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Colloque international sur l’écopoétique
« Lieux d’enchantement : Ecrire et ré-enchanter le monde »
Sous l’égide du centre de recherche CRESEM
Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, France
22-25 juin 2016
Auteurs invités : Linda Hogan, Ron Rash, Pierre-Yves Touzot
Conférenciers d’honneur : Joni Adamson (Arizona State University), Yves-Charles Grandjeat (Université de Bordeaux), Wendy Harding (Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès), Scott Slovic (University of Idaho)
Evènement :
Prenant sa source dans le transcendantalisme du dix-neuvième siècle, l’écriture de la nature en Amérique du Nord connaît un nouvel essor depuis un demi-siècle. A mesure que s’accentue l’urgence face à la crise environnementale, la littérature et la critique littéraire peuvent-elles contribuer à infléchir le langage et les politiques par lesquelles nous scellons l’avenir du monde ? Déjà, en 1949, Aldo Leopold soulignait les processus intellectuels et émotionnels qui entrent en jeu dans la construction d’une éthique de la Terre, rappelant les principes fondateurs de l’écologie : « Nous maltraitons la Terre parce que nous la considérons comme un bien qui nous appartient. Lorsque nous percevrons la Terre comme une communauté à laquelle nous appartenons, alors pourrons-nous commencer à l’utiliser avec amour et respect. » (xix)
Les spécialistes d’écocritique et les écrivains défendent une vision de l’homme connecté aux divers réseaux de vie sur Terre ; s’évertuant à répandre une perspective biocentrique sur le monde, ils nous incitent à redécouvrir une conception de l’espace ferontet de la terre plus humble et responsable. Les écrivains de la nature sont souvent abordés avec diverses approches critiques, appelées tantôt « éco-féminisme », tantôt « écriture de la nature », « littérature environnementale », ou, remontant à une tradition bien plus ancienne, « écriture des Premières Nations ». Or, quel que soit le prisme par lequel on les aborde, tous ces auteurs appellent à une relation avec le monde basée sur l’empathie, la perception, l’imagination et la réciprocité. Qu’ils s’inspirent des sciences écologiques, de méditations personnelles, ou encore de mythologies, de traditions et de philosophies ancestrales, ces écrivains d’origines multiples se rejoignent en ce qu’ils participent à élaborer ce que Barry Lopez et Mark Tredinnick nomment une « littérature de l’humilité, un mouvement au-delà de soi. »
Ce colloque en écopoétique vise à porter un regard transversal sur ces différents auteurs, tous écrivains de la nature. L’objectif sera de dégager une problématique multiculturelle commune, centrée sur une littérature qui s’offre comme un appel à ré-imaginer ou retrouver des relations de réciprocité et de complémentarité avec la nature. Ce colloque se propose donc de mettre en lumière la convergence et les recoupements rhizomatiques entre des littératures trop souvent étudiées comme appartenant à des terrains distincts, soit éco-féministes, soit « de la nature », soit postcoloniaux. Il s’agira d’étudier quelle vision des lieux, de la terre et de la vie qui la peuple donnent ces auteurs, et à établir comment, ensemble, ils offrent de nouvelles perspectives permettant d’appréhender différemment notre être-au-monde. Car ces écrivains ne redessinent-ils pas l’interdépendance de toute chose au sein de la nature d’une façon qui rappelle le motif de l’anneau sacré central à la tradition amérindienne ?
Les présentations durant ce colloque d'écopoétique se tiendront aussi bien en français qu'en anglais. Pour plus de renseignements ainsi que le programme complet, veuillez vous reporter au site internet dédié http://ecopoeticsperpignan.com
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Entrée ouverte à tous et gratuite
Mercredi 22 juin / Wed. June 22nd
(Couvent des Minimes & Maison de la Catalanité)
8h30-9h00 : Inscription / Registration (Couvent des Minimes)
9h00 -10h00 : Ouverture du colloque / Conference Opening (Chapelle Basse, Couvent des Minimes)
Allocution d’ouverture par Xavier Py, Vice-Président Recherche de l’UPVD.
Official opening and welcome by Xavier Py, Vice-President of the University of Perpignan, in charge of Research.
Quelques mots d’ouverture sur le thème du colloque par Bénédicte Meillon, coordinatrice du colloque. / Opening words focusing on the conference subject, by Bénédicte Meillon, Conference Coordinator.
10h00- 12h00 Ateliers parallèles / Parallel sessions
Panel 1 (Chapelle Basse, Couvent des Minimes)
Chair: Yves-Charles Grandjeat, Université de Bordeaux
Thomas Pughe, Professor at the Université of Orléans, France: “Ecopoetry: the ecological work of language.”
Francoise Besson, Professor at the University of Toulouse, France: “Nature Speech and Storytelling: The Voice of Wisdom in the Non-Human.”
Charles Holdefer, Associate Professor at the University of Poitiers, France: “Necessary Wonder: Promises and Pitfalls of Enchantment.”
Athane Adrahane, Doctorante à l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique : « Écrire à dimension des montagnes, des papillons et des étoiles. »
Panel 2 (Salle d’exposition / Exhibition room, Maison de la Catalanité)
Chair: Margot Lauwers, Université de Perpignan
Franca Bellarsi, Associate Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, and Chad Weidner, Assistant Professor at Utrecht College Roosevelt (UCR), Netherlands: “Fractured Ecologies and Experiential Translation: Bringing the Self back from Experiential Exile?”
Vidya Sarveswaran, Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, India:“Terry Tempest Williams’s Finding Beauty in a Broken World as an Integrated Mosaic.”
Antonia Navarro Tejero, Professor at the University of Córdoba, Spain: “Ancestral Nature, Tribal Bodies: An Ecofeminist Approach to Northeastern Indian poet Mamang Dai.”
Munira Salim, PhD Student at Stewart Science College, Cuttack, Odisha, India: “Critiquing Ecofeminism through the Marginal Perspective of Urmila Pawar’s The Weave of My Life.”
Panel 3 (Salle du haut / Upper room, Maison de la Catalanité)
Chair: Scott Slovic, University of Idaho
Alan Johnson, Professor at Idaho State University, USA: “Making Enchantment Visible in Indian Fiction: An Ecopoetical Reading.”
Swarnalatha Rangarajan, Professor at the University of Madras, India: “From the Oikeon to the Politikon: The Covenant with Land in Mother Forest: The Unfinished Story of C.K.Janu.”
Chitra Sankaran, Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore: “Numinous Encounters along the Holy Narmada: A River Sutra by Gita Mehta.”
Asis De, Associate Professor at Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India: “Toward an Island Ecopoetics: Reenchanting the Andaman Ecology and the Jarawa Tribal Reserve in Pankaj Sekhsaria’s The Last Wave (2014).”
12h00-13h30 Pause déjeuner / Lunch Break (Couvent des Minimes)
13h30-14h30 Séance Plénière / Keynote session (Chapelle Basse, Couvent des Minimes)
Yves-Charles Grandjeat, Professor at the University of Bordeaux, France: “I turn homeward, wondering”: A Short, Enchanted Journey Through some of the Wonders Literature Can Do for Ecology”
14h30-16h00 Ateliers parallèles / Parallel sessions
Panel 4 (Salle du haut / Upper room, Maison de la Catalanité)
Chair: Jonathan Pollock, Université de Perpignan
Andrew Taylor, Associate Professor at Nottingham Trent University, UK: “From Small Acorns: Alternative Poetries and the Relationship with Nature; an Influence on a Personal Poetics.”
Owen D.V. Sholes, Professor at Assumption College, Worcester, USA: “Robert Frost: Making Choices in a Changing Countryside.”
Adrian Tait, PhD, Independent Researcher, UK: “Rewilding the World: Jay Griffiths, Kathleen Jamie, and George Monbiot’s Challenge to the Post-Modern.”
Panel 5 (Salle d’exposition / Exhibition room, Maison de la Catalanité)
Chair: Eliane Liddell, Université de Perpignan
Kyle Bladow, PhD from the University of Nevada, Reno, USA: “Protecting Eanan: Trans-Indigenous Protest Art in Sápmi.”
Hannah Mattila, PhD Student at Sámi University College, Norway, and the University of Tampere, Finland: “Encounters of Ecological and Decolonial Voices in Contemporary Sámi Poetry.”
Emily McGiffin, PhD Student at the University of York, Toronto, Canada: “The Red Path: IsiXhosa Literatures of Resistance and Dwelling.”
Panel 6 (Chapelle Basse, Couvent des Minimes)
Chair: Joni Adamson, Arizona State University
Carmen Flys Junquera, Professor at the Franklin Institute / University of Alcalá, Madrid- Research funded by HAR2015-67472-C2-2-R (MINECO/FEDER)”: “Listening and Seeing Nature: Mutual Discovery and Disclosure.”
Bénédicte Meillon, Associate Professor at the University of Perpignan, France: “The Ecopoet(h)ics of Interspecies Connections in Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer.”
Frédérique Spill, Associate Professor at the University of Picardie, Amiens, France: “Ron Rash’s Stories of “the world’s understory”: Renewing Wonder in Above the Waterfall (2015).”
16h00- 16h30 Pause café / Coffee break (Couvent des Minimes)
17h00-18h30 Lectures et dialogue avec le public / Readings and discussion with the audience (Chapelle Basse, Couvent des Minimes):
Ron Rash : Poète, nouvelliste et romancer des Etats Unis / Poet, short story writer, and novelist from the USA.
Présentation et lecture en français par Frédérique Spill / Presentation and reading in French by Frédérique Spill, Université d’Amiens.
19h30-22h30 Cocktail dinatoire d’ouverture / Opening cocktail reception (Maison de la Catalanité)
Jeudi 23 juin / Thursday, June 23rd
(Couvent des Minimes & Maison de la Catalanité)
9h00-10h30 Ateliers parallèles / Parallel sessions
Panel 7 (Salle Nord, Couvent des Minimes)
Chair: Hélène Guillaume, Université de Perpignan
Meg Brayshaw, PhD Student at the University of Western Sydney, Australia: “Reading the Stream: Water as Matter and Meaning in Christina Stead’s Seven Poor Men of Sydney (1934).”
Caroline Durand-Rous, PhD Student at the University of Perpignan, France: “Flowing with the Stream : Real and Magical Waters in Joseph Boyden’s Through Black Spruce.”
Anchitha Krishna, PhD Student at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India: “Narrating the saga of land and water: Contamination, Community life and Environmental Justice in Sarah Joseph’s Gift in Green.”
Panel 8 (Salle du haut / Upper room, Maison de la Catalanité)
Chair: Franca Bellarsi, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Jessica Maufort, PhD Student at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium: “The Magic Realist Compost in the Anthropocene: Improbable Assemblages in Canadian and Australian Fiction.”
Emily Kolf, PhD Student at the University of Kentucky, USA: “Nature and Magic in The Secret Garden.”
Srilata, Writer and Professor at the University of Madras, India: “The Magical Forest in Contemporary Sitayanas: A Reading of Ambai’s ‘Forest.’”
Panel 9 (Chapelle Basse, Couvent des Minimes )
Chair : Nathalie Solomon, Université de Perpignan
Anne Simon, Chercheuse HDR au CRAL-CNRS/EHESS, France : « Zoopoéthique : la littérature à l’épreuve de l’élevage industriel. »
Marinella Termite, Chercheuse à l’Université de Bari, Italie : « Écritures polluées: Éric Reinhardt et Antoine Volodine »
Anaïs Boulard, Doctorante à l’Université d’Angers, France : « Filiation et récit dans les fictions environnementales contemporaines : De la menace d’extinction de l’homo sapiens à la survie de l’homo litteratus. »
Panel 10 (Salle d’exposition / Exhibition room, Maison de la Catalanité)
Chair: Jonathan Pollock, Université de Perpignan
Isabel Sobral Campos, Assistant Professor at Montana Tech of the University of Montana, Butte, USA: “The Ecopoetics of Abstract Art in Kandinsky.”
Jo Anne Rey, PhD Student and Writer at the University of Macquarie University, Sydney: “First Peoples, First Knowledge: Storyin’-Up Country – Dharug Women’s Way.”
Joanne Clavel, Chercheuse en sciences de la conservation au Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle. Docteure en sciences de l’écologie, chorégraphe et danseuse : « De la mise en scène du vivant au sentir du vivant. »
10h30-11h00 Pause café / Coffee break (Couvent des Minimes)
11h00-12h00 Séance Plénière / Keynote session (Chapelle Basse, Couvent des Minimes)
Joni Adamson, Professor at Arizona State University, USA: “Ecopoetics of Interspecies Connections in Native American Writings.”
12h00-13h30 Pause déjeuner/Lunch break (Couvent des Minimes)
13h30-15h30 Ateliers parallèles / Parallel sessions
Panel 11 (Salle du haut / Upper room, Maison de la Catalanité)
Chair: Lee Schweninger, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Antonio Cuadrado-Fernandez, PhD, University of East Anglia, England: “Learning to live in the Anthropocene: Orality as Recycling in Contemporary Latin American Indigenous Poetry.”
Lionnel Larré, Professor at the University of Bordeaux, France: “Seeing the Indigenous Beauty of the Land: A Reading of John Joseph Mathews’ Work.”
Angela Mullis, Professor at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA: “Tribalography and the Native South: The Ecopoetics of LeAnne Howe.”
Maxime Petit, Professeur Agrégé and PhD Student at the University of Toulouse, France: “Our Land is This Land: Old and New Ways of Filming Indian Land in Native American Documentary Filmmaking.”
Panel 12 (Salle d’exposition / Exhibition Room, Maison de la Catalanité)
Chair : Yves Charles Grandjeat, Université de Bordeaux
Nicolas Picard, Doctorant à l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III, France : « Les émotions animales »
Claire Cazajous, PhD Student at the University of Toulouse, France: “Prade Ranch, a common place for humans and animals in “The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness” by Rick Bass.”
Jan Steyn, PhD Student and Translator at Cornell University, Ithaca, USA: “Dolphin, Say it Once Now: Literary Dwellings, Animal Enchantments, and the Limits of Translation.”
Virginie Clavelier, PhD Student at the University of Orléans, France: “The Decentered Attitude in Alexandra Fuller’s Work.”
Panel 13 (Chapelle Basse, Couvent des Minimes)
Chair: Bénédicte Meillon, Université de Perpignan
Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Professor at Appalachian State University in North Carolina, USA: “Rabbits, Wrens, and Calves: When Animals Speak.”
Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves, Assistant Professor at the University of Lisbon, and UTAD (University of Trás-os-montes e Alto Douro), Portugal: “To Enter a ‘Place Grown Intense and Holy’: Dwelling in the Enchanted World of Words.”
Yonka Krasteva, Associate Professor at Shumen University, Bulgaria, and Adjunct Profesor at Butler Community College, USA: “Encounters of Nature and Culture: Mediating History and the Transcendent in Linda Hogan’s People of the Whale.”
Tara Maria Fernandes, Researcher in Bangalore, India: “Seeing Selchie with David Thomson.”
Panel 14 (Salle Nord, Couvent des Minimes)
Chair: Isabelle Cases, Université de Perpignan
Eliane Liddell, Associate Professor at the University of Perpignan, France: “Reenchanting the West’s Ecological Dialogue With the World: What a Long Way to Go. Reflections on the 2014 US Documentary “Years of Living Dangerously.”
Paul Lindholdt, Professor at Eastern Washington University, USA: “Thinking like a River.”
Sheena Wilson, Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada: “Eco-poetics: Fueling Change.”
David Latour, PhD, Professeur Certifié at the Collegium Sciences et Techniques, University of Orléans: “Sean Penn’s Into the Wild or Filming Nature with/and Passion.”
15h30-16h00 Pause café : Coffee break (Couvent des Minimes)
16h30- 18h00 Lectures et dialogue avec le public / Readings and discussion with the audience (Chapelle Basse, Couvent des Minimes)
Linda Hogan : Poétesse, essayiste et romancière amérindienne Chickasaw / Native American, Chickasaw poet, novelist and essay writer.
Présentation et lecture en français par Bénédicte Meillon / Presentation and reading in French by Bénédicte Meillon, Université de Perpignan
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19h10: Projections à l’Institut Jean Vigo – Cinémathèque de Perpignan, Salle Marcel Oms / Film screening at the Institute Jean Vigo, Marcel Oms Room : Les Bêtes du sud sauvage, de Benh Zeitlin / Beasts of the Southern Wild, by Benh Zeitlin.
Présentation du film et débat animés par Jocelyn Dupont. Apéritif offert par L’Institut Jean Vigo.
Film presentation and discussion chaired by Jocelyn Dupont. Drinks and nibbles offered by the Institut Jean Vigo.
Vendredi 24 juin / Friday June 24th
(Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, – UPVD)
9h00-10h30 Ateliers parallèles / Parallel sessions
Panel 15 (Amphi Y, UPVD)
Chair: Scott Slovic, University of Idaho
Jingcheng Xu, PhD Student at Bangor University, Wales: “Spiritual Self-Actualization: Daoist ‘Zuo Wang’ and Edward Thomas’s ‘Xing Wang.’”
Keiko Takioto Miller, Assistant Professor at the University of Mercyhurst, Pennsylvanie, Eats Unis: “Haiku as the Ecopoetical Threshold of ‘Ice Riding on Its Melting.’”
Panel 16 (Amphi A1)
Chair: Wendy Harding, Université de Toulouse
Katherine R. Lynes, Associate Professor at Union College, Schenectady, New York, USA: “‘in the hope that hearts will change’: Dialogues with Nature in African American Poetry.”
Margus Lattik, Translator and PhD Student at the University of Tartu, Estonia: “Nature’s Sanctity as Part of Our own Humanness: The Nature Poetry Of Derek Walcott.”
Christine Gerhardt, Professor at the University of Bamberg, Germany: “‘Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?’: Negotiating Place and Mobility in Whitman’s and Dickinson’s Songs of the Earth.”
Panel 17 (Amphi A3, UPVD)
Chair : Françoise Besson, Université de Toulouse
Pierre Rajotte, Professeur Titulaire à l’Université de Sherbrooke, Canada: « Écrire sa marche vers Compostelle : le ré-enchantement. »
Paul Heilker, Associate Professor at Virginia Tech, Virginia, USA: “The Exploratory Essay and Nature Writing.”
Alan Weltzien, Professor at the University of Montana, Dillon, USA: “Global Citizenship in Macrospace: Three Stations Along the Pacific Ring of Fire.”
Panel 18 (Amphi A2)
Chair : Jocelyn Dupont, Université de Perpignan
Pierre-Antoine Pellerin, Associate Professor at the University of Lyon, France: “Of (Dying) Mice and (Crying) Men: Masculinity, In/significant Others, and Jack Kerouac’s Ecopoetics.”
Davide Vago, Maître de Conférences à l’Université Catholique, Milan (Italie) : « La prosopopée chez André Bucher : faire entendre les voix de la Terre. »
Evelyne Lloze, Professeure des Universités à l’Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne, France : « L’univers “écopoéthique” de Chamoiseau (Les neuf consciences du Malfini et autres textes). »
10h30-11h00 Pause café / Coffee break
11h00- 12h30-Ateliers parallèles / Parallel sessions
Panel 19 (Amphi A1, UPVD)
Chair: Joanne Clavel, Museum d’Histoire Naturelle.
Stephen Greenfield, PhD Student at the University of Wolverhampton, England: “The Trees of The Lord of the Rings.”
Anne Cirella-Urrutia, Adjunct Professor at the University of Huston-Tillitson, Austin, USA: “Places of Memory and Memory of Places in bande dessinée: Re-Enchanting (Sub)urban Spaces in Davodeau & F. Jacquet’s Jeanne de la zone (2014) and Guy Delisle’s Shenzen (2000).”
Esther Laso y Leon, Professeure à l’Université d’Alcala, Madrid, Espagne : « Quand les ogres et les princesses s’inquiètent de ce qu’ils mangent : détournement écologique des contes. »
Panel 20 (Amphi Y, UPVD)
Chair: Scott Slovic, University of Idaho
Emanuela Ettorre, Associate Professor at the University of Chieti, Pescara Italy: “‘Uplifted above love and hate’: Isabella Lucy Bird and the Experience of the Rocky Mountains.”
Amy Player, PhD Student at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland: “Rewriting Wildness in Robert Macfarlane’s The Wild Places.”
Tom Lynch, Professor at the University of Nebraska, USA: “Eco-memoir, Belonging, and the Settler-Colonial Poetics of Place Identity.”
Panel 21 (Amphi A2)
Chair: Pascale Amiot, Université de Perpignan
Catherine Hoffmann, Associate Professor at the University of Le Havre, France: “At Ground Level: Narratorial Ecology and Economy in Dermot Healy’s Long Time No See.”
Caitlin Maling, PhD Student at the University of Sydney, Australia: “Is an Ecopastoral Possible?: Pastoral in the Work of Stafford and Stow.”
Aldo Gennaï, Docteur et enseignant à l’ESPE de Nimes, France : « Harmonie cosmique et chant poétique dans la poésie pastorale française de la Renaissance. »
Panel 22 (Amphi A3, UPVD)
Chair: Hélène Guillaume, Université de Perpignan
Holly Corfield Carr, Poet and PhD Student at the University of Cambridge, England: “‘a walk around the metamorphic aureole’: Three Models for Reading the Site-Specific Text Works of British Land Artist Richard Long.”
Bénédicte Chorier-Fryd, Associate Professor at the University of Poitiers, France: “The Poetic Ecology of Tom Konyves.”
12h30-14h00 Pause déjeuner/Lunch break (Restaurant Universitaire, UPVD)
14h00-15h00 Séance Plénière / Keynote session (Amphi 3, UPVD)
Wendy Harding, Professor at the University of Toulouse, France: “Aesthetic Choices for the Anthropocene Era.”
15h00-16h30 Ateliers parallèles / Parallel sessions
Panel 23 (Amphi A1, UPVD)
Chair: Bénédicte Meillon, Université de Perpignan
Nancy S. Cook, Professor at the University of Montana, Missoula, USA: “A Different Kind of Enchantment: Writers and Working Landscapes.”
Matthew McClelland, Professor at the University of New York, USA: “The Enchantments and Disenchantments of Promissory Materialism: Science Writing Nature in the Visionary Mode.”
Georgie Carroll, PhD Student at the University of London, England: “Ecoaesthetics of the Seasons: Plants, Poetic Convention and ‘Perceived Norms’ in Kālidāsa’s ‘Garland of the Seasons.’”
Panel 24 (Amphi A3, UPVD))
Chair : Anne Chamayou, Université de Perpignan
Gwenola Caradec, Professeure Adjointe à Grinnell College, Iowa, USA: « La terre en mots, ou quels atouts pour une approche poétique du monde ? »
Roberta Sapino, Doctorante à l’University de Turin, Italie: « ‘Un enfant des vagues et du cri des mouettes’ : compénétrations de l’homme et de la nature dans l’œuvre d’André Pieyre de Mandiargues (1909-1991). »
Elodie Gontier, Enseignante dans le Secondaire et Doctorante à L’Université de la Sorbonne, Paris, France : « Le lieu qui nous grandit : l’écopoétique dans l’œuvre de Giono. »
Panel 25 (Amphi A2, UPVD)
Chair: Pascale Amiot, Université de Perpignan
Rachel Nisbet, PhD Student at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland: “Anna Livia’s EcoPoetics.”
George Piggford Associate Professor at the University of Stonehill College, Easton, USA: “Flannery O’Connor’s Catholic Ecology and “The Mass on the World.”
Panel 26 (Amphi Y, UPVD)
Chair: Jocelyn Dupont, Université de Perpignan
David Lloyd, PhD, Writer and Professor at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York, USA: “On the Border Between Human-Dominated and Nature-Dominated Spaces: A Poetry Reading with Commentary”
John M. Menaghan, Professor at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles: “Out of Place: A Poetry Reading with Commentary”
16h30-17h00 Pause café / Coffee break
17h00- 18h30 Lectures et dialogue avec le public / Readings and discussion with the audience (Amphi 3, UPVD)
Pierre-Yves Touzot : Romancier et réalisateur français/French novelist and movie director.
Présentation et lecture en anglais par Bénédicte Meillon / Presentation and reading in English by Bénédicte Meillon, Université de Perpignan.
19h30-23h00
Banquet / Conference Dinner: Le Clos des Lys, Perpignan.
Samedi 25 juin / Saturday, June 25th
(Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, – UPVD)
9h30-11h00 Ateliers parallèles / Parallel sessions
Panel 27 (Amphi A1, UPVD)
Chair : Jonathan Pollock, Université de Perpignan
Chaima Ben Gara, Doctorante à l’Université de Clermont, France : « La nature, un lieu d’espoir dans les œuvres de Christian Signol. »
Eszter Horváth, Docteure à l’Université de Paris-8, France : « Réinventer le monde humain et l’humain dans l’œuvre de Jean-Luc Nancy. »
Panel 28 (Amphi A3 UPVD)
Chair: Bénédicte Meillon, Université de Perpignan
Ansul Rao, Assistant Professor at Bhagini Nivedita College, University of Delhi, India: “Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior: A Lesson in Ecological Humility.”
Janhavi Mittal, PhD Student at Kings’ College, London, England: “Moving Stories: Literary Inventiveness in An Era of Climate Change.”
Matilde Martín González, Associate Professor at the University of La Laguna, Tenerife: “Lorine Niedecker’s Poetics of Cyclic Renewal: The Material-Semiotic Perspective in ‘Wintergreen Ridge.’ ”
Panel 29 (Amphi Y, UPVD)
Chair: Jocelyn Dupont, Université de Perpignan
Sarah Daw, PhD Student at the University of Exeter, England: “Cold War Ecopoetry: Annihilation in the Infinite Ecologies of Allen Ginsberg and Peggy Pond Church.”
Elise Domenach, Chercheuse à l’ENS de Lyon, France : « Ecopoétique cinématographique : La présence du monde à l’écran dans trois films japonais sur la catastrophe du 11 mars 2011. »
Peter Schulman, Professor at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA: “‘Acoustic Shadows’: Civil War Spaces in Contemporary Song and Poetry.”
Panel 30 (Amphi A2, UPVD)
Chair: Carmen Flys, Franklin Institute / Universidad de Alcalà.
Lorraine Shannon, PhD, University of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland: “Hope is the Thing with Feathers.”
Chloé Angué, Doctorante à l’Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France : “The Polynesian Dream: Biblical and Ancestral Myths Re-enchanting the Postcolonial Imaginary of the Island.”
Mary Kate Azcuy, Associate Professor at the University of New Jersey, USA: “Louise Glück’s “Quince Tree” Nature and Discord.”
11h00-11h30 Pause café
11h30- 12h30 Séance plénière / Keynote session (Amphi 3, UPVD)
Scott Slovic, Professor at the University of Idaho, USA: “Enchanting the Earth’s Data with Meaning: Information and Emotion Channeled through Environmental Literature and Art.”
12h30-14h00 Pause déjeuner / Lunch break (CROUS)
14h00-16h00 Ateliers parallèles / Parallel sessions
Panel 31 (Amphi A3, UPVD)
Chair : Hélène Guillaume, Université de Perpignan
Jeanne Burgart Goutal, Doctorante à l’Université de la Sorbonne, Paris-4, France : « Penser différemment » : le défi du langage écoféministe. »
Lorna Fitzsimmons, Professor at California State University Dominguez Hills, USA: “The Ecology of Language in Kamala Das’s Poetry, A Cognitive Ecocritical Reading.”
Margot Lauwers, PhD, University of Perpignan: “‘Oh how brilliant, I have just added aesthetic sensitivity […] as way to save the world.’” Ellen Meloy or How to Reinhabit the ‘Empty’ Desert.”
Judith Rauscher, PhD Student at the University of Bamberg, Germany: “Paying the Price for an Impossible Love: Etel Adnan’s Defiant Ecopoetics of Hope.”
Panel 32 (Amphi Y, UPVD)
Chair: Jocelyn Dupont, Université de Perpignan
Randall Roorda, Professor at the University of Kentucky, USA: “Everyone is Absorbed: Enchanting Substance in VanderMeer’s Southern Reach.”
Jure Kapun, Student at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia: “The Role of Nature in the Post-Apocalyptic Novel.”
Oliver Völker, PhD, Goethe-Frankfort University, Germany: “‘Fantasies in themselves, such words and phrases.’ The Aesthetics of Language in Atwood ́s MaddAddam-Trilogy.”
Kaitlyn Willy, PhD Student at the University of North Texas, USA: “Dystopian Fiction: Re-Enchanting Agriculture in the Post-Apocalyptic World.”
Panel 33 (Amphi A1, UPVD)
Chair: Thomas Pughe, Université d’Orléans
Lee Schweninger, Professor at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, USA: “‘Where language touches the earth’: Need, Naming, and Knowledge.”
Wes Berry, Associate Professor at the University of Western Kentucky, USA: “Singing the Body Electrified, or Poetics of the Bardo from Walt Whitman to Gretel Ehrlich.”
Mary E. Wood, Professor at the University of Oregon, USA: “The Enchanted Matter of the Human Brain.”
Miriam Potter, PhD Student at the University of la Sorbonne, Paris, France: “Nature and Creation in Patrick White’s The Cockatoos: Shorter Novels and Stories.”
Panel 34 (Amphi A2, UPVD)
Chair: Jonathan Pollock, Université de Perpignan
Tom Bristow, Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia: “Consequences of Pastoral: The Dialectic of History and Ecology in The Light Trap.”
Alexandra Campbell, PhD Student at the University of Glasgow, Scotland: “Creaturely Cartographies: Deep Ecology and Shamanic Knowledge in the poetry of John Burnside and Ted Hughes.”
Michael Emerson, Professor at Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, USA: “Reverie, Memory, and the Poetics of Place in Sebald and Bonnefoy.”
Joshua Mabie, Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, USA: “The New British Nature Writing: MacFarland, MacDonald, and Lewis-Stempel.”
16h00- 16h30 Pause café/Coffee break
16h30-18h00 Lectures et dialogue avec le public / Readings and discussion with the audience (Amphi 3, UPVD)
Writer to be confirmed.
18h00- 18h30 Quelques mots de clôture / Closing Words (Amphi 3, UPVD)
An easy hike taking you near Collioure will be organized on the Sunday following the conference. There will also be time for swimming and snorkeling, for those interested in the area’s beautiful marine life. Participants not keen on hiking will still be welcome to come and spend the day relaxing and enjoying the beautiful town of Collioure.
Une randonnée de niveau très accessible sera organisée le dimanche après le colloque, au départ de Collioure et menant à travers les vignes et dans les montagnes. Il y aura également le temps de nager et d’explorer les fonds-sous-marins. Les conférenciers souhaitant simplement profiter d’une journée de détente pourront passer la journée à Collioure.
International Conference on Ecopoetics
“Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth”
Under the aegis of the research center CRESEM
University of Perpignan Via Domitia, France
June 22nd-25th 2016
Guest Writers : Linda Hogan, Ron Rash, Pierre-Yves Touzot
Confirmed Keynote Speakers : Joni Adamson (Arizona State University),
Yves-Charles Grandjeat (Université de Bordeaux), Wendy Harding (Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès) and Scott Slovic (University of Idaho)
Event : With its roots in nineteenth century American transcendentalism, nature writing, environmental literature, or again literature of place in North America has in the past fifty years sprouted into a minor genre of contemporary literature. As the world is becoming increasingly aware of the urgency of our global environmental crisis, can nature writers and ecocritics contribute to advocate a change in the language and politics that we humans rely upon to relate to the world, and ultimately, to determine its fate? As early as 1949, Aldo Leopold insisted that “the evolution of a land ethic is an intellectual as well as an emotional process” (263). Leopold pledged for an ethic of love and respect for the land, and for the “cultural harvest [that it yields]” (xix). Recalling the basic concept of ecology, Leopold argued: “We abuse the land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see the land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” (xix)
Promoting perception of man’s “embeddedness in the world,” to take up Scott Slovic’s phrase, ecocritics and nature writers have increasingly joined efforts to spread a biocentric view of the world, and to help humans discover or regain more humble and more responsible notions of place. Various yet related fields of studies have emerged from academic interest in literary environmentalism, generally grouped under the labels of “ecofeminism,” “nature writing,” “environmental literature” and “literature of place,” or, going back to a much older tradition, “Native American literature.” What all the writers approached from either of these angles have in common is that their texts call for an empathetic, imaginative, perceptive and reciprocal relationship with nature. Whether grounded primarily in ecological science, in personal meditation, or in ancient mythology, tradition, and philosophy, these writers of various origins nevertheless come together in the development of what Barry Lopez and Mark Tredinnick call “a literature of humility, of movement beyond the self.”
This ecopoetics conference aims to cast light on the rhizomatic convergences between literatures that tend to be bunched into the separate categories of ecofeminist, postcolonial or environmental studies. The purpose is to show how the fiction and non-fiction of these writers with a specific interest in place as well as in the non-human realm overlap, intersect, and engage in a fruitful, multicultural dialogue, opening imaginative and insightful perspectives onto the world. For, does not much nature writing present us with an ecological picture of organic interrelatedness similar to the motif of the sacred hoop expressing the interconnected web of all life forms in Native American tradition (Paula Gunn Allen)? And does not most nature writing consist in a movement to reenchant the world, or in other words/worlds, to re-sing the world?
Presentations during this ecopoetics conference will be held in English and French. For an extensive program: please visit http://ecopoeticsperpignan.com
This event is open to all public and free.
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