Colloque international
"EARTH 16-18: Ecocriticism And Race Theory in the Humanities: 16th -18th centuries"
3-4 juillet 2024
QR code vers le site internet : https://www.earth-16-18.com/
Lieu: Salle du conseil, Campus Carlone, UniCA (Université Côte d’Azur)
Contacts : emmanuelle.peraldo@univ-cotedazur.fr; nora.galland@univ-cotedazur.fr
Programme:
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
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