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Living and dwelling. Habiter le monde (Institut français d’Ecosse)

Living and dwelling. Habiter le monde (Institut français d’Ecosse)

Publié le par Esther Demoulin (Source : Olivier Salazar-Ferrer)

Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Seminar  -  Free event

Franco-Scottish Research Network in the Humanities and Social Sciences

“Living and dwelling. Habiter le monde”


Phd students from the Ecole Normale Supérieure PSL, the University of Glasgow, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of St Andrews will have the opportunity to present a paper and discuss their research together and with their supervisors, for a constructive Franco-Scottish and interdisciplinary dialogue in environmental humanities.
This event takes place in the Mois de la Francophonie organised at the French Institute of Edinburgh.


Friday 3 March, 10am-4pm
 
9:30 –9:45:           Arrival & Registration

9:45 – 9:50:          Opening Welcome 

Laurence Païs, Consule Générale, director of Institut français d’Edimbourg  

Dr Minh-Hà Pham, Counsellor for Science and technology, French Embassy in the UK

9:50 – 10:00:        Introductory Keynote by Professor Anne Simon (CNRS / ENS – PSL). 


10:00 – 10:30

Session 1 Toxicity, Health and Care 

Chair: Natalie Adamson (University of St Andrews)

·         Dr Ange Pottin (CEFRES, Prague): “Produce, Control, Maintain: Three Ways of Dwelling with Toxic residues”. 

·         Scarlet Butler (University of Edinburgh): “Régime de vivre: healthy eating in theory and practice in 16th century France”. 

·         Eszter Erdosi (University of Edinburgh): “Care as Public practice: the politics of Care Management and the Multispecies Landscapes in Gerard Ortin’s Wolf Urine”. 

10:30 – 11:00: Discussions

11:00 – 11h15: Coffee Break

11:15 – 11:45

Session 2 Ecocide, Politics and Ecology 

Chair: Prof. Anne Simon (CNRS/ ENS PSL)


·         Willy Delvalle (ENS PSL): “Europe and the Amazon Rainforest under fire: an ecological intervention?”

·         Claire Lemesle-Joly (University St Andrews): “Inhabiting the zoo”. 

11:45 – 12:15: Discussions

12:15– 13:15: Lunch break 


13:15 – 14:00

Session 3 Spaces, Memory and Alterity  

Chair: Dr Olivier Salazar-Ferrer (University of Glasgow) 

·         Lauren Robbins (University of St Andrews): “The body as ruin: Pompeian Problematics”

·         Matthis Hervieux (University of Edinburgh): “Uchi-soto book”

·         Amber Blanksma (University of Glasgow): “The Orpheus Complex: Understanding Cinema through Blanchot”.

14:00 – 14:30: Discussions

14:30 – 15:00 

Session 4 Identities, Exile and Self

 Chair: Prof. Marion Schmid (University of Edinburgh)


·         Yangjie Zhao (ENS PSL): “Homosexual Writers Dwelling in the Desert”

·         Anaïs Delcol (University of Glasgow): “Women and geography: appropriation of male spaces in Isabelle Eberhardt’s travel writing”. 

·         Matilda Nevin (St Andrews): “Dwelling in and outside of language: Francophone and Anglophone Autofiction of exile”.

15:00-15:30: Discussions

15:30-16:00: Conclusions by the four chairs with the participation of Prof. Anne Simon.