Exiles, Émigrés and Expatriates in Romantic-Era Paris and London

Symposium co-organisé par le LILA
Exiles, Émigrés and Expatriates in Romantic-Era Paris and London
École Normale Supérieure, Thursday 12-Friday 13 April 2018
Free admission. No pre-registration is necessary.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

THURSDAY 12 April (note different venues am and pm)
8h30: Welcome and registration (Amphithéâtre Jourdan, 48 Boulevard Jourdan)
8h45: Presentation Paris Symposium (Marc Porée, Paris director and David Duff, London director)
CHAIR: Laurent FOLLIOT
9h: Friedemann PESTEL (Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg)
Rien appris? Émigré children novels, French émigré schools, and the challenge of education in exile
9h45: Juliette REBOUL (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
‘There was little that we did not know from Cléry and other publications’: Circulation and reception of French emigrant literature in London (1789-1830)
10h30: COFFEE BREAK
11h: Paul HAMILTON (Queen Mary University of London)
Foscolo in London, Tom Moore on the road: Two uses of Romantic exile
11h45:  Alessandro PECORARO (University of Florence/ Paris-Sorbonne/ Bonn)
‘A double source of amusement in listening to him’: Ugo Foscolo’s last lecture in London
12h30: LUNCH
 

Salle Dussane, École Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d’Ulm
CHAIR: Marc PORÉE
14h: PLENARY (1): Gregory DART (University College London)
Revolutionary transformations in Beethoven’s Fidelio
15h: COFFEE BREAK
CHAIR: Caroline BERTONÈCHE
15h30: Emma CLERY (University of Southampton)
Mary Wollstonecraft’s Paris Address
16h15: Barbara WITUCKI (Utica College, New York)
Frances Burney’s Napoleonic wanderer
17h: Stacie ALLAN (University of Bristol)
Articulating the experience of exile through English poetry: Germaine de Staël and Claire de Duras
17h45: RECEPTION

FRIDAY 13 April
8h30: Welcome and registration (Room D035, Maison de la Recherche, 28 rue Serpente)
CHAIR: Jean-Marie FOURNIER
9h: Christoph BODE (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
Georg(e) Forster in Paris (1793/94)
9h45: Ed WEECH (SOAS, University of London)
‘Paris to a stranger is a desert full of knaves & whores – like London’: Thomas Manning’s Romantic Europe, 1802-1805
10h30: COFFEE BREAK                             
11h: Dominic Aidan BELLENGER (Bath Spa University)
The exile of the French clergy in the British Isles, 1789-1815
11h45: Richard THOLONIAT (Le Mans University)
René-Martin Pillet (1762-1815)’s L’Angleterre vue à Londres et dans ses provinces pendant un séjour de dix années, dont six comme prisonnier de guerre (1815): a French Republican’s  jaundiced view of Britain?
12h30: LUNCH
CHAIR: David DUFF
14h: PLENARY (2): Rachel ROGERS (University of Toulouse)
‘Relinquish[ing] all former connections’: British radical experience in early revolutionary Paris
15h: COFFEE BREAK
CHAIR: Sophie LANIEL-MUSITELLI
15h30: Philipp HUNNEKUHL (University of Hamburg)
‘Alien citizen’, ‘unofficial statesman’, ‘Diogenes of Paris’: Gustav von Schlabrendorf and Henry Crabb Robinson’s transmission of his work
16h15: Pierre-Héli MONOT (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
The overdetermination of origins: Romantic internationalism, Jewish statelessness, and interpretative exile
17h: END OF CONFERENCE