Shakespeare and the Animal World
Plan
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Thursday 10 January 2019
Visit to the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, 62 Rue des Archives, 75003 Paris
11h Visit in English (visit lasts 1h). Theme: “Shakespeare and the Poetry of Living Things”, organised by MA students of the University of Paris – Sorbonne-Nouvelle. This visit is open to all the conference participants (group limited to 20). Please book your free ticket before January 4: https://goo.gl/forms/kRT6RVIAxByUGzSD2
Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe, Cité internationale universitaire de Paris
14h Doors open
14h15 Opening remarks
Bestiaries
Chair: Michèle Willems, Université de Rouen Normandie
14h30 Des animaux et des hommes dans l’emblématique de l’époque moderne
Jean-Jacques Chardin, Université de Strasbourg
15h15 ‘My kingdom for a horse!’: the biblical source of the bestiary in Richard III
Jean-Marc Chadelat, Sorbonne Université
16h Pause
Chair: Sophie Chiari, Université Clermont Auvergne
16h30 An animal by any other name : identité culturelle et symbolisme animal dans le Roméo et Juliette d’Oh Tae-suk
Charlène Cruxent, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3
17h15 Pause
Animal materiality 1
Chair: Lois Potter, University of Delaware
17h30 La cire et le vélin : énergie mimétique des matières animales
Anne-Valérie Dulac, Sorbonne Université
18h15 End of the day’s proceedings
Friday 11 January 2019
The Hunt
Chair: Gilles Bertheau, Université François Rabelais de Tours
9h30 Cat Chaser and Chasing Cat – Substantiating the Idea of Beasts and Fowls’ Use of Language and Reason in William Baldwin’s Cruel Beware the Cat and in Other Such Contemporary Tales
Florence Krésine, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3
10h15 Pause
Chair: François Laroque, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3
10h30 The Hunt is Up’: Death, Dismemberment, and Feasting in Shakespeare’s Roman Tragedies
Jennifer Reid, Birkbeck College, London
11h15 A Sport for Gentle Bloods
Bruce Boehrer, Florida State University
12h00 Lunch
Discarded creatures
Chair: Claire Guéron, Université de Bourgogne
14h00 L’injure-fable dans Othello: race, bestialité et sexualité
Nora Galland, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3
14h45 Shakespeare’s Ethics of Empathy Towards non-Human Beings: Beyond the Puritanical Thrust
Catherine Lisak, Université de Bordeaux
15h30 Pause
Animal materiality 2
Chair: Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3/ IUF
16h Falstaff’s Baffled ‘Rabbit-sucker’ and ‘Poulter’s Hare’ in 1 Henry IV
Kevin A. Quarmby, College of St. Scholastica
16h45 Shakespeare’s Zoological Anatomy of Music
Katherine Cox, The Huntington Library, NEH fellow
17h30 Pause
Musical entertainment
17h45 Grand Salon
Bella Schütz (piano)
Programme :
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Robert Schumann : Papillons (1831)
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Frédéric Chopin : Barcarolle (1845)
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Claude Debussy : La danse de Puck (1910)
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Sergueï Rachmaninov : Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf (1917)
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Maurice Ravel : Oiseaux tristes (1905)
18h30 End of the day’s proceedings
Saturday 12 January 2019
9h30 General Assembly of the French Shakespeare Society
12h Lunch
Chair: Florence March, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3
14h Roundtable on King Lear (BBC, 2018) with Richard Eyre, theatre and film director, hosted by Peter J. Smith, Nottingham Trent University
15h30 Pause
Hybrid creatures
Chair: Ladan Niayesh, Université Paris-Diderot
16h ‘The shapes of mortals or of animals’: hybridity and gender in Shakespeare’s plays
Manon Turban, Université Paris-Diderot
16h45 Hybrid Creatures: Centaurs, Hobby-horses and Sexualised Women
Natália Pikli, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
17h30 Pause
Chair: Dominique Goy-Blanquet, Université de Picardie
17h45 Of Hybrids and Hydras: Political Zoology in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus
Andreas Höfele, University of Munich
18h30 Cocktail
Venue
Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe
Enter through the main building with the belfry.
Cité internationale universitaire de Paris
37 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
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RER: line B, stop: Cité Universitaire
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Tram: line 3a, stop: Montsouris or Cité Universitaire
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Métro: line 4, stop: Porte d’Orléans
Sponsors
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Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe, Cité internationale universitaire de Paris
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CREA (EA 370), Université Paris Nanterre
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IRCL (UMR 5186), Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 / CNRS
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Épistémè (PRISMES, EA 4398), Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3
Scientific and organising committee
Scientific committee: Rebecca Bach (University of Alabama at Birmingham), Yan Brailowsky (Université Paris Nanterre, Société Française Shakespeare), Charlotte Coffin (Université Paris-Est Créteil), Sarah Hatchuel (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Société Française Shakespeare), François Laroque (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3), Karen L. Raber (University of Mississippi), Chantal Schütz (École Polytechnique, Société Française Shakespeare), Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3/IRCL, Société Française Shakespeare).
Organising committee: Yan Brailowsky, Sarah Hatchuel, Chantal Schütz, Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin.
The conference is open to all.
To become a member of the French Shakespeare Society, click on the following link: http://www.shakespeareanniversary.org/?Societe-Francaise-Shakespeare-140
Documents annexes
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Poster of the 2019 Conference (application/pdf – 27M)© Nay B on behalf of the French Shakespeare Society
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Printable programme of the 2019 conference (in French) (application/pdf – 5,8M)
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