Association Internationale Zola et Naturalisme |
University of New Orleans |
Hosted by:
Organizers-in-Chief: Anna Gural-Migdal (University of Alberta, Canada) and
Juliana Starr (University of New Orleans, USA)
Organizing Committee: Olivier Bourderionnet (University of New Orleans, USA)
Justine Huet (Mount Royal University, Canada)
Hamp Overton (University of New Orleans, USA)
Robert Singer (Kingsborough, CUNY, USA)
Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt (Pacific Union College, USA)
Presenter: Juliana Starr, Associate Professor, Dept. of Foreign Languages, University of New Orleans
Kevin Graves, Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, University of New Orleans
Eliza M. Ghil, Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages, University of New Orleans
Philippe Aldon, Attaché culturel adjoint, Consulat Général de France à la Nouvelle-Orléans
Anna Gural-Migdal, President of the AIZEN®, University of Alberta, Canada
Juliana Starr
Kevin Graves
Eliza M. Ghil
Kristin Cook-Gailloud (Johns Hopkins University, USA): “Can Literature be a Science, or Science, a Form of Literary Discourse? The Implications of Emile Zola’s Roman expérimental”
Jacques Neefs (Johns Hopkins University, USA): “Zola et le roman comme expérience”
Jacques Neefs
Holly Woodson (Seattle University, USA): “Spectacles of Naturalism and the Spectacle of Paradise in Son Excellence Eugène Rougon”
From left: Holly Woodson and Kristin Cook-Gailloud
Nicholas White (University of Cambridge, England): “La Débâcle: The Arts of War and the Science of Naturalism”
Nicholas White
Guest Speaker: Donna M. Campbell (Washington State University, USA): “Bitter Tastes: Why Women Writers Aren’t Recognized as Naturalists”
Donna M. Campbell
From left, back row: Éliane Delente, Dominique Legallois, and Vanessa Costa e Silva Schmitt
Éliane Delente and Dominique Legallois (Université de Caen, France): “Les répétitions dans Les Rougon-Macquart: une écriture du naturalisme”
Corinne Loreaux-Kubler (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III, France): “L’envers des rotatives dans Son Excellence Eugène Rougon et L’Argent”
Corinne Loreaux-Kubler
Vanessa Costa e Silva Schmitt (Université de Genève, Suisse): “Le credo et les théories scientifiques du Dr Pascal dans le roman éponyme d’Émile Zola”
Agnès Sandras (Bibliothèque nationale de France, France): “Haro sur les disciples zoliens!”
Richard Schumaker (University of Maryland University College, USA): “Crepuscular Crises: Nietzsche and Les Soirées de Médan”
Caroline Doua Oulaï (Université Paris-Sorbonne – Paris IV, France): “L’amitié, le groupe de Médan − un remède à la névrose zolienne”
Richard Schumacker and Agnès Sandras
Élise Cantiran (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III, France): “Diffusion du modèle zolien aux États-Unis: le rôle d’Henry James”
Geneviève De Viveiros (Western Ontario University, Canada): “De l’Ambigu à l’Olympic Theatre: L’Assommoir sur la scène à New York”
Robert S. April (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA): “Zola’s Reception in America and the Roles of William Dean Howells and Samuel S. McClure”
Mark D. Kuss (Our Lady of the Holy Cross College, USA): “The Reception of the Dreyfus Affair in Louisiana”
From Left: Mark D. Kuss, Robert S. April, Geneviève De Viveiros, and Evlyn Gould
Tony Williams (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA): “Night Darkens the Street: Two Post-War British Naturalist Works of Arthur La Bern”
Monica Filimon (Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, USA): “Naturalism as Political Instrument of Resistance in Stere Gulea’s Moromeţii (The Moromete Family, 1988)”
Robert Singer (Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, USA): “Eat Me: Naturalism and Meat”
From Left: Robert Singer and Monica Filimon
Isabel Cristina Folgado Rio Novo (Ismai – Instituto Superior de Maia, Portugal): “Zola et la poésie naturaliste”
Olivier Bourderionnet (University of New Orleans, USA): “Fréhel ou l’incarnation d’un héritage naturaliste dans la chanson de l’entre-deux-guerres”
Elizabeth Miller Lewis (University of New Orleans, USA): “Naturalism, Social Dance, and the Evolution of Identity in Chopin and Cather”
From left: Elizabeth Miller Lewis, Célia Sousa Vieira, and Olivier Bourderionnet
Riikka Rossi (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Finland): “Devils, Vestals, Mother Earth: Representations of Rural People in Naturalism”
Riikka Rossi
Francis Lacoste (Université de Jendouba, Tunisie): “Zola et la représentation du monde rural dans La Terre”
Francis Lacoste
Hemlata Giri (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III, France/ University of Delhi, India): “Le blé et la terre: du conflit et de l’harmonie dans The Octopus (1901) de Frank Norris et Fécondité (1900) d’Émile Zola”
Diane M. Smith (State University of New York at Farmingdale, USA): “Zola’s Harvests: Farm Life in the Short Fiction of Hamlin Garland and Mao Dun”
Diane M. Smith
Haroldo Ceravolo Sereza (University of São Paulo, Brazil): “Two Novels, One Plot: Homoeroticism and Creativity in Portugal and Brazil”
Maria Cristina Batalha (Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil): “Lima Barreto et la voie du naturalisme populaire dans la littérature brésilienne”
Juan Pablo Spicer-Escalante (Utah State University, USA): “The Strangest of ‘Bed Partners’? Lust and/in the Films of Lucrecia Martel”
From left: Manuel García-Castellón, Juan Pablo Spicer-Escalante, Maria Cristina Batalha, and Haroldo Ceravolo Sereza
Brittany Powell Kennedy (Tulane University, USA): “Transgressive Femininity in a Naturalist World: Contesting Female and Regional Exceptionality in Kate Chopin and Emilia Pardo Bazán”
Brittany Powell Kennedy
Anita Duneer (Rhode Island College, USA): “Literary Naturalism in Achy Obejas’s Ruins”
Andrea Panzeca (University of New Orleans, USA): “Naturalism and the Florida Setting in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston”
UNO Fine Arts Gallery on the Lakefront Campus, Fine Arts Building
AIZEN®/UNO Best Photo Prizes
Juror: Ariya Martin, Artist in Residence at UNO
UNO Fine Arts Gallery Exhibit: Southern Women at Work
From left: Şirin Dadas and Jacques Neefs
Jennifer K. Wolter (Bowling Green State University, USA): “Le Roman expérimental and Zola’s Master Plan”
Şirin Dadaş (Free University of Berlin, Germany): “Naturalisme pictural et littéraire: les rapports entre la théorie de l’art et la poétologie romanesque d’Émile Zola”
Soundouss El Kettani (Royal Military College of Canada, Canada): “La lettre zolienne ou l’épistolaire entre l’intime et le public”
Céline Grenaud-Tostain (Université d’Évry – Val d’Essonne, France): “Travelling sur ‘les hommes de bonne volonté’ dans les lettres à Alexandrine”
From left: Soundouss El Kettani and Jennifer K. Wolter
Jean-Sébastien Macke (Centre Zola – ITEM/CNRS, France): “Les archives zoliennes à l’ère du numérique”
Jean-Sébastien Macke
Jeanne Campbell Reesman (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA): “Jack London, Photographer”
Jeanne Campbell Reesman
Mary Niall Mitchell (University of New Orleans, USA): “Her Story in Daguerreotype: Race, Slavery, and Naturalism in 1850s Boston”
Mary Niall Mitchell
Guest Speaker: Karl Zieger (Université Charles de Gaulle – Lille III, France): “Les origines du naturalisme en Autriche: de la réception de l’œuvre de Zola à la ‘face cachée’ de ‘Vienne fin-de-siècle’”
From left: Chantal Morel and Karl Zieger
Karl Zieger
Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt (Pacific Union College, USA): “Toward a Rural Austrian Naturalism: Courbet, Zola and Ferdinand von Saar”
Helga Mitterbauer (University of Graz, Austria/University of Alberta, Canada): “A Methodological Answer to Crisis? Analysis of Naturalism in Hermann Broch’s Early Writings”
Kim Misfeldt (University of Alberta, Canada): “Naturalistic Impulses in the Portrayal of Violent Females by Elfriede Jelinek and Lilian Faschinger”
Andrea Gogröf (Western Washington University, USA): “Endgame: Love, Conflict and Offspring in Michael Haneke’s Amour”
Andrea Gogröf, Kim Misfeldt, and Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt
From left: Kelly Basilio, Sébastien Olson-Niel, and Caroline Vial
Caroline Vial (Northwestern University, USA): “Zola et la politique des corps”
Sébastien Olson-Niel (Université de Vincennes-Saint Denis – Paris VIII, France): “Psychanalyse du moi institutionnel dans The Octopus et La Bête humaine”
Kyoko Watanabe (Meiji University, Japan): “Les signes du corps chez Maupassant”
Anna Gural-Migdal (University of Alberta, Canada): “Corporéité et sexualité horrifique dans Le Journal d’une femme de chambre d’Octave Mirbeau”
Kyoko Watanabe
Eugène Tavares (Université de Ziguinchor, Sénégal): “Existe-t-il des écrivains africains naturalistes? Le cas des écrivains africains lusophones”
Christian Mbarga (St. Thomas University, Canada): “Ibrahima Dieng: déterminisme ou fatalité chez Sembène Ousmane”
John McDowell (Canadian University College, Canada): “The Ravages of ‘Skin Hunger’ in Post-Apartheid South Africa Surfacing in the Photographs of Pieter Hugo and the Short Stories of Achamt Dangor”
John McDowell
Dulce Santos (University of Lisbon, Portugal): “L’écriture (re)créatrice de la femme chez Zola – la femme comme métaphore de l’écriture”
Elizabeth A. Carroll (The University of Iowa, USA): “Zola’s Bachelor Machine: Reproduction Derailed”
Deirdre M. Sennott (Portland State University, USA): “Felicitous or Phobic Spaces? Gender and Train Travel in Cather and Zola”
Minori Noda (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III, France): “L’espace urbain et la figure féminine dans L’Assommoir et Maggie: A Girl of the Streets”
From left: Minori Noda, Elizabeth A. Carroll, and Deirdre M. Sennott
Mihaela Marin (University of South Alabama, USA): “La ville débarbarisée: rituels de la consommation dans le paysage urbain zolien”
Isabelle Schaffner (École Polytechnique, France): “Incarnation des forces créatrices de la ville, dans les romans de Norris et Zola”
Jon Falsarella Dawson (Oxford College of Emory University, USA): “‘The Tyranny of Organized Labor’: Working-Class Agency in ‘The Dream of Debs’ by Jack London”
Todd Kennedy (Nicholls State University, USA): “In Defiance of the Naturalist Metropolis: John Dos Passos and the ‘City of Destruction’”
From left: Todd Kennedy, Jon Falsarella Dawson, Mihaela Marin, and Isabelle Schaffner
Myrto Drizou (Valdosta State University, USA): “A Tenuous Negotiation: The Politics of Genre in Frank Norris’s Theory of Fiction”
Fredrik R. Stark (Northern Illinois University, USA): “Patterns of Speech Repetition in Frank Norris’s McTeague”
Roderick Cooke (Franklin and Marshall College, USA): “A Thin Veneer: McTeague’s Masculinities”
From left: Roderick Cooke, Myrto Drizou, and Fredrik R. Stark
Célia Sousa Vieira (Ismai – Instituto Superior da Maia, Portugal): “Les théories sur le roman naturaliste dans les littératures portugaise et espagnole”
Manuel García-Castellón (University of New Orleans, USA): “Naturalism in Spain and Latin America: Its Compromise with Traditions of Idealism and Christianity”
Marjorie Rousseau (Université de Tours, France): “La réception des ouvrages critiques de Zola en Espagne: L’exemple d’Eduardo López Bago”
Ellen Mayock (Washington and Lee University, USA): “Naturalist Taxonomies of José Ángel Mañas’s Historias del Kronen”
Session Audience
Based on real events, this film tells the story of Turner Stull (Barlow Jacobs), a claim adjuster in Post-Katrina New Orleans who risks his job to help a local man, Nixon (Eddie Rouse), find his lost dog. As this unlikely pair traverses the city, Turner comes to discover that some damage is immeasurable. Filmed on location in New Orleans only months after Hurricane Katrina, Low and Behold blurs the line between reality and fiction, creating a mosaic of images, faces, and voices that together make for a unique cinematic experience. Screening followed by a discussion in English and French with the director, Zack Godshall, the 2009 Louisiana Filmmaker of the year.
Low and Behold by Zack Godshall
Midori Nakamura (Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, Japan): “‘L’annonce’ et ‘l’amorce’ chez Zola: du théâtre au roman”
Midori Nakamura
Carmen Mayer-Robin (The University of Alabama, USA): “No ‘Bland Harmony of Romance’: Travail, by Zola (1901) and Pouctal (1920)”
Carmen Mayer-Robin
Kelly Basilio (University of Lisbon, Portugal): “Ironie et comique dans l’adaptation par Renoir d’Une partie de campagne de Maupassant”
Kelly Basilio
Ayşe Kiran (Haceteppe University, Turkey): “La complémentarité de la nature et de la culture par défaut: l’exemple de Thérèse Raquin”
Ayşe Kiran
Ana I. Oancea (Columbia University, USA): “Heredity beyond the Rougon-Macquart: The ‘New Men’ of Travail”
Evlyn Gould (University of Oregon, Eugene, USA): “Naturalism’s New Novel: Experimental Teaching in Zola and Barrès”
From left, back row: Evlyn Gould and Ana I. Oancea
Front row: Mihaela Marin
Elisabeth-Christine Muelsch (Angelo State University, USA): “Monsieur Emile Zola’s Concierges”
Sayeeda Mamoon (Edgewood College, USA): “Earning Her Living: The Modern Salesgirl in Zola’s Au Bonheur des Dames”
Elsa Stéphan (Tulane University, USA): “La prostitution dans Au Bonheur des Dames d’Émile Zola: une approche psychanalytique”
From left: Sayeeda Mamoon, Elisabeth-Christine Muelsch, and Elsa Stéphan
Marie-Sophie Armstrong (Lehigh University, USA): “From Hugo’s Sublime to Zola’s Grotesque: A Kleinian Reading of L’Argent”
Kristof Haavik (Arab American University, West Bank): “The One and the Many: The Sacred in La Faute de l’abbé Mouret”
Carole Trévise (Tulane University, USA): “Sacrilège et sacré: Le naturalisme de Zola et le sublime religieux. Étude de La Terre”
Asma Jouini (Université de Tunis, Tunisie): “Le naturalisme ‘sublime’ chez Joris-Karl Huysmans”
From left: Marie-Sophie Armstrong, Kristof Haavik, and Carole Trévise
From left: Stephen C. Brennan and Keith Newlin
Stephen C. Brennan (Louisiana State University Shreveport, USA): “Pragmatic Truth in Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy”
Carol S. Loranger (Wright State University, USA): “The Negligibles: The Naturalist Movement in American Poetry, 1892-1920”
Qizhi Shu (Xiangtan University, China): “Stephen Crane’s ‘The Monster’: The Reconstruction of White Masculinity in Racial and Ethical Dimensions”
From left: Carol S. Loranger, Stephen C. Brennan, and Qizhi Shu
Éléonore Reverzy (Université de Strasbourg, France): “‘Solitaire comme Moïse’: Zola et la question de l’impopularité”
Éléonore Reverzy
Céline Brossillon (Dickinson College, USA): “Les bêtes humaines de Zola − assommées par la solitude?”
Charles J. Stivale (Wayne State University, USA): “Solitude chez Stendhal and Maupassant: From Integration to Disintegration”
From left: Céline Brossillon and Charles J. Stivale
Anne Boyd Rioux (University of New Orleans, USA): “Extending the Boundaries of Naturalism: The Example of the American Writer Constance Fenimore Woolson”
Rebecca Wiltberger (University of Kentucky, USA): “Naturalism, Alternative Domesticity, and the Unnecessary Death of Lily Bart in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth”
Courtney Maren Hilden (University of New Orleans, USA): “Spoiling Dinner: Wharton, Woolson, and Revising the Already-Revised Marriage Plot”
From left: Courtney Maren Hilden, Rebecca Wiltberger, Anne Boyd Rioux, and Donna M. Campbell
Philippe Chavasse (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA): “Georges Eekhoud et son terroir incarné”
Guri Ellen Barstad (University College of Østfold, Norway): “Vivre dans la vérité: La lutte pour la vérité subjective dans deux romans d’Alfred Mercier”
Caroline Loranger (Université de Montréal, Canada): “Naturalisme et oralité dans le roman canadien-français La Scouine d’Albert Laberge”
From left: Robert S. April, Caroline Loranger, Guri Ellen Barstad, and Philippe Chavasse
Book cover of Mercier’s novel: L’Habitation Saint-Ybars
From left: Ronald Geerts, Juliana Starr, and Elizabeth Emery
Juliana Starr (University of New Orleans, USA): “Natural Disaster: Representation and Spectatorship in the Flood Stories: L’inondation, Trouble the Water, and Low and Behold”
Elizabeth Emery (Montclair State University, USA): “Naturalism Louisiana-Style, from Zola and Swamp People to Duck Dynasty and Cajun Pawn Stars”
Ronald Geerts (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique): “Chekov in The Tremé: On Treme as Real Naturalist Television Drama”
From left: Laura J. Medina, Laszlo Fulop, and Hamp Overton
Hamp Overton (University of New Orleans, USA): “Naturalist Filmic Devices in Contemporary Narrative Film”
Laura J. Medina (University of New Orleans, USA): “Naturalism in Contemporary American Independent Narrative Films by Women Directors”
Laszlo Fulop (University of New Orleans, USA): “Naturalism in Contemporary Romanian Film”
Steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi River
Boarding at The Lighthouse in the French Quarter behind Jax Brewery: 600 Decatur St., New Orleans, LA 70130
From left: Kelly Basilio, Caroline Loranger, Corinne Loreaux-Kubler, Justine Huet, Anna Gural-Migdal, and Robert Singer
Bus leaving from The Lighthouse in the French Quarter behind Jax Brewery: 600 Decatur St., New Orleans, LA 701
Laura Plantation
AIZEN®, Association Internationale Zola et Naturalisme
The University of New Orleans, College of Liberal Arts
The University of New Orleans, Center Austria
Austrian Cultural Forum New York
Consulat Général de France à la Nouvelle-Orléans
Alliance Française de la Nouvelle-Orléans
L’Union Française, La Nouvelle-Orléans, Louisiane
The University of Alberta, Canada
Anna Gural-Migdal, Organizer-in-Chief, President of the AIZEN® (University of Alberta, Canada)
Juliana Starr, Organizer-in-Chief (University of New Orleans, USA)
Olivier Bourderionnet, Local Organizer (University of New Orleans, USA)
Hamp Overton, Local Organizer (University of New Orleans, USA)
Robert Singer, Vice President of the AIZEN® (Kingsborough, CUNY, USA)
Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt, Secretary-Treasurer of the AIZEN® (Pacific Union College, USA)
Justine Huet, Assistant to the AIZEN (Mount Royal University, Canada)
Kevin Graves, Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts
Anthony Cipolone, Assistant Dean for Budget and Technology
Jennifer Miguez, Executive Coordinator for Operations and Events
Peggy Gaffney, Assistant Dean and Director of Diversity Affairs
Susan Krantz, Former Dean of the College of Liberal Arts
Eliza Ghil, Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages
David Hoover, Chair of the Department of Film, Theatre, and Communication Arts
Günter Bischof, Director of Center Austria
Ariya Martin, Artist in Residence and Director of UNO Fine Arts Gallery
Dan Rule, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts
Charles Hadley, Research Professor of Political Science Emeritus
Chris W. Surprenant, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Florence M. Jumonville, Librarian, Louisiana and Special Collections Department
Mike Adler, Director of Media Services
Mary M. Thompson, Assistant Director of Event Services
Naomi Moore, Assistant Director of Oliver St. Pe’ Center
Sabrina Dupree, Coordinator for Communications
Lauren Morales and Jordan Vickers, Sales Managers, Hampton Inn Downtown
Melissa Eilers, Grey Line Tours
New Orleans Visitors Bureau
Ana Anubis & David Macpherson of Ingénieuse Productions, AIZEN Graphics©
Philip Hoyt, AIZEN Web Site©
Martin Janiszewski, AIZEN Web Site©
Anna Gural- Migdal, Editor
Marie-Sophie Armstrong, Associate Editor
Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt, Associate Editor
Philip Hoyt, EXCAVATIO Web Site©
Sandrine Brossillon, Dickinson College, USA
Christine Cook-Gailloud, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Anna Gural-Migdal, University of Alberta, Canada
Elisabeth-Christine Muelsch, Angelo State University, USA
Keith Newlin, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA
Robert Singer, Kingsborough, CUNY, USA
Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt, Pacific Union College, USA
Juliana Starr, University of New Orleans, USA
Tony Williams, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA
Philippe Aldon and Bartholomew Wander, Consulat Général de France à la Nouvelle-Orléans
Julie Walker, Aurélie Champvert and Justine Guschlbauer, Alliance Française de la Nouvelle-Orléans
Danny Lewis and Paul Alvares, L’Union Française, La Nouvelle-Orléans, Louisiane
Christian Joseph Ebner, Austrian Cultural Forum New York
Alain Pagès and Jean-Sébastien Macke, Centre Zola, ITEM-CNRS, Paris
Chantal Morel, Institut français du Royaume-Uni and Emile Zola Society London
Agnès Sandras, Bibliothèque nationale de France
Jeanne Campbell Reesman, Jack London Society, USA
Guri Ellen Barstad, Centre d’études supérieures d’Østfold, Halden, Norway
Robin White, Nicholls State University, USA
Karl Zieger, Honored Guest, Université Charles de Gaulle – Lille III, France
Donna M. Campbell, Special Guest, Washington State University, USA
Zack Godshall, Filmmaker
and a big thank you to Giambattista Mondada, Ex Consul General of Switzerland in Chicago
