Program

November 26, UNamur L03

9:00 a.m. – Welcome

9:30 a.m. – Opening lecture: Michel Brix, University of Namur – “What Is Romanticism?”

10:30 a.m. – Break

11:00 a.m. – Romain Jalabert, Sorbonne University – “The Forgetting of Lamartine”

11:30 a.m. – Alice de Charentenay, University of Paris I – “Against Geneviève: Lamartine, a Fruitful Counterpoint to the Clinical Novel”

12:30 p.m. – Lunch break

1:30 p.m. – Valérie Stiénon, Sorbonne Nord – “Is Romanticism Over? Speculative Fiction and Catastrophic Imaginaries”

2:00 p.m. – Julien Zanetta, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice – “Romanticism as a Profession: Valéry the Gravedigger”

3:00 PM – Break

3:30 p.m. – Catherine Ménager, Sorbonne Nouvelle – “Self-Catharsis and the Persistence of Romantic ‘Evil’ in the Work of Maxime Du Camp”

4:00 p.m. – Thierry Poyet, Clermont Auvergne University – “Émile Clermont: The Post-Romantic Writing of a Deeply Rooted Destiny”

5:00 p.m. – End of presentations for the first day

 

November 27, UNamur L03

9:30 a.m. – Lecture: Caroline de Mulder, University of Namur – “Claude Bernard in His Fictional Laboratory”

10:30 a.m. – Break

11:00 a.m. – Henri Scepi, Sorbonne Nouvelle – “Corbière: Continuing Romanticism by Any Means Necessary”

11:30 a.m. – Kevin Saliou, Cahiers Lautréamont – “Isidore Ducasse/Lautréamont: The Demise of Romanticism”

12:30 p.m. – Conclusions