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Southern Horrors. The Dark Side of the Mediterranean
Les horreurs du Sud
Alternative perspectives on the Mediterranean world in North Europe and America
Autres regards sur le monde méditerranéen en Europe du Nord et en Amérique
Published on lundi, avril 02, 2012
Summary
Announcement
Programme :
Jeudi 19 Avril 2012 (Après-midi)
Bibliothèque universitaire. Salle des conférences
Présidents de séance : Gilbert Bonifas et Françoise Lapraz (Université Nice-Sophia Antipolis)
14h00: Accueil des participants
14h30: Ouverture du colloque par M. le Doyen de la Faculté des Lettres de Nice.
- 14h45-15h05. Françoise Lapraz, Université Nice-Sophia Antipolis : Italian Horrors in Two Novels by Ann Radcliffe: A Sicilian Romance (1790) and The Italian (1797).
- 15h05-15h25. Céline Rodenas, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III) : The Horrors of Catholicism in Matthew Gregory Lewis’s The Monk (1795), William Henry Ireland’s The Abbess (1799) and Edward Montague’s The Demon of Sicily (1807).
15h25-15h40. Questions.
- 15h40-16h00. Fernando Clara, Universidade Nova de Lisboa : The Streets of Lisbon. Late 18th Century Science Between the Scylla of People and the Charybdis of Nature.
- 16h00-16h20. Judit Kiraly, The English-American Library of Nice : Unbelievable Horrors on the Riviera. Perceptions of Nice in the Writings on Nineteenth-Century Winter Visitors.
16h20-16h35. Questions.
16h35-16h55. Pause café.
- 16h55-17h15. Luisa Villa, Università di Genova : The ‘Denshawai horrors’. Men of Letters and Anti-Imperialist Debate in the Early Twentieth Century.
- 17h15-17h35. A. Tylor Brand, The American University of Beirut : Years of Horror. The American Experience of the Famine of World War I in Lebanon and Western Syria.
17h35-17h50. Questions.
- 17h50-18h10. Alice Salvatore, Università di Genova : The Mediterranean People in Marmaduke Pickthall’s Oriental Novels: Perfect Symbiosis or Ambiguous Instability?
18h10-18h20. Questions.
Vendredi 20 Avril 2012 (Matin)
Bibliothèque universitaire. Salle des conférences
Présidente de séance : Martine Monacelli (Université Nice-Sophia Antipolis)
- 9h15- 9h55. Keynote lecture. Roderick Cavaliero, British Council : Machiavelli’s Chickens Come to Roost.
9h55-10h10. Questions.
10h10-10h30. Pause café.
- 10h30-10h50. Luc Racaut, University of Newcastle : The Albigensian Crusade and the Perception of the Catholic ‘South’ in Reformation England.
- 10h50-11h10. Christophe Camard, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI): From the Italian Novella to Shakespeare and Jonson : the Representations of Italian Horrors on the Elizabethan Stage.
11h10-11h25. Questions.
- 11h25-11h45. Malcolm Gee, University of Northumbria at Newcastle: Rome as the Enemy – Anti-Clerical Themes and Images in the Work of the Surrealists.
11h45-11h55. Questions.
11h55- 14h15. Déjeuner.
Vendredi 20 Avril 2012 (Après-midi)
Bibliothèque universitaire. Salle des conférences
Président de séance : Christian Gutleben (Université Nice-Sophia Antipolis)
- 14h15-14h35. Antoine Capet, Université de Rouen : Winston Churchill and the Horrors of Gallipoli, 1915.
14h35-14h45. Questions.
- 14h45-15h05. Tim Kirk, University of Newcastle : ‘Vienna belongs to Europe, but Asia starts on the Landstrasse’ (Metternich). Central European Perceptions of the Wild South-East.
- 15h05-15h25. Jean-Claude Sergeant, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III) : When Gladstone and William Thomas Stead Campaigned against the Bulgarian Horrors.
15h25-15h40. Questions.
15h40-16h00. Pause café.
- 16h00- 16h20. Alda Correia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa : Bandoleros, Smugglers and Robbers – Spanish Horrors and the Hybrid Genesis of the Short Story in Washington Irving’s The Alhambra.
- 16h20-16h40. Maria Antonia Lopez-Burgos, Universidad de Granada : Travellers’ Nightmares: Filthy Inns, Bedbugs, Brigands and Beggars in the Narratives of British and American Travellers in Spain from the Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century.
16h40-16h55. Questions.
- 16h55-17h15. Daniel Royot, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III) : To Hell and Back : Mark Twain’s Pilgrimage across the Mare Nostrum.
17h15-17h25. Questions.
17h40. Apéritif offert aux membres du colloque.
Samedi 21 Avril 2012 (Matin)
Salle du Conseil de la Faculté des Lettres
Président de séance : Malcolm Gee (University of Northumbria)
- 9h15-9h35. Susan Oliver, University of Essex : Melancholia and Horror in Romantic Greece: British Reviews of John Keats’s Lamia and John Polidori’s The Vampyre.
- 9h35-9h55. Christine Reynier, Université de Montpellier III : The Mediterranean as a Land of Trauma. A Reading of Joseph Conrad’s The Rover.
9h55-10h10. Questions.
10h10-10h30. Pause café.
- 10h30-10h50. Paul Barlow, University of Northumbria at Newcastle : ‘The most degraded of them all’: Nordicist Race-Theorists and the Horrors of the Southern Race.
- 10h50-11h10. Neil Davie, Université de Lyon II : ‘Inconsistent with the Ordinary English Phlegmatic Nature’? Violent Crime and Attitudes to Mediterranean Defendants in the English Courts, c.1830-1900”.
11h10-11h25. Questions.
- 11h25-11h45. Lisa Beaven, La Trobe University, Melbourne : ‘Grave of Graves’: Grand Tourists’ Responses to the Roman Campagna.
- 11h45-12h05. Nathalie Vanfasse, Université d’Aix-Marseille I : Southern Horrors in Charles Dickens’s Pictures from Italy.
12h05-12h20: Questions.
12h20-12h40. Conclusions.
12h40. Déjeuner.
Subjects
Places
- 98 boulevard Edouard Herriot (UFR des Lettres, Arts et Sciences Humaines)
Nice, France
Date(s)
- jeudi, avril 19, 2012
- vendredi, avril 20, 2012
- samedi, avril 21, 2012
Keywords
- représentation, rapports Nord/Sud, Méditerranée, littérature
Contact(s)
- Martine Monacelli
courriel : mmonacelli [dot] faraut [at] aliceadsl [dot] fr - Gilbert Bonifas
courriel : gilbert [dot] bonifas [at] wanadoo [dot] fr
Reference Urls
Information source
- Solen Cozic
courriel : solen [dot] cozic [at] univ-cotedazur [dot] fr
To cite this announcement
« Southern Horrors. The Dark Side of the Mediterranean », Conference, symposium, Calenda, Published on lundi, avril 02, 2012, https://calenda-formation.labocleo.org/207927