Paris & London 1851-1900: Spaces of Transformation

Paris & London 1851-1900: Spaces of transformation

Programme

DAY 1: Friday 23 October

1.30-2.00

Registration

2.00-3.30

Panel 1: History and Spaces

• Dr Tri Tran (University of Tours), The modernization of Paris through the development of London, the perspective of Haussmann
• Véronique Lyons Charriere (University of Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris), Science in Translation: The Reception of Natural History in the Late XIXth Century
• Dr Edouard Galby-Marinetti (Paul-Valéry University, Montpellier III), Paris-Londres (1870-71), entre séparation obsidionale et conscience commune

Discussion

3.30-4.00

Coffee break

4.00-5.30

Panel 2: Art out of its frame

• Dr Jonathan Colin (University of Southampton), “Fancy liquors and sky-high kickers”: The Invention of Gay Paree, 1867-1914
• Anna-Louise Milne (University of London Institute, Paris), Cloudy Skies: Photography over Paris and London in 1862
• Anastasia Scepi (University of Paris-Sorbonne), Paris-Londres, des “monster citi[es]”: le music-hall, ce “mardi gras de l’esprit” fin-de-siècle ?

Discussion

6.00-7.00

Keynote speakers: Diana Cooper-Richet, Michel Rapoport

7.00-8.00

Drinks

8.00-10.30

Dinner

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DAY 2: Saturday 24 October

9.00-10.30

Panel 3: Pictorial Art

• Prof Juliet Simpson (Coventry University, Wolfson College, Oxford), British Art through French Eyes: Paul Bourget’s “Lettres de Londres” and the Aesthetics of Transnational Encounter
• Dr Anne-Estelle Leguy (University of Paris-Sorbonne): L’angoisse de l’influence: la peinture anglaise et française dans la seconde moitié du XIXème siècle
• Amélie Müller (Oxford University), Devilish Designs: Debating the Use of Arsenical Pigments in Wallpapers in Paris and London, 1851-1900

Discussion

10.30-11.00

Coffee break

11.00-1.30

Panel 4: Literature

• Dr Dimitri Roboly (University of Athens), Les bas-fonds de Paris et Londres dans les années 1880 : études de Bel-Ami et de The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
• Dr Rafika Hammoudi (University of Rennes 2), La Commune de Londres dans le Rimbaud des Illuminations
• Alexandre Burin (King’s College London), “Haunted colours, haunting words”: Jean Lorrain’s La Princesse des chemins and the influence of Edward Burne-Jones

Discussion

1.30-2.30

Lunch

2.30-4.00

Panel 5: Translation

• Daniel Finch-Race (Trinity College, Cambridge), Translation Transformations of Space in Wilde’s “Louis Napoleon” and Verhaeren’s “Londres”
• Dr Elodie Degroisse (University of Paris-Sorbonne), “Ta voix m’enivre/Thy voice is music to my ear”: The in-between space of Oscar Wilde’s bilingual Salomé from Paris to London

Discussion

4.00-5.00

Keynote speaker: Patrick McGuinness

5.30

Drinks, end of the conference