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Microscopic Imaginaries in 20th- and 21st- century literature (Sorbonne nouvelle)

Microscopic Imaginaries in 20th- and 21st- century literature (Sorbonne nouvelle)

Publié le par Marc Escola (Source : Sarah Montin)

Programme

9h        Welcome

9h15    Patrick Armstrong (Cambridge University): “Micro-Modernism”. Respondent: Catherine Lanone (Sorbonne Nouvelle)

 10h00  Emma Felin (Oxford University)“Microscopic Modernism”. Respondent: Aurore Clavier (Université Paris Cité)

 10h45  Coffee and poetry break

 11h15  Lisa Mullen (Cambridge University) : “‘News from the World of Neglected Dimensions’: War, fascism, and literature in Hugh Nicol’s Microbes by the Million (1939)”. Respondent: Patrick Armstrong (Cambridge University)

 12h00  Cécilia Bognon-Küss (Sorbonne Université), Fleur Hopkins-Loféron (Sorbonne Nouvelle) and Liliane Campos (Sorbonne Nouvelle): “Microscopic Imaginaries in Popular Science” round-table

 12h45  Lunch

14h15 Teun-Joshua Brandt (Groningen University): “Seeing the Unseen: Deep-Sea Microbes and the Ecological Imagination in Frank Schätzings Der Schwarm”. Respondent: Christina Heflin (Panthéon-Sorbonne)

 15h      Rosalind Crocker (Sheffield University): “Gothicising the Microbial ‘Other’ in Anne Roiphe’s An Imperfect Lens (2006)”. Respondent: Estelle Murail (ICP)

 15h45  Shannon Lambert (Ghent University): “Stuck in the Mud: Friction, Microbial Networks, and Citizen Science in Susan Gaines’ Accidentals (2020)”. Respondent: Christine Lorre (Sorbonne Nouvelle)

 16h30  Coffee and poetry break

 17h      Marco Caracciolo (Ghent University): “Unraveling Bodies and Environmental Challenges in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction”. Respondent: Diane Leblond (Université de Lorraine)

 17h45  Sarah Bouttier (Ecole Polytechnique), Jennifer K. Dick (Université de Haute Alsace), Catherine Larose (Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement) and Dorothy Lehane (Litmus Publishing): “Microbiology in Poetry” round-table

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Abstracts: https://biocriticism.hypotheses.org/

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Scientific committee :

sarah.bouttier@polytechnique.edu,

liliane.campos@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr,  

caroline.pollentier@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr

and sarah.montin@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr

This symposium is a BioCriticism event, organized thanks to the support of the Institut Universitaire de France and the Sorbonne Nouvelle (PRISMES laboratory).