Friday, October 18: 8.30am-6.15pm
Olympe de Gouges Building, Room 830
Université Paris Cité

8.30am-9am: Coffee and registration

9 am-9. 10 am: Welcome and introduction.  Vesna Kuiken and Cécile Roudeau

9.10-10 am:  Opening Keynote Hannah Champion (U. Bordeaux Montaigne) & Cécile Roudeau (U. Paris Cité)

10am–12 / Panel 1: Transnational Regionalism Chair: Thomas Constantinesco (Sorbonne U.)

June Howard (U. of Michigan): The Back of Beyond to the Middle of Forever: Jewett and Transnational Regionalism in the Anthropocene
James E. Dobson (Dartmouth College) : New England’s Transatlanticism and National Disidentification
Mary Grace Albanese (Binghamton U.): Unsettling Republican Womanhood in Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Tory Lover and Charles Brockden Brown’s Ormond
Elizabeth Duquette (Reed college/Portland State U.): Le Grand Dérangement: Disturbing Regionalism’s Fantasies

12-1.15pm: Lunch break

1.15 pm–2.45 pm / Panel 2: A Darker View of Regionalism Chair: Edouard Marsoin (U. Paris Cité)

Ellen Gruber Garvey (New Jersey City U.): The Shadow of the Slave Trade in Sarah Orne Jewett’s “In Dark New England Days
Monika Elbert (Montclair State U.): Sarah Orne Jewett’s Maritime Gothic
Thomas Constantinesco  (Sorbonne U.): Jewett’s Gastro-politics in The Country of the Pointed Firs and “The Foreigner”

2.45 pm–3 pm: Coffee Break

3pm–4.30 pm / Panel 3:  Ways of Communing  Chair: Alice de Galzain (Sorbonne U.) 

Carol Colatrella (Georgia Institute of Technology) “The Magic Circle”: Character, Conversation, and Community in Jewett’s Fictions
Tara Kennette (Temple U. in Philadelphia) Isolation, Community, and Back Again: Examining a Spectrum of Separation and Connection in the works of Sarah Orne Jewett
Ariel Silver (Southern Virginia U.): Fuller, Jewett, and the Feminist Re-enchantment of Nature

4.30pm-4.45pm: Coffee Break

4.45pm-6.15 pm / Panel 4: On Thaxter’s Isles of Shoals
Chair: Cécile Roudeau (U. Paris Cité)

Denise Xu (Princeton U.): The “Terrible Proximity” of Matter: Celia Thaxter’s Ship Archive
Vesna Kuiken (UAlbany): Life on the Rocks: Thaxter’s Ecological Memory
Ellen Taylor (U. of Maine at Augusta): The Great Blue Heron: A Warning: Celia Thaxter’s Ecological Cautions

Drinks

7.30pm / Dinner for participants

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Saturday, October 19 8.45am-6.30pm
Halle aux Farines Building
HF 027 C
Université Paris Cité

8.45am-9am: Coffee

9.am–10. 30am / Panel 5: Non-Human Selves  Chair:  Vesna Kuiken (UAlbany)

Dorri Beam (Syracuse U.):    Family Trees: Jewett, Freeman, and Human-Tree Relationalities
Lynn Wardley (Independent scholar):“Humans Akin to the Sea”: Organic Memory in Jewett, Chopin and Hearn
Michael Jonik (U. of Sussex): Jewett Unhoused

10.30am-10.45am: Coffee Break

10.45am–12.45 am / Panel 6:  Affects    Chair: Stuart Burrows (Brown U.)

Romane Decorps (Independent scholar): ‘Pretty handkerchiefs’ and ‘primeval herbs’: asexual and aromantic intimacies in Sarah Orne Jewett’s queer environments
Emma Thiébaut (Université Paris Cité): The Cute, the Abusive and the Naughty: Jewett’s Bizarre Cat Stories for Children
Ilana Larkin (Massachusetts Maritime Academy): “Truly it was a Vast and Awesome World:” Childhood’s Ecological Intervention in  Jewett’s “A White Heron
Mark Storey (U. of Warwick): Jewett’s Affective Turn

12.45pm-2pm: Lunch (provided).
Discussion on the launching of a SOJ society.

2pm – 3pm / Panel 7:  Jewett’s Archives Chair: Mark Storey (U. of Warwick)

Don James McLoughlin (U. of Tulsa): “I Rather Love those Dumpy Little Books”: Jewett’s Binding Mentorship and the Cover Designs of Willa Cather
Melissa Homestead (U. of Nebraska-Lincoln): A Digital Edition of Jewett’s Letters

3pm – 5 pm Roundtable: The New Essays, 30 Years On – Chair: Michael Jonik (U. of Sussex)

June Howard (U. of Michigan)
Sandra Zagarell (Oberlin College)
Josephine Donovan (U. of Maine) -recorded
Marjorie Pryse  (UAlbany)
Monika Elbert (Montclair State U.)
Mark Storey (U. of Warwick)
Hannah Champion (U. Bordeaux Montaigne)
Don James McLaughlin (U of Tulsa)
Cécile Roudeau (U. Paris Cité)

5 pm.-5.15pm; Coffee Break

5.15 pm-6.30pm / Closing Keynote:
Stuart Burrows (Brown U.): Keeping Time to an Inaudible Tune’: Jewett’s Temporal Vision