PROUST POSTGRADUATE STUDY DAY
Friday 26th April 2013, Worcester Cottage, Worcester College, Oxford
kindly sponsored by the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, Oxford University
9.15-9.30 Registration
9.30-10.15 Keynote: Dr Erika Fülöp, New College, Oxford : "Proust Imperfect: Once, Often, Forever – or Never."
introduced by Jennifer Rushworth, Worcester College, Oxford
10.15-11.30
Panel one: TRADITION AND INNOVATION
chaired by Prof. Patrick ffrench, King’s College, London
1. Jeff Burkholder, Université de Paris III Sorbonne-Nouvelle, "Proust and the Romantic Concept of Nature."
2. Pauline Moret, Durham University, "Proust: variations sur un imaginaire biologique".
3. Walid Romani, Université de Montréal, "Hybridité et écriture : la Recherche d’un autre « genre »."
11.30-11.45 tea and coffee
11.45-13.00
Panel two: READERS IN/OF PROUST
chaired by Dr Anna Orhanen, King’s College, London
1. Daniele Garritano, Università degli Studi di Siena and Université de Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint-Denis,
"Enfance et résurrection. Proust et les puissances de la lecture."
2. Julia Hartley, Christ Church, Oxford, "Literary Sinners in À la recherche du temps perdu."
3. Shuangyi Li, University of Edinburgh," A ‘Prestigious’ Encounter with Proust: Intertextual Practice in Contemporary Chinese Fiction."
13.00-14.00 lunch and tour of Worcester College
14.00-14.45 Keynote: Dr Anna Magdalena Elsner, King’s College, London : "‘Un livre sur les médecins’: A Proustian critique of healthcare?"
introduced by Richard Mason, King’s College, London
14.45-16.00
Panel three: CHARACTER AND PERSONALITY IN PROUST
chaired by Dr Erika Fülöp, New College, Oxford
1. Synne Ytre Arne, University of Bergen, Norway, "Albertine Simonet and Manon Lescaut."
2. Gabrielle Roy-Chevarier, Université McGill, Canada, "La vie de malade comme art de l'existence: la pensée des possibles au cœur du roman proustien."
3. Didem Nur Güngören, Sorbonne, Paris IV, "Le moi proustien dans sa parole: une analyse merleau-pontienne du moi et la thèse finale proustienne."
16.00-16.15 tea and coffee
16.15-17.30
Panel four: PROUST, MEDIA, AND THE VISUAL ARTS
chaired by Dr Thomas Baldwin, University of Kent
1. Yuri Cerqueira dos Anjos, Université de São Paulo, Brazil, "Les écrits de presse de Marcel Proust – Pour une nouvelle lecture.
2. Florence Le Blanc, Université Laval, Québec, Canada, "The movie Locke’s Way from Donigan Cumming and the Proustian experience of memory."
3. Sophie Preston, University of Manchester, "Drawing to write: Marcel Proust’s doodles, gesturing the Search."
17.30-18.15 Summary by Richard Mason, KCL, and Jennifer Rushworth, Worcester
and wine reception
18.30 Conference dinner (Pierre Victoire, Little Clarendon Street)