English Journeys, Past and Present
Observatoire de l’aire britannique (OAB)
Vendredi, 15 mars 2019
Salle R 14, Bâtiment Ida Maier
Université Paris Nanterre
8.45-9.15 : Accueil
9.15-9.30 : Introduction
9.30-10.00 : Véronique Charrière, Université Paris 6, Pierre et Marie Curie , “Journeying in Selborne – from the haphazard to the whole : Gilbert White, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selbourne, 1789.
10.00-10.30 : Marion Leclair, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, “Radical journeying in the age of revolution: The Peripatetic (1793) of John Thelwall”.
Pause
11.15-11.45 : Lucie Ratail, doctorante, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3—EA IETT, “English journeys, English gardens and Englishness”.
11..45-12.15 Christophe Lebold, (EA SEARCH: 2325), Université de Strasbourg, “Strawberries in the Wasteland or the Art of Going Round in Circles: Spatial Ritournelles , Territorial Magic and English Dandyism in the Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields For Ever.”
Déjeuner
14.15-15.00 : Daniel Gray, Keynote Speaker, “Anywhere But London: Travels in Other Englands”.
15.15-15.45 : Françoise Barret-Ducrocq, Professeur émérite, Université Paris-Diderot, « Plonger dans les bas-fonds . L’exploration des quartiers pauvres de Londres au XIXe siècle ».
15.45-16.15 : Antoine Capet, Université de Rouen, Professeur émérite, “What does Bill Brandt’s Coal-searcher going home to Jarrow tell us about ‘the condition of England’ – or rather ‘the condition of the North’ – in the late 1930s?”.
Pause :
16.30-17.00 : Mathilde Bertrand, EA CLIMAS, Université de Bordeaux, “The nomadic photographer – Photographic journeys across England, from Sir Benjamin Stone to the present”.
17.00-17.30 : Graham Roberts (EA CRPM), Université Paris Nanterre, “Grim up North, Queer down South: Grayson Perry’s (very) English Journey”.
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