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Programme
This is an international conference on British narratives of exploration.
It will focus on the pragmatic aspects of first encounters: how self and other are brought to recontextualize their practices in the central moments of interaction. Particular attention will also be paid to the textual dimension of the account: how self and other are produced through a specific rhetoric.
Room F 08
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Friday, 23 March 2007
Breakfast : 9.00 a.m. first floor lobby, main building
Conference resumes at 9.30 a.m. Room F 08
• Session 5. Chair : Glenn Timmermans
9.30 : Catherine LANONE, University of Toulouse 2
“John Franklin and the Idea of the North : Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea (1819-22)”
10.00 : Anne-Pascale BRUNEAU, University of Paris10
“Hugh Clapperton’s Journal of a Second Expedition into the Interior of Africa, from the Bight of Benin to Socatoo (1829): presenting, representing self and others”
10.30 : Florence D’SOUZA, University of Lille 3
“Trying to Understand: James Tod among the Rajputs and the Gujaratis (1829-35)”
Coffee / Tea
• Session 6. Chair : Sophie Menoux
11.30 : Jennifer SCOTT, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
“Destabilizing Upper Canada: How Anna Jameson Problematizes Benedict Anderson’s ‘imagined community"
12.00 : Frédéric REGARD, Ecole normale supérieure LSH
“Local Colour: Richard Francis Burton and Mirzah Abdullah the Bushiri”
Lunch
• Session 7. Chair: Eva-Marie Kröller
14.30 : Virginia RICHTER, University of Munich
“Darwin in Patagonia: Descriptive Strategies in the Beagle Diary and The Voyage of the Beagle”
15.00 : Sophie MENOUX, University of La Réunion
“Migrating Selves and Shifting Egos: Walter Besant in the Indian Ocean [Bourbon Journal (1863); Autobiography (1902)]”
15.30 : Christine REYNIER, University of Montpellier 3
“Repression and Desire in Edward Whymper’s Scrambles among the Alps (1860-69)”
Coffee / Tea
• Session 8. Chair: Christine Reynier
16.30 : Nicoletta BRAZZELLI, University of Milan
“From Fact to Fiction: Henry Morton Stanley’s Encounters with the African Wilderness”
17.00 : Eva-Marie KRÖLLER, University of Vancouver
“The Story of Canada/Notre histoire : Exploration Accounts in Canadian Children’s Books and School Textbooks”
Closing drinks
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