Colloque annuel de la SOFEIR Reims 2020

IRLANDE : SPECTRES ET CHIMÈRES / IRELAND : Spectres and Chimeras

SOFEIR 2020 – UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS Champagne Ardenne
13-14 MARCH

VENDREDI 13 MARS / FRIDAY 13 MARCH
Bâtiment 13 « Recherche » : Grand amphi+  salle polyvalente (sous-sol) + salle E14  (rez-de chaussée)

9h00
Inscriptions / Registration : devant amphi recherche

9h30
Ouverture / Opening words AMPHI RECHERCHE : Frédéric Piantoni, Doyen De L’ufr Lettres, Thomas Nicklas, Directeur Du CIRLEP.

10h00-11h00
KEYNOTE 1 AMPHI RECHERCHE

Chair/Sylvie Mikowski

Claude FIEROBE (U. de Reims) « Bram Stoker: Irlande chimérique et faillite du langage ».

11h00
Pause-café / Coffee break

11h30-13h30
PANEL 1   Northern Irish Fiction  Amphi recherche

Chair : Fiona McCann (Université de Lille)

Billy GRAY (Dalarna University) : ‘You can’t grab anything with a closed fist’ : Reflections on Ulster Protestant identity in Derek Lundy´s memoir Men that God Made Mad: A Journey Through Truth, Myth and Terror in Northern Ireland

Tom HEDLEY (Trinity College Dublin) : A Tale of Two Ghosts and One City: Autoficition, Film and the Spectral in Mark Cousins’ I Am Belfast

Thierry ROBIN (Université de Bretagne Occidentale)  : Permanence and transgression of the revenge tragedy motif in Stuart Neville’s The Twelve (2009), a hauntological reading of a Northern-Irish thriller

PANEL 2    Drama salle E14

Chair : Françoise Canon-Roger

Eva URBAN-DEVEREUX (Senator George Mitchell Centre , Queen’s University Belfast) : Spectres of Fiction: The Playboy of the Western World

Virginie ROCHE TIENGO (Université Paris 13 Villetaneuse) : The Spectres of James Joyce and Brian Friel, Hermeneutic Hauntology, Borders, and Ghost language

Hélène LECOSSOIS (Université de Lille) : Ghosts, untimeliness and the possibility of selflessness in twentieth-century Irish drama and theatre

Martine :  “Plays and ghosts have a lot in common” : les Fantômes de Brian Friel et Stewart Parker

13h30-14h30
Déjeuner / Lunch salle Polyvalente

14h30-16h00
PANEL 3  Celtic Revival : Amphi recherche

Chair : Xavier Giudicelli

Claire DUBOIS (Université de Lille) : “Constance Markievicz’s forgotten heroines of the past”

Patricia HUGHES (independent scholar) : Yeats’ Real Ghosts 1916-1927

Caoilfhionn NI BHEACHAIN (University of Limerick) : Spectral Politics

PANEL 4     Contemporary Irish Fiction salle E14

Chair : Claire Majola (Université Lyon 2)

Marion BOURDEAU (Université Lyon 2) : Spectral voices in Colum McCann’s “Thirteen Ways of Looking”

Helen PENET (Université de Lille) : From ghostly presence to haunting absence: photography in Hugo Hamilton’s The Speckled People and Dermot Bolger’s A Second Life

16h00-16h30
Pause-café / Coffee break

16h30-17h30
PANEL 5    Hauntings :  amphi recherche

Chair : Thierry Robin (UBO)

Tim HERON (Université de Strasbourg) : Return of the Old Gods? Contemporary Paganism and Witchcraft in Ireland

Coilin PARSONS (Georgetown University, Washington D.C.) : Nebulosity, Haunting, and the Future of the Past

Nathalie Sebbane (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) “Ghosting the nation: a comparative approach of institutionalisation in Argentina, Denmark and Ireland.”

PANEL 6   Contemporary Irish Fiction (2) Salle E14

Chair : Pascale Amiot (U. de Perpignan Via Domitia)

Héloïse LECOMTE (E.N.S. Lyon) : “Curiously mundane hallucinations”: nightmares and spectral threats in John Banville’s The Sea (2005) and Anne Enright’s The Gathering (2007)

Bertrand CARDIN (Université de Caen) : ‘Ghosts stay around when they die’: ombres spectrales dans Shade de Neil Jordan (2004)

17h30-18h30
KEYNOTE 2  : Paul Lynch, author of Grace, Beyond the Sea, in conversation with  Sylvie Mikowski (U. de Reims)

Amphi Recherche

20h00
Dîner

SAMEDI 14 MARS / SATURDAY 14 MARCH

9h00-10h00
AG SOFEIR Amphi Recherche

10h00-11h00
WORKSHOP Amphi Recherche 

Karine BIGAND (Université Aix-Marseille) & Bernard LESAING (photographe), Autour de l’ouvrage: Faces and Places. Northern Ireland 1975-2020 / Visages et paysages. Irlande du Nord 1975-2020

11h00
Pause café / Coffee break

11h15-12h15
PANEL 7   Rural and urban spaces Amphi recherche

chair : Bertrand Cardin (U. de Caen)

Simon WORKMAN (Carlow college) : From Chimera to Catastrophe– Ghost Estates in the Contemporary Irish novel

Callum BATESON ( Trinity College Dublin): Resurrecting Alltar: Looking Past the Anthropocene with Liam O’Flaherty’s Dúil

PANEL 8    Gothic legacies Salle E14

chair : Hélène Lecossois (U. de Lille)

Charlie JORGE (Universidad del Pais Vasco-Euskat Herriko  : The Inquisition in Charles Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer

Mary McGLYNN (Baruch College, CUNY, New York) : The gothic irreal in Irish fiction of crisis and austerity

12h15-13h15
KEYNOTE 3 AMPHI RECHERCHE

Chair : Anne Goarzin (U. de Rennes 2)

Christina MORIN « Mapping Melmoth »

13h15-14h30
Déjeuner / Lunch salle polyvalente

14h30-15h30
PANEL 9    Poetry Amphi Recherche

Chair :  Martine Pelletier

Britta OLINDER (U. Gothenburg) : Spectres and chimeras seen through the square window of Sinéad Morrissey’s poems

Pascale AMIOT (U. de Perpignan) : Neither god nor ghost – why does Seamus Heaney resurrect the Tollund Man?

Catherine CONAN (U. de Bretagne Occidentale) : How much does a ghost weigh? Gravity and materiality in Ghost Estate by William Wall (2011)

PANEL 10     The North Salle E14

Chair : Marie-Violaine Louvet (U. Toulouse 2)

Nadège DUMAUX (U. de Reims) : Les écoles intégrées en Irlande du Nord, une stratégie éducative utopique ?

Hadrien HOLSTEIN (ISP de Nanterre) : Spectre du passé, lutte du présent. Le bonfire républicain au centre d’une concurrence pour le contrôle socio-territorial du quartier

Claire MANSOUR (U. Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès) : The Northern Ireland civil rights movement: the chimera of change and the spectre of sectarianism

15h30-17h
PANEL 11
Bibliothèque Robert de Sorbon

GHOSTWORK

A 3×30 minute panel featuring

Ian Joyce  (Cló, Donegal)

Mathew Staunton (EnsadLab, Paris)

Fabrice Mourlon (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris)

17h00
Clôture