Friday 10 May 2019
9:15-16:45
University of Bristol – 10 Woodland Road
#EnviroMedicalHumanities
This free conference will feature eight papers by early-career researchers and a keynote by Professor Keir Waddington (@keir_waddington).
On the following day, Saturday 11th, five of the speakers will be at the University of Bristol’s School of Modern Languages to deliver masterclasses for teachers and pupils.
These activities are supported by the Institute of Modern Languages Research at the University of London (@IMLR_News), the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France (@asmcf), the British Society for Literature and Science (@TheBSLS), and the Centre for Environmental Humanities at the University of Bristol (@UoBrisCEH).
You are welcome to register on Eventbrite for as much of the programme as you like:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/enviro-medical-approaches-to-modern-francophone-culture-tickets-60885766968.
9:15, Welcome
Dan Finch-Race
9:30, Panel 1
James Illingworth (Exeter) – George Sand’s Volcanic Imagination
Sarah Jones (Oxford) – Zola: Medicine and Madness
Arthur Rose (Bristol) – Coal Politics: Receiving Émile Zola’s Germinal
*11:00, Break
11:30, Keynote Keir Waddington (Cardiff) – A Flat Past? History, Environment, Topography and Medicine
*12:30, Lunch break
13:30, Panel 2
Joseph Ford (IMLR) – Towards an ‘Environmental Ethic’ in the Literary Writing of Albert Camus
Beatrice Ivey (Stirling) – Remembering Natural Disasters with Nathacha Appanah and Nina Bouraoui
Holly Langstaff (Oxford/Warwick) – ‘Une mouche importune’: Reading Insects in Maurice Blanchot
*15:00, Break
15:30, Panel 3
Frances Hemsley (Bristol) – Health and Environment in ‘New’ Rwandan Testimonial Literature
Kasia Mika (Amsterdam) – Cholera Chronotopes: Living in and through ‘the Time of Cholera’
16:30, Closing remarks
Dan Finch-Race