Eighteenth International George Sand Conference
September 25-27 2008
University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
“Writing, Performance, and Theatricality in George Sand's Works”
In memory of Nathalie Buchet Ritchey (1963-2007)
Program
Thursday September 25, 2008
10:00am – 1:00pm. Registration.
Location: Mar Monte Hotel (still a preliminary location).
12:00 – 1:00pm. Lunch on your own.
Bus will leave at 1:00 for the University from the hotel.
1:30 – 1:45pm. Welcome from David Marshall, Dean of the Humanities and Fine Arts, College of Letters and Science, UCSB
Location: Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, McCune Conference Room, 6th Floor, Humanities and Social Science Building.
1:45-2:00pm. Opening Remarks from Catherine Nesci and Annabelle Rea.
2:00 – 4:00pm. Plenary Session: “Sand's Theatrical Practice”
Location: Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, McCune Conference Room, 6th Floor, Humanities and Social Science Building.
Chair: Catherine Masson (Wellesley College)
- Shira Malkin (Rhodes College): “George Sand et la pratique de la mise en scène”
- Olivier Bara (Université Lumière Lyon II): “Comédiens en scène: George Sand et la comédie comique”
- Gay Smith (Wesleyan University): “Why Sand Abandoned Gabriel for Julia”
4:15 – 4:45pm. Coffee/Tea Break. Location: Women's Center Conference Room & Library, Student Resource Building
5:00 – 7:00pm. Panel sessions 1
A. Music and Transcendence. Location: Multipurpose Room, Student Resource Building
Chair: David Powell (Hofstra University)
- Evlyn Gould (University of Oregon): “The Lyric Priest in George Sand's La Dernière Aldini”
- Linda Kick (University of California, Santa Barbara): “George Sand : Performing the Sublime”
- Arline Cravens (Washington University in St. Louis): “Music's Shifting Landscapes on the Path to Sand's Transcendental Heroine in Consuelo”
- Françoise Ghillebaert (The University of Puerto Rico, campus Río Piedras): “The Artist in Rose et Blanche and Consuelo. La Comtesse de Rudolstadt : Artist as Improviser and Artist as Savior”
B. The Politics of Utopia. Location: Conference Room #3153, 3rd Floor, Office of International Students and Scholars, Student Resource Building
Chair: Cynthia Skenazi (UCSB)
- Tatiana Khozanova (University of Moscow & UC Santa Barbara): “L'idéal précieux revu et corrigé (L'Astrée d'Honoré d'Urfé au miroir des Beaux messieurs de Bois-Doré)”
- Stephanie Wooler (Harvard University): “Fraterrenity and Transformed Memory: Re-Staging the Revolution in Nanon”
- Patrick Bray (University of Indiana): “Nanon's Illegible Utopia”
- Virginia Piper (University of Oregon): “Revolutionizing the Fairy Tale: Intersections of History and Form in George Sand's La Petite Fadette”
7:15 – 8:30pm. Reception and Buffet. Location: Faculty Club.
Bus will leave from Faculty Club to hotels at 8:45pm.
Friday September 26, 2008
Bus will leave at 8:30 from hotel
9:00 – 11:00am. Registration.
Location:
9:00 – 11:00 Panel Sessions 2
A. Masks, Carnival & Italy. Location:
Chair: Annabelle Rea (Occidental College)
- Olga Kafanova (University of Tomsk, Russia) : “Théâtralité dans le roman La Dernière Aldini : jeux de scènes et masques”
- Haruko Nishio (Keio University, Japan): “Déguisement, une technique d'écriture dans l'oeuvre sandienne”
- Clorinda Donato (California State University, Long Beach): “George Sand's Reconstruction of Eighteenth-century Theatre Culture and Dialogue in Consuelo”
- Marie-Christine Garneau (University of Hawaii) : “La Campagne romaine: un lieu commun pas si commun”
B. Intertextualities & Intercultural Dialogue. Location:
Chair: Karen Turman (UCSB)
- Christophe Ippolito (The Georgia Institute of Technology): “Aspects intertextuels de la mise en scène de l'intériorité dans la conclusion d'Indiana”
- Monia Kallel (Institut Supérieur des Sciences Humaines de Tunis): “Sand et Flaubert : ‘les deux amis'”
- Philippe Mustière (Ecole Centrale de Nantes): “Etude psychocritique croisée de Laura de George Sand et de deux romans de Jules Verne”
- Sharon Deane (University of Edinburgh): “Translating the Translated : Negotiating the Berry in La Mare au Diable”
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee/Tea Break. Location:
11:30 – 1:00 Panel Sessions 3
A. The Dialogue: Between Theater and Prose Fiction. Location:
Chair: Professor Jody Enders (UCSB)
- David A. Powell (Hofstra University): “Farce romanesque: Structure et dialogues théâtraux dans La Dernière Aldini”
- Rachel Corkle (New York University): “Theater, Spectatorship and Knowledge in George Sand's Romans Dialogués”
- Marianne Lorenzi (Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne): “L'éducation dans Mauprat : une initiation au dialogue et à la parole convaincante”
B. Theatricality and the Press. Location:
Chair: Kathryne Adair (UCSB)
- Marie-Claire Vallois (Cornell University): “Fanchette (1843): réflexions sandiennes entre l'économie politique et la fiction”
- Dominique Laporte (University of Manitoba): “‘Vous êtes de ceux que je voudrais contenter toujours': La théâtralisation du Magasin pittoresque dans Flamarande et La Tour de Percemont”
- Marie-Eve Thérenty (Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier 3): “Théâtralité/auctorialité chez Sand journaliste”
C. Theatrical Practices II. Location:
Chair: Gay Smith (Wesleyan University)
- Catherine Masson (Wellesley College): “George Sand : ‘un auteur dramatique honnête dans la peau d'un romancier'”
- Romira Worvill (Université Acadia): “La Réflexion sur l'illusion dans Le Château des Désertes (1847) de George Sand et dans Le Fils naturel et Les Entretiens sur ‘Le Fils naturel' (1757) de Denis Diderot”
- Isabelle Michelot (Paris, Independent scholar): “L'Acteur et le ‘performer', échanges et dédoublement”
1:00 – 2:00pm. Lunch on your own. Suggested locations: Faculty Club or University Center.
“Assemblée générale” of the George Sand Association (Faculty Club).
2:00 – 3:30pm Panel Sessions 4
A. Theatrical Novellas. Location:
Chair: Suzanne Braswell (UCSB)
- Valentina Ponzetto (Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne): “George Sand et le genre du proverbe”
- Cathy Leung (Columbia University): “Theater and Theatrical Performance in George Sand's Mattea”
- Yvon Le Scanff (Université Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle): “Du bon usage de la théâtralité dans la nouvelle : l'exemple de Lavinia”
B. The Author and her Doubles. Location:
Chair: Lucienne Frappier-Mazur (University of Pennsylvania)
- Martine Reid (Université de Lille III): “Histoires de vocation”
- Eve Sourian (CUNY, Graduate Center): “Alexandre Dumas fils et George Sand : une collaboration”
- Marie-Pierre Rootering (Düsseldorf, Independent scholar): “George Sand dramaturge: une collaboratrice ambiguë?”
C. Operas and Divas. Location:
Chair: Anne Marcoline (UCSB)
- Catherine Authier (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines): “Le Mythe de la diva au dix-neuvième siècle à travers le roman Consuelo”
- Dora Wilson (Ohio University): “Consuelo as Opera”
- Véronique Bui (Université du Havre): “Sand: paroles/Viardot : musique. La Mare au Diable, opéra comique en un acte et deux parties”
3:30 – 4:00pm Tea and Coffee Break. Location:
4:00 – 5:15pm. Plenary Address I. Anne McCall (Tulane University): “George Sand Stages the Law.” Introduction by Annabelle Rea.
5:30 – 7:00pm. Musical Event & Homage to Nathalie Buchet Ritchey with Sylvaine Egron-Sparrow, Catherine Masson and Marie-Paule Tranvouez, Wellesley College
Bus will leave at 7:15pm from the University Center, or the Student Resource Building
Saturday September 27, 2008
Bus will leave at 8:30 from hotel.
9:00 – 11:00 Panel Sessions 5
A. Gender as Performance. Location:
Chair: Aurélie Chevant (UCSB)
- Lynn R. Wilkinson (University of Texas at Austin): “Gender and Performance in George Sand's Nouvelles of 1837”
- François Kerlouégan (Paris, Independent scholar): “Désir, délire et dolorisme: les mises en scène du corps dans Lélia”
- Magali Le Mens (Paris, Independent scholar): “L'Hermaphrodisme de George Sand”
- Nigel Harkness (Queen's University Belfast): “Corps, parole et performance dans le roman sandien”
B. Politics as Theater/Theater as Politics. Location:
Chair: Sylvaine Egron-Sparrow (Wellesley College)
- Máire Cross (Newcastle University): “The Construction of Political Heroes through Writing”
- Chiyo Sakamoto (Kobe University, Japan): “Théâtre fantastique au château d'Ionis dans Les Dames vertes”
- Daniel Long (Université Sainte-Anne, Canada): “Les jeux du concours et de l'histoire dans Horace”
C. Historical Dramas. Location:
Chair: Marie-Paule Tranvouez (Wellesley College)
- Claudine Grossir (LIRE CNRS/Lyon II – IUFM Paris Sorbonne): “De conspiration en révolution : George Sand et le drame historique”
- Marie-Pierre Le Hir (University of Arizona) : “Construction de l'habitus national dans Cadio, roman et pièce”
- Gilbert Chaitin (Indiana University): "The Secret of Lorenzaccio's Success: Art and Identity in Sand's Conspiration en 1537"
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee/Tea Break. Location:
11:30 – 1:00 Panel Sessions 6
A. Performing the « Femme Auteur ». Location:
Chair: Nigel Harkness (Queen's University Belfast)
- Laura Colombo (University of Verona, Italy): “‘Les femmes, je sais, ne doivent point écrire. J'écris pourtant' : La référence George Sand et la représentation de l'écrivaine dans la doxa critique des décennies centrales du dix-neuvième siècle”
- Claire Burkhart (University of Texas at Austin): “Writing and Unwriting George Sand in Balzac's Béatrix and La Muse du départment”
- M. Ione Crummy (University of Montana): “Lucrezia Floriani – Re(per)forming Corinne”
B. Transparency/Opacity. Location:
Chair: Marie-Eve Thérenty (Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier 3)
- Lucienne Frappier-Mazur (University of Pennsylvania): “La Théâtralisation du secret”
- Aimée Boutin (Florida State University): “‘La Comédie de la réhabilitation' ou la transparence et l'obstacle dans Isidora”
- Pascale Auraix-Jonchière (Université Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand II): “Le Théâtre à l'épreuve : Hamlet, matrice identitaire et performance romanesque dans L'Homme de neige”
C. The Theater of the Gaze. Location:
Chair: Alain Lescart (Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego)
- Manon Mathias (Trinity College, Oxford): “‘Tout ce que l'artiste peut espérer de mieux, c'est d'engager ceux qui ont des yeux à regarder aussi': Scene-setting and Visualisation in George Sand's Novels”
- Mariette Delamaire (Paris, Independent scholar): “Performance publique/performance privée : La dialectique du regard : Vérité et illusion dans Le Château des Désertes”
- Marie-Cécile Levet (Université Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand II): “Mise en scène du regard dans Pierre qui roule et Le Beau Laurence”
1:00 – 2:30pm. Lunch on your own (in Isla Vista or the Beachside café).
2:30 – 4:00pm Panel Sessions 7
A. Performing Female Celebrity. Location:
Chair: Margaret Waller (Pomona College)
- Alexandra Wettlaufer (University of Texas at Austin): “Performing Artistic Identity: Sand, Nadar and the Gender of Celebrity”
- Carol Ockman (Williams College): “‘Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man?' Sarah Bernhardt's Professional Travails”
- Michael D. Garval (North Carolina State University): “How To Be a Famous Woman: An Unlikely Dialogue between Cléo de Mérode and Simone de Beauvoir”
B. Reading Families/Writing Family. Location:
Chair: Nicole Meyer (University of Wisconsin, Green Bay)
- Janet Beizer (Harvard University): “Scenes of Reading: Literacy, Desire, and Sentimental Education in Sand's Fictions”
- Kathy Richman (University of the Pacific): “Ce plaisir du texte qui n'en est pas un : Sand, Barthes and the Purpose of Re-Reading”
- Laurence Richer (Université de Paris XII-Val de Marne): “George Sand et sa correspondance familiale”
C. Génétique/Edition. Location:
Chair: Dominique Jullien (UCSB)
- Béatrice Didier (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris-8): “Richesse et complexité du théâtre de George Sand: comment concevoir une édition complète?”
- Sylviane Saugues (CIEREC, Université Jean Monnet ; ITEM/CNRS): “L'écrivain au travail : étude génétique de Jean de la Roche”
- Isabelle Naginski (Tufts University): “Engelwald en éclats”
4:00 – 4:15pm Tea and Coffee Break. Location:
4:10 – 5:30pm. Plenary Address II. Eric Bordas (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon): “George Sand: La Forme et le style.” Introduction by Catherine Nesci.
5:45 – 7:00pm. Theatrical Readings. Shira Malkin & Catherine Masson
Bus will leave for hotel at 7:15pm
8:00. Closing Banquet. Mar Monte Hotel.
Awarding of the George Sand Dissertation Prize
& One-woman show by Sasha Colby, Simon Fraser University (Canada)