COLL Poetry Beyond: “Elizabeth Bishop in Paris: Spaces in Translation & Translations of Space”

“Elizabeth Bishop in Paris: Spaces in Translation & Translations of Space”

June 6-8, 2018

Organized by Angus Cleghorn (Seneca College Toronto), Jonathan Ellis (University of Sheffield),

Myriam Bellehigue (Sorbonne Université) and Juliette Utard (Sorbonne Université and CNRS/LARCA)

Maison de la Recherche de Sorbonne Université – 28 rue Serpente, 75 006 Paris

Ground Floor Auditorium (Room D035)

 WEDNESDAY JUNE 6

9:00 Coffee & Croissants on arrival (3^rd floor)

9:30-10:15, Editing Elizabeth Bishop (chair: Angus Cleghorn)

• Thomas Travisano (Hartwick College), “The Editing of Elizabeth Bishop: A Brief History”

10:15 Coffee break (3^rd floor)

10:30-12:30, Shifting Sands: Bishop in the Archive (chair: Lorrie Goldensohn)

• Bethany Hicok (Williams College), “Go to the Source: New Directions in Bishop Studies at the Fluid Boundaries of the Archive”
• Vivian Pollak (Washington University in St. Louis), “Bishop’s Letters to Dr. Ruth Foster: A Biographical Speculation”
• Heather Treseler (Worcester State University),“Bishop and the Scenes of Reading and Writing”

12:30 Buffet – Lunch (3^rd floor)

1:30-3:30, Bishop and Creative Spaces (chair: Lisa Goldfarb)

• Susan Rosenbaum (University of Georgia), “Bishop and Stein in Paris: Varieties of Experiment”
• Bonnie Costello (Boston University), “Dreams and Waking Visions in Elizabeth Bishop”
• Lorrie Goldensohn (Vassar College), “Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘One Long Poem””

3:30 Refreshments (3^rd floor)

4:00-6:00, Bishop and French Architectures (chair: Jo Gill)

• Lisa Goldfarb (New York University), “Sky, Sea, and Shore: Bishop, Valéry, and Post-Symbolist Poetics”
• Angus Cleghorn (Seneca College in Toronto), “Bishop’s Stevensian Architecture in Paris”
• Vidyan Ravinthiran (Birmingham University), “Another look at Quai d’Orléans”

THURSDAY JUNE 7

9:45 Coffee & croissants on arrival (2^nd floor)

10:00-12:00, Bishop and / in Translation (chair: Antoine Cazé)

• Neil Besner (University of Winnipeg), “Brazilians’ Bishop: Translating North from South”
• Katrina Mayson (Sheffield University), “Elizabeth Bishop, Translation, and the Collaborative Ear”
• Mariana Machova (University of South Bohemia), “Translating Animals”

12:00 Buffet Lunch (2^nd floor)

1:30-3:30, Bishop Reaching Out (chair: Juliette Utard)

• Peter Swaab (University College London), “‘Oh, but it is dirty!’: Elizabeth Bishop’s Liking for Dirt”
• Myriam Bellehigue (Sorbonne Université), “Elizabeth Bishop and Intertextuality: Reading Bishop with Flannery O’Connor”
• Fany Beaunay (Sorbonne Université), “‘You are an I’ : Emergence of the Reader’s Voice in Geography III”

3:30 Refreshments (2^nd floor)

4:00-5:00, Works-in-Progress (chair: Jonathan Ellis)

• Matthew Holman (University College London), “King Street, Merida, Palais du Sénat: Bishop at the Tibor de Nagy”
• Christopher Laverty (Queen’s University Belfast), “The ‘better judgement’ behind the ‘walk on air’: Seamus Heaney’s productive misreading of Bishop”
• Tymek Woodham (University College London), “Elizabeth Bishop and Charles Olson: Two paths out of Worcester, MA”

6:30-8:00

Poetry Reading at the Sorbonne (17 rue de la Sorbonne – Salle des Actes)

Maureen McLane, Heather Treseler, Vidyan Ravinthiran, and Deryn Rees-Jones

(introduced by Jonathan Ellis)

 FRIDAY JUNE 8      

9:30 Coffee & croissants on arrival (2^nd floor)

10:00 – 12:00, Opening Lines / Poetic Lines / Lines of Music (chair: Maureen McLane)

• Jonathan Ellis (University of Sheffield), “For a Child of 1918: Elizabeth Bishop at 7 Years Old”
• Langdon Hammer (Yale University), “Line, Leash, Loop, Snarl”
• Deryn Rees-Jones (University of Liverpool), “Clavichord: A Poetic Essay”

12:00 Buffet – Lunch (2^nd floor)

1:00-3:00, Bishop and Others (chair: Bonnie Costello)

• Jo Gill (University of Exeter), “City Night to Night City: Proportion and Scale in O’Keeffe and Bishop”
• David Hoak (independent scholar), “Dear Elizabeth, Dear May: Reappraising the Bishop / Swenson Correspondence”
• Maureen McLane (New York University), “(Elizabeth Bishop)”

3:00 Refreshments (2^nd floor)

3:30-5:30        Bishop and / in Theory (chair: Bethany Hicok)

• Axel Nesme (University of Lyon 2), “The Purloined Letters of Elizabeth Bishop”
• Lhorine François (Université de Bordeaux Montaigne), “Torture at Work in a Tortured Work: Distortion and Revision in Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry”
• Steven Axelrod (University of California Riverside), “Bishop and Political Theory”

Conference Finale & Dinner 7:30 at la Bastide Odéon (7 rue Corneille, 75 006 Paris)

The event is sponsored by

Sorbonne Université, V.A.L.E. EA n° 4085 (Sorbonne Université), the University of Exeter, 

the US Embassy & BAAS Small Grants program, Seneca College (Toronto),

CNRS-LARCA UMR n° 8225 (Paris-Diderot),

Institut des Amériques and CREA(Paris-Nanterre)