: frecocam@gmail.com
Organiser: Daniel Finch-Race (Trinity College, University of Cambridge)
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(9:00)
Keynote 1:
Stephanie Posthumus (McGill University)
'Translating Cultural Differences: The Strange Case of French écocritique'
(10:00)
Coffee
(10:15)
Panel 1: Environments
Nikolaj Lübecker (St John's College, University of Oxford)
'Beautiful Becomings: Jean-Claude Rousseau's La Vallée close'
Hannes De Vriese (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès)
'Ce qu'être seul veut dire chez Sylvain Tesson: Dans les forêts de Sibérie et la retraite dans la nature'
Montserrat López Mújica (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares)
'Réflexions écocritiques d'un arbre'
(11:15)
Break
(11:30)
Panel 2: Humanity/non-humanity
Göran Blix (Princeton University)
'Nature's Labour: Environmental Economics in Victor Hugo's Les Travailleurs de la mer'
Claire Nettleton (Scripps College, California)
'Buffon versus the Beast: Taming the Wild Artist in Émile Zola's Thérèse Raquin'
Jonathan Krell (University of Georgia, USA)
'Ecoerotica in Stéphane Audeguy's La Théorie des nuages'
(12:30)
Lunch
(13:30)
Panel 3: Ecopoetics
David Evans (University of St Andrews)
'Discordant Harmonies and Turbulent Serenity: The Ecopoetic Rhythms of Nature's - and Art's - Resistance'
Karen Quandt (University of Delaware)
'Ecopoetics and Utopian Ecologies in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables'
Emily McLaughlin (The Queen's College, University of Oxford)
'Bonnefoy's Theatrical Act of Address and Poetry's Field of Ecological Awareness'
(14:30)
Break
(14:45)
Panel 4: Ecological quandaries
Pauline Goul (Cornell University)
'The Vanity of Ecology: Environmental Crisis in Montaigne and Rabelais'
Anaïs Boulard (Université d'Angers)
'Quelle écriture française de la catastrophe environnementale à venir/advenue?'
Catherine Larrère (Université Paris I)
'"La Nature n'existe pas": Une thématique environnementale?'
(15:45)
Break
(16:00)
Panel 5: Biopolitics
Teófilo Sanz (Universidad de Burgos)
'Pour une écocritique francophone: La Pensée de Marguerite Yourcenar'
María José Sueza Espejo (Universidad de Jaén)
'Jean-Marie Le Clézio, un panoramique écocritique'
Verena Conley (Harvard University)
'Guattari Ozone: From Les Trois Écologies to Chaosmose'
(17:00)
Wine reception
(17:15)
Keynote 2:
Martin Crowley (Queens' College, University of Cambridge)
'An Ecology of Machinic Relation'