rue des beaux arts

 

Numéro 20 : MAI/JUIN 2009

 

§17.  COLLOQUES

 

IRELAND AND THE FIN DE SIÈCLE


ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY

Academy House 19 Dawson St,

Dublin 2

 

Thursday 3rd September

 

4.30pm REGISTRATION

 

5pm PANEL ONE: GEORGE MOORE

 

* Dr Julie Anne Stevens (St Patrick's College, Drumcondra): George Moore, Somerville and Ross and the reconstruction of optical experience in late nineteenth-century Irish short fiction

* Dr Mary Pierse (University College Cork): George Moore’s Fin de Siècle: themes and variations

* Dr Eamon Maher (Institute of Technology, Tallaght): George Moore and the Catholic novel

 

6.30pm KEYNOTE LECTURE

 

Dr Eibhear Walshe (University College Cork): MacLiammóir: the last Wildean decadent

 

7.30pm WINE RECEPTION

 

Friday 4th September

 

9am REGISTRATION

 

9.30am PANEL TWO: OSCAR WILDE

 

* Dr Noreen Doody (St Patrick's College, Drumcondra): Oscar Wilde: Salomé and Smith O’Brien

* Dr Deaglán Ó Donghaile (NUI Maynooth): Oscar Wilde and the radical politics of the Fin de Siècle

* Dr Sondeep Kandola (University of Leeds): ‘The same flesh and blood as one’s self! Oh, I hope not!’: representations of Fin de Siècle Ireland in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray

 

10.30am Break

 

10.45am PANEL THREE: THE NEW WOMAN

 

* Dr Kalene Nix (University College Cork): Katherine Cecil Thurston

* Professor James H. Murphy (DePaul University, Chicago): Grand’s Ideala (1888) and Lawless’s Grania (1892) and the structure of experience in new-woman fiction

 

11.45am Break

 

12 noon PANEL FOUR: GEORGE EGERTON

 

* Dr Heather Ingman (Trinity College Dublin): George Egerton and the Irish short story

* Dr Tina O’Toole (University of Limerick): Ireland and the Fin de Siècle

* Whitney Standlee (University of Liverpool): Forging the uncreated conscience of her sex: decadence, New Womanhood and the escape from Ireland in George Egerton’s The Wheel of God (1898)

* Dr Maureen O’Connor (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick):  The yellow aster and the green carnation: decadent nature in Irish new woman fiction

 

1pm Lunch [Not Included]

 

2pm KEYNOTE LECTURE

Dr Nicola Gordon Bowe (National College of Art and Design): Myths, dreams or unearthed truths? Symbolist imagery in the arts of Fin de Siècle Ireland

 

3pm Break

 

3.30pm PANEL FIVE: THE FIN DE SIÈCLE AND CULTURAL REPRESENTATION

 

* Dr Brian Ó Conchubhair (University of Notre Dame): Vernacular and dialectical languages in the European and Irish Fin de Siècle

* Dr Aoife Leahy (Dublin Institute of Technology): Harry Furniss and the art of the Fin de Siècle caricature

* Professor Alex Davis (University College Cork): Learning to be brutal: Synge, linguistics, decadence

* Dr Leon Litvack (Queen’s University Belfast): Posing for posterity: the Irish photographic portrait at the Fin de Siècle

 

To register, please visit www.ria.ie/committees/irishliteratures/new.html

For further information please call  (+353) (0)1 6762570

BRITISH ÆSTHETICISMS

Université de Montpellier

Friday 2nd October

8.30am-9am Registration and coffee

9.15am-10am Plenary session

Guest Speaker: Dr. Lorraine Janzen Kooistra (Ryerson University, Toronto)

PANEL A - ÆSTHETICISM AND THE VISUAL ARTS

PANEL B - THE ROLE OF CRITICISM, W. PATER, AND O. WILDE

·                     10.15am-12pm

·                     10.15am-12pm

Anne Anderson (University of Exeter) : Old Blue and Sunflowers: Constructing Æsthetic Tastes, London and Paris in the 1860s

Richard Hayes (University of Cambridge) : Oscar Wilde, E.W. Godwin and the Role of Criticism in Æstheticism

Aileen Tsui (Washington College, USA): The Æsthetics of Gold in Whistler and Pater

Richard Hibbitt (University of Leeds) : Oscar Wilde and la critique impressionniste

Lene Ostermark-Johansen (University of Copenhagen): Frieze: Getting beneath the surface of the past in æstheticist painting and writing

Thomas Albrecht (Tulane University): The Poetics of Æsthetic Criticism in Walter Pater’s The Renaissance

Françoise Baillet (Université de Cergy-Pontoise) : George du Maurier and Æstheticism

Ranald Macdonald (University of Aberdeen) : British Hegelianism and Walter Pater

·                     2pm-3.30pm

·                     2pm-3.30pm

Gabriella Bologna (University of Verona, Italy) : The Æsthetic of British Pictorial Photography. A case study: James Craig Annan’s portfolio Venice and Lombardy. A Series of Original Photogravures

Joe Bristow (UCLA) : Wilde’s Æstheticism and Emergent Modernism in the New Age

Audrey Doussot (Université de Bourgogne) : Laurence Housman (1865-1959): esthète, conteur, illustrateur

Emily Eells (Université de Paris-Nanterre) : From Wilde to Proust: The Twisted Threads of Life and Art

Isabelle Enaud-Lechien (Université Lille 3) : James McNeill Whistler à l’exposition inaugurale de la Grosvenor Gallery de Londres en 1877—héraut d’un esthétisme en train de se définir?

Stefano Evangelista (Trinity College, Oxford) : Wilde and European Modernism: Reception and Resistance

A. F. Gillard Estrada (Université de Rouen) : Aspiring to the Condition of Something Else : Walter Pater and the Æsthetic Painters

Megan Becker-Leckrone (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) : Oscar Wilde’s Cosmopolitan Æstheticism

·                     4pm-5pm

·                     4pm-5pm

Laurent Bury (Université de Lyon 2) : ‘Art is Nationhood’: Esthétisme et nationalisme dans la critique d’art de George Moore

D.C.Rose (OSCHOLARS editor, Paris) : The Destroyed Canvas as Response to Æstheticism in the Work of Basil Hallward, Claude Lantier, and Dick Helder

Catherine Rovera (Université Paris-Dauphine) : Esthétisme et culture populaire: parodies de dandies

Denis Simon (Technische Universität, Dresden) : New Narrative Forms as a Subversion of Established Literary Norms: Walter Pater’s Marius the Epicurean and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray as Examples of the Negative Æsthetic Bildungsroman

 

7pm – Visit to Montpellier’s Art Museum, Musée Fabre

8pm – Conference Dinner

 

Saturday 3rd October

9am: coffee

9.15 am-10am : Plenary session

Guest speaker: Dr. Talia Schaffer (CUNY)

 

PANEL A - AESTHETICISM AND GENDER

PANEL B - THE POSTERITY OF AESTHETICISM

·                     10.15am-12pm

·                     10.15am-12pm: Æstheticism and Modernism

Ana Raquel Rojas (University of Scranton, USA) : Gender for Art’s Sake: Fin-de-siècle Women Writers and the Femme Fatale

Norbert Lennartz (Universität Bonn) : Self-Destructive Æstheticism – the Deconstruction of the Æstheticist Mode in British Fiction

Sophie Geoffroy (Université de La Réunion) : Æstheticism : a gender(ed) issue ? Vernon Lee, Beauty and Æstheticism

Elaine Pigeon (Concordia University) : The Æstheticism of James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Julia Kuehn (The University of Hong Kong) : Gendering Visual Æstheticism: Margaret Murray Cookesley as Female Olympian

Rita Severi (University of Verona, Italy) : From Esteticismo to Dannunzianesimo. How Italian Decadent Writers Reacted to British Cultural Influence

Sarah Townley (University of Nottingham) : Redefining Æstheticism: Vernon Lee and the Reading Public

Linda Wong (University of Hong Kong) : Æstheticism Re-examined in the Modern Chinese Context

·                     2pm-3.30pm

·             2pm-3.30pm: Æstheticism and Post-Modernism

Sally Newman (Monash University, Australia) : Talk to Me About Plato: Mary Robinson’s Epistolary Education

Tristan Grünberg (Paris III) : Salomé, reine d’Angleterre: destinées esthétiques de la Salomé d’Oscar Wilde

Nikolaï Endres (Western Kentucky University) : Wilde Wagner, The Sexual Politics of Queer Æstheticism

Heather Marcovitch (Red Deer College, Alberta) : The Modernist Oscar Wilde: Figures of Wilde in the Works of Djuna Barnes, James Joyce and Christopher Isherwood

Kristin Mahoney (Western Washington University) : Towards Aristocracy: Baron Corvo and the Ethics of Male Friendship

Tijana Stajic (University of Gothenburg) : The Literary Evolution of Æstheticism: From The Picture of Dorian Gray to The Crying of Lot 49

·                     4pm-5pm

·                     4pm-5pm

Sondeep Kandola (University of Leeds) : Lifting the Veil: Æstheticism, Celtic Glamour and the Hellenic Ideal in Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan and The Hill of Dreams

Julie Sauvage (Montpellier III) : Choose your Camp: commitment and æstheticism in Angela Carter’s novels

Sébastien Mullier (Université Saint Etienne) : Le côté Sade de Théophile Gautier

Justine Gonneaud (Montpellier III) : Ethique et esthétisme de l'androgyne : de Rolfe à Winterson

5pm-5.45pm:

Final plenary session

Guest speaker: Dr. Pamela Gerrish Nunn (University of Canterbury, NZ)

Renée Vivien : une femme de lettres entre deux siècles (1877-1909)

Journée d'études en commémoration de la poétesse

le vendredi 20 novembre 2009 à l'Université de Londres à Paris (ULIP)

University of London Institute in Paris

9 rue de Constantine,75007 Paris

Avec, entre autres intervenant-e-s, Nicole. G. Albert, Jean-Paul Goujon, Melanie Hawthorne, Martine Reid

Conférences suivies d'une lecture de poèmes

Pour tout renseignement, contacter Brigitte Rollet (b.rollet@ulip.lon.ac.uk)

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