Veuillez trouver ci-joint le programme du colloque sur « Sports and Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century » qui se tiendra à la Sorbonne le 13 et le 14 octobre (Salle des Actes).
Au plaisir de vous y retrouver.
Bien cordialement,
Caroline Bertonèche (ILCE A 4) et Alexis Tadié (Modernités 16-18, VALE)
Sports and Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century
Conference program
13-14 October 2022
Sorbonne Université, Salle des Actes
13 October
9:45: Welcome and opening remarks
10:00: PLENARY LECTURE
Simon BAINBRIDGE (Lancaster University)
‘A group… of apparently aerial beings’: Sociability on the British Summit in the Long Eighteenth Century
Coffee break
11:30: First session: Outdoors, Sociability and Individuality
CHAIR: Kimberley PAGE-JONES (Université de Bretagne Occidentale)
11:30-12:00
Meiko O’HALLORAN (Newcastle University)
Scaling Ben Nevis: Keats Among the Clouds
12:00-12:30
Claire WROBEL (Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas)
Between Solitude and Sociability : Mountaineering in Ann Radcliffe’s The Romance of the Forest (1791)
12.30-13.00: Discussion
13.00: Lunch
14:00: Second session: Building Sociability through Sports
CHAIR: Marc PORÉE (École normale supérieure-PSL)
14:00-14:30
Benjamin JACKSON (University of Birmingham)
‘The Gentleman Sportsman’: Blood Sports, Sociability, and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century England
14:30-15:00
Valérie CAPDEVILLE (Université Sorbonne-Paris-Nord)
Sports and Outdoor Recreation in Early American Clubs: Horse-Racing, Angling and Fox-Hunting Practices in Colonial Maryland and Pennsylvania
15:00-15:30
Alexis TADIÉ (Sorbonne Université)
Of Rivers and Swimming in the Long Eighteenth Century
15:30-16:30: Discussion
19.30: Conference Dinner
14 October
9:30: Third session: Animality, Violence, and the Social Worlds of Sports
CHAIR: Marion AMBLARD (Université Grenoble Alpes)
9:30-10:00
Pierre CARBONI (Université de Nantes)
‘This falsely cheerful, barbarous game of death’: Thomson and Hunting
10:00-10:30
Mike HUGGINS (University of Cumbria)
Changing Attitudes to the Non-Human Animal World : the Case of Cock-Fighting
Coffee break
11:00-11:30
Kimberley PAGE-JONES (Université de Bretagne Occidentale) & Pierre LABRUNE (VALE)
Boxing and the Fancy: Violence Tamed and Aestheticized (1780-1815)
11:30-12:00
John C. WHALE (University of Leeds)
Pugilism in the Regency: Popularity and Cultural Appropriation
12:00-12:30: Discussion
12:30: Lunch
14:00: Fourth session: Sports and Romanticism
CHAIR: Meiko O’HALLORAN (Newcastle University)
14:00-14:30
Andreas KRAMER (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Luminous Streams, Precipitous Rocks: Perspectives on Sport in German Romanticism
14:30-15:00
Marc PORÉE (École normale supérieure-PSL)
Wordsworth, Keats, Byron: Sport or No Sport?
15:00-15:30: Discussion
Coffee break
16:00: Caroline BERTONÈCHE (Université Grenoble Alpes)
Introducing the Virtual Museum RÊVE. Special collection: On Romantic Sports. Fencing Familiarized
16:30: Alexis TADIÉ (Sorbonne Université)
Introducing the Database AGON: On Quarrels and Controversies
17:00 Kimberley PAGE-JONES (UBO) & Valérie CAPDEVILLE (Sorbonne-Paris-Nord)
Introducing the Digital Encyclopedia DIGITENS: On British Sociability in the Long 18th Century
18:00: Closing drinks
19:00: End of the conference