Resonances :
Sustainable Connections and Reparative Aesthetics
21 & 22 March 2024
Sorbonne Nouvelle, Campus Nation, Room A608
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Thursday 21 March
10am Welcome, Coffee, and ‘Tuning In’
Claire Davison, Elsa Hogberg and Elizabeth Abel
10.40 Resonance and Phonography
Chair: Claire Davison
Jonas Lundblad: Resonance as the basis for Olivier Messiaen’s ecological poetics of music
Tom McEnaney: Dehumanizing Song: Speech-Music, Tape, and Text
12-1.40pm Lunch
1.40-3.00pm Retrospective Resonance
Chair : Luca Pinelli
Mark Hussey: What resonates? Suffering at a distance
Elizabeth Abel: Moths, Soundwaves, Genocide: The Politics of Resonance in W.G. Sebald and
Virginia Woolf
Refreshments
3.30-4.50pm Optical Resonance
Chair: Alexandra Poulain
Carrol Clarkson: Chromophobia, Colour, and Commitment
Charlotte de Mille: Out of Cezanne
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Friday 22 March
9.30-10.50am: Sounding the Depths
Chair: Aliette Ventejoux
Rasheed Tazudeen: Submarine Resonance, Cosmic Migration: The Indian Ocean and the Black
Atlantic
Christina Kuhlberg: Archival Dissonance: Questioning Deep Listening in the French Black
Atlantic
Refreshments
11.10-12.30pm Ripples and Renewal
Chair: Marie Laniel
Grace Brockington: Radical Pacifism: Resonance across Time in the book and film of The Ballet of
the Nations
Alexandra Peat: ‘Like Rings in the Water’: The Resonances of Paper in Ali Smith’s Summer
Lunch
1.30-2.50pm Fine-Tuning and Radio Waves
Chair: Anne-Marie Smith-Di Biasio
Edward Allen: “Too hot or too delicate”: Louis MacNeice, the BBC, and South Africa
Claire Davison: Lest we remember? War, Sound and Sonic Memory in the BBC’s ‘Scrapbook’
Programmes
Refreshments
3.10-4.30 The Feel of Resonance
Chair: Elsa Högberg
Caroline Pollentier: Haptic Resonance and the Aesthetics of Remote Touching
Jill Stauffer: What Does Possibility Feel Like? Resonance and Social Change in Settler Colonial
space/time
4.45-5.30pm ‘Sociable’ Round Table, Drinks, and ‘Tuning Out’
Conclusions, reverberations, and perspectives
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Contact: claire.davison@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr
Avec le soutien de l'EA Prismes 4398, du Mellon Grant, de l'Institut des Amériques et de l'Université Sorbonne nouvelle.