Image and Imagination
Thursday 12th September
2.00-4.00 pmRegistration4.00-4.30Tea4.30-5.30Michael Moriarty (Queen Mary College, London): 'Images and Idols'6.30-7.30Dinner8.00-9.00PortraitureEva Martin (Princeton): 'Images of Benedict and Bernard: homage to Cîteaux at Port-Royal.'Jeanne Morgan-Zarucchi (Missouri-St. Louis): 'Philippe de Champaigne and Vincent Voiture: an "impious" attribution.'
Friday 13th September
8.00-9.00Breakfast9.00-10.30Theatrical ImaginationJohana Porcu (Manchester): 'Violence, image et imaginaire dans la tragédie de l'automne de la Renaissance (1580-1620).'Jean-Luc Robin (Rice): 'L'imaginaire scientifique au théâtre: Le Tartuffe comme pratique et théorie de l'expérimentation.'Elizabeth Woodrough (Exeter): 'Cantate, ballate, ridete: reassessing Molière's response to the threat of ceremonial overkill in the age of Louis XIV.'10.30-11.00Coffee11.00-12.30Religious ImaginationEmily Butterworth (Churchill College, Cambridge): 'Countering Slander: Jean-Pierre Camus and defensive writing.'Emma Gilby (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge): 'Models of Imagination in the Pensées: Rereading Pascal and Montaigne.'Barbara Woshinsky (Miami): 'The Figuring of Bodies in Religious Allegorical Imagination.'12.30-1.30Lunch2.00-3.00AGM3.00-4.00The Material ImageAnia Guini-Skliar (Paris): 'Quelques critères esthétiques de l'emploi de la pierre à bâtir dans l'architecture parisienne au XVIIe siècle.'Louise Barry (Emory): 'The elusive power of ellipsis: representations of the Grotto of Thetis.'4.00-4.30Tea4.30-5.30Images of DesireJan Clarke (Durham): 'In the Eye of the Beholder? The Actress as Beauty in Seventeenth-Century France'.Pierre Zoberman (Paris XIII): 'Portrait of the Homosexual/ Homosexual Portraits in the Seventeenth Century.'7.30Conference Dinner
Saturday 14th September
8.00-9.00Breakfast (Dining Hall)9.00-10.30Aesthetics: Image and ImaginationFlorence Orwat (Paris IV): 'L'imaginaire esthétique dans Le Page disgracié de Tristan l'Hermite: rêve autobiographique et autobiographie rêvée.'Michel Fournier (Toronto): 'De l'oeil de la chair à l'oeil de l'esprit: les enjeux de l'image dans la poétique du roman au XVIIe siècle en France.'Richard Lockwood (Rutgers): 'Image and Fable in La Fontaine.'10.30-11.00Coffee11.00-12.00John Lyons (Virginia): 'Triumph of the Will: Imagination and self-cultivation in François de Sales.' 12.30-1.30Lunch