J’ai le plaisir de vous communiquer le programme du colloque de clôture du projet ERC CHROMOTOPE qui se tiendra à Sorbonne Université et au Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers du 26 au 28 juin 2025.
L’inscription est gratuite mais obligatoire.
Toutes les informations concernant cet événement sont disponibles sur le site de CHROMOTOPE.
Bien cordialement,
Charlotte Ribeyrol
Chromatic Encounters: Experiencing Colour from Early Modern Literature to Modernism
DAY 1, Thursday 26 June (Amphithéâtre Bilsky-Pasquier, Campus des Cordeliers)
09:00 – 09:30 – Registration
09:30 – 10:00 – Opening Words
10:00 – 11:15 – Keynote: Steven Mentz (St John’s University, NYC): “Kinds of Blue: Colors, Water, and Ecological Dynamism” – Chair: Anne-Valérie Dulac (Sorbonne Université)
11:15 – 11:45 – Tea and Coffee Break
11:45 – 13:15 – Panel 1: Impressions and Emotions – Chair: Emily Eells (Université Paris-Nanterre)
Catherine Maxwell (Queen Mary University of London): “ ‘Ideal Instants’ and the Impressionist Lyric of Colour”
Nicholas Gaskill (University of Oxford): “Colour and Intensity in Modernist Poetry”
Gwenda Koo (University of Cambridge): “Katherine Mansfield: A Subjective Experience Coloured by Emotions”
13:15 – 14:30 – Lunch
14:30 – 15:30 – Panel 2: Global Encounters (1) – Chair: Madeline Hewitson (University of Birmingham)
Lucy Powell (University of Oxford): “Making Whiteness Visible: Behn, Pope, Mignard and the Colours of Colonialism”
Anita Raychawdhuri (University of Houston Downtown): “Shakespeare’s Blues: The Significance of Blue in the Early Modern World”
15:45 – 16:45 – Panel 3: Global Encounters (2) – Chair: Stefano Evangelista (University of Oxford)
Rosie Blacher (Kingston University, London): “Vision in T. N. Mukharji’s A Visit to Europe (1886)”
Béatrice Laurent (Université Bordeaux Montaigne): “Syncretic Chromatics in Lafcadio Hearn’s Experience of Japan”
16:45 – 17:15 Tea and coffee break
DAY 2, Friday 27 June (Amphithéâtre Bilsky-Pasquier – Campus des Cordeliers)
09:30 – 11:30 – Panel 4: Anxious Modernities – Chair: Isabelle Gadoin (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Angie Dunstan (Queen Mary University of London): “Slow Fade: Anxious Chromatic Encounters in Victorian Literature and Visual Culture”
Michele Brugnetti (Sapienza University of Rome): “The Aesthetic Experiencing of Colour: Tracing the Connection between aesthetic Bildung and chromatic Encounters in Walter Pater’s Gaston de Latour”
Mimi Lu (University of Sydney/University of Oxford): “Colouring the Idea of a University: The “Secondary and Tertiary Hues” of a modernising Institution”
Leonor-Jo Barnard (University of Oxford): “Dark and Earthy Shades: Ecological Consciousness in Thomas Hardy”
11:30 – 12:00 – Tea and coffee break
12:00 – 13:00 – Panel 5: The Material Book – Chair: Matthew Winterbottom (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
Melissa Tedone and Rosie Grayburn (University of Delaware): “The Poison Book Project: Examining the colourful Materiality of mass-produced nineteenth-century Euro-American Book Covers”
Giulia Simonini (Technische Universität Berlin): “Colour Materiality in early nineteenth-century Watercolour Painting Handbooks”
13:00 – 14:30 – Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 – Panel 6: Texts and Textiles – Chair: Julie Loison-Charles (Université de Lille)
Alessandra Ronetti (Sorbonne Université): “ ‘Eiffel Red’: Materiality, Fashion and Urban Experience in fin-de-siècle Culture”
Suchitra Choudhury (University of Glasgow): “White (lies): Pale Shawls in Victorian Literature”
Gabriel Saada (Sorbonne Université): “ ‘A Mosaic of Pieces of Colour’: Romance as Textile in William Morris’s late Prose Fictions”
16:00 – 16:30 – Tea and coffee break
16:30 – 18:00 – Keynote: Alexandra Loske “Teaching the basics and subtleties of colour: Women writing and illustrating for children and young art students from 1805 to the 1940s” (The Royal Pavilion, Brighton & Hove Museums, Brighton) – Chair: Charlotte Ribeyrol (Sorbonne Université)
18:00 – 19:30 – Drinks Reception (garden of the Campus des Cordeliers)
DAY 3, Saturday 28 June (Amphithéâtre Abbé Grégoire – Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers)
09:30 – 11:00 – Panel 7: Colour on Stage – Chair: Robert Stagg (Texas A&M)
David Taylor (University of Oxford): “Kaleidoscopic Dryden: Theatre, Empiricism, Colour”
Armelle Sabatier (Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas): “Performing Colours in Early Modern Drama: Theatrical Chromaticity in Shakespeare’s The Two Noble Kinsmen (1613), a case study”
Nora Galland (Université de Bretagne Occidentale): “Chiaroscuro Aesthetics in Early Modern Drama: Race, Gender and Class”
11:00 – 11:30 – Tea and coffee break
11:30 – 13:00 – Panel 8: Chromatic Epistemologies – Chair: Nicholas Gaskill (University of Oxford)
Elodie Ripoll (University of Trier): “A Literary History through Colours”
Arnaud Dubois (CNRS): “ ‘A Biological Classification of the Colours of Living Organisms’: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Categorisation of the Colours of Nature”
Joyce Dixon (University of Edinburgh): “Charles Darwin’s Colourscapes: Chromatic Notation on the Voyage of H.M.S Beagle”
13:00 – 14:00: Lunch
14:00 – 15:30: Closing round-table
