Thursday 9 June
11-13h Registration for
speakers.
13h Opening
Welcome address by Jean-Marie
Fournier, directeur de l’Institut d’Études Anglophones.
13h30 Plenary I (chair: Paul Volsik,
Université Paris-Diderot)
Peter Middleton, University of
Southampton.
Warring Clans and Energy Gaps. (A survey of British 'innovative' poetry
in the 1950s-70s.)
14h45
Panel 1: Poetic Dialogues (chair: Daniel Jean, Université Paris-Diderot)
Romana Huk,
University of Notre Dame.
New
British Schools.
Scott Thurston, University of Salford.
Talking Poetics: Dialogues In Innovative Poetry.
Xavier Kalck, Paris-Sorbonne, Paris
IV.
Quoting from
Legacy: Anthony Barnett's Citations followed on.
16h30 Panel 2: Commitments,
Complicities (chair: Ian Patterson, University
of Cambridge)
Luke Roberts, University of Cambridge.
Barry
MacSweeney and the Soviet Union.
Nandini Ramesh Sankar, Cornell University.
Complicity
and Cambridge Poetry.
Robin Purves, University of Central Lancashire.
WHICH poetry: WHAT to do.
19h Reading: Geraldine Monk,
Carol Watts, John Wilkinson
Mairie du 3e arr., 2 rue Eugène Spuller, salle Odette
Pilpoul
Organized by Double Change and La Maison de la Poésie.
Friday 10 June
9h30
Panel 3: Poetry and the Language of Commodity Capitalism
(chair: John Wilkinson, University of Chicago)
Keston Sutherland, University of Sussex.
Poetry and
“monstrous accumulation”.
David Kennedy, University of Hull, and Christine Kennedy,
poet and independent scholar.
Anatomy, Revolution, Space,
Singing: Jennifer Cooke and women poets’ challenge to criticism.
Emily Critchley, University of Greenwich,
London.
Marianne Morris: Tutu Muse:
prophylactic poetry for the last generation.
11h15 Panel 4: Modernist
Legacies (chair: Adrian Grafe, Université d’Arras)
Michael Kindellan, Université de Montpellier.
“That dolt E. P.”: J. H.
Prynne, Ezra Pound and emphatic language.
Simon Perril, Leicester University.
“A tutelary poison we all
breathe”: Contemporary British Poetry at the tomb of the Poète Maudit.
Sophie Robinson, Royal Holloway, University of London.
“DOLLY (in bits)”: The Queer
Body in Caroline Bergvall’s Poetry.
Lunch
14h
Plenary II (chair: Jean-Marie Fournier, Université Paris-Diderot)
Allen Fisher, Manchester
Metropolitan University.
Skipping across the pond:
Interaction between American and British poetries, 1964-70.
15h15 Panel 5: The Social Space
of/for Poetry (chair: Hélène Aji, Université Paris X)
Ian Davidson, University of Northumbria.
Sean Bonney's Commons:
Familiarity and Repetition.
Sam Ladkin, University of Sheffield.
Lyric versus Audit in the
Virtual Society: the case of Chris Goode.
Joe Luna, University of
Sussex.
Pixo-Transcendentalism, Digital Immortality and Pop Poetics: Hyper-Romantic
gestures in some ultra-recent British Poetries.
17h Panel 6: Performance and
Performativity (chair: Antoine Cazé, Université Paris-Diderot)
Will
Montgomery, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Balsam Flex: poetry and cassette culture.
Vincent Broqua, UPEC.
The Political Nothing, Caroline
Bergvall’s letters to the community.
cris cheek, Miami University of Ohio.
Before I am Anything Else:
provisional transatlantic communities in poetic performance.
20h
Banquet
Vin des
Pyrénées, 25 rue Beautreillis, 75004 Paris.
Saturday 11 June
10h Panel 7: Thinking,
Knowledge, Form (chair: David Nowell-Smith, Université
Paris-Diderot)
Joshua Adams, University of
Chicago.
Poetic Thinking: A Critique.
Jennifer Cooke, Loughborough University.
Poetry and Knowledge: the Exhibition of Andrea Brady’s
Wildfire.
Lacy Rumsey. Ecole Normale
Supérieure de Lyon.
The
Atypicality of Jeff Hilson.
11h45 Panel 8: Addressing Self
and Other (chair: Marc Porée, Université Paris III)
Jeff Hilson, Roehampton University.
Having a
larf/Getting a larf: British Innovative Poetry & Humour.
Neil Pattison. St John's
College, Cambridge.
Lyric's Abolishment.
Sara Crangle, University
of Sussex.
“with tongue spouting, soaking": Poetry & Spit.
Lunch
14h30 Plenary III
Simon Jarvis and Drew Milne,
University of Cambridge. (chair:
Robert Hampson, Royal Holloway, University of London)
Arguments in Contemporary
British Poetry.
16h30 informal reading and wine
Note: All sessions will be held
in room A50 except the first panel on Saturday morning which will be held in
room A11 on the first floor.
Scientific committee
Prof Robert Hampson, Royal Holloway University of London
Dr Abigail Lang, Université
Paris Diderot
Dr David Nowell-Smith, Université Paris Diderot
Dr Ian Patterson, Queens’ College, University of Cambridge
Prof Paul Volsik, Université
Paris Diderot
Organizing committee
Dr Abigail Lang, Université Paris Diderot
Dr David Nowell-Smith, Université Paris Diderot
Colloque organisé avec le soutien du Laboratoire de Recherche
sur les Cultures Anglophones (LARCA, Université Paris-Diderot) et en
collaboration avec Double Change, la Maison de la Poésie
et la Mairie de Paris.
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