An Scoil Teanga agus Litríochta XII UCC School of Languages and Literature Annual Conference on Cross-Currents in Literature, Film and the Visual Arts 2003 Language, Literature and the Imaginaire 2 - 4 May 2003

Professor Gearoid O Crualaioch, Professor Marie-Lise Paoli, Professor Peter Woodman, Dean, Dr Angela Ryan (Organiser), Brian Scott-McCarthy MA, Professor Gilbert Chaitin

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Conference
Language, Literature and the Imaginaire

XII Annual Conference of
An Scoil Teanga agus Litríochta / School of Language and Literature
National University of Ireland, Cork, 2-4 May 2003
with generous support from the Faculty of Arts, UCC

Organiser: Dr Angela Ryan Agrégée de l'Université

The Imaginaire may be defined as a pre-discursive level of experience which underpins culture; a set of images. The aim of this conference is to study diverse forms of the manifestation of images in literary, artistic, visual and cognitive representations. These would include the transmission of cultural and aesthetic models; memes and memetics; the imaginaire of communication; cognitive anthropology and archaeology; cognitive linguistics; image as memory; myth, symbol and culture; metaphor, emotion and implicature; the semiotics of human universals; theories of acquisition, artifact and civilisation.

Professor Gilbert Chaitin (Indiana University)
Images, Identity and Politics in the affaire Dreyfus: Barrès and France

Professor Marie-Lise Paoli (Université de Bordeaux III)
Creativity and Otherness: Women, the Imaginaire and the Sister Arts

Professor Gearoid O Crualaoich (University College, Cork)
The Imaginaire in the Flesh

Brian Scott-McCarthy
Vocatus atque non vocatus deus aderit : Dionysus, Psychotherapy and the Imaginaire.

Speakers from UCC, Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Belgium, Spain, Nigeria and the US will present papers on topics including the Antilles, Atwood, Breton storytellers, Camille Claudel, Céline and war, the persistence of Classical metaphor, Coetzee, the colonial imaginaire, cross-cultural transfer, devilry as art, dreaming the Third Reich, the fin-de-siecle, Galician magic realism, the Global Village, imaginary passions, the interior eye, Michele le Doeuff, literature and philosophy, Mesmerism, mysticism, the neo-Pagan imaginaire, the imaginaire of performance, picturesque voyages, Poe, presidential icons, Rembrandt, symbolic materialisations, images of Tahiti, theatre and Nietzsche, the unreal, virtual experience, writing and art.

Organiser: Dr Angela Ryan Agrégée de l'Université
Department of French, University College Cork Ireland
telephone: +353 21 490 2579 facsimile: +353 21 490 3284
email: ar@ucc.ie web page: http://www.ucc.ie/french/usrs/ryan/

Programme 28iv03

Áras Uí Rathaile/O'Rahilly Building (ORB), UCC
with the generous support of the Faculty of Arts, UCC

Friday 2nd May 2003

Registration: The Ante-room to the Council Room, North Wing, UCC
Opening 13.30 The Council Room, North Wing, UCC

14.00-16.00 Session 1a room 1.23 ORB
Chair: Professor Gearoid O Crualaoich (Department of Folklore and Ethnology, University College, Cork)

Dr Angela Ryan (Department of French, UCC)
Memetics, the Imaginaire and the Symbolique: Michèle le Doeuff's Le Sexe du savoir and Camille Claudel's Sakountala

Professor Patrick O'Donovan (Department of French, UCC)
Imaginary Passions: What Happens to the Emotions in Fiction?

Dr Martin Ryle (University of Sussex)
Writing Imagines art: Zola, London, Joyce, Woolf

14.00-16.00 Session 1b room 1.32 ORB
Chair: Dr Tom Quinn (SALIS, Dublin City University)

Philippe Beck (Centre de Recherche sur l'Imaginaire, Université Catholique de Louvain)
"Look Into the Mirror. What Doth Thou see?": Edgar Allan Poe Unveiling Man's Dark Half'.

Jenny Butler (Department of Folklore and Ethnology, UCC)
The Imaginaire of Neo-pagan Discourse: Perceptions of Landscape

Ellen McCarthy (Department of English, University of Bristol)
Renegotiating Genre: Margaret Atwood and the Canadian Female Bildungsroman

16.00-16.30 Coffee: Social space Áras Uí Rathaile/O'Rahilly Building, UCC

16.30-18.00 Session 2a room 1.23 ORB
Chair: Dr Patrick Crowley (Department of French, UCC)

Allen Bass (Department of History, UCC)
Rembrandt's Polish Rider: Image, Symbol And Authenticity

Dr Roger Ravet (University of Aberdeen)
Virtual Experience: Imagination or Imaginaire.

16.30-18.00 Session 2b room 1.32 ORB
Chair: Dr April Wuensch (Department of French, UCC)

Dr Chris Gaynor (Department of Ancient Classics, UCC)
The Development of the Vocabulary of the Classical Languages from Immediate to Abstract by way of Metaphor

Dr Gert Hofmann (Department of German, UCC)
Theater Philosophy: Nietzsche and the Imaginaire

18.15-19.15 Session 3 The Council Room, North Wing, UCC
Professor Marie-Lise Paoli (UFR des Pays anglophones, Université de Bordeaux III)
Creativity and Otherness: Women, the Imaginaire and the Sister Arts

19.15 Reception Staff Common Room, North Wing, UCC

20.30 Conference Dinner: Proby's Bistro, Crosses Green, Cork. tel: 00 353 21 4316531
NB PLEASE SIGN UP FOR CONFERENCE DINNER before 15th April on registration form

Saturday 3rd May 2003
9.30-11.00 Session 4a room 1.23 ORB
Chair: Dr Grace Neville (Department of French, UCC)

Sandrine Teixidor (Department of Romance Studies, Duke University)
The Storyteller in Breton Literature: Symbol of Cultural Transmission and Transgression of the Forbidden.

Dr Hugo Azerad (Magdalene College, Cambridge University)
The Poetic Image in French Poetry: the Transparent Eternity of the Unreal

Saturday 3rd May 2003
9.30-11.00 Session 4b room 1.32 ORB
Dr Anne Walsh (Department of Hispanic Studies, UCC)

Dr Tim Farrant (Pembroke College, Oxford University)
'Voyages pittoresques' : Taylor and Nodier, Balzac, and the Romantic Imaginary

Professor David Mackenzie (Department of Hispanic Studies, UCC)
Torrente Ballester's Levitating Town and Galician 'Magical Realism'

11.00-11.30 Coffee: Social space Áras Uí Rathaile/O'Rahilly Building, UCC

11.30-12.30 Session 5 Council Room, North Wing, UCC
Professor Gilbert Chaitin (Indiana University)
Images, Identity and Politics in the affaire Dreyfus: Barrès and France

12.30-13.45 Lunch

14.00-16.00 Session 6a room 1.23 ORB
Chair: Professor David Mackenzie (Department of Hispanic Studies, UCC)
Dr Heinz Lechleiter (SALIS, Dublin City University)
Foreground South Africa, Background Europe: J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace

Dr Niamh Hourigan (Department of Sociology, UCC)
Escaping the Global Village: Minority Languages in Europe, Television and the Imaginaire

Dr. Sean Golden (Centre d'Estudis Internacionals i Interculturals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Cross-Cultural Transfer and the Imaginaire: Some Case Studies in Intersemiotic Sophistication

14.00-16.00 Session 6b room 1.32 ORB
Chair: Professor Patrick O'Donovan (Department of French, UCC)

Dr Andy Martin (Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Cambridge)
Images of Tahiti in the French Revolution

Dr Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa (Department of German, UCC)
Dreaming the Third Reich

Dr Tom Quinn (SALIS, DCU)
The Imagination of Death, the Death of Imagination: War, Language and Imagination in Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Voyage au bout de la nuit.

16.00-16.30 Coffee: Social space Áras Uí Rathaile/O'Rahilly Building, UCC

16.30-18.00 Session 7a room 1.23 ORB
Chair: Dr hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannissa (Department of German, UCC)

Professor Valerie M. Wilhite (Department of Comparative Literature, University of Illinois and Visiting Professor at the Universitat de Barcelona)
The Imaginaire as Model of Mystical Experience: The Case of Sainte Thérèse de Lisieux

Dr Jeremy Stubbs (Department of French Studies, University of Manchester)
The Symbolic and the Invisible: the Spirit-World, Materialisations and the Literary Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Culture

16.30-18.00 Session 7b room 1.32 ORB
Dr Rosemary Peters Crick (Harvard University)
Suspicious Twinships: Mesmerism in Great Expectations and Le Collier de la reine.

Dr Dawn M Phillips (Department of Philosophy, UCC)
Using your Imagination: Reading Literature and Doing Philosophy

18.15-19.15 Session 8 The Council Room, North Wing, UCC
Professor Gearoid Ó Crualaoich (Department of Folklore and Ethnology, UCC)
The Imaginaire in the Flesh

Sunday 4th May 2003 DramaLab, Lee Maltings, UCC
10.00-11.30 Session 9
Chair: Dr Dawn Phillips (Department of Philosophy, UCC)

Cécile Penot (UFR des Pays Anglophones, Université de Bordeaux III)
"We Live By Symbols": The Myth of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or the Construction of a Presidential Icon

Catherine Howell (Peterhouse, Cambridge University)
Post-Modern Exoticism? Photography and the Colonial Imaginaire in the Work of Michel Tournier

11.30-12.20 Session 10 DramaLab, Lee Maltings, UCC
Brian Scott-MacCarthy (Archetypal imaginal psychotherapist)
Vocatus atque non vocatus deus aderit: Dionysus, Psychotherapy and the Imaginaire

12.20-12.35 Coffee

12.35-13.35 Session 11 DramaLab, Lee Maltings, UCC
Adam Curtis-Ledger (Drama and Theatre Studies, UCC)
Out of our Heads: Revealing Some of the Practices and Metaphors of the Performing Imagination

13.45 End of Conference

Department of French, University College Cork Ireland
telephone: +353 21 490 2579 facsimile: +353 21 490 3284
email: ar@ucc.ie web page: http://www.ucc.ie/french/usrs/ryan/