42nd Annual Conference, 2-4 September 2019, St Hilda’s College, Oxford
‘Incompleteness’
« L’inachèvement »
Monday 2 September
13.30-14.15 Arrival and Registration
14.15-14.20 Welcome, Richard Parish, Chair of the Society
14.20-16.00 Session 1: Incomplete Bodies
Chair: Adam Horsley
Jenny OLIVER (University of Oxford)
Bodily and Material Incompleteness in the ‘Essais’
Marc SCHACHTER (University of Durham)
Hopeless ‘Lesbian’ Desire and Narrative Prosthetics in Two French Translations of Boiardo’s ‘Orlando Innamorato’
Sam BAILEY (University of Durham)
Disability, Transhumanism and the Incomplete in Seventeenth-Century French Cabaret Poetry
16.00-16.25 Tea
16.25-17.45 Session 2: Gendering Incompleteness
Chair: Joanna Barker
Sarah NELSON (University of Idaho)
‘You Complete Me’: The Mirrored Memoir-Writing of Madame de Villedieu and Hortense Mancini, Duchesse Mazarin
Jesse-Marie KERUSKIN (University of Illinois)
L’étoile descendante: la lune et l’incomplétude féminine dans les ‘Amours’ d’Étienne Jodelle
19.15 Dinner
Tuesday 3 September
9.00-10.20 Visit to the Chapel, Trinity College
10.20-10.40 Coffee
10.40-11.50 Session 3: Authorial Practices
Chair: Noel Peacock
Richard MABER (University of Durham)
Gilles Ménage at Work: Two Unfinished ‘Magna Opera’ Rediscovered
Nicholas HAMMOND (University of Cambridge)
Unfinished Business: Pascal, Racine and a First Edition
11.50-13.00 Session 4: Manuscripts
Chair: Richard Maber
Anton BRUDER (University of Cambridge)
The Incomplete Work: French Renaissance Manuscript Culture Reconsidered
Annalisa NICHOLSON (University of Cambridge)
The Final Edit: Reading Saint-Évremond’s Corrections in the Godolphin Manuscript
13.00 Lunch
13.45-14.45 AGM
14.50-16.40 Session 5: Corneille
Chair: Nicholas Hammond
Tristan ALONGE (Université de La Réunion)
‘Cinna’, ou l’inachèvement d’un empereur
Paul HAMMOND (University of Leeds)
The Psychology of Corneille’s ‘Médée’
Emma CLAUSSEN (University of Cambridge)
Corneille’s Unfinished Lives
16.40-17.00 Tea
17.00-18.00 Keynote Paper
Chair: Richard Parish
Nicholas CRONK (Voltaire Foundation, Oxford)
Voltaire’s Incomplete Works: and Why They Will Stay That Way
18.30 Vin d’honneur
19.15 Conference Dinner
Wednesday 4 September
9.00-10.45 Session 6: Communication and Prophecy
Chair: Richard Scholar
Marina PERKINS (University of Cambridge)
‘Un parler ouvert’: A Comparative Reading of Diplomatic Exchanges in Montaigne’s ‘Un traict de quelques ambassadeurs’ and ‘De l’utile et de l’honneste’
Luke O’SULLIVAN (King’s College, London)
Last Words? ‘Tout dire’ before the Final Judgment in Bouchet’s ‘Les Serrées’
Janée ALLSMAN (University of Colorado)
Prophetic Expectations in Jurieu’s ‘L’Accomplissement des Prophéties’
10.45-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.45 Session 7: Conceptual and Dramatic Incompleteness
Chair: Mette Birkedal Bruun
Vittoria FALLANCA (University of Oxford)
What We Talk About When We Talk About ‘Dessein’: Writing and/as Drawing in Early Modern France
Sophie NICHOLLS (University of Oxford)
Incomplete Thoughts: Textual Instability in the History of Ideas
John LYONS (University of Virginia)
Happiness Inchoate: Experiencing ‘Le Misanthrope’
Concluding remarks, Richard Parish, Chair of the Society
Lunch
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