I am pleased to be able to send you the programme for the conference, 'New
Approaches to Zola' to be held at the University of Cambridge on April
16-17 2002.
Booking forms can be obtained from me at the address below:
Dr Hannah Thompson
Darwin College
Cambridge
CB3 9EU
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New Approaches to Zola
University of Cambridge, UK
April 16-17, 2002
Tuesday April 16th:
Little Hall, Sidgwick Site, Sidgwick Avenue
09:00: Registration
09:25: Welcome Address: Professor David Baguley (University of Durham,
UK), President of the Émile Zola Society, UK
09:30-9:50: A Tribute to the Work of Naomi Schor: Dr Hannah Thompson
(Darwin College, Cambridge, UK)
10:00-11:00: Session One: Shopping with Zola
Andreas Bonnermeier (University of Bayreuth, Germany) Émile Zola: Précurseur dune esthétique de la marchandise moderne? Le pouvoir de la séduction dans Au Bonheur des Dames
Dr Lynn Kettler Pernod (University of Alberta, Canada) Zola and Shopaholic Space: from Au Bonheur des Dames to The Gap
11:00-11:20: Coffee
11:20-12:50: Session Two: The Body
Chantal Morel (Institut Français de Londres, UK): De lenfant amoureux à la bête humaine amoureuse: les myriades damours des Rougon-Macquart
Dr Famahan Samake (University of Glamorgan, UK): La sexualité comme pierre angulaire de lesthétique naturaliste zolienne: lexemple des Rougon-Macquart
Dr Véronique Cnockaert (UQAM, Canada) Âme restaurée, corps en ruines. Au sujet de quelques agonies dans Les Rougon-Macquart
12:50-14:00: Lunch (Darwin College)
14:00-14:30: Professor Dorothy Diehl (St Marys University, Winona, MN,
USA)
Back to the Future: Bringing the Experimental Novel into the Digital Classroom
14:30-15:30: Session Three: The Material World
Dr Susan Harrow (University of Wales Swansea, UK) Food, Mud, Blood - The Material Narrative of La Débâcle
Professor Lawrence R. Schehr (University of Illinois, USA) Cooking with Zola
15:30-15:50: Tea
15:50-18:00: Session Four: Translation
Dr Robin Buss (Translator of L'Assommoir for Penguin Classics) Simple Spades or Bloody Shovels: Translating Colloquial Speech in LAssommoir
Dr Denise Merkle: (University of Moncton, Canada) Zola and Translation
Dr Geoff Woollen (University of Glasgow, UK) "Troughs of Zolaism"
The papers will be followed by a table ronde discussion on issues of translation.
19:00: Conference Dinner (Darwin College)
After Dinner: Professor Robert Lethbridge (Royal Holloway, London, UK) In the looking-glass: Zola and Contemporary Painting (Old Library, Darwin College)
Wednesday April 17th:
Little Hall, Sidgwick Site, Sidgwick Avenue
09:00-10:00: Dr Russell Cousins (University of Birmingham, UK) Zola and Film
10:00-11:30: Session Five: Theory
Kate Griffiths (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) Specular Texts: The Haunted Imprints of Émile Zola and Jacques Lacan
Jeremy Worth (University of Western Ontario, Canada) "Les enroulements sans fin de tuyau": resistance and the rhizome in Zolas Rougon-Macquart
Dr Anna Bondarenco (State University of Moldavia) Le stéréotypé et lévénementiel dans le roman dÉmile Zola
11:30-11:50: Coffee
11:50-12:50: Session Six: The Post Rougon-Macquart Novels
Dr Carmen K. Mayer Robin (University of Oregon, USA) Dreams of Fécondité: the book of the Generations of Marianne
Professor Evlyn Gould (University of Oregon, USA) Zolas Jews and the Question of Cultural Studies
12:50-14:00: Lunch (Darwin College)
14:00-15:30: Session Seven: Zola and Literature and the Visual Arts
Dr Peter Collier (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, UK) Visual Fictions: Zolas Mental Paintings
Blandine Chambost (Worcester College, Oxford, UK) Sous le signe de Vénus: erotic mythopoeia in the visions of Zola, Degas and Moreau
Dr Roger Pearson (The Queen's College, Oxford, UK) Zola by Mallarmé
15:30-16:00: Tea
16:00-17:00: Professor Jean-Pierre Leduc-Adine (Universiti de Paris III;
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, ITEM; Centre dÉtudes sur Zola et le Naturalisme, Paris, France) Zola et la peinture de paysage
17:00: Closing Address: Dr Wendy Ayres-Bennett (New Hall, Cambridge, UK)
Head of the University of Cambridge Department of French and President of the Society for French Studies, UK
For more information and a booking form, please contact:
Dr Hannah Thompson
Darwin College
Cambridge
CB3 9EU
United Kingdom
(01223) 710 709
ht206@cam.ac.uk