COSMOPOLIS: FORD MADOX FORD AND THE CULTURES OF PARIS
11-13 Sep. 2014
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
Full program
Registration fee: 40 €
No fee for students/postgraduates/Phd.
For further information please visit the conference pages:
http://www.fordmadoxfordsociety.org/calls-for-papers.html
http://www.fordmadoxfordsociety.org/future-events.html
To contact the organizing committee please email:
fordinparis@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/groups/fordmadoxfordies
@FordMadoxFordie
With the support of Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, Ford Madox Ford Society, Università degli studi di Milano
Thursday 11th September 2014
Institut du Monde Anglophone
5 rue de l’Ecole de Médecine, Paris 6e
Grand Amphithéatre
12:45-13:30 Registration
13:45-14:00 Opening address
GEOGRAPHIES
Chair: Claire Davison
* 14:00-14:30 Sara Haslam, Open University
Discrepant Identities: Performing Ford in Paris
* 14:30-15:00 Andrea Rummel, Universität Gießen
The City, the Self and the Real-and-Imagined: Ford Madox Ford, the Flâneur, and Paris
* 15:00-15:30 Krisztina Sárdi, Péter Pázmány Catholic University
‘A Mirror to Paris’: Pictures of Paris in Ford Madox Ford’s Autobiographical Works
* 15:30-16:00 Laura Colombino, Università degli Studi di Genova
Ford and the Imagination of Space: Paris, France and Beyond
16:00-16:30 Discussion
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
* 17:00-18:00 Keynote address by Georges Letissier, Université de Nantes
Paris fluctuat… Ford Madox Ford’s Urban Psychogeography
Introduced by Claire Davison
18:00-18:30 Discussion
* 18:30 Wine reception
Friday 12th September 2014
Institut du Monde Anglophone
5 rue de l’Ecole de Médecine, Paris 6e
Grand Amphithéatre
FORD’S FRENCH LITERATURE
Chair: Caroline Patey
* 09:00-09:30 Dominique Lemarchal, Université d’Angers
Ford’s Homage to Proust in It Was the Nightingale
* 09:30-10:00 Max Saunders, King’s College London
‘Adventures of the Soul among Masterpieces’: Ford and Anatole France
* 10:00-10:30 Annalisa Federici, Università degli Studi di Perugia
The transatlantic review and the Nouvelle Revue Française, between Tradition and Modernity: The Ford-Larbaud-Joyce Connection
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
THE MAUPASSANT EFFECT
Chair: Dominique Lemarchal
* 11:00-11:30 Helen Chambers, Open University
“Le traducteur E.M. (une femme) m’a consulté sur le choix des contes”: Conrad, the Hueffers and the 1903 Maupassant Translations
* 11:30-12:00 Stephen Rogers & Fabienne Couécou, independent scholars
Thinking Maupassant: Ford Madox Ford, Illusionism and “atrocious love”
12:00-12:30 Discussion
12:30-14:00 Lunch
OTHER VOICES, OTHER GENRES
Chair: Alexandra Becquet
* 14:00-14:30 Martina Ciceri, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
Impressions/Expressions of Paris: Ford Madox Ford and the Russian Expats
* 14:30-15:00 Laurence Davies, Glasgow University
‘Dissolving Views’: The Life in the Lives of Mister Bosphorus
* 15:00-15:30 Rob Spence, Edge Hill University (Ormskirk)
“Beautiful and instructive”: Ford Madox Ford’s Encounter with Popular Culture
15:30-16:00 Discussion
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
* 16:30-17:30 Keynote address by Chris Tayler, London Review of Books
The Fat Man in History: Ford, Englishness and the Modernist Canon
Introduced by Caroline Patey
17:30-18:00 Discussion
18:00-20:00 Ford Madox Ford Society AGM
20:30 Conference dinner
Bouillon Racine – 3 rue Racine, Paris 6e- +33 (0)1 44 32 15 60
Saturday 13th September 2014
Centre Censier
13, Rue de Santeuil, Paris 5e
3rd Floor, Room 389
A WORLD OF WOMEN
Chair: Laura Colombino
* 09:00-09:30 Martin Stannard, University of Leicester
The Parisian World of Ford and Biala
* 09:30-10:00 Joseph Wiesenfarth, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quartet with Variations / Ford Madox Ford, Jean Rhys, Stella Bowen, and Jean Lenglet
10:00-10:30 Discussion
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
PARIS, AMERICA
Chair: Max Saunders
* 11:00-11:30 Meghan Marie Hammond, New York University
Ford and Gertrude Stein in Paris
* 11:30-12:00 George Wickes, University of Oregon
What Hemingway Learned from Ford
12:00-12:30 Discussion
12:30-14:00 Lunch
A FORDIAN AFTERNOON
* 14:00-15:30 Screening of It Was the Nightingale: The Unreliable Story of Ford Madox Ford. Sections of the film will be introduced by producer and co-director Paul Lewis.
15:30-16:00 Discussion and closing of conference
16:00-19:00 Fordian walk (TBC)