programme
24 January 2014 - Cosin's Hall, Palace Green, Durham
9.00-9.15 Registration
9.15 Keynote: 'Symptoms of Intestinal Poisoning: Benjamin reading Proust' Dr Katja Haustein, University of Kent
(Chair: Pauline Moret, Durham University)
10.00 Readers of Proust (Chair: Dr Marie-Claire Barnet, Durham University)
11.00 Coffee Break
11.20 Reading Literature Through Proust (Chair: Prof Lucille Cairns, Durham University)
13.00 Lunch Break
14.15 'Modernist Media: Reading the Newspaper in Proust and Woolf' Dr Hannah Freed-Thall, Princeton University
(Chair: Julia Caterina Hartley, University of Oxford)
15.00 Reading Other Artistic Genres (Chair: Prof Margaret Topping, Queen's University Belfast)
16.30 Coffee Break
16.50 Ways of Reading (Chair: Prof Adam Watt, University of Exeter)
18.15 Discussion
19.30 Conference Dinner
9.00-9.15 Registration
9.15 Keynote: 'Symptoms of Intestinal Poisoning: Benjamin reading Proust' Dr Katja Haustein, University of Kent
(Chair: Pauline Moret, Durham University)
10.00 Readers of Proust (Chair: Dr Marie-Claire Barnet, Durham University)
- ‘Marcel Proust en Italie: À la recherche du temps perdu dans l’œuvre poétique de Vittorio Sereni et Attilio Bertolucci’ Cecilia Rossari (Université de Genève, Switzerland)
- ‘Proust, T. S. Eliot and The Criterion’, Nicoletta Asciuto (Durham University, United Kingdom)
11.00 Coffee Break
11.20 Reading Literature Through Proust (Chair: Prof Lucille Cairns, Durham University)
- ‘Proust comme intertexte à la lecture de Goethe’, Delphine Paon (Université Paris 13 - SCP, France)
- ‘Forme et informe de Proust à W. G. Sebald’, Clara Dupuis-Morency (Université de Montréal, Canada)
- 'Swann as Virgil? The fallible guide in Dante and Proust', Julia C. Hartley (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
13.00 Lunch Break
14.15 'Modernist Media: Reading the Newspaper in Proust and Woolf' Dr Hannah Freed-Thall, Princeton University
(Chair: Julia Caterina Hartley, University of Oxford)
15.00 Reading Other Artistic Genres (Chair: Prof Margaret Topping, Queen's University Belfast)
- ‘Lire la musique, écrire la musique’, Yvonne Heckmann (Université de Caen/EPHE Paris, France)
- ‘Notes on listening and memory in À la recherche du temps perdu’, Igor Reyner (King's College London, United Kingdom)
- ‘Mad men, mad women: Seduction and social power in the modernist narration of the self, from À la recherche du temps perdu to slow burn tv narratives’ Raffaello Rossi (Bologna University, Italy)
16.30 Coffee Break
16.50 Ways of Reading (Chair: Prof Adam Watt, University of Exeter)
- ‘Une question d’interprétation’, Béatrice Athias (Paris 7, France)
- ‘Other People, Other Texts’ Richard Mason (King’s College London, United Kingdom)
- ‘Learning to see, learning to hear: How Proust makes us ethical readers’, Synne Ytre Arne (University of Bergen, Norway)
18.15 Discussion
19.30 Conference Dinner
