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COLL: “The agency of plants in the literature and the arts of the French- and English-speaking worlds”

“The agency of plants in the literature and the arts of the French- and English-speaking worlds,” conference will take place at the ICP in Paris on the 15th and 16th of June 2023.
This conference is organised by members of the ‘Environmental Humanities’ research teams of the Research Laboratory on English-Speaking Cultures (LARCA – CNRS UMR 8225) of the Université Paris Cité and of the Catholic University of Paris (research unit ‘Religion, Culture & Society’, EA 7403). 

For more information on the conference, see: 

Organising committee:

Estelle Murail (ICP & LARCA – CNRS UMR 8225, Université Paris Cité)

Laura Ouillon (LARCA – CNRS UMR 8225, Université Paris Cité)

Delphine Louis-Dimitrov (ICP & LARCA – CNRS UMR 8225, Université Paris Cité)

THE AGENCY OF PLANTS IN THE LITERATURE AND THE ARTS OF THE FRENCH- AND ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLDS (19th c. – 21st c.) 

PROGRAMME

DAY 1: Thursday 15 June 2023 

Room Z30, Institut Catholique de Paris, campus des Carmes, 74 Rue de Vaugirard, 75006 Paris 

9.00 – 9.45: Registration, coffee

9.45 – 10.00: Welcome by the Vice Dean of the Faculty, Dr. Delphine Louis-Dimitrov

10.00 – 11.00: KEYNOTE LECTURE: UNDERGROWTH

– Martin Crowley (Queens’ College, University of Cambridge), Undergrowth

11.00 – 11.30: Coffee Break

11.30 -12.30:PANEL 1: PLANT PERFORMANCES. Chair: Pr. Catherine Bernard

– Yota Batsaki (Dumbarton Oaks, USA). Taking Over the Gallery: Plant Performances of Novel Ecologies

– Jenni Vauhkonen (University of Turku, Finland). Plants as Performers (and More): Rethinking Agency in Contemporary Plant Art

12.30 – 14.30: Lunch break

14.30 – 16.30: PANEL 2: PLANT PORTRAITS AND IDENTITIES IN THE MAKING. Chair: Dr. Sarah Bouttier

– Rachel Sloan (The Courtauld Gallery, UK). The Flowers of the Field: the Inner Life of Plants in the Work of Léon Bonvin

–  Emma Trott (University of Leeds, UK). Agency, Anthrodecentrism, Atrocity: Plant-Poet Encounters in Jon Silkin’s Flower Poems

–    Brandon Scott (MIT, USA). Ulmarium: Boughs of History

–    Ellie Kyungran Heo (artist, UK). The Ragwort

16.30 – 17.00: Tea break

17.00 – 18.00: PANEL 3: UNRULY URBAN PLANTS. Chair: Dr. Estelle Murail

– Clémence Laburthe-Tolra (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France). Ecologies of differences in Rose Macaulay’s expression of the ‘London Jungle’ in The World My Wilderness (1950) 

– Sarah J. Moore (University of Arizona, USA). “Trees Speaking Slowly in Manhattan: Time Landscape”

18.00 – 19.30: Cocktail

DAY 2: Friday 16 June 2023

Room Z22, Institut Catholique de Paris, campus des Carmes, 74 Rue de Vaugirard, 75006 Paris 

9.30 – 10.00:  Welcome, coffee

10.00-11.00: PANEL 4: AMBIVALENT AGENCIES. Chair: Pr. Thomas Dutoit

– Xavier Lachazette (Le Mans Université, France). The Plant Kingdom Strikes Back: Metamorphic Counter-Violence in Daphne du Maurier’s “The Apple Tree” (1952)

– Roger Davis (Red Deer Polytechnic, Canada). “Billions of puppets with poisoned minds”: Youths, Universities, and Eugenics in the Fungal Zombie Apocalypse

11.00 – 11.30: Coffee break

11.30 – 12.30: PANEL 5: EMPIRE AND PLANT AGENCY. Chair: Dr. Marine Bellégo

– Emilia Terracciano (University of Manchester, UK). Plant Autographs of Jagadish Chandra Bose (Colonial Bengal, 1858-1937): Botany, Empire, and the case of Mimosa Pudica 

– Camila Medina Novoa (ETH Zürich, Switzerland). The Rare in the Resistance to Appropriation

12.30 – 14.30: Lunch break

14.30 – 16.00:PANEL 6: ENTANGLED PLANT-HUMAN AGENCIES. Chair: Pr. Cécile Roudeau

– Sophie Laniel-Musitelli (Université de Lille, France). Visionary Plants in Romantic Poetry: The Cases of William Blake, Percy Shelley and John Clare

– Jillian Kruse (Case Western Reserve University / The Cleveland Museum of Art, USA). John Ruskin’s Budding Sycamore: Attention, Witness, and the Wisdom of Trees

– Valérie Morisson (Université de Dijon, France). Entanglements: Irish artists collaborating with plants 

16.00 – 16.30: Tea break

16.30 – 17.30: PANEL 7: DECOLONIAL AGENCIES. Chair: Dr. Marine Bellégo

– Cédric Courtois (Université de Lille, France).“We the trees”: Plant Subjectivities and Life-Worlds in Niyi Osundare’s Green: Sighs of Our Ailing Planet (2021)

– Marta Wódz (KU Leuven, Belgium).Knowledge of plants. Plants in contemporary art as archives of histories from below

 17.30 – 18.00: Closing remarks 

REGISTRATION LINKhttps://the_agency_of_plants.eventbrite.fr 


OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Bénédicte Meillon (25 mai 2023). COLL: “The agency of plants in the literature and the arts of the French- and English-speaking worlds” Écopoétique. Consulté le 24 mars 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/o1c8


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