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Thursday 26 June – Amphithéâtre Bilsky-Pasquier, Campus des Cordeliers
09:00 – 09:30 – Registration and Welcome Coffee
09:30 – 10:00 – Opening Words
10:00 – 11:15 – Keynote: Steve Mentz (St John’s University, NYC)
Kinds of Blue: Colors, Water, and Ecological Dynamism
Chair: Anne-Valérie Dulac (Sorbonne Université)
11:15 – 11:45 – Tea and Coffee Break
11:45 – 13:15 – Panel 1: Impressions and Emotions
Chair: Emily Eells (Université Paris Nanterre)
Catherine Maxwell (Queen Mary University of London): ‘Ideal Instants’ and the Impressionist Lyric of Colour
Nicholas Gaskill (University of Oxford): Colour and Intensity in Modernist Poetry
Gwenda Koo (University of Cambridge): Katherine Mansfield: A Subjective Experience Coloured by Emotions
13:15 – 14:30 – Lunch
14:30 – 15:30 – Panel 2: Global Encounters (1)
Chair: Madeline Hewitson (University of Birmingham)
Lucy Powell (University of Oxford): Making Whiteness Visible: Behn, Pope, Mignard and the Colours of Colonialism
Anita Raychawdhuri (University of Houston Downtown): Shakespeare’s Blues: The Significance of Blue in the Early Modern World
15:45 – 16:45 – Panel 3: Global Encounters (2)
Chair: Stefano Evangelista (University of Oxford)
Rosie Blacher (Kingston University, London): Vision in T. N. Mukharji’s A Visit to Europe (1886)
Béatrice Laurent (Université Bordeaux Montaigne): Syncretic Chromatics in Lafcadio Hearn’s Experience of Japan
16:45 – 17:15 – Tea and Coffee Break
Friday 27 June – Amphithéâtre Bilsky-Pasquier, Campus des Cordeliers
09:00 – 09:30 – Tea and Coffee
09:30 – 11:30 – Panel 4: Anxious Modernities
Chair: Isabelle Gadoin (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Angie Dunstan (Queen Mary University of London): Slow Fade: Anxious Chromatic Encounters in Victorian Literature and Visual Culture
Michele Brugnetti (Sapienza University of Rome): The Aesthetic Experiencing of Colour: Tracing the Connection between aesthetic Bildung and Chromatic Encounters in Walter Pater’s Gaston de Latour
Mimi Lu (University of Sydney/University of Oxford): Colouring the Idea of a University: The “Secondary and Tertiary Hues” of a Modernising Institution
Leonor-Jo Barnard (University of Oxford): Dark and Earthy Shades: Ecological Consciousness in Thomas Hardy
11:30 – 12:00 – Tea and Coffee Break
12:00 – 13:00 – Panel 5: The Material Book
Chair: Matthew Winterbottom (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
Melissa Tedone and Rosie Grayburn (University of Delaware): The Poison Book Project: Examining the colourful Materiality of mass-produced nineteenth-century Euro-American Book Covers
Giulia Simonini (Technische Universität Berlin): Colour Materiality in early nineteenth-century Watercolour Painting Handbooks
13:00 – 14:30 – Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 – Panel 6: Texts and Textiles
Chair: Julie Loison-Charles (Université de Lille)
Alessandra Ronetti (Sorbonne Université): ‘Eiffel Red’: Materiality, Fashion and Urban Experience in fin-de-siècle Culture
Suchitra Choudhury (University of Glasgow): White (lies): Pale Shawls in Victorian Literature
Gabriel Saada (Sorbonne Université): ‘A Mosaic of Pieces of Colour’: Romance as Textile in William Morris’s late Prose Fictions
16:00 – 16:30 – Tea and Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00 – Keynote: Alexandra Loske (The Royal Pavilion, Brighton & Hove Museums, Brighton)
Teaching the Basics and Subtleties of Colour: Women Writing and Illustrating for Children and Young Art Students from 1805 to the 1940s
Chair: Charlotte Ribeyrol (Sorbonne Université)
18:00 – 19:30 – Drinks Reception in the Cloisters of the Campus des Cordeliers
Saturday 28 June – Amphithéâtre Abbé Grégoire, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
09:00 – 09:30 – Tea and Coffee
09:30 – 11:00 – Panel 7: Colour on Stage
Chair: Robert Stagg (Texas A&M)
David Taylor (University of Oxford): Kaleidoscopic Dryden: Theatre, Empiricism, Colour
Armelle Sabatier (Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas) : Performing Colours in Early Modern Drama: Theatrical Chromaticity in Shakespeare’s The Two Noble Kinsmen (1613), a case study
Nora Galland (Université de Bretagne Occidentale): Chiaroscuro Aesthetics in Early Modern Drama: Race, Gender and Class
11:00 – 11:30 – Tea and coffee break
11:30 – 13:00 – Panel 8: Chromatic Epistemologies
Chair: Nicholas Gaskill (University of Oxford)
Elodie Ripoll (Universität Trier): A Literary History through Colours
Arnaud Dubois (CNRS): ‘A Biological Classification of the Colours of Living Organisms’: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Categorisation of the Colours of Nature
Joyce Dixon (University of Edinburgh): Charles Darwin’s Colourscapes: Chromatic Notation on the Voyage of H.M.S Beagle
13:00 – 14:00: Lunch
14:00 – 15:30: Closing Round-Table
