2013 marks the one hundredth anniversary from 1913, an annus mirabilis for French Modernism, with the publication of Du côté de chez Swann , Alcools , La Prose du Transsibérien , the creation of the first ready-made by Marcel Duchamp, or the premiere of Le Sacre du Printemps . The International Conference “1913: The Year of French Modernism” seizes the opportunity of the centennial in order to capture a moment of vibrant creativity in France and a crucial moment for the quickly emerging modernism throughout the world. Through papers on specific works that were created or made public on and around 1913, we will try to outline the physiognomy of French Modernism: its protagonists, strategies, and genres, its dynamics, themes, and legacies as they were put into place during that seminal year. In addition to shedding new light on specific works, the conference’s underlying theoretical motivation is twofold. First, to create collectively a coherent landscape for French Modernism, a domain in scholarship that remains still unexplored as a canonical category; in other words we will try to answer the deceptively simple question “what constituted Modernism in France?” Second, our goal is to establish with this conference a strong position for French Modernism within the thriving field of Modernist Studies in American Academia, dominated almost exclusively by the Anglophone world. In other words, we will try to answer the question “what is the place of France on the map of global Modernism?”ProgramFriday, April 19 thRobertson Hall Bowl 0169:00 Welcome Address: Nick Nesbitt, Chair, Department of French and ItalianIntroduction: Effie Rentzou9:15-10:45 a.m. Modernist Novels Chair: André Benhaïm (Princeton University, French and Italian)David Ellison (University of Miami)“On Situating French Modernism: The Strange Location(s) of Le Grand Meaulnes ”Gerald Prince (University of Pennsylvania)“ Les Caves du Vatican and the Real Novel”11:00 - 12:30 p.m. Ethics and AestheticsChair: Michael Wood (Princeton University, English, Comparative Literature)Hannah Freed-Thall (Princeton University, Society of Fellows)“Inestimable Objects: Proust, Modernism, Aesthetics”Marjorie Perloff (University of Southern California)“The Contradictions of ‘Simultaneity’: The Delaunay/Cendrars Collaboration on La Prose du Transsibérien ”2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Cinematic WritingChair: Maria DiBattista (Princeton University, English, Comparative Literature)Jonathan Eburne (Penn State University)“ Fantômas and the Shudder of History”Christophe Wall-Romana (University of Minnesota)“The New Medium of Film in French Thought, 1900-1914”3:45 - 5:15 p.m. Modernist Poetics I Chair: David Bellos (Princeton University, French and Italian, Comparative Literature)Laurent Jenny (Université de Genève)“Apollinaire’s Farewell to Lyricism”Annette Becker (Paris 10-Nanterre)“Chagall’s Homage to Apollinaire and European Avant-garde: 1913 Between Peace and War”Friday, April 19 thArt Museum6:00 — PerformanceL’Avant-Scène PresentsLes Mamelles de TirésiasBy Guillaume Apollinaire7:30 – Art Exhibition“1913: The Year of Modernism”Followed by a ReceptionSaturday, April 20 th106 McCormick Hall8:45 Presentation: André Benhaïm9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Other Modernisms Chair: Tom Trezise (Princeton University, French and Italian)William Marx (Université Paris 10 - Nanterre)“1913, Year of the Arrière-Garde ?”Christopher Bush (Northwestern University)“A Modernism that Has Not Yet Been: Untimely Segalen”10:45 – 12:15 p.m. 1913 LegaciesChair: Jeff Dolven (Princeton University, English)Simon Morrison (Princeton University, Music)“The Chosen One: The Politics of The Rite of Spring , Then and Now”Carrie Noland (University of California-Irvine)“Marcel Duchamp, Merce Cunningham, and the Temporality of the Avant-Garde”2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Modernist Poetics IIChair: Susan Stewart (Princeton University, English)Virginie Pouzet-Duzer (Pomona College)“1913: Point(s) Mallarmé!”Mary Shaw (Rutgers University)“Poetry Displaced: Nijinsky, Delaunay, Duchamp”3:45 - 5:15 p.m. Visual MaterialitiesChair: Brigid Doherty (Princeton University, German, Art and Archaeology)Guillaume Le Gall (Université Paris 4 - Sorbonne)“ Les Fortifications de Paris (1913) by Eugène Atget: A Landmark in the Photographic Modernity”Lisa Florman (Ohio State University)“Behind Picasso’s Pins”5:30 – 6:30 p.m. ROUNDTABLEChair: Effie Rentzou (Princeton University, French and Italian)Hal Foster (Princeton University, Dept. of Art History)Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania)Susan Stanford Friedman (University of Wisconsin-Madison)Contact : abenhaim@princeton.edu et erentzou@Princeton.EDU
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