Colloque Jeunes Chercheurs / PhD Conference
Voyages réels, voyages imaginaires, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles / Real and Imaginary Travels, 16th-18th centuries
Université de Strasbourg, 4-5 avril 2014
MISHA, salle de conférences
5, allée du Général Rouvillois
67083 Strasbourg cedex
Tram C, E ou F, arrêt « observatoire »
Friday, April 4 / Vendredi 4 avril
9h30 Welcome – Tea and coffee / Accueil des participants
10h00 Conference opening / Ouverture du colloque
10h-11h Keynote address: Dr. Monica Matei-Chesnoiu (Basel University) – The Other Ovid: Seventeenth-Century Itineraries of Make-Believe.
11h00-11h20 Tea and coffee break / Pause
Session 1 – Formal and Generic Travels / Voyages à travers les formes et les genres
11h20-11h40 Barbara Muller (Université de Strasbourg) – Real and Imaginary Travels in Shakespeare’s Late Plays : the Genre of the Romance and the Metaphor as a ‘Figure of transporte.’
11h40-12h00 Heidi Liedke (Freiburg Universität) – ‘…and now is the time I want it.’ Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey read as Romantic Ramble versus Ego Trip.
12h00-12h20 Thomas van der Goten (Ghent University) – Mapping Generic Features from Print to Digital Medium: Towards a Conceptual Definition of the Eighteenth-Century Ode (1700-1710)
12h20-12h40 Discussion
13h00-14h20 Buffet
Session 2 – Anglo-French Translations / Itinéraires franco-anglais
14h20-14h40 Emma Pauncefort (University College London) – Lost in Translation? : Instruction and the English edition of Misson’s 1698 Travelogue on England.
14h40-15h00 Thomas Spittael (Ghent University) – Rousseau Travels to Britain: Politeness in Eighteenth-Century English Translations of the First Discourse.
15h00-15h20 Discussion
15h20-15h40 Tea and coffee break / Pause
Session 3 – Philosophical and Spiritual Travels / Voyages philosophiques et spirituels
15h40-16h00 Angélique Doligez (Université de Paris 3) – Critique et légitimation du voyage dans les utopies narratives, de Platon à Veiras.
16h00-16h20 Emilie Jehl (Université de Strasbourg) – The Heart’s travelling back in The School of the Heart (1647).
16h20-16h40 Discussion
Saturday, April 5 / Samedi 5 avril
Session 4 – Traveling and Trade / Voyages et commerce
9h30-9h50 Anne-Kathrin Marquardt (Université du Havre) – ‘Bearing the adventure of the seas’ : seafaring and the figure of the merchant in the early modern imagination.
9h50-10h10 Nora A. Pleßke (Universität Passau) – ‘New Sources of Wealth and New Channels of Commerce’: The Economic Dimensions of Mungo Park’s Travels in the Interior of Africa.
10h10-10h30 Maud Gallet-Guillon (Université de Paris 3) – Du Voyage à sa représentation : les récits de trois marchands nord-américains en Europe (1779-1802).
10h30-10h50 Discussion
10h50-11h10 Tea and coffee break / Pause
Session 5 – Fictionalizing Travel / Voyages en Fiction
11h10-11h30 Grégoire Vincent (Université de Paris 4) – La Tempête de Shakespeare, écho d’un naufrage dans l’archipel des Bermudes.
11h30-11h50 Christelle Moxel (Université de Strasbourg) – Text and Image in the Long Eighteenth Century: Travel in Tobias Smollett’s Illustrated Adventure Novels.
11h50-12h10 Discussion
12h30 Buffet
14h00 End of conference / Fin du colloque