SDN_2007_Programme

1.00-2.15 – Welcome to the conference by the President, followed
by
Plenary 1 (AU)
Rosemary Lloyd (Indiana University) –
‘The Crocodiles of Caen: Rhetoric and Power’
(Chaired by Sonya Stephens, Indiana University)
2.15-3.55 – Parallel panels 1-3
FIFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
INSTITUTIONS AND POWER/INSTITUTIONS ET POUVOIR
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
27th – 29th March 2007
Abbreviations:
DH – Dining Hall
AU – Auditorium
AUF – Auditorium Foyer
TR – Trust Room (Hall building)
GCLT – Gordon Cameron Lecture Theatre (Wilson Court)
GR – Gaskoin Room (Hall building)
RR – Reddaway Room (Hall building)
Tuesday 27th March
From 11.30 – Registration (AUF)
(Lunch – own arrangements)
Panel 1 – Celebrating J.-K. Huysmans (1848–1907) (AU)
Chair: Robert Lethbridge (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge)
Gilles Bonnet (Jean Moulin-Lyon III) –
‘La vengeance du critique masqué’
Philippe Barascud (Paris-IV-Sorbonne) –
‘Huysmans et les “fonctionnaires lettrés” du ministère’
Jean-Marie Seillan (Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis) –
‘Institutions et pouvoirs occultes : Huysmans et l’imaginaire
conspirationniste’
Panel 2 – The power of the mind/Legal freedom and control
(TR)
Chair: Lucy Garnier (St. John’s College, Oxford)
Alistair Swiffen (Hertford College, Oxford) –
‘Nerval beyond shrinkage in the age of shrinks: Perspectives on
reading Aurélia with and without the asylum’
Barbara Giraud (Oxford Brookes University) –
‘Du déraisonnable à l’irraisonnable : La Fille Elisa (1877)
d’Edmond de Goncourt’
Andrew Counter (Christ’s College, Cambridge) –
‘“Sain d’esprit”: The notary as analyst in the fiction of Guy de
Maupassant’
Briana Lewis (Grinnell College, Iowa) –
‘Javert: identity and the rule of law’
Chair: Claudine Grossir (IUFM de Paris, UMR LIRE, CNRS/Lyon
II)
Sarah Juliette Sasson (Columbia University) –
‘Justice institutionnelle et justice surnaturelle dans Ursule Mirouët’
Claudie Bernard (New York University) –
‘Justice institutionnelle et Justice idéale dans Les Mystères de
Paris d’Eugène Sue’
Dominique Jullien (University of California, Santa Barbara) –
‘Travestissement et contre-pouvoir dans le roman populaire’
Panel 3 – Politico-poetics (GCLT)
Chair: David Evans (University of Saint Andrews)
Helen Abbott (University of Wales Bangor) –
‘Politics or poetics? The battle cry of the refrain in Villiers de l’IsleAdam’s Vox populi’
Bradley Stephens (University of Bristol) –
‘Victor Hugo, Charles Renouvier, and the Empowerment of the
Poet-Philosopher’
Patrick M. Bray (Indiana University) –
‘Prose Poses: Prose as Oppositional Space in Nerval and
Baudelaire’
3.55-4.20 – Refreshment break (AUF)
4.20-6.00 – Parallel panels 4-6
Panel 4 – Retribution and Institution (GCLT)
Goran Blix (Princeton University) –
‘Popular Heroes, Public Virtue, and the Prix Montyon’
Panel 5 – Visual and cultural identities (GR)
Chair: Tim Unwin (University of Bristol)
Juliet Simpson (Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College) –
‘Whose History? Art, History and the Nation State in Early Third
Republic France’
Janice Best (Acadia University) –
‘Les hommes de bronze de la Troisième République :
commémoration ou oubli de l’histoire?’
Claire O’Mahony (Kellogg College, Oxford) –
‘Administering regional identity: the bureaucratic and aesthetic
battles for the re-decoration of Toulouse’s Capitole’
Katherine Shingler (University of Bristol) –
‘Word-Image Power Struggles in the Fin de siècle: The Case of
Maurice Denis’
Wednesday 28th March
Panel 6 – The institutionalised body and the birth of modern
medicine (TR)
Chair: Lisa Downing (University of Exeter)
7.45 – 8.45 – Breakfast (DH)
9.00-10.20 – Parallel panels 7-9
Jann Matlock (University College London) –
‘Anatomy in Beauty’s Empire: Teaching Women the Body in early
Nineteenth-Century France’
Panel 7 – Revolutions and the construction of national
identity (GR)
Chair: Bradley Stephens (University of Bristol)
Geoffrey Wall (University of York)/ Malcolm Colledge (University
of Leeds) –
‘The Other Flaubert: Achille-Cleophas, 1782-1846’
Damian Catani (New Hall, Cambridge) –
‘The French Revolution: Historical necessity or historical evil?
Terror and Slavery in Hugo’s Quatre-vingt treize and Confiant’s
L’archet du colonel’
Stéphane Zékian (Paris-IV-Sorbonne) –
‘Pouvoir littéraire et pouvoir médical : les enjeux de la Science de
l’Homme au début du XIXe siècle’
Francesco Manzini (King’s College London) –
‘Doctors, Priests, Magistrates: Cabanis, Stendhal and the Power
of Medical Practitioners’
6.00-6.45 – AGM (AU)
6.45-7.30 – Self-service Buttery Dinner (DH)
8.00-9.15 – Plenary 2 (AU)
Robert Lethbridge (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge) – ‘Reading
between the disciplines: Manet and the power of art’
(Chaired by Tim Unwin, University of Bristol)
Anne-Emmanuelle Demartini (Université Paris VII-Denis Diderot)
–
‘Le pouvoir de la représentation : écriture pittoresque et
construction de la nation dans la série provinciale des Français
peints par eux-mêmes’
Karine Varley (University of Edinburgh) –
‘Heroes and scapegoats: The post-1871 national recovery and the
French army’
Panel 8 – Institutions and the artist (TR)
Chair: Rosemary Lloyd (Indiana University)
Sonya Stephens (Indiana University, Bloomington) –
‘Auguste Rodin, or the institutionalisation of the self as artist’
Alexandra K. Wettlaufer (University of Texas at Austin) –
‘Painting Artistic Identity: Gender and the Institutions of Power in
the Atelier’
Janine Gallant (Université de Moncton) –
‘Dénonciation de l’institutionnalisation de l’art : deux figures
d’artistes dans l’œuvre romanesque de Stendhal’
Panel 9 – Education and learning (GCLT)
Chair: Susan Harrow (University of Sheffield)
Scott A. Gavorsky (Emory University) –
‘L’État comme propriétaire: Schools as property in NineteenthCentury France’
Mary Orr (University of Southampton) –
‘The Education Cabinet: the space of the Museum as showcase of
new forms of thinking’
Aude Campmas (Université Paris VII-Denis Diderot) –
‘La norme discriminante : les discours naturalistes comme
discours tératogènes’
Laurence M. Porter (Michigan State University) –
‘Loser Wins: Paradoxical Roles of the Fictional NineteenthCentury Convent as a Site of Women’s Autonomy’
Máire Cross (Newcastle University) –
‘L'autorité politique de Flora Tristan: le pouvoir de la femme de
lettres’
Gabrielle Hirchwald-Melison (ATILF Nancy Université CNRS) –
‘Les femmes dans les antichambres du pouvoir chez Alphonse
Daudet et Anthony Trollope’
Elisabeth Ladenson (Columbia University) –
‘Not Balzac’
Panel 11 – A history of political and economical power (GR)
Chair: Scott A. Gavorsky (Emory University)
Matthijs Lok (University of Amsterdam) –
‘An administrative rite de passage: The construction of new ties of
loyalty between the restored Bourbon monarchy and the former
Napoleonic administrative elite, 1814-1820’
Nicolas Gallois (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) –
‘L’Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques et les
connaissances économiques au XIXe siècle : un pouvoir absolu ?’
10.20-10.40 – Refreshment break (AUF)
10.40-12.20 – Parallel panels 10-13
Panel 10 – Gender and sexuality (AU)
Chair: Nigel Harkness (Queen’s University Belfast)
Alexandre Niess (Comité d’Histoire Politique et Parlementaire) –
‘Les élus de la République : parlementaires et élus locaux de la
Marne à l’aube de la Troisième République (1870-1893)’
Panel 12 – The Church and anticlericalism (TR)
Chair: Máire Cross (Newcastle University)
Corinne Caliri-Gros (University of Sheffield ) –
‘L’abbé Faujas ou le pouvoir de la marge chez Zola’
Lisa Downing (University of Exeter) –
‘Institutionalizing Unreason: The Nightmare, Alienism, and
Masculinity’
Nathalie Aubert (Oxford Brookes University) –
‘Banque et religion dans L’Évangéliste d’Alphonse Daudet’
Jessica Benson (St. John’s College, Oxford) –
‘Institutional Metaphors, Metaphorical Institutions: power struggles
between alienism and literature’
Julia Przybos (City University of New York) –
‘Vivre ou prier : le vitalisme et le catholicisme dans L’Ami Fritz
d’Erckmann-Chatrian’
Michael Finn (Ryerson University, Toronto) –
‘The Power of the Paranormal: Doctors, Scientists and the
Beyond at the Fin-de-Siècle’
Isabelle de Vendeuvre (Université de Reims) –
‘Proust et l’Église’
Panel 13 – Derision and insubordination (GCLT)
Chair: Frédéric Canovas (Arizona State University)
Anca Mitroi (Brigham Young University) –
‘Le grand pouvoir des impuissants’
Ben Fisher (University of Wales Bangor) –
‘Alfred Jarry and the Army: Insubordination, Humour and
Ambiguity’
12.20-1.20 – Self-service Buttery Luncheon (DH)
1.20-3.00 – Parallel panels 14-16
Panel 14 – Psychiatry and alienism (AU)
Chair: Clive Thomson (University of Western Ontario)
Panel 15 – Alterity and power (GCLT)
Chair: Damian Catani (New Hall, Cambridge)
Dorian Bell (University of Pennsylvania) –
‘Frontiers of Hate: Anti-Semitism and Empire in Édouard
Drumont’s La France juive’
Leonard R. Koos (University of Mary Washington) –
‘Razzia in Stone: Building Colonial Algiers, 1830-1900’
Heather Williams (University of Wales Centre for Advanced
Welsh and Celtic Studies) –
‘The power of nature over Brittany and Bretonness’
Chantal Morel (Institut Français du Royaume-Uni/Émile Zola
Society) –
‘La ville dans les Rougon-Macquart’
Panel 16 – Institutions of reading and writing (TR)
Chair: Kate Griffiths (University of Wales Bangor)
‘Power to the young?: Balzac’s jeunocratie, from Une fille d’Ève to
Z. Marcas’
Anne E. McCall (Tulane University) –
‘Ruling out Poetic Inversions: Benjamin Constant, Louise Colet,
and the Epistolary Privacy of Public Men’
Elisabeth Gerwin (University of Lethbridge) –
‘Power in the City: Balzac’s flâneur’
Susan Harrow (University of Sheffield) –
‘Elisions and Repetitions: Zola and the Institution of Reading’
Elina Absalyamova (Paris-IV - MSU Lomonossov) –
‘French literary works versus Russian censorship in the 19th
Century’
3.00-3.20 – Refreshment break (AUF)
3.20-4.20 – Plenary 3 (AU)
Nicole Mozet (Paris VII) –
‘Balzac, théoricien du pouvoir absolu et romancier du chaos postrévolutionnaire’
(Chaired by Michael Tilby, Selwyn College, Cambridge)
4.20-6.00 – Parallel panels 17-19
Susanna Goldschmidt (Clare College, Cambridge) –
‘“Un homme qui se charge d’aller toujours en ligne droite [est] un
niais qui croit à l’infaillibilité”: The (dis)empowerment of
monomania in Balzac’s Comédie humaine’
Panel 18 – Colonisation, orientalism, eroticism (GCLT)
Chair: Mary Ann Caws (City University of New York)
Shaw Smith (Davidson College, North Carolina) –
‘The Orientalisms of Le Tigre, Eugène Delacroix: L’Indoustan
français and Virtual Orientalism’
Juliana Starr (University of New Orleans) –
‘The Mummy’s Revenge: Hegemonic Violence in Gautier’s
Egyptian Tales’
Peter Turberfield (Toho University, Japan) –
‘Sexual Exploitation and Empowerment: Reversal of the Roles of
Colonised and Coloniser in the Works of Pierre Loti’
Panel 17 – Power dynamics in Balzac’s work (AU)
Chair: Nicole Mozet (Paris VII)
Brigitte Méra (I.S.C. Paris/Paris-IV-Sorbonne) –
‘Balzac et la muse démocratique’
Andrew Watts (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) –
Panel 19 – Music: institutions and performance (TR)
Chair: Helen Abbott (University of Wales Bangor)
Maud Pouradier (Université Paris X-Nanterre) –
‘La musique disciplinée : le contrôle de la musique dans les
conservatoires français au XIXe siècle’
Rae Beth Gordon (Paris-8) –
‘The Power of the Parisian Music-Hall in the European Imaginary’
Catherine Authier (Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-enYvelines) –
‘De la courtisane à la diva : le métier de cantatrice face aux
institutions dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle’
6.30-7.30 – Vin d’honneur (RR)
7.30-10.00 – Gala Conference Dinner (DH)
Thursday 29th March
Cassandra Hamrick (Saint Louis University) –
‘Beyond Institutions: in Search of le souffle moderne in Gautier’s
Salon de 1844’
Panel 21 – Weddings and marriage (GCLT)
Chair: Nick White (Emmanuel College, Cambridge)
Catherine Hewitt (RHUL/Courtauld Institute of Art) –
'The Most Public of Private Rites: The Wedding Ceremony in 19thcentury French Literature and Art'
Scott Sprenger (BYU-Utah) –
‘Death by Marriage in Balzac’s Comédie humaine’
Isabelle Michelot (Paris-IV-Sorbonne) –
‘Le mariage au vaudeville, satire ou exutoire ?’
7.45 – 8.45 – Breakfast (DH)
9.00-10.20 – Parallel panels 20-22
Panel 20 – The politics of art criticism (AU)
Chair: Juliet Simpson (Buckinghamshire Chilterns University
College)
Peter Cooke (University of Manchester) –
‘Counter-criticism: the painter versus the critic in nineteenthcentury France’
Thierry Laugée (Paris-IV-Sorbonne) –
‘Le métier de critique d’art à l’aube du romantisme, une stratégie
politique ?’
Panel 22 – Political theology (GR)
Chair: Brigitte Méra (I.S.C. Paris/Paris-IV-Sorbonne)
Blaise Bachofen (Université de Cergy-Pontoise) –
‘La croyance contre le pouvoir : La Religion de B. Constant, une
théologie politique libérale’
Jim Hiddleston (Exeter College, Oxford) –
‘Mystification and the Mysteries of Motive: Some thoughts on
Augustinian theology and interpretative undecidability in
Baudelaire’
Daniel S. Larangé (Paris 3 Sorbonne-Nouvelle) –
‘Un aspect de la théologie politique de Victor Hugo : Une lecture
du “Pape” (1878)’
‘Pouvoir et résistance dans le monde médical et dans la littérature
des années 1880 : l’exemple de Charcot et Rachilde’
10.20-10.40 – Refreshment break (AUF)
10.40-12.20 – Parallel panels 23-25
Panel 23 – 1829, the romantic battle (GR)
Chair: Shaw Smith (Davidson College, North Carolina)
Michelle Cheyne (University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth) –
‘Storming the Stage in 1829: The Critical Battle over the “Drame
romantique” in France’
Benjamin Walton (Jesus College, Cambridge) –
‘Musical Effects and Effective Music in 1829’
Margaret MacNamidhe (University of Chicago) –
‘Strained, time-ridden painting: Eugène Delacroix at the close of
the Restauration’
Panel 24 – Sex, power and repression (GCLT)
Chair: Elisabeth Ladenson (Columbia University)
Lucy Garnier (St. John’s College, Oxford) –
‘“La femme par M. de Stdl” : discours médical et sexualité
féminine’
Frédéric Canovas (Arizona State University) –
‘De l’onanisme : discours institutionnels et alternatives
individuelles’
Clive Thomson (University of Western Ontario) –
Panel 25 – The power of the press (TR)
Chair: Floriane Place-Verghnes (University of Manchester)
Claudine Grossir (IUFM de Paris, UMR LIRE, CNRS/Lyon II) –
‘Les Mystères de Paris, laboratoire de réformes sociales’
Wendelin Guentner (University of Iowa) –
‘The Power of the Press: The Journalist as Memorialist and
Moralist in Jules Claretie’s “La Vie à Paris” (1880-1913)’
Alison Lam (Université Dalhousie, Halifax) –
‘L’arriviste et la Vie française : l’ambition et le pouvoir de la presse
dans Bel-Ami’
Brigitte Mahuzier (Bryn Mawr) –
‘SREVID TIAF/FAIT DIVERS : Écrire l’Histoire sur un carré de
gruyère’
12.20-1.20 – Self-service Buttery Luncheon (DH)