The Art of Walking: Pedestrian Mobility in Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century. École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
9 -11 October 2013
October 9
Plenary session 1
Ian Marshall, Pennsylvania State University. Border Crossings: Walking the Haiku Path on the International Appalachian Trail.
Parallel workshop: Urban flâneurs?
Chair: Isabelle Baudino
Emmanuelle Peraldo, Saint-Etienne. Walking the Streets of London in the Eighteenth Century: a Performative Art?
Catherine Drott, Giessen. Maps from the Mind: Rambling London’s City Streets in the Eighteenth century.
Tatiana Pogossian, Paris 7. Walking in Space and Time:
the Quest for London
(Iain Sinclair, Peter Ackroyd and Gilbert & George.
Parallel workshop: Walking and the Politics of Memory
Chair: Marie Mianowski
Joe Duffy, Manchester. Performative Traces of Traumatic Place.
Christian Schmitt-Kilb, Rostock. “In the beginning was the land”: the Poetics of Nature and the Politics of Walking in Recent British Prose.
Bridget Sheridan, Toulouse. Walking, Photography, and Writing.
Parallel workshops: Urban flâneurs?
Chair: Emmanuelle Peraldo
Shao-Hua Wang, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford. A Way of One’s Own: the Writer Flâneur/se in Baudelaire and Woolf.
Bill Psarras, Goldsmiths. Towards a Twenty-First Century Urban Flâneur: “Botanizing”, “Weaving” and “Tuning” Actions and Senses Through Embodied Media Art Practices.
Parallel workshops: Poetic and philosophical wanderings
Chair: Klaus Benesch
Mark Riley, Roehampton. Navigating the Forest Path: Using Paul Celan’s Poem Todtnauberg as a Field Guide to Walking the Heidegger Rundweg at Todtnauberg.
Andrew S. Gross, Erlangen-Nürnberg. Pound, Peripatetic Verse, and the Postward Liberal Aesthetic.
October 10
Parallel workshops: Walking as Pathology?
Chair: Caroline Bertonèche
Ewan J. Jones, Cambridge. John ‘Walking’ Stewart, and the Ethics of Motion.
Amanda Klinger, Oklahoma. Nervous London: Pedestrianism and Urban Sensibility in Wordsworth’s Book 7 of The Prelude.
Catherine Welter, New Hampshire. A Juggernaut in the Streets of London: Walking as Destructive Force in R.L. Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Parallel workshops: From the Grand Tour to postmodern drifting
Chair: Andrea Rummel
Nicolas Bourgès, Paris-Sorbonne. The Significance of Enoch’s Walking in Four Funeral Sermons (1703-1738).
Isabelle Baudino, ENS de Lyon. Textual and Iconographic Representations of Walking in Marianne Colston’s Narrative (1822).
Andrew Estes, Munich. Walking in a Changing America: A Visit from the Goon Squad.
Parallel workshops: Urban flâneurs?
Chair: Amélie Moisy
Virginia Ricard, Bordeaux. Walking in Wartime: Edith Wharton’s “Look of Paris.”
Mathieu Perrot, Paris Ouest. Poetics of the passer-by: strolling about the lines in Louis Aragon’s Le Paysan de Paris (1926) and Le Traité du style (1928).
Parallel workshops: From the Grand Tour to Postmodern Drifting
Chair: Mark Riley
Véronique Buyer, Paris 8. Women’s Walking in Four Movies by Michelangelo Antonioni.
Sophie Walon, ENS Ulm. Walking to Death in an Indifferent World in Gus Van Sant Cinema: Gerry, Elephant, and Last Days.
October 10
Plenary session
Tom Pughe, Orléans. How Poetry Comes to Him : An Excursion to Gary Snyder’s Wild Poetics.
Parallel workshops: Poetic and philosophical wanderings
Chair: François Specq
Catrin Gersdorf, Würzburg. Flânerie as Ecocritical Practice: Henry David Thoreau and Walter Benjamin.
Andrew Goodman, Monash. Walking with the World: Towards an Ecological Approach to Performative Art Practice.
Parallel Workshops: Walking as Pathology?
Chair: Ewan J. Jones
Caroline Bertonèche, Grenoble. “Walking Shadows”: Revisiting Some Old Romantic Haunts
Sarah Mombert, ENS de Lyon. Writing Dromomania in the Romantic Era: Nerval, Collins, Charlotte Brontë.
Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay, Paris Est. The Art of Walking and the Mindscapes of Trauma in Thomas De Quincey’s Autobiographical Works: the Pains of Wandering, the Pains of Remembering.
Parallel workshops: Urban flâneurs?
Chair: Gabrielle Finnane
Anna MacDonald, Monash. Remembering through the Senses: Walking and the Recovery of Memory in W. G. Sebald’s Peripatetic Narratives.
Karolina Katsika, Besançon. Walk, Feel and Hear: Walking as a Phenomenological Experience in Allerzielen by Cees Nooteboom.
October 11
Parallel Workshops: Poetic and philosophical wanderings
Chair: Thomas Pughe
Lacy Rumsey, ENS de Lyon. “Hike it and see”: Jonathan Williams, A.R. Ammons and the American “walk poem”.
Daniel Acke, Université libre de Bruxelles. The Poetry of William Cliff and the Meaning of Walking.
Parallel workshops: Urban flâneurs?
Chair: Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay
Guilaume Evrard, Edinburgh. Walking in, and out of, the Modern City,
or How Universal Exhibitions Created Flâneurs.
Estelle Murail, Paris 7/ King’s College London. “Du croisement de leurs innombrables rapports”: Baudelaire and De Quincey’s flâneurs.
Parallel workshops: Urban flâneurs?
Chair: Virginia Ricard
Amélie Moisy, Paris Est. Thomas Wolfe and the Urban Night Prowl: Walking, Modernism and Myth.
Andrew Patten, New South Wales. The Walking Medium: Between the City, the Text, and the Flâneur.
October 11
Parallel Workshops: Urban flâneurs
Chair: Andrew Estes
Andrea Rummel, Giessen, Germany. The City, the Self and the Real-and-Imagined: Flânerie in Virginia Woolf’s “Street Haunting.”
Manila Castoro, Kent, United Kingdom. Undermining the Myth: Why the Street Photographer is not a Flâneur.
Gabrielle Finnane, New South Wales, Australia. Walker in the Megacity.
Parallel workshops: Walking and the Politics of Memory
Chair: Catrin Gersdorf
Julien Nègre, Paris 7. Thoreau’s Alternative Perambulation: Walking as the Delineation of a Political Spatiality.
James Layton, Chester, United Kingdom. Communitas, Ritual, and Transformation in Robert Wilson’s “Walking.”
Marie Mianowski, Nantes. The Art of the ‘Good Step’ in Colm Tóibín’s Bad Blood : A Walk Along the Irish Border (1987).’
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