LERMA, Aix Marseille Université – EMMA, Université de Montpellier – Department of English, UC Berkeley
13 May 2022
Online Workshop
(9 am – 10:20 am PDT / 18h – 19h20 EST) Session 1: On Literature and the Environment
Laura Lainvae (EMMA, Université de Montpellier): “An Ethics of Humility: On the Necessity of Being Moved.”
Marie Bertrand (EMMA, Université de Montpellier): “Reinterpreting Hardy’s “Child of the Soil”: Tess of the d’Urbervilles as Phenomenological Green Writing.”
John James (UC Berkeley): “Environment or Ecology? Or, Reading John Clare.”
(10:20 am – 11:10 am / 19h20 – 20h10) Session 2: On Mathematics and Engineering Techniques
Imogen Forbes-Macphail (UC Berkeley): “On Indian mathematics in Victorian Britain.”
Kevin Cristin (LERMA, Aix-Marseille Université): ‘“Making”: Stevenson’s meditations on the human shaping of the world’
(11:10 am – 11:20 am / 20h10 – 20h20 BREAK)
(11:20 am – 12:20 pm / 20h20 – 21h20) Roundtable on Questions of Representation
Alice Borrego (EMMA, Université de Montpellier): Presentation of the ‘Invisible Lives’ Seminar
Kent Puckett on The Electoral Imagination: Literature, Legitimacy, and Other Rigged Systems (forthcoming Cambridge UP 2022)
Conveners: Pr. Ian Duncan, Pr. Nathalie Vanfasse, Pr. Christine Reynier
Organising committee: John James, Myriam Ardoin, Kevin Cristin, Charlotte Chassefière