Proust and His Era / Proust et son époque
University of Illinois, 8-10 April 2010
Thursday, 8 April
7:00 p.m.
Third Floor, Levis
Jonah Lehrer, Independent Scholar
“Proustian Intuitions: What Marcel Proust Can Teach Neuroscientists about Memory”
Friday, 9 April
8:00-8:30, Coffee, Illinois Memorial Union 217
8:30-10:00: Session 1
1A. War
Illinois Memorial Union 211
Chair, Caroline Szylowicz, University of Illinois
David Ellison, University of Miami
“Quelle Guerre ? Charlus et son époque”
Pascal Ifri, Washington University
“La première guerre mondiale dans la Recherche et la Correspondance : Un Parallèle”
Philippe Chardin, Université de Tours
“La guerre chez Proust, reflet des contradictions d'un esprit du temps et support de vérités
atemporelles”
1B. 1913
Illinois Memorial Union 217
Chair, Emile Talbot, University of Illinois
André Benhaïm, Princeton University
“Les Passeurs de Paris (Proust, Apollinaire, Cendrars)”
Margaret E. Gray, Indiana University
“Proust, the Everyday, and Cultural Appropriation: Or, the Poacher Poached”
Franc Schuerewegen, Universiteit Antwerpen, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, and Universiteit
Gent
“Roland Barthes et son époque”
10-10:30 Coffee, IU 217
10:30-12:00: Session 2
2A. Autour de Proust
IU 211
Chair, Nancy Blake, University of Illinois
Fanny Daubigny, California State University, Fullerton
“Lectures du dé-sastre: Marthe Bibesco lectrice et critique de Proust”
Adam Watt, Royal Holloway, University of London
“Proust and His Translators”
Mélanie Giraud, Bucknell University
“De M.P. à P.M. : Le ‘fil fatal' (re)liant Marcel Proust à Paul Morand”
2B. Proust and Germany
IU 217
Chair, Jocelyne Kolb, Smith College
Marc Weiner, Indiana University
“Memories of Musical Memories: Marcel and Tristan Listen to the Shepherd's Tune”
Carl Niekerk, University of Illinois
“Reading Proust with Sacher-Masoch”
Alison James, University of Chicago
“Proust, Benjamin, and the Mysteries of the Everyday”
12:00-1:00: Lunch
1:00-2:00 Proust exhibit in Rare Book Room, Library
2:15-3:45: Session 3
3A. Memory and Mourning
IU 211
Chair, Pascal Ifri, Washington University
Anna Elsner, Cambridge University
“‘L'Édifice immense du souvenir' – Marcel Proust and Maurice Halbwachs between Memory
and Mourning”
Yan Hamel, University de Québec à Montréal
“Marcel Proust, Maurice Halbwachs : regards croisés sur la mémoire et la société”
Alina Opreanu, Harvard University
“Writing à partir d'elle (Barthes, Gide, Proust)”
3B. Class
IU 217
Chair, Karen Fresco, University of Illinois.
Edward Hughes, Queen Mary, University of London
“‘Tout est affaire d'époque, de classe': Proust and his Contemporaries on Social Class”
Fay E. Rosner, Northwestern University
“The Art of Self-Promotion: Odette, Bergotte and the Language of Aesthetic Martyrdom,”
Dagmar Wieser, Universität Zürich
“Converser en 1900: Proust et la civilisation du ‘shake-hands' ”
3:45-4:15 Coffee, IU 217
4:15-5:45: Session 4
4A Sexualities
IU 211
Chair, Jenelle Griffin, University of Illinois
Guillaume Perrier, Université Joseph-Fourier, IUFM de Grenoble
“L'hétérosexualité du héros-narrateur : discours, contexte, fiction”
Juliette Dade, Indiana University
“Ineffable Gomorrah: Proust, Colette, and Vivien”
Michael Finn, Ryerson University
“Proust and Ambient Medico-Literary Homosexualities 1885-1910”
4B Reading, Proust and his Readers
IU 217
Chair, Jean-Philippe Mathy, University of Illinois
François Proulx, Harvard University
“Down with Bourget? Proust's Revolution in Reading”
Joseph Acquisto, University of Vermont
“Listening to Proust Listening”
Alessandro Grilli, Universitá di Pisa
“De la fascination à la jouissance du texte: pour une esthétique d'A la recherche du temps
perdu”
6:00-9:00: Cash Bar and Buffet Supper
Colonial Room, Illini Memorial Union
Saturday, 10 April
8:00-8:30: Coffee, IU 217
8:30-10:00: Session 5
5A. Thinking about Time
IU 211
Chair: Joshua Landy, Stanford University
Joshua Landy, Stanford University
"Proust sans son époque? the case of Jean Santeuil"
Nicolas Valazza, Indiana University
“Proust ‘juché sur de vivantes échasses'”
Christine Cano, Case Western Reserve University
“Proust and the Stock Exchange”
5B. Science, Thought, and Mind
IU 217
Chair, Daniel Brant, University of Illinois
Evelyne Ender, Hunter College, CUNY
“'Ma main tremble si fort en vous écrivant' ou Proust en graphologue”
Anne Simon, CNRS
“Histoires naturelles et surnaturelles : révolution scientifique et métamorphoses du corps chez
Proust”
Edward Bizub, Geneva
“Psychotherapy and Artistic Vision in Proust's Novel: the Question of Modernity”
10:00-10:30 Coffee, IU 215
10:30-12:00: Session 6
6A. Sister Arts
IU 211
Chair, Margaret E. Gray, Indiana University
Karen Haddad-Wotling, Université de Paris, Nanterre
“De son pays et pas de son temps. Bergotte contre les modernes”
Céline Surprenant, University of Sussex
“Rationality and Music: The Philosophical Context of the Early Reception of À la recherche du
temps perdu”
Christie McDonald, Harvard University
“Proust's Ethnology of Failure”
6B. Proust and the Nineteenth Century
IU 217
Chair, Daniel Maroun, University of Illinois
Peter Vantine, Indiana University
“Ménage à trois, ou l'apothéose (mélancolique) de l'amour : Proust, Watteau, Goncourt”
Matthieu Vernet, Université de Paris, Sorbonne
“La passante proustienne : l'avers et le revers de la femme baudelairienne”
Hollie Harder, Brandeis University
“Charlus de Tarascon, or Finding Tartarin in Proust's Recherche”
Erika Fülöp, Independent Scholar
“Psychology and Metaphysics: Habit in and around
the Recherche ”
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:15-2:00: Visit to the Proust exhibition at the Krannert Art Museum
2:15-3:45: Session 7
7A. L'épistémologie et l'espace
IU 211
Chair: Katherine Kolb, Southeastern Louisiana University
Françoise Leriche, Université Grenoble 3 / ITEM-CNRS
“Proust et le roman de la vie rurale en 1908-1910”
Katherine Elkins, Kenyon College
“Proust's Negative Space”
Jeanette Samyn, Indiana University
“Encore plus noir que n'était le Combray de mon enfance”: Place-as-Past Transformed in Le
Temps Retrouvé”
7B. Literary Theory
IU 217
Chair, Brian Hunt, University of Illinois
Oana Panaïté, Indiana University
“Proust - pour une critique résiduelle”
Vincent Ferré, Université de Paris, XIII
“Comment représenter son époque ? Proust et la théorie : totalité, modernité et connaissance”
Hannah Freed-Thall, University of California, Berkeley
“Prestige of a Momentary Diamond”: Proust and the Lemoine Affair”
3:45-4:15: Coffee, IU 215
4:15-5:45: Session 8
8A. Rethinking the Recherche
IU 211
Chair, Laurence Mall, University of Illinois
Pierre Zoberman, Université de Paris, XIII
“The Witness's Stance: Writing the Passing of a Society”
Kevin Kopelson, University of Iowa
“Proust for Us”
Brigitte Mahuzier, Bryn Mawr College
“Charlus ou la déraison d'état”
8B. Proust and Reading
IU 217
Chair, Chase Dimock, University of Illinois
Nathan Guss, Fort Lewis College
“Proust Living and Writing Dangerously”
Suzanne Guerlac, University of California, Berkeley
"Plus tard une photo m'expliqua pourquoi' (Albertine)"
James Austin, Connecticut College
“Dissecting Coercion in the Recherche: Pastiche, Performativity, and Imperative Politics in a
Time of War”
6:00-9:00, Cash Bar and Banquet
Levis, 3rd Floor