Le projet de recherche EARTH 16-18 se situe au croisement de la théorie critique de la race, qui repose sur l’étude de la façon dont les corps sont définis par des rapports de pouvoir, et de l’écocritique, qui se concentre sur le lien entre environnement, nature, animaux et êtres humains.

Program

Wednesday 3 July 2024

Welcome 8h30-9h - coffee

• 9h-9h30: Opening address / problématisation du colloque Nora Galland et Emmanuelle Peraldo (UniCA)
• 9h30-10h30: Keynote 1: Sujata Iyengar (University of Georgia):  Love at the Antipodes in Much Ado

About Nothing 

Chair : Nora Galland

10h30-11h: coffee break

11h-12h30:  Panel 1: Climate Theory and Environmental Determinism 

Chair : Adrien Spiga

• 11h-11h35: Mathilde Mougin (Aix-Marseille Université) et Katherine Dauge-Roth (Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, USA): L’Amérindien et l’Africain:  des « produits » de la nature ?
• 11h35-12h: Ayman Mestahi (Université de Tours & University Moulay Ismail, Morocco) Diderot’s Environmental Determinism and Political Climate
• 12h-12h30: Questions

12h30-14h: lunch

• 14h-15h: Keynote 2: Scott Slovic (Oregon Research Institute): Chromatic Thinking and Ecocriticism
• Chair: Emmanuelle Peraldo

15h-15h30: coffee break

15h30-17h15: Panel 2 Travel writing, ecology and race

Chair : Sandhya Patel

• 15h30-15h55: Sylvie Requemora (Aix-Marseille Université): Voyages, « Sauvages » et paysages québécois : du récit de Champlain à la pièce de Du Hamel, via le roman de Du Perrier (1602-1603).
• 15h55-16h20: Ladan Niayesh (Université Paris Cité): The dark side of the first English journey across the Caspian Sea
• 16h20-16h55: Françoise Besson (Université de Toulouse- Jean Jaurès 2): The Portola expedition (1769-1770) and its contemporary reading through a walk and a travel book 16h55-17h15: questions

19h: Dinner

Thursday 4 July 2024

• 9h-10h: Keynote 3: Nandini Das (University of Oxford): 'On Weeds: Ruderal Poetics and early modern Race-craft'

Chair : Sylvie Requemora

10h-10h30: coffee break

10h30-11h45: Panel 3: Chromatic Boundaries and Solar Mythologies in Early modern drama and poetry 

Chair : Lauriana Dumont (Université Côte d’Azur)

• 10h30-10h55: Sophie Battell (University of Zurich): ‘Phoebus’ burning kisses’: Race, Sexuality, and the Sun in Early Modern English Drama
• 10h55-11h20: Claire Hansen (Australian National University) et Aurélie Griffin (Sorbonne Nouvelle): Ecoracial alterity in Lady Mary Wroth’s “Like to the Indians, scorched with the sun” (1621)
• 11h20-11h40 Questions 

11h40-13h : Panel 4 : Mechanisms of Othering? Shipboard Doctoring in the Eighteenth Century: Collecting, Collating, Invisible Caring 

Chair : Mathilde Mougin

• 11h40-12h05: Sophie Vasset (Université de Montpellier): Race at sea: revisiting Alexander Falconbridge’s Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa (1788)
• 12h05-12h30: Sandhya Patel (Université de Montpellier): Disclosure: Healing Encounters in the Pacific in the Eighteenth Century
• 12h30-12h50 : questions

12h50-14h30 déjeuner

• 14h30-15h30: Keynote 4: Shaul Bassi (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice): Othello in the Chthulucene. Staying in Trouble with Shakespeare – Chair: Ladan Niayesh

15h30-15h45 coffee

15h45-17h00: Panel 4: Human and non-human relationships

Chair : Sujata Iyengar

• 15h45-16h10: Sophie Lemercier-Goddard (ENS de Lyon): Of Ice and Men: Redefining Humanity and Barbarity in the Arctic
• 16h10-16h35: Khawla Bendjemil (University of 08 May 1945, Guelma, Algeria): Nature,  Race, and Power: An Ecocritical and Critical Race Analysis of Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko (1688)
• 16h35-16h55: questions

17h: end of the conference

Participation

Pour vous inscrire pour assiter au colloque par zoom, merci de remplir le formulaire suivant:

https://forms.gle/qR1i8jsK87vpQan98