Programme  Modernités 16-18, Sorbonne: Poétique de l’arbre

1. 03/04/2023, 14 h 00- 16 h 00:  Workshop 2: “The imagination of trees and the empiricist turn”, Maison de la Recherche, Amphi Molinié

Keith Pluymers (Illinois State University), “Imperial Visions and Colonial Omission in John Evelyn’s  Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty’s Dominions (1662)” (à distance)

Victoria Moul (University Colle London): “Cowley’s trees: genre, politics and Latinity in the Plantarum Libri Sex (1668)”

Discutant: Alexis Tadié

2. Séance hors thème: 14/04/2023, 17 h 30 -19 h 00; en collaboration avec le Paris Early Modern Seminar, Salle D. 323, Maison de la recherche.

Janelle Jenstad (University of Victoria, Canada), Early Modern Stage Directions and the Encoded Playbook: Text or Markup? Présidence de séance: L. Cottegnies.

3. 08/06/2023, 14 h 00 – 18 h 00:  Workshop 3:  “The Imagination and politics of trees in pastoral and after”, Amphi Molinié.

– 14 h-15 h30 : “Pastoral and after”

Sophie Chiari (Université Clermont-Auvergne): “Charcoal and Forest Management: Energy Crisis in Shakespeare’s England”

Aurélie Griffin (Université Sorbonne nouvelle):  “The Tree of the Muses in Aemilia Lanyer’s ‘The Description of Cooke-ham’”.

Discutante: Anne-Valérie Dulac.

(Pause)

-15h45-18h00: « Politics and aesthetics of trees

Line Cottegnies (Sorbonne Université): “Early-modern Prosopopeias of trees and Margaret Cavendish’s ‘A Dialogue between an Oak and a Man cutting him down’”

Claire Wrobel (Université Paris Panthéon Assas): “Déclinaisons de l’arbre dans ‘Auto-Icon’ et quelques   autres textes de Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)”

Vanessa Alayrac (Université de Lille): “Styling the empire : the global connections of Chippendale furniture”

Discutant: Alexis Tadié.

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