Thursday 16 October

SALLE DE COLLOQUE 2

9:00-9:15 Opening speeches

Marie Hedon (LERMA), Nicolas Boileau (Project)

SESSION 1:

Conversation / Arts / Contemporary

Chair : Liliane Louvel (University of Poitiers)

9:15-9:40 “’Walter Sickert: a conversation’ and its 2025 translation, a constellation of conversations”

Christine Lavignasse & Manon Divet (Independent scholars)

9:40-10:05 “Conversing with presence and absence: Woolf, Sickert and Zadie Smith”

Catherine Lanone (Sorbonne Nouvelle)

10:05-10:20 Discussion

10:20-10:35 Coffee break

10:35-11:50 Plenary Speaker David James

“In Defence of Deliberation: From ‘Modern Fiction’ to Sally Rooney”

12:00-13:30 Lunch

SESSION 2:

Contemporary uses of conversation (1)

Chair: Vanessa Guignery (ENS Lyon)

13:45-14:10 “Reporting conversations, dialogism as reappropriation in Rachel Cusk’s “Outline” trilogy.”

Daniel Jean (Paris Cité)

14:10-14:35 “Ampersanded: Conversation Bound by Farce in Adam Thirwell’s Lurid & Cute”

Myrto Petsota (Paul Valery Montpellier)

14:35-15:00 “Words of One’s Own: How Conversation Separates in Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach (2007)”

Augustine Vivant (amU)

15:00-15:15 Q&A

15:15-15:30 Coffee Break

SESSION 3:

Contemporary uses of conversation (2)

Chair: Jean-Christophe Murat (amU)

15:30-15:55 “Isabella Hammad’s The Parisian: Moments of being in conversation”.

Maryam Thirriard (Toulon)

15:55-16:20 “Conversation pieces: fictional dialogue according to Anthony Powell”

Catherine Hoffman (Le Havre)

16:20-16:45 “Mrs Malaprop, A Conceptual Ventriloquist: Continuities and subversions in the Art & Language’s conversation (1970s–1990s)”

Louis-Antoine Mege (amU)

16:45-17:00 Discussion

Dinner in town.

Friday 17 October

SALLE DE COLLOQUE 2

SESSION 4:

In Conversation with Woolf

Chair: Maryam Thirriard (Toulon)

9:00-9:25 “Tuning in and out: from Woolf’s “gigantic conversation” (Diary) to Graham Swift’s “always-to-be-resumed conversation”(Wish You Were Here).”

Pascale Tollance (University of Lyon 2)

9:25-9:50 “Planes of Immanence, Planes of Conversation: The ‘Multiloquies’ of The Waves”

Xavier Le Brun (University of Angers)

9:50-10:15 Structuring informal familiarity: conversations between hermeneutics and agency in Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and L. P. Hartley

Laurent Mellet (Paul Valery Montpellier)

10:15-10:30 Discussion

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-12:00 Plenary Christine Reynier

“The Continuum of Conversation from Virginia Woolf to Jeanette Winterson”

12:00-14:00 Lunch