Conference programme

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Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3 (EA741 EMMA: Études Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone - https://emma.www.univ-montp3.fr/fr) / Université Paris Cité (UMR CNRS 8225 LARCA: Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Cultures Anglophones - https://larca.u-paris.fr/) / SEAC - Société d’Études Anglaises Contemporaines (http://www.laseac.fr/)

Conference website:  https://mat-real.sciencesconf.org

Venue: Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3

Dates: 7-8 November 2024

* Co-organisers:

- Catherine Bernard, Université Paris Cité

catherine.bernard@u-paris.fr

- Jean-Michel Ganteau, Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3

jean-michel.ganteau@univ-montp3.fr

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November 7, 2024

Room 002-Kouros, Saint-Charles 2 Campus

- 9.00 – 9.30: welcom

Morning session

- 9.30 – 9.45: Introduction: Catherine Bernard, Jean-Michel Ganteau

Chair: Christine Reynier

- 9.45 – 10.10: Isabelle Brasme, Université de Bourgogne: “‘Traumatic Realism’ and the Synaesthetic Phenomenology of War: Mary Borden’s The Forbidden Zone”

- 10.10 – 10.35: Sara Thornton, Université Paris Cité: “Real Materialisms: from Marx’s Primitive Accumulation to Trans-corporeality in Zadie Smith’s NW, John Lanchester’s Capital and Jonathan Coe’s Number 11”

- 10.35 – 11.00: Anne-Laure Fortin-Tournès: “Ambiguous Care in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005) and Klara and the Sun (2021)”

- 11.00 – 11.15: Discussion

- 11.15 – 11.30: Coffee

Chair: Jean-Michel Ganteau

- 11.30 – 12.30: Plenary lecture: Émilie Walezak, Nantes University: “The Art of Description. Texturizing Reality, Re-Inscribing Democracy”

- 12.30 – 14.00: Lunch

Afternoon session

Chair: Julia Kuznetski

- 14.00 – 14.25: Constance Pompié, Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3: “The Material Realism of Pastoral: the Case of Sarah Hall’s Haweswater (2002)”

- 14.25 – 14.50: Cécile Beaufils, Sorbonne Université: “‘Here’s where it all ends: a long, straight road between fields’ (Harrison 2015): Melissa Harrison’s Novels and the Materiality of Nature”

-14.50 – 15.05: Discussion

- 15.05 – 15.20 Coffee

Chair: Sara Thornton

- 15.20 – 15.45: Julia Kuznetski, Tallinn University: “Embodied Memory and Textures of Textuality: Daisy Johnson’s Everything Under (2018)”

- 15.45 – 16.10: Andrea Raso, Roma Tre University: “Of Gross Reality and Personal Myths: Agential Realism in Jeanette Winterson’s Weight. The Myth of Atlas and Heracles (2005)”

- 16.10 – 17.35: Diane Gagneret, ENS de Lyon: ““An exercise in magical thinking”: The Troubling Matter of Will Self’s “Dirty Magical Realism”

- 17.35 – 17.50: Discussion

20.00: Dinner in town

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November 8, 2024

Room 002-Kouros, Saint-Charles 2 Campus

Morning session

Chair: Anne-Laure Fortin-Tournès

- 9.30 – 9.55: Shweta Gupta, Indira Ghandi National Open University / Delhi University: “The Use of Modernist Narrative Strategies to Re-write the History in Wolf Hall (2009): the Enduring Presence of Historical Realism in Contemporary Material Realism”

- 9h.45 – 10.10: Cécile Girardin, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord: “Truly, anything can happen today:” Material Realism and Quichotte’s Impossible Quest”

- 10.10 – 10.35: Mª Jesús Perea Villena, Camilo José Cela University, Madrid: “From Material Realism to Hyperrealism: Metafiction, Self-reflexibity and the Posthuman in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (2000) and The Fraud (2023)”

- 10.35 – 10.50: Discussion

- 10.50 – 11.15: Coffee

Chair: Catherine Bernard

- 11.15 – 12.15: Plenary lecture: Peter Boxall, University of Oxford: “Phantom Limb”

- 12.15 – 13.45: Lunch

Afternoon session

Chair: Vanessa Guignery

- 13.45 – 14.10: Emma Kihl, Södertörn University: “An Eto-ecological Reading of Scale Effects in Doris Lessing’s Canopus in Argos (1979-1983)”

- 14.10 – 14.35: Héloïse Lecomte, ENS de Lyon: “The Poisoned Bog: Jan Carson’s Embodied Poetics and Politics of Ecosickness”

- 14.35 – 14.50: Discussion

- 14.50 – 15.05: Coffee

Chair: Claire Omhovère

- 15.05 – 15.30: Diane Leblond, “‘A kind of fine-grained incantation, made in flesh and time’ (Greengrass, 2021): when Fictions of Motherhood and Childcare Refashion Material realism in the Face of Ecological Disaster.”

- 15.30 – 15.55: Katia Marcellin, Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3: “Pandemic Realism: Exploring the Materialities of Covid-19 through Metonymy in Sarah Moss’s The Fell (2021)”

- 15.55 – 16.10: Discussion and closing remarks