Conference
Programme
The Status of Myths in Post-Millennial Cultural Production
Conference Programme
Speakers
L. Benoit, S. Butchers, E. Cavalié, A. Charvalia, F. Delarozière, J. Free, T. Gibert, J. Gonneaud, L. Haywood, JP. Heberlé, D. Hollier, L. Jullier, B. Jursa Potocco, H. Lecomte, L. Michiels, E. Ossana, M. Paquereau, M. Perrin, A. Pinol, D. Prudhon, C. Salcedo Gonzàlez, Y. Sarrail, J. Schaaf, P. Schwaller, M. Shadurski, A. Togores, T. Tromble-Giraud, A. Umano, N. Wallace
Saturday
23 nov.
4.00pm
Preliminary talk
“MYTHES ET MACHINES DE VILLE”
Artistic director François Delarozière
Thursday
05 dec.
6.00pm – 6.30pm
Ouverture de la conférence
Welcome speech - V.P. Culture
The Breach
A Play by Naomi Wallace
Staged by Julia Free & Victor Barrère, Ouest Of Center Theatre Company
Surtitled in French by Laudine Lecamp, based on Dominique Hollier's translation
Friday
06 dec.
8.30am – 9.00am
Coffee
Welcome speech – Centre for Anglophone Studies
9.00am – 10.30am
ACTING MYTHS
Chair : Laurent Mellet
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Loraine Haywood (University of Newcastle, Australia): “Neil Armstrong and the Myth of the Tragic Hero in First Man”
Yorick Sarrail (Université de Toulouse, France): “‘Reputation lives on like the echo of a song’: Founding Myths in The Last Kingdom”
Laura Benoit and Tanya Tromble-Giraud (Aix-Marseille Université, France): “Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates : Myth-Making and Re-mythologizing”
Anaïs Umano (Université de Lorraine, France): “The Myth of the Realistic Actor. ‘Photographic’ Acting and its Cultural Implications”
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10.30am – 10.45am
Coffee break
10.45am – 11.45am
KEYNOTE SPEECH
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Laurent Jullier (Université de Lorraine, Sorbonne université, France) “L’Eden liquide : la construction de soi dans un monde fluide”
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11.45am – 1.15pm
Lunch Break
Buffet lunch
1.15pm – 2.15pm
ANR ACTiF Panel
Chair : Emeline Jouve and Sophie Maruéjouls
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“The Theatre of Naomi Wallace in France” Round table with Naomi Wallace and Dominique Hollier
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Cinema Panel
Chair : Jean-François Tuffier
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“Les mythes dans l’imaginaire cinématographique” Round table with Laurent Jullier
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2.30pm – 4.00pm
DISORIENTATION, REORIENTATION
Chair : Lara Cox
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Jean-Philippe Heberlé (Université de Lorraine, France): “The Rewriting of the Myth of the Minotaur in The Minotaur (2008) by Harrison Birtwistle and David Harsent”
Déborah Prudhon (Aix-Marseille Université, France): “Punchdrunk’s The Burnt City: An Immersive Odyssey into Greek Mythology”
Arthur Togores (Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France): “‘There once was a girl in Ulster’: Myth–based Drama and Feminism”
Marion Perrin (École Nationale Supérieure Lyon, France): “Liminality and Ogbanje Identity in Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater and The Death of Vivek Oji: Reimagining Myth and Reality”
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4.15pm – 5.45pm
ANCIENT MYTHS, NEW VOICES
Chair : Nathalie Cochoy
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Elsa Cavalié (Avignon Université, France): “Arachne, Daphne and Echo: Material Voices and Silencing in Nina MacLaughlin’s Wake Siren”
Teresa Gibert (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia / UNED, Spain): “The Penelopiad: Margaret Atwood’s Rewriting of Greek Myth”
Justine Gonneaud (Avignon Université, France): “Retelling Medusa’s Story in the 21st Century: Filling in the Blind Spots of a Myth”
Pauline Schwaller (Université de Lorraine, France): “Circe in Feminist Revisionist Mythmaking: New Forms of Heroism”
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8.00pm
Dinner
If you wish to participate in the meal, please contact Lara Cox by September 1st 2024.
Les arcades restaurant
14 place du Capitole, Toulouse
Saturday
07 dec.
9.30am – 10.35am
TRANSCENDING GENDER ROLES
Chair : Lara Cox
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Ariel Pinol (Laval University, Canada): “Long after the Fall: Contemporary Representation of the Trojan Women in Marina Carr’s Hecuba, Karen Hartman’s Troy Women, and Christine Evans’ Trojan Barbie”
Myrto Charvalia (Université Paris Nanterre, France): “Other Persephones: Severed Bonds, Being and Resistance in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Jesmyn Ward’s Let Us Descend”
Cristina Salcedo González (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): “Demeter and Persephone Today: The Reception of the Mother-Daughter Bond in Young Adult Fiction” |
10.35am – 12.05pm
ECOLOGY / MYTHOLOGY
Chair : Claire Cazajous-Augé
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Maxim Shadurski (University of Siedlce, Poland): “Pastoral Myth in the Anthropocene: Timescape and the Novel”
Scarlett Butchers (University of Lincoln, UK): “‘This was a place of wonders once’: David Rudkin’s Magical Landscapes”
Eugenia Ossana (University of Zaragoza, Spain): “Political, Ethical and Aesthetic Re-writings of Classical Greek, Yoruba, Biblical and Technological Myths in Temi Oh’s More Perfect (2023)”
Barbara Jurša Potocco (University of Primorska, Slovenia): “The Sea as the Main Protagonist of Nobody, Alice Oswald’s Modern Rendition of Homer’s Odyssey”
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12.05pm – 02.05pm
Lunch
If you wish to participate in the meal, please contact Lara Cox by September 1st 2024.
Le vélo sentimental restaurant
12 boulevard Bonrepos, Toulouse
2.05pm – 3.35pm
MYTHS OF A NATION
Chair : Anouk Bottero
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Laura Michiels (Erasmus Brussels University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Belgium): “To Love, Cherish and Advance: Demythologising the Political Marriage in Lucas Hnath’s Hillary and Clinton”
Marine Paquereau (Université de Bourgogne, France): “Staging and Assessing Martin Luther King’s legacy in The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead”
Héloïse Lecomte (École Nationale Supérieure Lyon, France): “Writing History and Crisis in Real Time through Myth: Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown (2006) and Salena Godden’s Mrs Death Misses Death (2021)”
Jeanne Schaaf (Université Lumière Lyon 2, France): “Liz Lochhead’s Medea (2022) for the National Theatre of Scotland”
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3.50pm – 5.00pm
THE BREACH AND THE AMERICAN MYTH
Chair : Lara Cox and Sophie Maruéjouls
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Discussion around the staging of The Breach with playwright Naomi Wallace, translator Dominique Hollier and stage director Julia Free Event open to the general public. Translated into French by Céline Magot.
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THE BREACH – December 5th – 6.30pm – La Fabrique
A play by Naomi Wallace – Stage by Julia Free & Victor Barrère, Ouest Of Center Theatre Company
The show is free but you need to book your seat.