Cultural Modernism in the Americas I: Québec

Conference at the W.T. Bandy Center

Thursday and Friday, April 18th and 19th the Department of French and Italian, W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire, and Modern French Studies are proud to announce a two-day bilingual conference addressing the emergence of modernism and modernity in Québec, and the ways this process was influenced by French modernism. This conference inaugurates a series of work on French modernism in the Americas to be presented in the coming years at the Bandy Center.

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Program

Thursday April 18^th

Session I (9am-10:30)

Opening Remarks: Robert Barsky

1)     Daniel Ridge (Vanderbilt University), Paul Bourget and La Nouvelle France (English)

2)     Robert Barsky (Vanderbilt University), Dirt, Filth and Matter Out of Place: Baudelaire’s Legacy in the Trial of the Québécois artist Remy Couture (English)

3)     Gary Wihl (Washington University in St. Louis), The Modern Definition of National Literature (English)

Coffee Pause (10:30-11)

Session II (11am-12:30)

1)     Nelson Charest (The University of Ottawa), L’“américanisme” de Baudelaire chez les poètes québécois au tournant du XXe siècle (French, will use power point)

2)     Cynthia Harvey (L’Université du Québec), Le récit des Fleurs du Mal ou la métamorphose du vampire (French)

3)     Benoît Houzé (Paris VIII University), Moderne par tradition: Nelligan et les synesthésies (French)

Lunch (12:30-2pm)

Session III (2pm-3:30pm)

1)     Michel Pierssens (Université de Montréal), L’Écho des jeunes et la première modernité québecoise (French)

2)     Nathalie Watteyne (Université de Sherbrooke), Saint-Denys Garneau, Anne Hébert et Jacques Brault : trois poètes lecteurs de Baudelaire (French)

3)     Antoine Boisclair (Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf), Héritages de Mallarmé. Modernité de Paul Morin et de René Chopin (French)

Closing Discussion (3:30-4pm)

Evening Events

5:30 Senior Graduation Event, French Department, hors d’œuvres, drinks

7pm Dinner at West House, in the Commons

Friday 19 April

Coffee/Drinks 10am-10:15

Round Table Discussion, Recorded Response (10:15-12:30)

Lunch (12:30-2pm)

Round Table Discussion, Recorded Responses (2pm-4pm)

Evening Events

Free for dinner

7:30 Company Rose dance performance, Neuhoff Center, Germantown

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