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9.00-9.30am Coffee/Late Registration
9.30-10.30am Plenary address by Branka Arsić: “Coral Psyches: Melville on Minds and Islands” [Salle des Thèses]
10.30-11am Coffee Break
11.00am-12.30pm Session 7Panel 11 Rescaling Melville (2): Microscopic and Macroscopic Measures (Chair: Michael Jonik) [Salle des Thèses]
• Maurice S. Lee: “Reckoning Melville”
• Paul Hurh: “Big Print: Melville, Media, Magnitude”
• Edward Sugden: “December 16, 1850”
Panel 12 Wandering in “the World of Mind” (Chair: Thomas Constantinesco) [Room 579F]
• Ross Martin: “Feeling Demonic Limits in Melville”
• Jonathan Schroeder: “The Whiteness of the Will: Race and the Measure of Monomania”
• Ron Paul: “‘...of the final rib’: a Positivist Dispute in Arsacidean Theology”
12.30-1.30pm Lunch
1.30-3pm Session 8Panel 13 “If money’s to be the measurer, man…”: Melville’s Economies (Chair: Jonathan Schroeder) [Room 579F]
• Rodrigo Andrés: “Houses as Measures of Alternative Temporalities in Herman Melville’s Short Stories”
• Joe Conway: “Melville’s Monies”
• Douglass Furrh: “The Pecuniary Part of the Business: Delano’s Know Nothingism and the Piracy of Capitalism in ‘Benito Cereno’”
Roundtable “Melville Studies in Europe” (Chair: Agnès Derail) [Salle des Thèses]
Agnès Derail, Rodrigo Andrés, Federico Bellini, Edward Sugden
3.00-3.30pm Coffee Break
3.30-5.30pm Session 9Panel 14 “The System does not proceed”: Melville’s Subversive Science (Chair: Paul Hurh) [Salle des Thèses]
• Michael Jonik: “Melville’s Subversive Geometry”
• Meredith Farmer: “‘Death trellised life’: Melville and the Model of Early Organic Chemistry”
• Hannah Murray: “The Character of Whiteness: Race Science and Bartleby”
• Michel Imbert: “Angels, Angles, Triangles in Pierre; or, the Ambiguities”
5.30pm Cocktail
October 19th
(University of Paris - Halle aux Farines)
Melville’s MeasuresOctober 17-19, 2019Université de Lille – Université de Paris
An international conference organised by CECILLE (EA 4074, Université de Lille) and LARCA (UMR 8225, Université de Paris).
Convened by Hélène Cottet (Université de Lille), Aurore Clavier (Université de Lille), Emilia Le Seven (Université de Paris), Ronan Ludot-Vlasak (Université de Lille), Édouard Marsoin (Université de Paris) and Cécile Roudeau (Université de Paris).
With the help of Caroline Hildebrandt, Thibault Lefebvre, Mathilde Louette, Cloé Mariacourt and Vincent Soubeyrand.
Special thanks to Constantin Bobas, Jean-Marie Boeglin, Raphaël Lamiral, Bruno Legrand and Marie-France Pilarski.
Scientific committeeDawn Coleman (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Agnès Derail (École Normale Supérieure)
Philippe Jaworski (Université Paris Diderot)
Ronan Ludot-Vlasak (Université de Lille)
Bruno Monfort (Université Paris Nanterre)
Mark Niemeyer (Université de Bourgogne)
Samuel Otter (University of California, Berkeley)
Cécile Roudeau (Université de Paris)
INTE RNATIONA L CONF ERENCE
MELVILLE’ S ME ASURES
LILLE OCTOBER 17-18 2019MAISON EUROPÉENNE DES SCIE NCES DE L’HOMM E ET DE LA SOCIÉ TÉ
2 rue des Canonniers, Lille
PARIS OCTOBER 19 2019UNIV ERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT | Halle aux farines
Esplanade Pierre Vidal-Naquet | Paris 13e
October 17th
(Lille - MESHS)
9.00-9.45am Registration
9.45-10am Welcome
10.00-11.00am Plenary address by Cody Marrs: “On Melville and Beauty” [MESHS Room 2]
11.00-11.15am Coffee Break
11.15am-12.45pm Session 1Panel 1 Poetic Measures(Chair: Elizabeth Duquette) [MESHS Room 2]
• Samuel Otter: “Moby-Dick, Prose, and Poetry: Regarding the ‘Extracts’”
• Katie McGettigan: “Measuring the Noise of War in Battle-Pieces”
• Mathieu Duplay: “Surviving the Wreck: Herman Melville, Alice Goodman, and the Power of Catastrophe”
12.45-2.00pm Lunch
2.00-3.30pm Session 2Panel 2 Arithmetics of Pain (Chair: Meredith Farmer) [MESHS Room 2]
• Thomas Constantinesco: “‘I must calculate over again’: Melville’s Measure of Pain”
• David Blake: “‘Keep thy finger on it’: The Prosthetics of Measurement in Moby-Dick”
• Ryan Heryford: “The ‘Odd Inches’: Melville’s Measured Incorporeal”
October 18th
(Lille - MESHS)
9.00-10.30am Session 4
Panel 6 Rescaling Melville (1): The Measures of Revolutions (chair: Edouard Marsoin) [MESHS Room 2]
• Duncan Faherty: “‘Melville knew the score’: Remeasuring ‘Benito Cereno’ as an Index of the Globality of the Black Atlantic”
• Elizabeth Duquette: “The Fog of Tyranny in ‘Benito Cereno’”
• Jennifer Greiman: “Melville’s Gravity: Force, Mood, Revolution”
10.30-11.00am Coffee Break
11.00am-12.30pm Session 5Panel 7 Measures of Authority: Deconstructive Approaches (chair: Thomas Dutoit) [MESHS Room 2]
• Richard Anker: “The Measure of Authority. Figuring the Political and Deconstructing the Death Penalty in Billy Budd, Sailor”
• Nicholas Spengler: “‘Like the needle to the load-stone’: Emergency Politics and the Foundation of Authority in White-Jacket and Moby-Dick”
• Tae Sung: “The Unappropriated Gift: Melville and the Measureless Measure of the Impersonal”
Panel 8 Chartless Voyages (chair: Michel Imbert) [MESHS Room 3]
• Julien Nègre: “The World in a Footnote: Examining Ahab’s Chart in Chapter 44 of Moby-Dick”
• Divyajyoti Singh: “Moby-Dick to Modern Science Writing: Quantum Understanding, Cosmic Quests”
• Odile Gannier: “Ephemerides and Celestial Navigation: Melville on Board a ‘World-Frigate’”
12.30-1.30pm Lunch
Panel 3 Melville’s Approximations (Chair: Hélène Cottet) [MESHS Room 3]
• Federico Bellini: “‘I did not trouble myself with the odd inches’: Approximating Melville”
• Daniel Jenkin-Smith: “‘An interesting and somewhat singular set of men’: Computing Clerkdom in ‘Bartleby’”
• Béatrix Pernelle: “‘Bartleby’s Measurings and Figurings: The Writer’s Impossible Accounting of the Other”
3.30-4pm Coffee Break
4.00-5.30pm Session 3Panel 4 (Un)disciplined bodies? (Chair: Samuel Otter) [MESHS Room 2]
• Édouard Marsoin: “‘Of men, [fat men] are the good measures’: Melville’s Diets”
• Arturo Corujo: “On the (Im)possibility of Giving a Measure of Oneself: Anatomy, Narration, and Subjectivity in Herman Melville’s White-Jacket”
• Pilar Martinez Benedi: “‘Where was White-Jacket then?’: Spatial Confinement and Unbounded Corporeality in Melville’s Man-of-War”
Panel 5 “Mere unintelligible words”: Experiencing Language (Chair: Richard Anker) [MESHS Room 3]
• Christopher Christiansen: “‘Alack the stones!’: Stumbling on Language in Clarel”
• K. L. Evans: “Back to Rough Ground: Rethinking the ‘Critique of Language’ with Melville”
• Amy R. Nestor: “Things, Pulsing: The Poetic Measure of Pierre”
7.30pm Conference Dinner
(Brasserie de la Paix)
1.30-2.30pm Session 6
Panel 9 Melville’s Frequencies (Chair: Katie McGettigan) [MESHS Room 2]
• Marcy Dinius: “Some bold or indelicate expression: Reading the Asterisks in ‘Benito Cereno’”
• Alex Benson: “The Waveform of ‘The Encantadas’”
Panel 10 Tracing Melville (Chair: Nicholas Spengler) [MESHS Room 3]
• Tony McGowan: “Melville’s Reliquary Reformations”
• Yuji Kato: “Herman Melville in the Measurement of Contemporary Cultures: Transplantations of his Texts in Leos Carax’s POLA X and Kenzaburo Oe’s Death by Water”
Website :https://mmeasures2019.sciencesconf.org
Contact :[email protected]
