Université de Toulouse II-Le Mirail (UTM)Laboratoire Cultures Anglo-Saxonnes (CAS, EA – 801)
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Thursday 14 June, 2012
8.15-8.45: Registration8.45-9.00: Welcome speech
Chair: Philippe Birgy (University of Toulouse (UTM))
9.00-9.30: Shannon Delorme (University Paris Diderot/ New College, Oxford), ‘William Carpenter, the “DeepSea” and the Royal Society: Victorian Scientific Narratives of Ocean Discovery (1868–1876)’
9.30-10.00: Loïc Péton (University of West Brittany (UBO), Brest), ‘Azoïc Theories and Sea Monsters during the19th Century’
10.00-10.30: Richard Somerset (University of Lorraine), ‘Into “the Unknown Abyss of Nature’s Laboratory”: TheOceanic Prelude to the Story of Life’
10.30-11.00: Coffee Break
Chair: Hélène Machinal (University of West Brittany, Brest)
11.00-11.30: Julien Delord, ‘Jeanne Villepreux-Power, the Shepherdess who Invented Oceanography’11.30-12.00: Laurence Talairach-Vielmas (University of Toulouse (UTM)), ‘Bringing the Sea to the City: The
Craze for Aquaria and the Popularisation of Marine Life in Victorian England’
12.00-13.30: Lunch Break
13.30–15.00: Visit of the Exhibition ‘Eau, l’Expo’
Chair: S. Romi Mukherjee (IEP, Paris)
15.00-15.30: Philippe Birgy (University of Toulouse (UTM)), ‘Oceanic Feeling and Evolutionism: Abysmal Reasonin Greg Egan’s Oceanic’
15.30-16.00: J. Malcolm Shick (University of Maine), ‘Where Corals Lie’
16.00-16.30: Coffee Break
Chair: Gilles Menegaldo (University of Poitiers)
16.30-17.00: Hélène Machinal (University of West Brittany, Brest), ‘Myth and Science in Doyle’s The MaracotDeep (1929)‘
17.00-17.30: Damien Alcade (University of Toulouse (UTM)), ‘Schooling Fish, Schooling Men: The Influence ofMarine Biology in Steinbeck’s Representation of Group Movement and Leadership’
20.00: Conference Banquet
Friday 15 June, 2012
Chair: Wendy Harding (University of Toulouse (UTM))
9.30-10.00: Hélène Guillaume (University of Perpignan), ‘Monstrous Life Forms in Melville: Whale, Squidand Coral’
10.00-10.30: Mariaconcetta Costantini (G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara), ‘An Arctic Leviathan:Fantasies of Regression and Eco-Gothic Concerns in Dan Simmons’s The Terror’
10.30-11.00: Francesco Marroni (G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara), ‘Stefano D’Arrigo’s HorcynusOrca: A Twentienth-Century Sea Monster Between Mythical Scylla and Charybdis’
11.00-11.30: Coffee Break
Chair: Marie Bouchet (University of Toulouse (UTM))
11.30-12.00: Yvonne Reddick (University of Warwick), ‘“Full Fathom Five”: Sylvia Plath’s Literature of the Lit-toral and the Oceanic’
12.00-12.30: Wendy Harding (University of Toulouse (UTM)), ‘Narwhals and Us’
12.30-14.00: Lunch Break
Chair: Laurence Talairach-Vielmas (University of Toulouse (UTM))
14.00-14.30: Melody Jue (Duke University), ‘Cephalopods and Surrealism in the Fictional Science of VilémFlusser and Jean Painlevé’
14.30-15.00: Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard (University of Toulouse (UTM)), ‘British Early Cinema andScientific Filmmaking: The Camera as Witness and Inventor in Fathoms Deep Beneath theSea (1922)’
15.00-15.30: Gilles Menegaldo (University of Poitiers), ‘Asserting or Blurring the Boundaries: Evolutions in theRepresentation of the Submarine Alien in Creature from the Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold, 1954)and The Abyss (James Cameron, 1989)’
15.30-16.00: Coffee Break
16.00-17.30: Visit of the Toulouse Natural History Museum
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