Invitation au Voyage
Eighth Annual Conference
Invitation au Voyage: the exotic in French art and literature since 1800
Saturday 3rd - Sunday 4th March 2007
Travel permeates the visual and literary cultures of modern France. The evocation of actual or imagined journeys has revealed new worlds and has transformed awareness of familiar ones. This conference will consider travel in Word & Image practice and theory. It will address case studies including exotic perceptions of France, representations of the non-European, and the problematics of orientalism. It will focus on the visual arts and literature, but may include music. It will aim to link, compare and contrast various 'invitations au voyage' across different contexts and media.
The conference will take place at the Burwalls Conference Centre, where accommodation will be available. Burwalls is located in Leigh Woods, next to the Clifton Suspension Bridge.
Organiser: Richard Hobbs (R.Hobbs@bristol.ac.uk) please contact Richard to make a booking.
The closing date for booking is Wednesday 21st February 2007
PROGRAMME
SATURDAY 3rd March
9.30 Registration
10.15 Barbara Wright (Trinity College Dublin) Fromentin and the Aesthetics of Travel
10.45 COFFEE
11.15 – 12.15
Vladimir Kapor (University of Melbourne) Local colour – a travelling concept
Tim Farrant (University of Oxford) How exotic is Manette Salomon?
12.30 LUNCH
2.00 - 3.30
Natasha Grigorian (University of Oxford) The Mystery of the Sphinx: Moreau and J.-M. de Heredia
Nancy Ireson (London National Gallery) 'Surprised!': New Ways of Looking at Rousseau’s Tiger
Juliet Simpson (Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College) Curios, Curiosities and Enigmas: the Japanese Exotic in French Symbolist Art
3.30 TEA
4.00 - 5.30
Emma Wagstaff (University of Birmingham) The Ethnographer as Art Critic: Leiris on Giacometti
Margaret Topping (University of Cardiff) Framing Identities in Nicolas Bouvier’s Asian Travel Writing
Siobhan Shilton (University of Bristol) Renegotiating Exoticism: Travel and Transculturation in Postcolonial Art
Followed by vin d’honneur and conference dinner
SUNDAY 4th MARCH
9.15 - 10.45
Bradley Stephens (University of Bristol) Exoticism and Exile in Chateaubriand’s America
Helen Abbott (University of Wales, Bangor) Crossing the Styx: troubled journeys through the past, the poetic and the modern (Dante in Delacroix and Baudelaire)
Dunlaith Bird (University of Oxford) Isabelle Eberhardt and Olympe Audouard: dislocation, dismemberment and the female body in French nineteenth-century women’s travel writing
10.45 COFFEE
11.15 - 12.30
Belinda Thompson (University of Edinburgh) Bridging the ‘distance infranchissable’ separating Paul Gauguin and Pierre Loti
John House (Courtauld Institute of Art) On the Beach: the view from Paris
12.30 LUNCH
2.00 - 3.00
Katherine Shingler (ENS Paris and University of Bristol) 'Un véritable train saoul après le bateau ivre': La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France
Richard Hobbs (University of Bristol) From Zanzibar to the Quai Branly via Portsmouth with Louis Garneray
3.30 TEA AND END OF CONFERENCE
To book a place contact:
Richard Hobbs
Department of French
School of Modern Languages
University of Bristol
19 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1TE
UK
Or by e-mail to: R.Hobbs@bristol.ac.uk
The conference will take place at the Burwalls Conference Centre in Leigh Woods, located next to the Clifton Suspension Bridge. Details of fees and registration will be circulated later.
Tariffs
Full Fee £118
Inclusive of accommodation at Burwalls on the Saturday night and all meals and refreshments from Saturday morning to Sunday afternoon.
Non-residential Fee £80
Excluding overnight accommodation on Saturday, but inclusive of all meals and refreshments including dinner on Saturday evening.
Day Fee £35
For Saturday or Sunday, including lunch and refreshments, but not dinner.
Concessions - Concessionary rates are available to postgraduate students and unwaged delegates. For details, please contact the organiser.
Accommodation for Friday night can be arranged with a supplement.