COLL international: « Simon Armitage », 12-13/03, en collaboration avec Univ. de Lille

Ce colloque, qui aura lieu les 12 et 13 mars prochains, se tiendra dans la salle des colloques, Maison de la Recherche, Université de Lille, site Pont-de-Bois, Villeneuve d’Ascq

Thursday 12 March

9.00-9.30
Welcome and introduction

9.30-10.30
Guest speaker (chair: Aurélie Thiria-Meulemans, Université de Picardie)
Pr. Terry Gifford, Bath Spa University: The Environmental Re-enchantment of ‘Commonplace Things’.

10.30-12.00 Early Armitage (chair: Dr. Steve Ely, Huddersfield University)

Pr Adrian Grafe (Université d’Artois): ‘Who is this guy?’: Simon Armitage’s Zoom! (1989)
Joanna Kruczkowska (University of Lodz): Letters from Iceland and Moon Country: Authorship, Authenticity and Travel Writing
Sigurbjörg Þrastardóttir (poet and translator): Three Fingers. And Joe. – on receiving Simon Armitage’s poetry in Iceland

13.30-15.00
Translation Workshop (facilitated by Dr. Carole Birkan-Berz, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, and Dr. Samuel Trainor, Université de Lille)

15.00-16.00
Armitage in situ and in books (chair: Dr. Sophie Musitelli, Université de Lille)

Dr Cécile Beaufils (Paris Sorbonne Université): Simon Armitage and the lie of the land: embodied writing, embodied publishing
Andrew Moorhouse (editor of Fine Press): Armitage in Fine Press Poetry

16.30: Visit of the exhibition curated by the Arts students at the University Library

17.30
Guest speaker and poetry reading (chair: Pr. Hélène Quanquin, Université de Lille)
Steve Ely (Huddersfield University): “Armitage, Hughes and the GCSE” followed by a poetry reading

Friday 13 March

9.00-10.30 Armitage, History and Politics (chair: Pr. Adrian Grafe, Université d’Artois)

Dr Sarah Montin (Sorbonne Nouvelle): Evading Authority: Simon Armitage and the problem of Memorial Poetry (an analysis of Still, with incursions into The Not Dead and Out of the Blue)
Dr Danny O’Connor (Liverpool University): ‘You can almost see Brexit from here’: Armitage, the Laureateship and the aesthetics of Englishness
Dr Kyra Piperides Jaques (University of York): ‘Seen through the padlocked iron gates’: Yorkshire, England and Europe in the post-Referendum poetry of Simon Armitage and Matt Abbott

11.00-12.30 Roundtable on Armitage’s Influences (facilitated by Pr. Marc Porée)
With Pr. Terry Gifford, Pr. Adrian Grafe, Dr. Lacy Rumsey, Bastien Goursaud, PhD

14.00-15.00 Armitage and the classics (chair: Pr. Philippe Vervaecke, Université de Lille)

Pr Rowland Cotterill (Independent researcher): Epic performances: at war and at sea with Simon Armitage and Alice Oswald
Penelope Kolovou (Universität Bonn): Homer, Bowie, et al. at the marketplace

15.00-16.00 Exploring unpoetic territories (chair: Dr. Claire Hélie, Université de Lille)

Dr Elise Brault-Dreux (Valenciennes): The endogenous poetry of hospital regulation – ‘The Flags of the Nations’
Dr François Ropert (Université Cergy Pointoise): Departures, displacements, and exile in Hansel and Gretel (A Nightmare in Eight Scenes), or ‘the Jelly Babies (for ironic effect)’ in print and on stage

Ce colloque a reçu le soutien de CECILLE (ULille), VALE (Parsis Sorbonne Université), PRISMES (Sorbonne Nouvelle), LILA (ENS Ulm), la MESH et la SEAC.

Si vous souhaitez plus d’information, n’hésitez pas à nous contacter (conferencearmitagefrance@gmail.com) ou à consulter le site du colloque (http://conferencearmitage.wixsite.com/france)

Bien cordialement,

Claire Hélie, MCF Université de Lille
Carole Birkan-Berz, MCF Université Sorbonne Nouvelle,
Adrian Grafe, Université d’Artois
Marc Porée, ENS Lyon
Samuel Trainor, Université de Lille
Juliette Utard, Paris Sorbonne Université
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