MODERNIST EMOTIONS 2nd International Conference of the Sociét éd’ É tudes Modernistes 22 nd -24 th June 2016 Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre Building W (Max Weber) Keynote speakers: Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania); Laura Marcus (University of Oxford). Wednesday 22 nd June 11.30am-1.30pm: Registration 1.30pm-2pm: Opening addresses. Jean-François Balaudé (President of the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre), Cornelius Crowley (Director of the CREA), Hélène Aji (President of the Sociét éd’ É tudes Modernistes ). 2pm-3.30pm: Plenary session 1. Chair: Catherine Lanone (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) Emotional forms Christine Savinel (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle): Gertrude Stein: Touching Writing John Attridge (University of New South Wales): Affect versus Form in Modernist Aesthetics Nicholas Manning (Université Paris Sorbonne): The Urge for Simplicity is Equivalent to Self-Denial 3.30pm-3.45pm: Coffee break 3.45pm-5.15pm: Panels 1 Panel 1a: Critical emotions. Chair: Naomi Toth ( Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre )Judith Allen (University of Pennsylvania): Virginia Woolf: Propaganda, Critical Thinking, and the Ethics of Readings Rebecca Schumacher (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul): “L’émotion”: Pierre Reverdy’s Essay Suzanne Bellamy (University of Sydney): Text Suicide: Scholarly Attachment and its Emotional Consequences Panel 1b: Joy, happiness, and laughter. Chair: Lauren Elkin (American University of Paris) Wendy Truran (University of Illinois Urbana): The Phantom of Joy in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats Juliane Römhild (La Trobe University, Melbourne):“Crafting happiness”in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse Juliana Lopoukhine (Université Paris Sorbonne): Comic emotion in Between the Acts (Virginia Woolf): the value of laughter in 1939 5. 5.15pm-5.30pm: Coffee break 5.30pm-6. 30pm: K EYNOTE 1. Chair: Christine Savinel (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania): The Modernist Pathosformel : Deleuzian Affect vs. Lacanian Pathos 6.30pm: Cocktail Thursday 23 rd June 9.30am-11am Plenary session 2: Paradoxical affects. Chair: Judith Allen (University of Pennsylvania) Chris Mourant (University of Nottingham Trent): Sentimental Modernism: The critical writings of Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf Lauren Elkin (American University of Paris):“It’s her fu-ur which is so funny”: Fashion, and fur, fear, and fun in women’s modernism Kirsty Martin (University of Exeter): T. S. Eliot and Happiness 11am-11.15am: Coffee break 11.15am-12.45pm: Panels 2 Panel 2a: Embodied emotions. Chair: Caroline Pollentier ( Université Sorbonne Nouvelle )Elaine Chou (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle): An Abortive Rhetoric: Djuna Barnes’s Early Plays Marit Grøtta (University of Oslo): Reading Faces: Proust’s Passion for Portrait Photographs Elizabeth Barry (University of Warwick): Modernism, Displeasure and Embodied Temporality: VirginiaWoolf as Case Study Panel 2b: Emotions and periodicals. Chair: Benoît Tadié (Université de Rennes 2) Céline Mansanti (Université de Picardie): The Reception of Modernism in a Non-Modernist, Middlebrow Magazine, Life (1883-1936) Ricardo Marques (Universidade Nova de Lisboa): The Portuguese case seen through its little magazines (1910-1927) Aurore Clavier (Université deParis 8): “Bless”and“Blast”: Critical Emotions in the Little Magazines 12.45pm-2pm: Lunch 2pm-3.30pm: Panels 3 Panel 3a: Temporalities of emotion . Chair: Juliana Lopoukhine ( Université Paris Sorbonne )Matthew Clarke (University of Sydney): Lytton Strachey’s Ghost: Letter Writing and the Affects of Queer History Oliver Neto (University of Bristol): The Poetics of Boredom: Elizabeth Bowen and Literary Modernism James Dutton (University of New South Wales): Presenting Absence: Grief in A la recherche du temps perdu Panel 3b: Spaces of emotion. Chair: Nicholas Manning ( Université Paris Sorbonne) Trish May (University of New South Wales):“In the Eddy or out of it”: Intimacy, Mediation, and Movement in Woolf’s Domestic Interiors Jung-Ping Chou (National Chengchi University, Taiwan): Henry James’s Topophilia: Walking in Paris in The Ambassadors Emmanuel Cohen (CRAE, Université de Picardie/TNS Parsons, Paris): The landscape is the emotion: on Gertrude Stein's plays and Louis Aragon's Anicet ou le Panorama, Roman Panel 3c: Sentimental modernism. Chair: Céline Mansanti (Université de Picardie) Victoria Levêque (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle): The Imbalance of Emotions in James Joyce’s Ulysses Moris Fadel (New Bulgarian University): Between Emotion and Affect, Modernism and Avant-Garde Elizabeth Benjamin (Independent scholar): Sentimental Old Dada: Mapping Modernist Emotion in the Era of the Ageing Avant-Garde 3.30pm-3.45pm: Coffee break 3.45-5.15pm: Panels 4 Panel 4a: Musical emotions. Chair: John Attridge (University of New South Wales) Virkar Yates (University of Brighton): Absolute Music and Impersonal Emotion in Eliot’s Four Quartets Hervé Picherit (University of Texas, Austin): The Music of (E)motion: Rhythm and Affect in Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Mort àCrédit .Sue Thomas (La Trobe University, Australia): The Passage of Affect in Jean Rhys’s After Leaving Mr Mackenzie Panel 4b: Objects, subjects, and animals. Chair: Charlotte Estrade (Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre) Pauline Macadré (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle): From possession to dispossession: Woolf’s object collections as exhibitions of the self Kezia Whiting (SUNY Buffalo): Styles of Affect in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September Rachel Murray (Universities of Bristol and Exeter): Resisting the“Crowd-Mood”: the Entomodernism of Wyndham Lewis 5.15pm-5.30pm: Coffee break 5.30pm-6 .30pm: KEYNOTE 2. Chair: Cornelius Crowley (Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre) Laura Marcus (University of Oxford):“ It was yes, no.” : modernism and ambivalence 8pm: Conference dinner Friday 24 th June 9.30am-11am: Plenary session 3: Poetic Emotions. Chair: Hélène Aji ( Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre )Charlotte Estrade (Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre):“Emotion and Poesy”: Ezra Pound’s elusive definition, reception and poetic practice Vincent Bucher (Université de Grenoble): Finding reasons to write or discovering motives for poetry? Louis Zukofsky’s emotive empiricism Xavier Kalck (Université Paris Sorbonne): “Having an Emotion”after Modernism: (the) Reading Experience in Robert Creeley, Larry Eigner, and Theodor Enslin 11am-11.15am: Coffee Break 11.15am-12.45pm: Panels 5 Panel 5a: Mina Loy and affects. Chair: Xavier Kalck ( Université Paris Sorbonne) Yasna Bozkhova (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle): A“Chart of Unarrival”: Emotional Stupor in Mina Loy’s Insel Katherine Russell (Université de Paris 8): Personal is always Political: The politics of emotions in the poetry of Mina Loy Rebecca Varley-Winter (University of Oxford): Funny Feelings: Detecting Emotion in Mina Loy Panel 5b: Samuel Beckett and affects. Chair: Adrienne Janus (University of Aberdeen) Emily Chester (University of Bristol):“What Kind of Creature Uttered It?”: Reimagining Emotional Subjectivity in Samuel Beckett’s The Unnamable Anthony Cordingley (Université de Paris 8): Beckett’s Pedagogy of Affect Deborah Pike (University of Notre Dame, Australia): Anxiety, Melancholia, and Insomnia in Samuel Beckett’s The Unnamable 12.45pm-2pm: Lunch 2pm-3.30pm: Panels 6 Panel 6a: Modernist anxieties. Chair: Jennifer Kilgore (Caen University) Anna Hueppauff et Susan Ash (Edith Cowan University):“Strong Flux of Life”: Worry, Modernism, Lola Ridge, and T.S. Eliot Birgit Breidenbach (University of Warwick): In Search of the Mood of Modernism Carole Sweeney (University of London):“Frigid and Blank Neutrality”: Affective Catastrophe in the Writing of Anna Kavan Panel 6b: Emotions across the nations. Chair: Noëlle Cuny (Université de Haute Alsace) Paolo Pitari (University of Venice, Cà Foscari): The Not-Impersonal: Emotions in Zeno’ s Conscience and One, No one, and One Hundred Thousand Ana Lucia Beck (King’s College, London): The I and the Other: Looking for the Self in Modernist Painting and Poetry Urvashi Vashist (University College, London): Reminiscing between Twilights: Affect and Agency in Cornelia Sorabji and Virginia Woolf 3.30pm-3.45pm: Coffee break 3.45pm-5.15pm: Plenary session 4: Emotional extremes. Chair: Vincent Bucher (Université de Grenoble) Rod Rosenquist (University of Northampton): Modernist Loss and Lost Modernism: Narrating Personal Trauma in Modernist Memoir Benoît Tadié (Université de Rennes 2): “A God-dammed massacrist, that’s what he is” (Hammett): Trauma, Repression and the Formation of Hard-Boiled Literature Adrienne Janus (University of Aberdeen): Modernist Irish Laughter, French Infections, and German Doctors 5.30pm-6.30pm: General Assembly of the Societé d’ É tudes Modernistes (open to members)
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