Programme
Location: Maison de la Recherche, Sorbonne Nouvelle, rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris
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Friday 13 June
10h00 – Registration
10h15 – Welcome presentation: Maria Edgeworth in Paris organisers (Isabelle BOUR, Claire BOULARD-JOUSLIN (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle); Susan MANLY (University of St Andrews)
10h30 – Panel: Maria Edgeworth and her Swiss-French Networks
Chair: Susan MANLY
10h30-10h55 – Valérie COSSY (Université de Lausanne): “Maria Edgeworth and the Bibliothèque britannique (1795-1815) of Marc-Auguste Pictet and Charles Pictet de Rochemont: understanding and misunderstanding”
10h55-11h20 – Patrick VINCENT (Université de Neuchâtel): “Practical Swiss Education? Pestalozzi, Fellenberg, and the Edgeworths”
11h45 – Coffee break
12h10 – KEYNOTE LECTURE: Gillian DOW (University of Southampton): “Louise Swanton-Belloc and Edgeworth in Paris”
Chair: Isabelle BOUR
13h15 – Lunch
15h15 – Panel: Maria Edgeworth and (Trans)National Communication
Chair: Claire CONNOLLY
15h15-15h40 – Joanna WHARTON (University College Cork), “Dreams of communication: Edgeworth, Edelcrantz, and the Telegraph”
15h40-16h05 – Clíona Ó GALLCHOIR (University College Cork), “The French Context for Maria Edgeworth’s Views on Language and Linguistic Change”
16h25 – Translating Castle Rackrent in the 21st century: conversation with Marion NAUGRETTE-FOURNIER (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) (with tea/coffee)
17h25 End of Friday’s proceedings
Speakers’ dinner at 20h00: Bouillon Racine, 3 Rue Racine, 75006 Paris.
Saturday 14 June
09h30 Soft start
09h40 Panel: Usefulness and Maria Edgeworth’s Paris, 1802-3
Chair: James K. CHANDLER
09h40-10h05
Claire CONNOLLY (University College Cork), “A useful trip to Paris?”
10h05-10h30
Susan MANLY (University of St Andrews): “‘Des Élèves de la Patrie’: Maria Edgeworth in Paris, the Pastorets, and the fostering of citizenship”
10h50 – Coffee break
11h05 – Panel: Maria Edgeworth and Francophone Women in Politics
Chair: Gillian DOW
11h05-11h30
James K. CHANDLER (University of Chicago): “Edgeworth in the Tracks of Staël”
11h30-11h55
Anne-Claire MICHOUX (University of Zurich): “‘The women in a corner’: gender and political culture in Britain and France, 1800-1820”
12h30 – Lunch at Maison de la Recherche (speakers)
13h30 – Panel: Maria Edgeworth’s Utility and Economy
Chair: Patrick VINCENT
13h30-13h55
Emmanuelle DE CHAMPS (CY Cergy Paris Université): “The utilitarian connections of Maria Edgeworth and Etienne Dumont”
13h55-14h20
Marie-Laure MASSEI-CHAMAYOU (Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne): “Edgeworth, economy and The Absentee”
14h45 – Tea/coffee break
15h05 – Panel: Maria Edgeworth “Abroad and At Home”
Chair: Clíona Ó Gallchoir
15h05-15h30
Sonja LAWRENSON (Manchester Metropolitan University): “‘The Eloquence of Romance’: Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda (1801)”
15h30-15h55
David SIGLER (University of Calgary): “A Vindication of the Duties of Woman in Edgeworth’s Leonora (1806)”
15h55-16h20
Tim FULFORD (De Montfort University): “Edgeworth’s Circle in Paris: Tom Wedgwood and Tom Poole”
16h45 END OF COLLOQUIUM: closing remarks by organizing committee