Dear Colleagues,

Please find below the programme for the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes’ Postgraduate Study Day, ‘Sickness and Health’, to be held on 20th September 2008 at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.  The keynote address will be delivered by Prof. Lisa Downing (Exeter).

If you would like to attend the Study Day, please email Emma Bielecki at [log in to unmask] by 4th September.  There will be a registration fee of £5.  

For more information about the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, please see
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Society of Dix-Neuviémistes Postgraduate Study Day: Sickness and Health
IGRS, Saturday 20th September 2008
Programme of Events

10:00 am onwards 		
Registration

10:30-11.30 am
Keynote Address

Lisa Downing	(Exeter): ‘Mal du siècle/maladie du siècle: Gendered Constructions of Sexual Sickness in/of the Nineteenth Century’.

11:45 am -1:00pm 
Panel 1: Medicine as Regulatory Regime: defining the normal and the pathological

Sophie Fuggle (KCL): ‘Sex and Death: Truth Bearers of 19th Century Medical Discourse’.

Muriel Salle (Lyon II): ‘Mises en scène médicales des corps:  Le Musée d’anatomie de la faculté de médecine de Lyon au XIXe siècle’.

Amandine Malivin (Paris VII): ‘La figure du Nécrophile au XIXè siècle’.

1:00 – 2:00 pm		
Lunch



2:00 - 3:15 pm
Panel 2: Discourses of Pathology

Lucy Stone (Manchester):  ‘Rewriting the “poitrinaire romantique”: Tuberculosis, Degeneration, and Desire in Marcelle Tinayre’s L’Ombre de l’amour’.

Elizabeth Geary (Trinity, Dublin): ‘Fervour and fever in the desert: Gide’s El Hadj (1899)’.
				
Robert  Priest (Oxford): ‘From Transcendental Disdain to Paralytic Dementia: History, Psychology and Pathology in Renan and Soury’s Lives of Jesus’.

3: 30 – 4:45 pm
Panel 3: Embodied Identities of Self and Other

Melanie Vandenbrouck-Przybylski (Courtauld): ‘Types des races algériennes: French Definitions of Otherness’.
				
Benjamin Bâcle (Aston): ‘Condition de l’individualité, part d’animalité: Maine de Biran et les ambivalences du corps’.

Annika Nickenig (Bochum): ‘Consomption et constitution de soi: la femme phtisique et le journal intime au 19ème siècle en France’. 


5:00 – 6:15 		
Panel 4: Medicine and Aesthetics

Remi Maroger (Montpellier III): ‘La figure du médecin dans la littérature de la seconde moitié du dix-neuvième siècle: art, science, ésotérisme’.

Denis Saint-Amand (Liège): ‘ “D’hideusement beaux rossignols de la boue”: sur quelques médiations oxymoriques de la poésie française de la modernité’. 

Julie Cheminaud (Paris IV): ‘La “pathologie de l’art” au 19ème siècle: de la norme médicale à la norme  esthétique’.

6: 30 pm	
Round Table

with Elena Roosinovich (Imperial College London) and Professor Lisa Downing. 


				




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