The Representation of Natural Disasters in Early Modern Literature
1-3 October 2020
Organizer: Sophie Chiari (Université Clermont Auvergne, IHRIM, UMR 5317)
Organizing Committee: Sophie Chiari, Meriel Cordier, Alix Desnain, Sandhya Patel.
Given the circumstances, the logistics of the Round Table event which was planned for October next will now have to be rethought as UCA has postponed all on-site meetings for the foreseeable future. We would of course like to pursue and adapt to the new social distancing rules and regulations by adopting alternative online solutions which will allow us to continue to collaborate on this exciting project.
The new format is as follows:
– Conference participants will be asked to send in 10-15 minute video or audio versions (coupled with Powerpoint or PDF presentations for example) of their papers (20-25 minutes for plenaries).
– We will share the video, audio and text on a secure platform which the University will make available to participants. This platform will be up and running by early September.
– The platform will follow the initial programme layout and participants may then watch, read or listen to the papers, in their own time.
– At the end of September, we will send you a password-protected link to join us on Microsoft Teams and to go virtual.
– Guests (muted) may also attend this online event and we as hosts will monitor their entry. Please feel free to invite as many attendees as you wish!
– The Round Table discussions themselves will take place on the dates of the original conference programme (1st-3rd October).
– There will be one workshop session a day bringing together participants and guests.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1st
3.00 pm – 6.00 pm (French time which will allow American participants to join us)
Convener: Sophie Chiari
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3.00 pm -3.30 pm
Welcome and Introduction
Presentation of each participant involved in the event
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3.30 pm- 4.15 pm : DISCUSSION
NATURAL DISASTERS IN HISTORY AND THE HISTORY OF IDEAS
- Keynote: John Gillies (University of Essex): ‘The Fate of the Bees’
- Julie Vanparys-Rotondi (Université Clermont Auvergne): ‘Tending one’s own garden: husbandry, weather lore and prognostication in early modern England’
- Sandhya Patel (Université Clermont Auvergne): ‘Disturbances, Accidents and Disaster. The Emergence of a Concept.’
- Laurence Gourievidis (Université Clermont Auvergne): Phytophthora Infestans, European Famines and heritage.
4.30 pm- 5.45 pm : DISCUSSION
STORMS AND SEA STORMS
- Keynote: Geraldo U. de Sousa (University of Kansas) : ‘Extreme Weather: Shakespeare, natural disaster, and atmospheric phenomena’
- Danièle Berton-Charrière (Université Clermont Auvergne): ‘Man in stormy weathers: tempestuous skies and outbursts in Shakespeare’s times and works’
- Anna Demoux (Université Clermont Auvergne): ‘The Art of Navigation by Martín Cortés, a case study’
- Jonathan Pollock (Université de Perpignan – Via Domitia): ‘The Renaissance commonplace of the storm at sea: Rabelais, Camoes and Shakespeare’
5.45 pm – 6.00 pm
CONCLUDING REMARKS
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2nd
3.00 pm – 6.15 pm (French time which will allow American participants to join us)
Convener: Sandhya Patel
3.00 pm -3.15 pm
Recap and session summary
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3.15 pm- 4.15 pm : DISCUSSION
ELSEWHERES: FROM SHAKESPEARE TO CLI-FI
- Anne Geoffroy (Université Versailles Saint Quentin): ‘Aqua alta in Venice from an English perspective’
- Sophie Lemercier-Goddard (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon): ‘Frozen: journeys to the end of the world’
- Anne Rouhette (Université Clermont Auvergne): ‘Frankenstein’s creature, a natural “catastrophe”’?
- Vincent Martins (Université Clermont Auvergne): ‘Comparative collapsology: from Shakespeare to George R.R. Martin’
4.15 pm- 5.15 pm : DISCUSSION
ECOCRITICAL ISSUES
- Keynote: Todd A. Borlik (University of Huddersfield) : ‘Eco-catastrophe in the late works of Michael Drayton: the invention of the disaster epic’
- Meriel Cordier (Université Clermont Auvergne): ‘Representations of Ovine diseases in early modern England’
- Sophie Chiari (Université Clermont Auvergne): ‘The plague of gnats in early modern England’
- Mickaël Popelard (Université de Caen Normandie): ‘Between the earth and a hard place: John Ray’s inquiry into the dissolution of the world in Miscellaneous Discourses (1692)’
5.15 pm – 6.00 pm : DISCUSSION
FROM SUPERSTITION TO SCIENCE
- Angus Vine (University of Stirling) – ‘Of windmills and sail-boats: Francis Bacon and the mastery of the winds‘
- Pierre Lurbe (Paris Sorbonne Université): ‘The Lisbon disaster viewed from England’
- Katherine Halsey (University of Stirling) : ‘Storms, tempests and “visions of romance”: Jane Austen and the weather’
6.00 pm – 6.15 pm
CONCLUDING REMARKS
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3rd
4.00 pm – 6.00 pm (French time which will allow American participants to join us)
Convener: Sophie CHIARI
4.00 pm – 4.15 pm
Recap and session summary
4.15 pm- 5.30 pm : DISCUSSION
AESTHETICS: REPRESENTING DISASTROUS EVENTS
- Keynote: David M. Bergeron (University of Kansas) : ‘The storms of Othello in 1613’
- Chantal Schütz (École Polytechnique): ‘“Hecla, whose sulfurious fire Doth melt the frozen clime and thaw the sky”: musical representations of extreme natural phenomena in early modern English madrigals and lute-songs’
- Alix Desnain (Université Clermont Auvergne): ‘Staging the elements: Purcell’s King Arthur’
- Anne-Valérie Dulac (Sorbonne Université): ‘The Impact of Climate on Early Modern Watercolours’
- Caroline Bertonèche (Université Grenoble Alpes): ‘Romantic disasters: Byron, Keats and John Martin’
5.30 pm- 6.00 pm
DISCUSSION
Results and perspectives
Cet événement a été labellisé dans le cadre de la Fête de la Science.