Hi all,

I thought the programme for this conference might be of interest to the list!

9th -11th October 2013, The Art of Walking: Pedestrian Mobility in Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France



October 9 — p.m.

Plenary session 1

1:45 • Opening of the conference

2. • Plenary lecture

Ian Marshall, Pennsylvania State University. Border Crossings: Walking the Haiku Path on the International Appalachian Trail.



Parallel workshops 1



Urban flâneurs? (1)

Chair: Isabelle Baudino

3.                        • Emmanuelle Peraldo, Saint-Etienne. Walking the Streets of London in the Eighteenth Century: a Performative Art?

3:30 • Catherine Drott, Giessen. Maps from the Mind: Rambling London’s City Streets in the Eighteenth century.

4.                        • Tatiana Pogossian, Paris 7. Walking in Space and Time :
the Quest for London
(Iain Sinclair, Peter Ackroyd and Gilbert & George).





Walking and the Politics of Memory (1).

Chair: Marie Mianowski

3. • Joe Duffy, Manchester. Performative Traces of Traumatic Place.

3:30 • Christian Schmitt-Kilb, Rostock. “In the beginning was the land”: the Poetics of Nature and the Politics of Walking in Recent British Prose.

4. • Bridget Sheridan, Toulouse. Walking, Photography, and Writing.





4:30 Coffee break

 Parallel workshops 2



Urban flâneurs? (2)

Chair: Emmanuelle Peraldo

5.                        • Shao-Hua Wang, St. Hugh's College, Oxford. A Way of One's Own: the Writer Flâneur/se in Baudelaire and Woolf.

5:30                        • Bill Psarras, Goldsmiths. Towards a Twenty-First Century Urban Flâneur: “Botanizing”, “Weaving” and “Tuning” Actions and Senses Through Embodied Media Art Practices.





Poetic and philosophical wanderings (1)

Chair: Klaus Benesch

5 • Mark Riley, Roehampton. Navigating the Forest Path: Using Paul Celan’s Poem Todtnauberg as a Field Guide to Walking the Heidegger Rundweg at Todtnauberg.

5:30 • Andrew S. Gross, Erlangen-Nürnberg. Pound, Peripatetic Verse, and the Postward Liberal Aesthetic.



October 10 — a.m.



Parallel workshops 3



Walking as Pathology? (1)

Chair: Caroline Bertonèche

9. • Ewan J. Jones, Cambridge. John ‘Walking’ Stewart, and the Ethics of Motion.

9:30 • Amanda Klinger, Oklahoma. Nervous London: Pedestrianism and Urban Sensibility in Wordsworth's Book 7 of The Prelude.

10. • Catherine Welter, New Hampshire. A Juggernaut in the Streets of London: Walking as Destructive Force in R.L. Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.





From the Grand Tour to postmodern drifting (1)

Chair: Andrea Rummel

9. • Nicolas Bourgès, Paris-Sorbonne. The Significance of Enoch’s Walking in Four Funeral Sermons (1703-1738).

9:30 • Isabelle Baudino, ENS de Lyon. Textual and Iconographic Representations of Walking in Marianne Colston’s Narrative (1822).

10                        • Andrew Estes, Munich. Walking in a Changing America: A Visit from the Goon Squad.





10:30 Coffee break



Parallel workshops 4



Urban flâneurs? (3)

Chair: Amélie Moisy

11. • Virginia Ricard, Bordeaux. Walking in Wartime: Edith Wharton's “Look of Paris.”

11:30 • Mathieu Perrot, Paris Ouest. Poetics of the passer-by: strolling about the lines in Louis Aragon's Le Paysan de Paris (1926) and Le Traité du style (1928).





From the Grand Tour to Postmodern Drifting (2)

Chair: Mark Riley

11. • Véronique Buyer, Paris 8. Women’s Walking in Four Movies by Michelangelo Antonioni.

11:30 • Sophie Walon, ENS Ulm. Walking to Death in an Indifferent World in Gus Van Sant Cinema: Gerry, Elephant, and Last Days.





October 10 — p.m.





Plenary session 2

2. • Plenary lecture

Tom Pughe, Orléans. How Poetry Comes to Him : An Excursion to Gary Snyder’s Wild Poetics.







Poetic and philosophical wanderings (2)

Chair: François Specq

3. • Catrin Gersdorf, Würzburg. Flânerie as Ecocritical Practice: Henry David Thoreau and Walter Benjamin.

3:30 • Andrew Goodman, Monash. Walking with the World: Towards an Ecological Approach to Performative Art Practice.





4. Coffee break





Parallel Workshops 6





Walking as Pathology? (2)

Chair: Ewan J. Jones

4:30 • Caroline Bertonèche, Grenoble. “Walking Shadows”: Revisiting Some Old Romantic Haunts

5 • Sarah Mombert, ENS de Lyon. Writing Dromomania in the Romantic Era: Nerval, Collins, Charlotte Brontë.

5:30 • Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay, Paris Est. The Art of Walking and the Mindscapes of Trauma in Thomas De Quincey’s Autobiographical Works: the Pains of Wandering, the Pains of Remembering.





Urban flâneurs? (4)

Chair: Gabrielle Finnane

4:30 • Anna MacDonald, Monash. Remembering through the Senses: Walking and the Recovery of Memory in W. G. Sebald’s Peripatetic Narratives.

5. • Karolina Katsika, Besançon. Walk, Feel and Hear: Walking as a Phenomenological Experience in Allerzielen by Cees Nooteboom.





October 11 — a.m.



Parallel Workshops 7



Poetic and philosophical wanderings (3)

Chair: Thomas Pughe

9:30. • Lacy Rumsey, ENS de Lyon. “Hike it and see”: Jonathan Williams, A.R. Ammons and the American “walk poem”.

10. • Daniel Acke, Université libre de Bruxelles. The Poetry of William Cliff and the Meaning of Walking.



Urban flâneurs? (5)

Chair: Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

9:30. • Guilaume Evrard, Edinburgh. Walking in, and out of, the Modern City,
or How Universal Exhibitions Created Flâneurs.

10. • Estelle Murail, Paris 7/ King’s College London. “Du croisement de leurs innombrables rapports”: Baudelaire and De Quincey’s flâneurs.



Urban flâneurs? (6)

Chair: Virginia Ricard

11. •  Amélie Moisy, Paris Est. Thomas Wolfe and the Urban Night Prowl: Walking, Modernism and Myth.

11:30. • Andrew Patten, New South Wales. The Walking Medium: Between the City, the Text, and the Flâneur.







October 11 — p.m.



Parallel Workshops 8



Urban flâneurs (7)

Chair: Andrew Estes

2.                        • Andrea Rummel, Giessen, Germany. The City, the Self and the Real-and-Imagined: Flânerie in Virginia Woolf’s “Street Haunting.”

2:30 • Manila Castoro, Kent, United Kingdom. Undermining the Myth: Why the Street Photographer is not a Flâneur.

3. • Gabrielle Finnane, New South Wales, Australia. Walker in the Megacity.





Walking and the Politics of Memory (2)

Chair: Catrin Gersdorf

2. • Julien Nègre, Paris 7. Thoreau’s Alternative Perambulation: Walking as the Delineation of a Political Spatiality.

2:30. • James Layton, Chester, United Kingdom. Communitas, Ritual, and Transformation in Robert Wilson’s “Walking.”

3. • Marie Mianowski, Nantes. The Art of the ‘Good Step’ in Colm Tóibín’s Bad Blood : A Walk Along the Irish Border (1987).’







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