Histoires de la Terre
University of Sheffield, Crookesmoor Building
30th March – 1st April 2007
Supported by the Society for French Studies,
the Ambassade de France au Royaume Uni and the
Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, University of Sheffield.
Histoires de la Terre – Programme
University of Sheffield, Crookesmoor Building
30th March – 1st April 2007
Friday 30th March
10.30 – 12.30: Registration at Tapton Hall
12.30 – 13.00: Coffee at Crookesmoor Building
13.00-13.15: Welcome Address, Lecture Theatre 2
13.15 – 14.45: Panel 1 – Envisaging the Earth, Lecture Theatre 2, Crookesmoor
Chair: To Be Confirmed
• Valérie Narayana (Mount Allison): ‘Avant soi le déluge: Rhétoriques du texte et de l'image dans le discours paléontologique de Tableau de la nature de Louis Figuier'.
• Rebecca Ford (Nottingham): ‘Images of the Earth, Images of Man: The Mineralogical Plates of the Encyclopédie'.
• Greg Kerr (IRCHSS / Trinity College, Dublin): ‘“Nous avons enlacé le globe de nos réseaux…”: Development and the Poetics of Technics in Saint-Simonian Prose'.
14.45 – 15.15: Coffee, Syndicate Room 5, Crookesmoor
15.15 – 16.45: Panel 2 – Archéologie et le roman, Lecture Theatre 2, Crookesmoor
Chair: TBC
• Nigel Harkness (Queen's University Belfast): ‘Rêves de pierre: the Rosetta Stone and the Nineteenth-Century Hieroglyphic Imaginary'.
• Claire Le Guillou (Independent): ‘George Sand et la Passion de l'Archéologie'.
• Scott Sprenger (Brigham Young University): ‘Peau de chagrin, ou l'archéologie du moi'.
16.45 – 17.45: Plenary 1, Lecture Theatre 2, Crookesmoor
Chair: David McCallam (Sheffield)
Grégory Quenet (Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines) – ‘Quand la géologie rencontre une catastrophe réelle : du tremblement de terre théorique au désastre de Lisbonne'.
18.15: Dinner
Saturday 31st March
7.45-8.30: Breakfast, Tapton Hall Dining Room
9.00-10.30: Panel 3 – Révolutions de la Nature, Lecture Theatre 2, Crookesmoor
Chair TBC
• Chantal Maignan-Claverie (Antilles-Guyane) – ‘Éruption volcanique et irruption apocalyptique post-coloniale'.
• Louise Lyle (Sheffield) – ‘Apocalypse, Anthropomorphism and the Revenge of the Minerals in J.H. Rosny Aîné's La Mort de la Terre'.
10.30 – 11.00: Coffee, Syndicate Room 5, Crookesmoor
11.00 – 12.00: Plenary 2, Lecture Theatre 2, Crookesmoor
Chair: Susan Harrow (Sheffield)
Tim Unwin (Bristol) – ‘Earth, Fire, Water, Ice: Verne's Voyages extraordinaires'.
12.00 – 13.00: Buffet Lunch, Syndicate Room 5, Crookesmoor
13.00 – 14.30 – Parallel Sessions
Panel 4 – Around Verne, Lecture Theatre 2, Crookesmoor
Chair: TBC
• Sandrine Schiano-Bennis (Paris IV – Sorbonne) – ‘Théorie évolutionniste et représentations de la Terre: bouleversements philosophiques et esthétiques dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle'.
• Anca Sprenger (Brigham Young University) – ‘Jules Verne: les discours vrais de la fausse science'.
• Ben Fisher (Bangor) – ‘Alfred Jarry's Neo-Science: liquidising Paris and debunking Verne'.
Panel 5 – Migration of Ideas, Syndicate Room 1, Crookesmoor
Chair: TBC
• Barbara Kennedy (St. Hugh's College, Oxford) – ‘Buffon and the Earth's Surface'.
• Ian Rotherham (Sheffield Hallam) – ‘French Influences on Peat Bog and Fen as Disputed Landscapes'.
• Dagmar Nordberg (Christian-Albrechts, Kiel) – ‘History and Survival: Recherche Bay, Tasmania, Australia'.
14.45 – Transport to Millennium Galleries, Sheffield
15.00 – 17.00: Visit to Millennium Galleries and Winter Gardens, Sheffield, with introduction from Louise Pullen (Research Curator, Ruskin Gallery) – ‘John Ruskin and Geology'.
17.10 – Transport back to Crookesmoor
17.30 – 18.30: Plenary 3, Lecture Theatre 2, Crookesmoor
Chair: Máire F. Cross (Newcastle)
Ceri Crossley (Birmingham) – ‘The Circulus: Soil, Socialism and Salvation in Nineteenth-Century France'.
19.00 – Vin d'honneur, sponsored by the Ambassade de France, at Tapton Conservatory
19.45 – Conference Banquet, Tapton Dining Hall
Sunday 1st April
8.30-9.30: Breakfast – Tapton Dining Hall
9.30 – 11.00: Parallel Sessions
Panel 6 – Spatio-Temporal Distortions, Lecture Theatre 2, Crookesmoor
Chair: TBC
• Emmanuelle Tabet (CNRS) – ‘La Montagne de Michelet: entre science et mystique'.
• Kiera Vaclavik (Queen Mary College, London) – ‘Telling the Time: Underground Journeys in Nineteenth-Century Children's Literature'.
• Tom Imber (Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle) – ‘J.-H. Rosny Aîné, Science Fiction and the Etiological Myth'.
Panel 7 – Modernist Perspectives, Syndicate Room 1, Crookesmoor
Chair: TBC
• David H. Walker (Sheffield) – ‘Gide, Eugène Rouart et “le salut par la terre”'.
• Martin Hurcombe (Bristol) – ‘Down to Earth: André Malraux's Political Itinerary and the Natural World'.
• Brian Sudlow (Reading) – ‘Théorie de la Terre bernanosienne: Bernanos, un Buffon à rebours'.
11.00-11.30: Coffee, Syndicate Room 5, Crookesmoor
11.30 – 12.45: Plenary 4, Lecture Theatre 2, Crookesmoor
Chair: David Williams (Sheffield)
Benoît de Baere (Ghent) – ‘L'écriture de la catastrophe dans l'Histoire naturelle de Buffon : Sciences de la terre, anthropologie et esthétique'.
12.45-13.30 : Buffet Lunch, Syndicate Room 5, Crookesmoor