MODERNIST EMOTIONS
2nd International Conference of the Société d’Études Modernistes
22nd-24th June 2016
Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre
Building W (Max Weber)
Keynote speakers: Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania); Laura Marcus (University of Oxford).
Wednesday 22nd June
11.30am-1.30pm: Registration
1.30pm-2pm: Opening addresses. Jean-François Balaudé (President of the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre), Cornelius Crowley (Director of the CREA), Hélène Aji (President of the Société d’Études Modernistes).
2pm-3.30pm: Plenary session 1. Chair: Catherine Lanone (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Emotional forms
Christine Savinel (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle): Gertrude Stein: Touching Writing
John Attridge (University of New South Wales): Affect versus Form in Modernist Aesthetics
Nicholas Manning (Université Paris Sorbonne): The Urge for Simplicity is Equivalent to Self-Denial
3.30pm-3.45pm: Coffee break
3.45pm-5.15pm: Panels 1
Panel 1a: Critical emotions. Chair: Naomi Toth (Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Judith Allen (University of Pennsylvania): Virginia Woolf: Propaganda, Critical Thinking, and the Ethics of Readings
Rebecca Schumacher (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul): “L’émotion”: Pierre Reverdy’s Essay
Suzanne Bellamy (University of Sydney): Text Suicide: Scholarly Attachment and its Emotional Consequences
Panel 1b: Joy, happiness, and laughter. Chair: Lauren Elkin (American University of Paris)
Wendy Truran (University of Illinois Urbana): The Phantom of Joy in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats
Juliane Römhild (La Trobe University, Melbourne): “Crafting happiness” in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
Juliana Lopoukhine (Université Paris Sorbonne): Comic emotion in Between the Acts (Virginia Woolf): the value of laughter in 1939
5. 5.15pm-5.30pm: Coffee break
5.30pm-6.30pm: KEYNOTE 1. Chair: Christine Savinel (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania): The Modernist Pathosformel: Deleuzian Affect vs. Lacanian Pathos
6.30pm: Cocktail
Thursday 23rd June
9.30am-11am
Plenary session 2: Paradoxical affects. Chair: Judith Allen (University of Pennsylvania)
Chris Mourant (University of Nottingham Trent): Sentimental Modernism: The critical writings of Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf
Lauren Elkin (American University of Paris): “It’s her fu-ur which is so funny”: Fashion, and fur, fear, and fun in women’s modernism
Kirsty Martin (University of Exeter): T. S. Eliot and Happiness
11am-11.15am: Coffee break
11.15am-12.45pm: Panels 2
Panel 2a: Embodied emotions. Chair: Caroline Pollentier (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Elaine Chou (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle): An Abortive Rhetoric: Djuna Barnes’s Early Plays
Marit Grøtta (University of Oslo): Reading Faces: Proust’s Passion for Portrait Photographs
Elizabeth Barry (University of Warwick): Modernism, Displeasure and Embodied Temporality: Virginia Woolf as Case Study
Panel 2b: Emotions and periodicals. Chair: Benoît Tadié (Université de Rennes 2)
Céline Mansanti (Université de Picardie): The Reception of Modernism in a Non-Modernist, Middlebrow Magazine, Life (1883-1936)
Ricardo Marques (Universidade Nova de Lisboa): The Portuguese case seen through its little magazines (1910-1927)
Aurore Clavier (Université de Paris 8): “Bless” and “Blast”: Critical Emotions in the Little Magazines
12.45pm-2pm: Lunch
2pm-3.30pm: Panels 3
Panel 3a: Temporalities of emotion. Chair: Juliana Lopoukhine (Université Paris Sorbonne)
Matthew Clarke (University of Sydney): Lytton Strachey’s Ghost: Letter Writing and the Affects of Queer History
Oliver Neto (University of Bristol): The Poetics of Boredom: Elizabeth Bowen and Literary Modernism
James Dutton (University of New South Wales): Presenting Absence: Grief in A la recherche du temps perdu
Panel 3b: Spaces of emotion. Chair: Nicholas Manning (Université Paris Sorbonne)
Trish May (University of New South Wales): “In the Eddy or out of it”: Intimacy, Mediation, and Movement in Woolf’s Domestic Interiors
Jung-Ping Chou (National Chengchi University, Taiwan): Henry James’s Topophilia: Walking in Paris in The Ambassadors
Emmanuel Cohen (CRAE, Université de Picardie/TNS Parsons, Paris): The landscape is the emotion: on Gertrude Stein's plays and Louis Aragon's Anicet ou le Panorama, Roman
Panel 3c: Sentimental modernism. Chair: Céline Mansanti (Université de Picardie)
Victoria Levêque (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle): The Imbalance of Emotions in James Joyce’s Ulysses
Moris Fadel (New Bulgarian University): Between Emotion and Affect, Modernism and Avant-Garde
Elizabeth Benjamin (Independent scholar): Sentimental Old Dada: Mapping Modernist Emotion in the Era of the Ageing Avant-Garde
3.30pm-3.45pm: Coffee break
3.45-5.15pm: Panels 4
Panel 4a: Musical emotions. Chair: John Attridge (University of New South Wales)
Virkar Yates (University of Brighton): Absolute Music and Impersonal Emotion in Eliot’s Four Quartets
Hervé Picherit (University of Texas, Austin): The Music of (E)motion: Rhythm and Affect in Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Mort à Crédit.
Sue Thomas (La Trobe University, Australia): The Passage of Affect in Jean Rhys’s After Leaving Mr Mackenzie
Panel 4b: Objects, subjects, and animals. Chair: Charlotte Estrade (Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Pauline Macadré (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle): From possession to dispossession: Woolf’s object collections as exhibitions of the self
Kezia Whiting (SUNY Buffalo): Styles of Affect in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September
Rachel Murray (Universities of Bristol and Exeter): Resisting the “Crowd-Mood”: the Entomodernism of Wyndham Lewis
5.15pm-5.30pm: Coffee break
5.30pm-6.30pm: KEYNOTE 2. Chair: Cornelius Crowley (Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Laura Marcus (University of Oxford): “It was yes, no.”: modernism and ambivalence
8pm: Conference dinner
Friday 24th June
9.30am-11am:
Plenary session 3: Poetic Emotions. Chair: Hélène Aji (Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Charlotte Estrade (Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre): “Emotion and Poesy”: Ezra Pound’s elusive definition, reception and poetic practice
Vincent Bucher (Université de Grenoble): Finding reasons to write or discovering motives for poetry ? Louis Zukofsky’s emotive empiricism
Xavier Kalck (Université Paris Sorbonne): “Having an Emotion” after Modernism: (the) Reading Experience in Robert Creeley, Larry Eigner, and Theodor Enslin
11am-11.15am: Coffee Break
11.15am-12.45pm: Panels 5
Panel 5a: Mina Loy and affects. Chair: Xavier Kalck (Université Paris Sorbonne)
Yasna Bozkhova (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle): A “Chart of Unarrival”: Emotional Stupor in Mina Loy’s Insel
Katherine Russell (Université de Paris 8): Personal is always Political: The politics of emotions in the poetry of Mina Loy
Rebecca Varley-Winter (University of Oxford): Funny Feelings: Detecting Emotion in Mina Loy
Panel 5b: Samuel Beckett and affects. Chair: Adrienne Janus (University of Aberdeen)
Emily Chester (University of Bristol): “What Kind of Creature Uttered It?”: Reimagining Emotional Subjectivity in Samuel Beckett’s The Unnamable
Anthony Cordingley (Université de Paris 8): Beckett’s Pedagogy of Affect
Deborah Pike (University of Notre Dame, Australia): Anxiety, Melancholia, and Insomnia in Samuel Beckett’s The Unnamable
12.45pm-2pm: Lunch
2pm-3.30pm: Panels 6
Panel 6a: Modernist anxieties. Chair: Jennifer Kilgore (Caen University)
Anna Hueppauff et Susan Ash (Edith Cowan University): “Strong Flux of Life”: Worry, Modernism, Lola Ridge, and T. S. Eliot
Birgit Breidenbach (University of Warwick): In Search of the Mood of Modernism
Carole Sweeney (University of London): “Frigid and Blank Neutrality”: Affective Catastrophe in the Writing of Anna Kavan
Panel 6b: Emotions across the nations. Chair: Noëlle Cuny (Université de Haute Alsace)
Paolo Pitari (University of Venice, Cà Foscari): The Not-Impersonal: Emotions in Zeno’s Conscience and One, No one, and One Hundred Thousand
Ana Lucia Beck (King’s College, London): The I and the Other: Looking for the Self in Modernist Painting and Poetry
Urvashi Vashist (University College, London): Reminiscing between Twilights: Affect and Agency in Cornelia Sorabji and Virginia Woolf
3.30pm-3.45pm: Coffee break
3.45pm-5.15pm: Plenary session 4: Emotional extremes. Chair: Vincent Bucher (Université de Grenoble)
Rod Rosenquist (University of Northampton): Modernist Loss and Lost Modernism: Narrating Personal Trauma in Modernist Memoir
Benoît Tadié (Université de Rennes 2): “A God-dammed massacrist, that’s what he is” (Hammett): Trauma, Repression and the Formation of Hard-Boiled Literature
Adrienne Janus (University of Aberdeen): Modernist Irish Laughter, French Infections, and German Doctors
5.30pm-6.30pm: General Assembly of the Societé d’Études Modernistes (open to members)