Programme > Jeudi 17 Octobre

• 8.30 : Registration
  
  
• 8.45- 9.00 : Welcoming address by Françoise Baillet, Head of the research centre ERIBIA [1]  and Vanessa Guignery, President of the SEAC.
  
  
• 9.00-10.30 : Session 1 - Variations on biofiction (Chair : Georges Letissier)

1.     Ayako Mizuo (Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan), “The Neo-Historical Austen: Sisterhood, Female Autonomy, and the Ethics of Care in Gill Hornby’s Miss Austen”

2.    James Dalrymple (Université Grenoble-Alpes, France), “Spitting image: improvisation, impersonation and ellipsis in Mike Leigh’s Mr Turner (2014)”

3.     Dorothea Flothow (University of Salzburg, Austria), “Detecting the Past to Prevent a Bleak Future:  Philip Kerr’s Friedrich the Great Detective and the Neo-Historical YA Novel”

• 10.30-11.00 : Coffee break
  
  
• 11.00-12.00 : “The historical novel NOW”, Jerome  de Groot, University of Manchester, UK.

• 12.00-13.30 : Lunch  – Table de l'acadiane

• 13.30-15.00: Session 2 - Figures of marginality (chair: Isabelle Roblin)

1.     Siobhan O’Connor (independent scholar), “Men, Moors and Manchester: Masculinity and Post-National Histories in Benjamin Myers’ The Gallows Pole and Ian McGuire’s The Abstainer»

2.     Georges Letissier (Nantes Université, France), “Prurient sapience: Tom Crewe’s genealogy of gay culture in The New Life (2023)”

3.     Peter D. Mathews (University of Macau), “Imogen Hermes Gowar’s The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock: Rethinking the Eighteenth-Century Marriage Plot”

• 15.00-15.30: Coffee break
  
  
• 15.30-17.00 : Session 3 - Art and materialities (Chair: Vanessa Guignery)

1.     Sylvie Maurel (Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, France), “The pressure of history in The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt (2009)”

2.     Jean-Michel Ganteau (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France), “Historical Fiction, Material Realism and the Poetics of the Inventory” 

3.     Chi-min Chang (University of Taipei, Taiwan), “The Space of Light and Shadow in Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World”

• 17.00-18.00 :  Lucy Caldwell, winner of the 2023 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction with These Days.    (Talk, interview, Q&A)
  
  
• 19.30 : Dinner