Dear readers,
we are delighted to forward the final programme of the conference organised by Prof. Christophe GELLY (Université de Clermont Auvergne) and Emilie LAURENT (PhD Université de Clermont Auvergne), under the aegis of ECHELLES UMR 8225 and CELIS 4280, with the support of the IVLS. Looking forward to meeting with you for this exciting event, Bâtiment Olympe de Gouge, 8 place Paul Ricoeur, Paris. For information about the event, please contact vernonleeintermediality@gmail.com
Programme
DAY 1: September 18
9:00: Welcome
9:30 – 12:00: Panel One: Aesthetic debates and intellectual exchanges || Débats esthétiques et échanges intellectuels
Eduardo De Maio (University of York), “Violet Paget and Telemaco Signorini: mutual friendship and promotion in Florence at the fin de siècle”
Claire McKeown & Kerstin Wiedemann (Université de Lorraine), “Vernon Lee et Irene Forbes Mosse : un dialogue épistolaire autour des arts et la modernité”
Michel Prum (Université Paris Cité), “Vernon Lee and the Darwinian Legacy”
Ingrid Hanson (University of Manchester), “Satan the Waster, Metastasio and Patriotism’s ‘great symphonies’”
Ruth Thrush (University of Oxford), title tba — dealing with The Ballet of the Nations
12:00 – 14:00: Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00: Keynote by Catherine Maxwell (Manchester University): “Preserving the Renaissance: Vernon Lee’s ‘A Wedding Chest’”
15:30—17:30: Panel Two: Intermedial practices || Pratiques intermédiales
Michele Brugnetti (Sapienza University), “Hearts and Brushstrokes: The Legacy of Pre-Raphaelite Art in Oke of Okehurst and the Morris-Rossetti-Jane Triangle”
Hal Gladfelder (University of Manchester), “‘Curious’: Vernon Lee and John Singer Sargent in the Music Archives”
Stefanie John (Technische Universität Braunschweig), “Lee’s Tapestries: Textiles as Vibrant Matter in ‘Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady’”
Elizabeth Howard (University of Oregon), “Queer Aesthetic Experience in Vernon Lee’s ‘Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady’”
DAY 2: September 19
9:00—10:30: Panel Three: Re-readings and re-writings || Relectures et réécritures
Zaynub Zaman (University of Manchester), “‘I found myself in the forest, drawn to its heart and its mysteries’: representations of infernal anxieties in Dante’s Inferno, D.G. Rossetti’s How They Met Themselves (1864) and Vernon Lee’s The Enchanted Woods”
Nicole Fluhr (Southern Connecticut State University), “’There is a legend about her’: (a)e(s)th(et)ics and representation in Vernon Lee’s ‘The Legend of Madame Krasinska’”
Patricia Pulham (University of Surrey), “Madonnas and Venuses: Emotion and Eroticism in Vernon Lee’s Queer Aestheticism”
10:30: break
11:00 – 12:00: Keynote by Sophie Geoffroy (Université de la Réunion), “La correspondance de Vernon Lee : genèse et hybridation intermédiale d’une œuvre européenne”/ Vernon Lee’s Letters: genesis and intermedial hybridization of a European oeuvre
12:00 – 14:00: Lunch Break
14:00 – 16:00: Panel Four: Aesthetic Theories || Théories esthétiques
Orsolya Albert (KU Leuven), “TheClassical Conception of Beauty and Mens Sana in Corpore Sano in Vernon Lee’s Philosophy of Art”
Thomas Albrecht (Tulane University), “Vernon Lee’s Aesthetics of Empathy: ‘The Legend of Madame Krasinska’ and ‘The Doll’”
Andrew Smith (University of Sheffield), “Empathy and aesthetics: Gothic misreading”
Stéphanie Tonnel (independent researcher), “Intermedial dialogue: the text-image relationship through Hauntings’ female characters”
