The Redefining European Symbolism network is pleased to announce that the line-up for the 2 day conference on European Symbolism has been finalised. The event will take place at the Musée D’Orsay in Paris on Friday 13th and Saturday 14th of April 2012. The event is free to attend. . There will be fourteen papers (six in English) given by both world-leading and young scholars from several countries, covering a rich variety of topics relating to European symbolism, 1880-1910.
Friday 13th April 2012
Correspondances: littérature, théâtre, musique (Jean-Michel Nectoux)
9.30-10.15: Paul Lang, Le symbolisme face au défi wagnérien.
10.15-11.00: Sébastien Mullier, La chevelure et l’incarnat : de Mallarmé à l’érotique symboliste.
Break
11.30-12.15: Patrick McGuinness, Bruges as anti-Paris: Rodenbach’s dead cities.
12.15-13.00: Pierre-Henri Frangne, Symbolisme et théâtralité : l’altération théâtrale.
Lunch
Art et identités: individualisme et nationalisme (Antoinette Le Normand-Romain)
14.30-15.15: Dominik Brabant, Material Bodies and Chiastic Gestures: Auguste Rodin’s Gates of Hell beyond Individualism and Nationalism?
15.15-16.00: Philippe Thiébaut, Gallé et l’Allemagne.
Break
16.30-17.15: Irena Kossowska, Between Melancholy and Frenzy: Polish Symbolism and Proto-Expressionism.
17.15-18.00: Debora Silverman, Symbolism and Imperial Modernism in Fin-de-Siècle Belgium: Some Congo Forms and Fantasies in the Arts of Henry Van de Velde, Maurice Maeterlinck, and Emile Verhaeren.
Saturday 14th April 2012
Contradictions: science et spiritualité (Rodolphe Rapetti)
9.30-10.15: Barbara Larson, Darwinism and the Creator’s Divine Breath: The Evolutionary Landscape of the Spiritual in Symbolism.
10.15-11.00: Juliet Simpson, ‘From naturalism’s remains’: Insight and the Spiritual in Huysmans’s ‘Primitifs’.
Break
11.30-12.15: Damien Delille, Charles Filiger et les figures abstraites de l’androgyne.
12.15-13.00: Céline Eidenbenz, Gestuelle du dééquilibre. L’hystérie et ses corps ‘à rebours’ autour du 1900.
Lunch
Redéfinir le symbolisme européen (Richard Thomson)
14.30-15.15: Michael Zimmermann, Imaginations: le symbolisme et la recherche psycho-physiologique.
15.15-16.00: Rodolphe Rapetti, La Fin du symbolisme.
Break
16.30-17.30: Round table
Please find the Musée D’Orsay’s event page here
This event is free and open to the public. There is no official registration but for those travelling from further afield please contact us to save you a seat.
Entrance to the Museum through Entrance C &D.
For more information please contact Craig.Landt@ed.ac.uk or call +441316514248