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Emile Zola and Naturalism 9th International Film Festival
October 9-11, 2003
hosted by University of Texas at San Antonio
Organizers: Organizers-in-chief: Anna Gural-Migdal (University of Alberta, Canada) Sponsors: AIZEN, Association internationale Zola et le Naturalisme
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9 8:00-8:45 AM REGISTRATION, 8:45-9:15 am Presenter: Robert Singer, Vice-President of the AIZEN Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt, Secretary-Treasurer of the AIZEN Daniel Gelo, Dean of the College of Liberal and Fine Arts, University of Texas at San Antonio Denis Simonneau, Consul General of France, Consulate General of France in Houston Jeanne Campbell Reesman, Ashbell Smith Professor of English, University of Texas at San Antonio Santiago Daydí-Tolson, Professor of Spanish, University of Texas at San Antonio Anna Gural-Migdal, President of the AIZEN
Section A 9:30 - 11:00 am, Buena Vista 3.324 Special Session: Nana Agnieszka Tworek (Yale University, USA): “Nana e(n ana)morphose” Melissa Bailar (Rice University, USA): “Nana and the Mirror’s Tain” Isabelle Schaffner (Columbia University in Paris, France): “Quête identitaire à travers l’univers urbain dans Nana et Sister Carrie (1900)” 11:00 am - 12:15 pm Lunch at La Margarita Mexican Restaurant & Oyster Bar Section B 12:30 - 2:30 pm, Buena Vista 1.312 Translation, Adaptation, and Censorship of Zola’s Text Aurélie Barjonet (Sarrebrück University, Germany): “Le Rêve en Allemagne: de la traduction au texte” Denise Merkle (Université de Moncton, Canada): “Zola et censure: en France et à l’étranger” Janice Best (Acadia University, Canada): “‘Il n’avait rien d’obscène, ce derrière, et ne faisait pas rire, farouche’” Jean-Sébastien Macke (Université de Reims, France): “D’Émile Zola à Alfred Bruneau: transpositions et permanence du naturalisme”
2:30-2:45 pm Break Section C 2:45 - 4:45 pm, Buena Vista 1.312 Zola and the Visual Arts Hélène Poiré (Université Laval, Canada): “La Belle Noiseuse balzacienne: prétexte, pré-texte ou ‘corps’ de L’Oeuvre zolien” Christine Cook-Gailloud (The Johns Hopkins University, USA): “Le grand oeuvre de l’art pictural dans Les Rougon-Macquart d’Émile Zola” Jennifer Davy (McNeese State University, USA): “The Poem of Male Desires” Jean-Marie Dauplaise (University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA): “From Diversion to Decadence: Zola, Manet and the Brandy Plum as ‘graphic moment’” Section D 5:00-6:00 pm, Aztec Room, Radisson Hotel Émile Zola and the Art of His Time Guest Speaker: Richard Brettell (University of Texas at Dallas, USA): “Zola and the Painters”
6:00-7:00 pm Opening AIZEN Wine and Cheese, Aztec Room, Radisson Hotel San Antonio Market Square
Section E 9:30-11:00 am, Buena Vista 3.326 History, Ideology, and Politics in the Fin de Siècle Madhuri Mukherjee (William Paterson College, USA): “Popular Perceptions of Zola at the Fin de Siècle” Patricia Kofman-Razi (Michigan State University, USA): “Marxist Ideology in Vicente Blasco Ibánez’s The Cabin (1898)” Jeffrey Oxford (University of North Texas, USA): “Naturalism: The Bridge Between Centuries in Arturo Pérez Reverte’s Limpieza de sangre” Section F 12:30-2:30 pm, Buena Vista 1.318 Writing the Feminine in Naturalist Fiction Brittany Horn-Connor (University of Texas at Austin, USA): “‘La Femme et la Patrie’: Images of Marginalization and Victimization in War” Holly Woodson Waddell (Northwestern University, USA): “The Tragic Void: Racine’s Phèdre in Zola’s La Curée” Steven Amarnick (Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, USA): “‘Why not billing and cooing?’ Trollope, Bennett, and Middle-Aged Female Desire” Elisabeth-Christine Muelsch (Angelo State University, USA): “‘Belles lectrices’ in Bel-Ami or How to Read the Female Reader”
2:30-2:45 pm Break Section G 2:45- 4:45 pm, Buena Vista 1.318 Latin American Naturalism Without Borders Dana Kress (Centenary College of Louisiana, USA): “The Comptes Rendus de l’Athénée louisianais and the Development of Naturalism in Creole Louisiana” Héctor Pérez (University of the Incarnate Word, USA): “History as Science: Zola’s Influence on the Fiction of Américo Paredes and Josephina Niggli” Jack Himelblau (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA): “Naturalism in Four Spanish American Novels from 1885-1946” Santiago Daydí-Tolson (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA): “The Mexican Naturalism of Federico Gamboa, Novelist of the ‘porfiriato’”
Naturalist Film Festival 7:00-10:00 pm Buena Vista 1.328 Que Viva Mexico! (Sergei Eisenstein, 1932, Mexico/USA: 90 min., silent with titles in English)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 Section H 8:00-10:00 am, Buena Vista 3.326 Vampirism, Horror, and the Macabre in Naturalist Texts Sandrine Rabosseau (Université de Paris III-Sorbonne nouvelle, France): “Vampirisme et macabre dans Thérèse Raquin” John Duffy (University of South Carolina, USA): “Vampires in the Attic: Parasitism in La Conquête de Plassans” Jennifer Wolter (Hillsdale College, USA): “Naturalism and (the) Beyond in ‘Le Horla’” Wojciech Tomasik (Casimir the Great Academy of Bydgoszcz, Poland): “The Auschwitz Terminus: Reading Zola through Genocide Texts”
10:00- 10:15 am Break Section I 10:15-11:45 am, Buena Vista 3.326 Discourses of Capitalism in The Rougon-Macquart Gorica Hadzic (Montclair State University, USA): “Les commandements du commerce: Zola, la religion et la tentation dans Au Bonheur des Dames” Isabelle Baron (Birkbeck College, England): “Bankruptcy and Greed in L’Argent, Les Drames de la Bourse and Les Derniers Scandales de Paris” Jurate Kaminskas (Queen’s University, Canada): “Accumulation et dépense dans L’Argent d’Émile Zola” 11:45 am - 1:00 pm Lunch Section J 1:00 - 2:00 pm, Buena Vista 3.326 Fin-de-Siècle Sociology of Literature Guest Speaker: Jacques Dubois (Université de Liège, Belgium): “Zola, la fiction et les sciences humaines”
Section K 2:00-4:00 pm, Buena Vista 3.326 New Readings of The Rougon-Macquart Gilbert Darbouze (Bloomsburg University, USA) “Portraits: la famille dysfonctionnelle chez Zola et la famille idéale en marge du naturalisme” Laura Ioana Pondea (The Ohio State University, USA): “Le Ventre de Paris d’Émile Zola: un rite d’initiation manqué?” Christian Mbarga (St. Thomas University, Canada): “Marie Chantegreil, the Forgotten Orphan in Zola Scholarship” Bonaventure Balla Omgba (Oakland University, USA): “L’Assommoir, lecture sémiotique et ésotérique” 4:00-4:15 pm Break Section L 4:15 -5:45 pm, Buena Vista 3.326 Science and Medicine in Naturalist Fiction Erika Sutherland (Muhlenberg College, USA): “Ipecac for Isadora: La Desheredada’s Doctors and Cures” C.J.T. Talar (University of Saint Thomas, USA): “‘Science et sentiment religieux’: Tensive Relationship in Roger Martin du Gard’s Jean Barois” Sharon Johnson (Virginia Polytechnic Institute, USA): “The Newly Sanitized, Disease-Ridden Halles: The Recontextualization of Le Ventre de Paris within Nineteenth-Century Discourses on Disease and Health” Section M 8:00-10:00 am, Buena Vista 3.328 Germinal and Its Literary Influence Eduardo Febles (Simmons College, USA): “Souvarine’s Vanishing Act: The Effacement of Anarchy in Zola’s Germinal” Anna Bondarenco (State University of the Republic of Moldova, Moldova) “Le stéréotypé et l’événementiel dans Germinal d’Émile Zola” Dorota Walczak-Delanois (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium): “Émile Zola - l’Avant-garde de l’Avant-garde polonaise: ‘Leforest’ de Jan Brzekowski” Pilar Rotella (Chapman University, USA): “‘Sub terra’: Lives in/of Darkness”
10:00-10:15 am Break Section N 10:15 am- 11:45 am, Buena Vista 3.328 Zola’s Novels Adapted for the Screen Gaël Bellalou (University Bar-Ilan, Israel): “Nana à l’écran: de la courtisane romanesque à la banlieusarde contemporaine” Jean-Marc Braem (Lebanon Valley College, USA): “Le naturalisme à l’écran. Trois adaptations françaises de Zola: Jean Renoir, René Clément, Claude Berri” Anna Gural-Migdal (University of Alberta, Canada): “‘La fabrique’ du Germinal de Claude Berri” Section O 2:00-4:00 pm, Buena Vista 3.328 Special Session: Le Rêve Göran Blix (Princeton University, USA): “Symphony in White: Identity and Erasure in Zola’s Le Rêve” Corina Sandu (University of Toronto, Canada): “Les traits du visage d’Angélique: une répétition signifiante” Anna Girin (Montclair State University, USA): Médiévisme dans Le Rêve de Zola” Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt and Linda Toenniessen (Pacific Union College and Oregon Health Sciences University, USA): “Le Rêve: Zola’s Transformation of English Gothic into French - Madwoman and All” 4:00-4:15 pm Break Section P 4:15-5:45 pm, Buena Vista 3.328 Special Panel: The Mystery and History of Hysteria: Zola, Charcot, Lourdes, and Beyond Robert April (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA): “Faith-Healing and Zola’s Ideas on Hysterical Illness in Lourdes” Zvi Lothane (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA): “On Hysteria” Toby Gelfand (University of Ottawa, Canada): “Charcot and Zola: The Secret of Medical ‘Miracles’”
7:30 -10:00 pm Naturalist Dinner, Copper Kitchen, Southwest School of Art and Craft, SA (Catered by the Club Giraud) Introductory Speech: Jöel Savary, Cultural Attaché, Cultural Office, Consulate General of France in Houston
Special Presentation: “Les ‘petits soucis de santé’ de Zola à travers sa correspondance inédite à Alexandrine et à Jeanne” President: Denise Merkle Guest Speaker: Brigitte Émile-Zola, M.D. (Collection privée Brigitte Émile-Zola, France) PRESENTATION of the SCHOR/CAHM AWARD
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 Section Q 8:30 am - 10:00 am, Buena Vista 3.326 Zola, Serialization, and Mass Production Edward Lasseigne (Ohio State University, USA): “Serialization in a Partisan Press: L’Aurore, Zola’s Les Quatre Évangiles, and the Dreyfus Affair’s Melodramatic Endgame” Marie-Sophie Armstrong (Lehigh University, USA): “Le roman invisible des Rougon-Macquart” Pierre Morel (Agence universitaire de la Francophonie-Montréal, Canada): “La vérité est en marche”
10:00-10:15 am Break Section R 10:15- 11:45 am, Buena Vista 3.326 Lesser Naturalists José Santos (Texas Tech University, USA): “Un sublime ratage: Terrains à vendre au bord de la mer d’Henry Céard” Ali Nematollahy (Baruch College, USA): “Lucien Descaves and Radical Naturalism” Philippe Chavasse (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA): “Paysans, ouvriers et voyous dans l’oeuvre de Georges Eekhoud” 11:45 am- 1:00 pm Lunch Section S 1:00 -2:30 pm, Buena Vista 3.326 Rural Spaces and Exotic Places in Naturalist Texts Ligia Vassallo (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil): “Le naturalisme brésilien et l’Amazonie” Ellen Mayock (Washington and Lee University, USA): “Naturalist Twists and Turns in Gómez Ojea’s Cantiga de agüero” Carmen Mayer-Robin (The University of Alabama, USA): “Problematic ‘dénouement’ in Fécondité’s ‘pages africaines’”
2:30-2:45 Break Section T 2:45-4:15 pm, Buena Vista 3.326 Naturalism, Gender, and the Body Brigid Reynolds (The Ohio State University, USA): “Martyrdom: One Remaining Choice in the Deterministic World of Madame Gervaisais and the Goncourt Brothers” Sayeeda Mamoon (Edgewood College, USA): “Hermaphroditus Reconfigured: Gender Benders and Double-Sexed Beings in À Rebours” Chantal Morel (Institut français du Royaume-Uni, England): “‘Le corps dans tous ses états’: The Multi-Faceted Aspects of the Body in The Rougon-Macquart” 4:15-4:30 pm Break Section U 4:30-6:00 pm, Buena Vista 3.326 Special Panel: Zola and Contemporary Pedagogical Thought Dorothy Diehl (Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, USA) “‘Le Roman expérimental’ (Version 2003): Introducing the Experimental Method into the Digital Classroom” Matthew Hilton-Watson (University of Michigan-Flint, USA): “Émile Zola 101”: Dissecting The Masterpiece in the College Freshman Laboratory” David Sokolowski (Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, USA): “An Experiment in Experimental Reading: Using Zola’s Theory of the Experimental Novel in an American Literature Survey Course”
Section V 8:30 to 10:00 am, Buena Vista 3.328 Rethinking Naturalism Samaké Famahan (University of Glamorgan, Wales): “Naturalisme dans La Bête humaine de Zola” Robert Daniel (Saint Joseph’s University, USA): “Thérèse Raquin et sa préface de 1868: déclaration scientifique, praxis symbolique” Pieter Borghart (Ghent University, Belgium): “(Greek) Naturalism in European Perspective: A Comparative Approach” Section W 10:15-11:45 am, Buena Vista 3.328 Special Panel: Jack London and Naturalism Debbie López (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA): “Naturalist Jack London’s Romantic Allusions” Robert Gibbs (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA): “‘Bildungsroman’ in Jack London and Richard Wright” John Rundin (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA): “The Naturalist Platonism of Jack London’s ‘The Red One’”
11:45 am - 1:00 pm Lunch Section X 1:00-2:30 pm, Buena Vista 3.328 Special Session: Naturalism in Film and the Media Doran Larson (Hamilton College, USA): “Busby Berkeley and the Naturalist Problematics of Industrial Pornography” Robert Singer (Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, USA): “The Murderous Mystique: Naturalism and The Bad Seed” Juan Pablo Spicer-Escalante (Utah State University, USA): “An Allegory of (Stag) Nation: Lucrecia Martel’s La Ciénaga (2000)” 2:30-2:45 pm Break Section Y 2:45-4:15 pm, Buena Vista 3.328 Spatial Concerns in Naturalist Texts Maria Pérez-Bernardo (Catholic University of America, USA): “Espacio liminales en Un Viaje de novios de Pardo Bazán” Marion Geiger (The Johns Hopkins University, USA): “L’envers d’Une Page d’amour d’Émile Zola” Mélanie Giraud (The Johns Hopkins University, USA): “Le milieu labyrinthique dans L’Oeuvre: entre complexité et expérience”
4:15 - 4:30 pm Break Section Z 4:30-6:00 pm, Buena Vista 3.328 Animal Representations in The Rougon-Macquart Noémie Isabelle Parrat (University of Pittsburgh, USA): “Zola’s Albine and Désirée: Badiou’s Ethics of Animal and Human Rights and Deleuze’s Becoming-Animal” Kristof Haavik (University of Botswana, Botswana): “The Murdered Horse: Omens and Prophecy in La Débâcle” Geoffrey Mac Adam (Columbia University, USA): “‘L’écriture de la course’: A Thematic and Aesthetic Study of Horseracing in Zola’s Nana”
7:00-8:00 pm RIVER BARGE NARRATED TOUR: Yanaguana Cruise
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