La représentation des catastrophes naturelles dans la littérature anglaise des XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (2020)
Organisation : Sophie CHIARI
THE REPRESENTATION OF NATURAL DISASTERS IN EARLY MODERN LITERATURE
Provisional programme
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1st
8.30 Formal opening :
Jean-Philippe Luis, Head of Maison des Sciences de L’Homme
Pierre Schiano, Head of the ‘I-Site CAP 20-25’ project and Vice-Président of Université Clermont Auvergne
Sophie Chiari
NATURAL DISASTERS IN HISTORY AND THE HISTORY OF IDEAS
9.00 Keynote : John Gillies (University of Essex) : ‘What was or is a natural disaster ?’
10.00 Julie Vanparys-Rotondi (Université Clermont Auvergne) : ‘Tending one’s own garden : husbandry, weather lore and prognostication in early modern England’
10.30 Isabelle Fernandes (Université Clermont Auvergne) : ‘“This wondrous violent motion” : reading earthquakes in Elizabethan England’
COFFEE BREAK
11.30 Sandhya Patel (Université Clermont Auvergne) : ‘The Royal Society’s transactions with natural disaster in the eighteenth century’
12.00 Laurence Gourievidis (Université Clermont Auvergne) : Phytophthora Infestans, European Famines and heritage.
LUNCH (room 332)
STORMS AND SEA STORMS
14.30 Keynote : Geraldo U. de Sousa (University of Kansas) : ‘Extreme Weather : Shakespeare, natural disaster, and atmospheric phenomena’
15.30 Jean-Jacques Chardin (Université de Strasbourg) : ‘The perception of natural disasters by early modern mythographers’
16.00 Danièle Berton-Charrière (Université Clermont Auvergne) : ‘Man in stormy weathers : tempestuous skies and outbursts in Shakespeare’s times and works’
COFFEE BREAK
17.00 Anna Demoux (Université Clermont Auvergne) : ‘The Art of Navigation by Martín Cortés, a case study’
17.30 Jonathan Pollock (Université de Perpignan – Via Domitia) : ‘The Renaissance commonplace of the storm at sea : Rabelais, Camoes and Shakespeare’
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2nd
ELSEWHERES : FROM SHAKESPEARE TO CLI-FI
9.30 Anne Geoffroy (Université Versailles Saint Quentin) : ‘Aqua alta in Venice from an English perspective’
10.00 Sophie Lemercier-Goddard (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon) : ‘Frozen : journeys to the end of the world’
COFFEE BREAK
11.00 Anne Rouhette (Université Clermont Auvergne) : ‘Frankenstein’s creature, a natural “catastrophe”’ ?
11.30 Vincent Martins (Université Clermont Auvergne) : ‘Comparative collapsology : from Shakespeare to George R.R. Martin’
LUNCH
ECOCRITICAL ISSUES
14.00 Keynote : Todd A. Borlik (University of Huddersfield) : ‘Eco-catastrophe in the late works of Michael Drayton : the invention of the disaster epic’
15.00 Meriel Cordier (Université Clermont Auvergne) : ‘Representations of Ovine diseases in early modern England’
15.30 Sophie Chiari (Université Clermont Auvergne) : ‘The plague of gnats in early modern England’
16.00 Mickaël Popelard (Université de Caen Normandie) : ‘Between the earth and a hard place : John Ray’s inquiry into the dissolution of the world in Miscellaneous Discourses (1692)’
COFFEE BREAK
FROM SUPERSTITION TO SCIENCE : PRAGMATIC APPROACHES ?
17.00 Angus Vine (University of Stirling) – ‘Of windmills and sail-boats : Francis Bacon and the mastery of the winds‘
17.30 Pierre Lurbe (Paris Sorbonne Université) : ‘The Lisbon disaster viewed from England’
18.00 Katherine Halsey (University of Stirling) : ‘Storms, tempests and “visions of romance” : Jane Austen and the weather’
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3rd
AESTHETICS : REPRESENTING DISASTROUS EVENTS
9.00 Keynote : David M. Bergeron (University of Kansas) : ‘The storms of Othello in 1613’
10.00 Chantal Schütz (École Polytechnique) : ‘“Hecla, whose sulfurious fire Doth melt the frozen clime and thaw the sky” : musical representations of extreme natural phenomena in early modern English madrigals and lute-songs’
10.00 Alix Desnain (Université Clermont Auvergne) : ‘Staging the elements : Purcell’s King Arthur’
11.00 Anne-Valérie Dulac (Paris Sorbonne Université) : ‘The impact of climate on early modern watercolours’
11.30 Caroline Bertonèche (Université Grenoble Alpes) : ‘Romantic disasters : Byron, Keats and John Martin’
12.00 Results and prospects
Projet de l’axe stratégique de recherche 4 de l’I-Site, porté par l’IHRIM-Clermont-Ferrand (« Institut d’Histoire des Représentations et des Idées dans les Modernités », UMR 5317)
Plus d’informations : http://weather.hypotheses.org