You can now find here below the tentative program and schedule for the conference. Please note that this program is subject to change. Panel titles will be indicated later. Please consider that it would be very difficult to make any more changes to this program without damaging its attempted coherence and balance. We hope everyone will attend the entire conference.
Le programme prévisionnel pour le colloque est à présent disponible ci-dessous. Merci de noter que ce programme peut changer. Les salles, noms des modérateurs et titres des ateliers seront indiqués ultérieurement. Merci de garder à l’esprit les difficultés engendrées par les demandes de changement de programme, que nous avons voulu le plus cohérent et équilibré possible. Nous espérons que tous les participants pourront être présents tout au long du colloque.
Colloque International
« Lieux d’enchantement: Ecrire et réenchanter le monde. »
Université de Perpignan 22-25 juin 2016
International Conference
“Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth”
University of Perpignan, June 22-25 2016
Mercredi 22 juin / Wed. June 22nd
(Couvent des Minimes & Maison de la Catalanité)
8h30-9h00 : Inscription / Registration (Couvent des Minimes)
9h00 -10h00 : Ouverture du colloque / Conference Opening (Chapelle Basse, Couvent des Minimes)
Allocution d’ouverture par Xavier Py, Vice-Président Recherche de l’UPVD.
Official opening and welcome by Xavier Py, Vice-President of the University of Perpignan, in charge of Research.
Quelques mots d’ouverture sur le thème du colloque par Bénédicte Meillon, coordinatrice du colloque. / Opening words focusing on the conference subject, by Bénédicte Meillon, Conference Coordinator.
10h00- 12h00 Ateliers parallèles / Parallel sessions
Panel 1 (Chapelle Basse, Couvent des Minimes)
Chair: Yves-Charles Grandjeat, Université de Bordeaux
Thomas Pughe, Professor at the Université of Orléans, France: “Ecopoetry: the ecological work of language.”
Francoise Besson, Professor at the University of Toulouse, France: “Nature Speech and Storytelling: The Voice of Wisdom in the Non-Human.”
Charles Holdefer, Associate Professor at the University of Poitiers, France: “Necessary Wonder: Promises and Pitfalls of Enchantment.”
Athane Adrahane, Doctorante à l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique : « Écrire à dimension des montagnes, des papillons et des étoiles. »
Panel 2 (Salle d’exposition / Exhibition room, Maison de la Catalanité)
Chair: Margot Lauwers, Université de Perpignan
Franca Bellarsi, Associate Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, and Chad Weidner, Assistant Professor at Utrecht College Roosevelt (UCR), Netherlands: “Fractured Ecologies and Experiential Translation: Bringing the Self back from Experiential Exile?”
Lorna Fitzsimmons, Professor at California State University Dominguez Hills, USA: “The Ecology of Language in Kamala Das’s Poetry, A Cognitive Ecocritical Reading.”
Munira Salim, PhD Student at Stewart Science College, Cuttack, Odisha, India: “Critiquing Ecofeminism through the Marginal Perspective of Urmila Pawar’s The Weave of My Life.”
Noémie Moutel, PhD Student and English Teacher at the University of Caen, France: “The Glade: A Place for Re-enchanting Sisterhood in The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein, by Theodore Roszak.”
Panel 3 (Salle du haut / Upper room, Maison de la Catalanité)
Chair: Scott Slovic, University of Idaho
Alan Johnson, Professor at Idaho State University, USA: “Making Enchantment Visible in Indian Fiction: An Ecopoetical Reading.”
Chitra Sankaran, Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore: “Numinous Encounters along the Holy Narmada: A River Sutra by Gita Mehta.”
Asis De, Associate Professor at Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India: “Toward an Island Ecopoetics: Reenchanting the Andaman Ecology and the Jarawa Tribal Reserve in Pankaj Sekhsaria’s The Last Wave (2014).”
12h00-13h30 Pause déjeuner / Lunch Break (Couvent des Minimes)
13h30-14h30 Séance Plénière / Keynote session (Chapelle Basse, Couvent des Minimes)
Yves-Charles Grandjeat, Professor at the University of Bordeaux, France: “I turn homeward, wondering”: A Short, Enchanted Journey Through some of the Wonders Literature Can Do for Ecology”
Chair: Bénédicte Meillon, University of Perpignan.
14h30-16h00 Ateliers parallèles / Parallel sessions
Panel 4 (Salle du haut / Upper room, Maison de la Catalanité)
Chair: Jonathan Pollock, Université de Perpignan
Owen D.V. Sholes, Professor at Assumption College, Worcester, USA: “Robert Frost: Making Choices in a Changing Countryside.”
Adrian Tait, PhD, Independent Researcher, UK: “Rewilding the World: Jay Griffiths, Kathleen Jamie, and George Monbiot’s Challenge to the Post-Modern.”
Isobel Waters, Botanist and Ecologist, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Canada: “The Obliterated Landscape in Canadian Literature.”
Panel 5 (Salle d’exposition / Exhibition room, Maison de la Catalanité)
Chair: Eliane Liddell, Université de Perpignan
Kyle Bladow, PhD from the University of Nevada, Reno, USA: “Protecting Eanan: Trans-Indigenous Protest Art in Sápmi.”
Hannah Mattila, PhD Student at Sámi University College, Norway, and the University of Tampere, Finland: “Encounters of Ecological and Decolonial Voices in Contemporary Sámi Poetry.”
Panel 6 (Chapelle Basse, Couvent des Minimes)
Chair: Joni Adamson, Arizona State University
Bénédicte Meillon, Associate Professor at the University of Perpignan, France: “The Ecopoet(h)ics of Interspecies Connections in Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer.”
Frédérique Spill, Associate Professor at the University of Picardie, Amiens, France: “Ron Rash’s Stories of “the world’s understory”: Renewing Wonder in Above the Waterfall (2015).”
16h00- 16h30 Pause café / Coffee break (Couvent des Minimes)
17h00-18h30 Lectures et dialogue avec le public / Readings and discussion with the audience (Chapelle Basse, Couvent des Minimes):
Ron Rash : Poète, nouvelliste et romancer des Etats Unis / Poet, short story writer, and novelist from the USA.
Présentation et lecture en français par Frédérique Spill / Presentation and reading in French by Frédérique Spill, Université d’Amiens. Interprétariat: Jocelyn Dupont, Université de Perpignan.
19h30-22h30 Cocktail dinatoire d’ouverture / Opening cocktail reception (Maison de la Catalanité)
Jeudi 23 juin / Thursday, June 23rd
(Couvent des Minimes & Maison de la Catalanité)
9h00-10h30 Ateliers parallèles / Parallel sessions
Panel 7 (Salle Nord, Couvent des Minimes)
Chair: Carmen Flys, Franklin Institute / Universidad de Alcalà.
Lorraine Shannon, PhD, University of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland: “Hope is the Thing with Feathers.”
Chloé Angué, Doctorante à l’Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France : “The Polynesian Dream: Biblical and Ancestral Myths Re-enchanting the Postcolonial Imaginary of the Island.”
Panel 8 (Salle du haut / Upper room, Maison de la Catalanité)
Chair: Franca Bellarsi, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Jessica Maufort, PhD Student at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium: “The Magic Realist Compost in the Anthropocene: Improbable Assemblages in Canadian and Australian Fiction.”
Emily Kolf, PhD Student at the University of Kentucky, USA: “Nature and Magic in The Secret Garden.”
Panel 9 (Chapelle Basse, Couvent des Minimes )
Chair : Nathalie Solomon, Université de Perpignan
Anne Simon, Chercheuse HDR au CRAL-CNRS/EHESS, France : « Zoopoéthique : la littérature à l’épreuve de l’élevage industriel. »
Marinella Termite, Chercheuse à l’Université de Bari, Italie : « Écritures polluées: Éric Reinhardt et Antoine Volodine »
Anaïs Boulard, Doctorante à l’Université d’Angers, France : « Filiation et récit dans les fictions environnementales contemporaines : De la menace d’extinction de l’homo sapiens à la survie de l’homo litteratus. »
Panel 10 (Salle d’exposition / Exhibition room, Maison de la Catalanité)
Chair: Jonathan Pollock, Université de Perpignan
Isabel Sobral Campos, Assistant Professor at Montana Tech of the University of Montana, Butte, USA: “The Ecopoetics of Abstract Art in Kandinsky.”
Jo Anne Rey, PhD Student and Writer at the University of Macquarie University, Sydney: “First Peoples, First Knowledge: Storyin’-Up Country – Dharug Women’s Way.”
Joanne Clavel, Chercheuse en sciences de la conservation au Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle. Docteure en sciences de l’écologie, chorégraphe et danseuse : « De la mise en scène du vivant au sentir du vivant. »
10h30-11h00 Pause café / Coffee break (Couvent des Minimes)
11h00-12h00 Séance Plénière / Keynote session (Chapelle Basse, Couvent des Minimes)
Joni Adamson, Professor at Arizona State University, USA: “Ecopoetics of Interspecies Connections in Native American Writings.”
Chair: Carmen Flys Junquera, Unversity of Alcalà, Madrid.
12h00-13h30 Pause déjeuner/Lunch break (Couvent des Minimes)
13h30-15h30 Ateliers parallèles / Parallel sessions
Panel 11 (Salle du haut / Upper room, Maison de la Catalanité)
Chair: Lee Schweninger, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Antonio Cuadrado-Fernandez, PhD, University of East Anglia, England: “Learning to live in the Anthropocene: Orality as Recycling in Contemporary Latin American Indigenous Poetry.”
Angela Mullis, Professor at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA: “Tribalography and the Native South: The Ecopoetics of LeAnne Howe.”
Maxime Petit, Professeur Agrégé and PhD Student at the University of Toulouse, France: “Our Land is This Land: Old and New Ways of Filming Indian Land in Native American Documentary Filmmaking.”
Lionnel Larré, Professor at the University of Bordeaux, France: “Seeing the Indigenous Beauty of the Land: A Reading of John Joseph Mathews’ Work.”
Panel 12 (Salle d’exposition / Exhibition Room, Maison de la Catalanité)
Chair : Yves Charles Grandjeat, Université de Bordeaux
Nicolas Picard, Doctorant à l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III, France : « Les émotions animales »
Claire Cazajous, PhD Student at the University of Toulouse, France: “Prade Ranch, a common place for humans and animals in “The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness” by Rick Bass.”
Virginie Clavelier, PhD Student at the University of Orléans, France: “The Decentered Attitude in Alexandra Fuller’s Work.”
Panel 13 (Chapelle Basse, Couvent des Minimes)
Chair: Carmen Flys-Junquera, Franklin Institute & University of Madrid
Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Professor at Appalachian State University in North Carolina, USA: “Rabbits, Wrens, and Calves: When Animals Speak.”
Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves, Assistant Professor at the University of Lisbon, and UTAD (University of Trás-os-montes e Alto Douro), Portugal: “To Enter a ‘Place Grown Intense and Holy’: Dwelling in the Enchanted World of Words.”
Yonka Krasteva, Associate Professor at Shumen University, Bulgaria, and Adjunct Profesor at Butler Community College, USA: “Encounters of Nature and Culture: Mediating History and the Transcendent in Linda Hogan’s People of the Whale.”
Tara Maria Fernandes, Researcher in Bangalore, India: “Seeing Selchie with David Thomson.”
Panel 14 (Salle Nord, Couvent des Minimes)
Chair: Isabelle Cases, Université de Perpignan
Eliane Liddell, Associate Professor at the University of Perpignan, France: “Reenchanting the West’s Ecological Dialogue With the World: What a Long Way to Go. Reflections on the 2014 US Documentary “Years of Living Dangerously.”
Paul Lindholdt, Professor at Eastern Washington University, USA: “Thinking like a River.”
Sheena Wilson, Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada: “Eco-poetics: Fueling Change.”
David Latour, PhD, Professeur Certifié at the Collegium Sciences et Techniques, University of Orléans: “Sean Penn’s Into the Wild or Filming Nature with/and Passion.”
15h30-16h00 Pause café : Coffee break (Couvent des Minimes)
16h30- 18h00 Lectures et dialogue avec le public / Readings and discussion with the audience (Chapelle Basse, Couvent des Minimes)
Linda Hogan : Poétesse, essayiste et romancière amérindienne Chickasaw / Native American, Chickasaw poet, novelist and essay writer.
Présentation, interprétariat et lecture en français par Bénédicte Meillon / Presentation, translation, and reading in French by Bénédicte Meillon, Université de Perpignan
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19h10: Projections à l’Institut Jean Vigo – Cinémathèque de Perpignan, Salle Marcel Oms / Film screening at the Institute Jean Vigo, Marcel Oms Room : Les Bêtes du sud sauvage, de Benh Zeitlin / Beasts of the Southern Wild, by Benh Zeitlin.
Présentation du film et débat animés par Jocelyn Dupont. Apéritif offert par L’Institut Jean Vigo.
Film presentation and discussion chaired by Jocelyn Dupont. Drinks and nibbles offered by the Institut Jean Vigo.
Vendredi 24 juin / Friday June 24th
(Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, – UPVD)
9h00-10h30 Ateliers parallèles / Parallel sessions
Panel 15 (Amphi Y, UPVD)
Chair: Scott Slovic, University of Idaho
Jingcheng Xu, PhD Student at Bangor University, Wales: “Spiritual Self-Actualization: Daoist ‘Zuo Wang’ and Edward Thomas’s ‘Xing Wang.’”
Keiko Takioto Miller, Assistant Professor at the University of Mercyhurst, Pennsylvanie, Eats Unis: “Haiku as the Ecopoetical Threshold of ‘Ice Riding on Its Melting.’”
Panel 16 (Amphi A1)
Chair: Wendy Harding, Université de Toulouse
Katherine R. Lynes, Associate Professor at Union College, Schenectady, New York, USA: “‘in the hope that hearts will change’: Dialogues with Nature in African American Poetry.”
Margus Lattik, Translator and PhD Student at the University of Tartu, Estonia: “Nature’s Sanctity as Part of Our own Humanness: The Nature Poetry Of Derek Walcott.”
Christine Gerhardt, Professor at the University of Bamberg, Germany: “‘Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?’: Negotiating Place and Mobility in Whitman’s and Dickinson’s Songs of the Earth.”
Panel 17 (Amphi A3, UPVD)
Chair : Françoise Besson, Université de Toulouse
Bénédicte Chorier-Fryd, Associate Professor at the University of Poitiers, France: “The Poetic Ecology of Tom Konyves.”
Alan Weltzien, Professor at the University of Montana, Dillon, USA: “Global Citizenship in Macrospace: Three Stations Along the Pacific Ring of Fire.”
Panel 18 (Amphi A2)
Chair : Jocelyn Dupont, Université de Perpignan
Pierre-Antoine Pellerin, Associate Professor at the University of Lyon, France: “Of (Dying) Mice and (Crying) Men: Masculinity, In/significant Others, and Jack Kerouac’s Ecopoetics.”
Davide Vago, Maître de Conférences à l’Université Catholique, Milan (Italie) : « La prosopopée chez André Bucher : faire entendre les voix de la Terre. »
Evelyne Lloze, Professeure des Universités à l’Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne, France : « L’univers “écopoéthique” de Chamoiseau (Les neuf consciences du Malfini et autres textes). »
10h30-11h00 Pause café / Coffee break
11h00- 12h30-Ateliers parallèles / Parallel sessions
Panel 19 (Amphi A1, UPVD)
Chair: Joanne Clavel, Museum d’Histoire Naturelle.
Stephen Greenfield, PhD Student at the University of Wolverhampton, England: “The Trees of The Lord of the Rings.”
Anne Cirella-Urrutia, Adjunct Professor at the University of Huston-Tillitson, Austin, USA: “Places of Memory and Memory of Places in bande dessinée: Re-Enchanting (Sub)urban Spaces in Davodeau & F. Jacquet’s Jeanne de la zone (2014) and Guy Delisle’s Shenzen (2000).”
Esther Laso y Leon, Professeure à l’Université d’Alcala, Madrid, Espagne : « Quand les ogres et les princesses s’inquiètent de ce qu’ils mangent : détournement écologique des contes. »
Panel 20 (Amphi Y, UPVD)
Chair: Scott Slovic, University of Idaho
Emanuela Ettorre, Associate Professor at the University of Chieti, Pescara Italy: “‘Uplifted above love and hate’: Isabella Lucy Bird and the Experience of the Rocky Mountains.”
Amy Player, PhD Student at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland: “Rewriting Wildness in Robert Macfarlane’s The Wild Places.”
Tom Lynch, Professor at the University of Nebraska, USA: “Eco-memoir, Belonging, and the Settler-Colonial Poetics of Place Identity.”
Panel 21 (Amphi A2)
Chair: Pascale Amiot, Université de Perpignan
Catherine Hoffmann, Associate Professor at the University of Le Havre, France: “At Ground Level: Narratorial Ecology and Economy in Dermot Healy’s Long Time No See.”
Caitlin Maling, PhD Student at the University of Sydney, Australia: “Is an Ecopastoral Possible?: Pastoral in the Work of Stafford and Stow.”
Aldo Gennaï, Docteur et enseignant à l’ESPE de Nimes, France : « Harmonie cosmique et chant poétique dans la poésie pastorale française de la Renaissance. »
12h30-14h00 Pause déjeuner/Lunch break (Restaurant Universitaire, UPVD)
14h00-15h00 Séance Plénière / Keynote session (Amphi 3, UPVD)
Wendy Harding, Professor at the University of Toulouse, France: “Aesthetic Choices for the Anthropocene Era.”
Chair: Scott Slovic, University of Idaho
15h00-16h30 Ateliers parallèles / Parallel sessions
Panel 22 (Amphi A1, UPVD)
Chair: Bénédicte Meillon, Université de Perpignan
Nancy S. Cook, Professor at the University of Montana, Missoula, USA: “A Different Kind of Enchantment: Writers and Working Landscapes.”
Matthew McClelland, Professor at the University of New York, USA: “The Enchantments and Disenchantments of Promissory Materialism: Science Writing Nature in the Visionary Mode.”
Joshua Mabie, Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, USA: “The New British Nature Writing: MacFarland, MacDonald, and Lewis-Stempel.”
Panel 23 (Amphi A3, UPVD))
Chair : Anne Chamayou, Université de Perpignan
Gwenola Caradec, Professeure Adjointe à Grinnell College, Iowa, USA: « La terre en mots, ou quels atouts pour une approche poétique du monde ? »
Roberta Sapino, Doctorante à l’University de Turin, Italie: « ‘Un enfant des vagues et du cri des mouettes’ : compénétrations de l’homme et de la nature dans l’œuvre d’André Pieyre de Mandiargues (1909-1991). »
Panel 24 (Amphi A2, UPVD)
Chair: Pascale Amiot, Université de Perpignan
Rachel Nisbet, PhD Student at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland: “Anna Livia’s EcoPoetics.”
George Piggford Associate Professor at the University of Stonehill College, Easton, USA: “Flannery O’Connor’s Catholic Ecology and “The Mass on the World.”
Michael Emerson, Professor at Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, USA: “Reverie, Memory, and the Poetics of Place in Sebald and Bonnefoy.
Panel 25 (Amphi Y, UPVD)
Chair: Jocelyn Dupont, Université de Perpignan
David Lloyd, PhD, Writer and Professor at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York, USA: “On the Border Between Human-Dominated and Nature-Dominated Spaces: A Poetry Reading with Commentary”
John M. Menaghan, Professor at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles: “Out of Place: A Poetry Reading with Commentary”
16h30-17h00 Pause café / Coffee break
17h00- 18h30 Lectures et dialogue avec le public / Readings and discussion with the audience (Amphi 3, UPVD)
Pierre-Yves Touzot : Romancier et réalisateur français/French novelist and movie director.
Présentation et lecture en anglais par Bénédicte Meillon / Presentation and reading in English by Bénédicte Meillon, Université de Perpignan.
19h30-23h00
Banquet / Conference Dinner: Le Clos des Lys, Perpignan.
Samedi 25 juin / Saturday, June 25th
(Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, – UPVD)
9h30-11h00 Ateliers parallèles / Parallel sessions
Panel 26 (Amphi A3 UPVD)
Chair: Bénédicte Meillon, Université de Perpignan
Carmen Flys Junquera, Professor at the Franklin Institute / University of Alcalá, Madrid- Research funded by HAR2015-67472-C2-2-R (MINECO/FEDER)”: “Listening and Seeing Nature: Mutual Discovery and Disclosure.”
Ansul Rao, Assistant Professor at Bhagini Nivedita College, University of Delhi, India: “Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior: A Lesson in Ecological Humility.”
Matilde Martín González, Associate Professor at the University of La Laguna, Tenerife: “Lorine Niedecker’s Poetics of Cyclic Renewal: The Material-Semiotic Perspective in ‘Wintergreen Ridge.’ ”
Panel 27 (Amphi Y, UPVD)
Chair: Jocelyn Dupont, Université de Perpignan
Elise Domenach, Chercheuse à l’ENS de Lyon, France : « Ecopoétique cinématographique : La présence du monde à l’écran dans trois films japonais sur la catastrophe du 11 mars 2011. »
Peter Schulman, Professor at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA: “‘Acoustic Shadows’: Civil War Spaces in Contemporary Song and Poetry.”
Panel 28 (Amphi A2, UPVD)
Chair: Hélène Guillaume, Université de Perpignan
Meg Brayshaw, PhD Student at the University of Western Sydney, Australia: “Reading the Stream: Water as Matter and Meaning in Christina Stead’s Seven Poor Men of Sydney (1934).”
Caroline Durand-Rous, PhD Student at the University of Perpignan, France: “Flowing with the Stream : Real and Magical Waters in Joseph Boyden’s Through Black Spruce.”
Anchitha Krishna, PhD Student at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India: “Narrating the saga of land and water: Contamination, Community life and Environmental Justice in Sarah Joseph’s Gift in Green.”
11h00-11h30 Pause café
11h30- 12h30 Séance plénière / Keynote session (Amphi 3, UPVD)
Scott Slovic, Professor at the University of Idaho, USA: “Enchanting the Earth’s Data with Meaning: Information and Emotion Channeled through Environmental Literature and Art.”
Chair: Wendy Harding, University of Toulouse.
12h30-14h00 Pause déjeuner / Lunch break (Restaurant Universitaire, UPVD)
14h00-15h30 Ateliers parallèles / Parallel sessions
Panel 29 (Amphi A3, UPVD)
Chair : Hélène Guillaume, Université de Perpignan
Jeanne Burgart Goutal, Doctorante à l’Université de la Sorbonne, Paris-4, France : « Penser différemment » : le défi du langage écoféministe. »
Antonia Navarro Tejero, Professor at the University of Córdoba, Spain: “Ancestral Nature, Tribal Bodies: An Ecofeminist Approach to Northeastern Indian poet Mamang Dai.”
Margot Lauwers, PhD, University of Perpignan: “‘Oh how brilliant, I have just added aesthetic sensitivity […] as way to save the world.’” Ellen Meloy or How to Reinhabit the ‘Empty’ Desert.”
Panel 30 (Amphi Y, UPVD)
Chair: Jocelyn Dupont, Université de Perpignan
Randall Roorda, Professor at the University of Kentucky, USA: “Everyone is Absorbed: Enchanting Substance in VanderMeer’s Southern Reach.”
Judith Rauscher, PhD Student at the University of Bamberg, Germany: “Paying the Price for an Impossible Love: Etel Adnan’s Defiant Ecopoetics of Hope.”
Kaitlyn Willy, PhD Student at the University of North Texas, USA: “Dystopian Fiction: Re-Enchanting Agriculture in the Post-Apocalyptic World.”
Panel 31 (Amphi A1, UPVD)
Chair: Thomas Pughe, Université d’Orléans
Lee Schweninger, Professor at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, USA: “‘Where language touches the earth’: Need, Naming, and Knowledge.”
Wes Berry, Associate Professor at the University of Western Kentucky, USA: “Singing the Body Electrified, or Poetics of the Bardo from Walt Whitman to Gretel Ehrlich.”
Miriam Potter, PhD Student at the University of la Sorbonne, Paris, France: “Nature and Creation in Patrick White’s The Cockatoos: Shorter Novels and Stories.”
15h30- 16h00 Pause café/Coffee break
16h00-16h30 Quelques mots de clôture / Closing Words (Amphi 3, UPVD)
An easy hike taking you near Collioure will be organized on the Sunday following the conference. There will also be time for swimming and snorkeling, for those interested in the area’s beautiful marine life. Participants not keen on hiking will still be welcome to come and spend the day relaxing and enjoying the beautiful town of Collioure. Buses are provided by the conference.You can plan to eat out in Collioure or bring a sandwich or packed lunch if going on the hike.
Une randonnée de niveau très accessible sera organisée le dimanche après le colloque, au départ de Collioure et menant à travers les vignes et dans les montagnes. Il y aura également le temps de nager et d’explorer les fonds-sous-marins. Les conférenciers souhaitant simplement profiter d’une journée de détente pourront passer la journée à Collioure. Le colloque vous offre le bus pour le trajet. Vous pouvez prévoir de déjeuner sur Collioure, ou de porter un pique-nique pour ceux qui viendront faire la randonnée.