Conference papers, Session I (Chair: Nathalie Vanfasse) Rudi Yniguez(UC Berkeley): “Female monstrosity in Daniel Deronda” Veronica Mittnacht (UC Berkeley): “Modes of determinism in Daniel Deronda” Kévin Cristin (LERMA, AMU): “From fiction to fieldwork: R. L. Stevenson as accidental anthropologist in the South Seas”
12:00 – 14:00
Lunch(Les Gazelles)
14:00 – 15:45
Conference papers, Session II (Chair: Michel Van Der Yeught) Imogen Forbes-Macphail (UC Berkeley): “Mathematical ekphrasis” Anaïs Martin (LERMA, AMU): “Reinventing Victorian fiction through French Radio Adaptations” Abigail Struhl (UC Berkeley): “Emily Dickinson and civil war photography: on literature and media / technology”
15:45 – 16:00
Short break
16:00 – 17:30
Round table on Victorian Keywords(Chair: Ian Duncan) Michel Pierssens (Université de Montréal) on “struggleforlifer” Jessica Ling (UC Berkeley) on “disbelief” Jesse Cordes Selbin (UC Berkeley) on “critique” Laura Ritland (UC Berkeley) on “criticism”
Thu, May 23 08:30 – 09:00
Coffee
09:00 – 10:45
Conference papers, Session III (Chair: Fanny Robles) Mary Mussman (UC Berkeley):“Queer/affective reading of Villette” Myriam Ardoin (LERMA, AMU): “Father Brown or the Chestertonian economist” Katie Hobbs (UC Berkeley):“Autobiography across the disciplines”
10:45 – 11:00
Short break
11:00 – 12:15
Round table on “Decentered Disciplines: practicing inter-, trans-, multi- disciplinarity” (coordinated by Ian Duncan and Grace Lavery) Cécile Cottenet (LERMA, AMU): “Presentation of our research programme ‘Decentered Disciplines’” Michel Van Der Yeught (LERMA, AMU): “Accounting for the evolution of specialised languages in times of intellectual progress: theoretical issues and suggestions” Discussing practices in inter-, trans-, multi-disciplinarity
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch(Les Gazelles)
14:15 – 15:45
Pre-circulated work (Respondent: Grace Lavery) Emma Eisenberg (UC Berkeley):“Gaskell, style, France” Gil Charbonnier (CIELAM, AMU): “La réception de la sublimation freudienne dans les lettres françaises durant l’entre-deux-guerres”
15:45 – 16:15
Short break
16:15 – 17:30
Round table on epistemocriticism(coordinated by Fanny Roblesand Claude Perez) Presentation by Michel Pierssens (Université de Montréal) on epistemocriticism Discussion
Round table on on global nineteenth-century studies (coordinated by Gil Charbonnier and Michel Van der Yeught) Laura Ritland (UC Berkeley) on “recent English language work in global Victorian studies” Corinne Flicker (CIELAM, AMU) on “Le théâtre naturaliste à l’épreuve des sciences : l’usage du langage scientifique dans les essais d’Emile Zola Le Naturalisme au théâtre et Nos auteurs dramatiques (1881)” Nathalie Vanfasse (LERMA, AMU) and Fanny Robles (LERMA, AMU) on “Victorian studies in France”
10:15 – 10:30
Short break
10:30 – 11:30
Conference papers, Session IV (Chair: Myriam Ardoin) Chris Geary (UC Berkeley): “Darwin and Islands” Jesse Nyiri (UC Berkeley): “Instinct and the Aesthetic”
11:30 – 12:30
Closing session: looking ahead / publication (coordinated by Ian Duncan and Nathalie Vanfasse)
