Reading Henry James in the Twenty-First Century: Heritage and Transmission The third international conference of the European Society of Jamesian Studies

Conference organizers: 20-22 October 2016 Annick Duperray (Emerita, Aix-Marseille Univ.) The American University of Paris Adrian Harding (American Univ. of Paris / Aix-Marseille Univ.) 6 rue Colonel Combes, 75007 Paris Dennis Tredy (Université de Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Thursday, 20 October

9:00 – 10:00 am: Registration 10:00 – 10:30 am: Welcome and Opening Remarks 10:15 – 12:30 am: Morning Panels:

Panel 1: “French Connections I” Room C102 -“Memory’s Signature in James and Proust: Composing Private Texts in The Wings of the Dove and La Prisonniere” Phyllis van Slyck (City University of NY, LaGuardia) chair

-"James and the French Evolution" Mary Boyington (Syracuse University, New York, USA)

-“James and Balzac: the Sense of Spatial Heritage” Natasha Vicente da Silveira Costa & Guacira Marcondes Machado Leite (Universidade Estadual Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil)

-« De Hyacinth Robinson à Nick Dormer : variations sur le personnage d’Endymion » Isabelle de Vendeuvre (Republique des Savoirs, USR 3608, ENS, France)

Panel 2: “20th-Century Reverberations” Room C103 -"Ghostly Revision" Sheila Teahan (Michigan State University, USA) chair

-“Henry James’ The Ambassadors and W. Somerset Maugham’s ‘The Fall of Edward Barnard’: Influence or Intertextuality?’ Souad Baghli Berbar (University of Tlemcen, Algeria)

-‘“[I]t’s a splendid style, but it’s a dangerous style”: Henry James and Elizabeth Bowen’ Rachel Bryan (Jesus College, Cambridge)

-“Henry James’ Lessons in Ian McEwan’s Narrative Strategies” Tamara L. Selitrina (Bashkir State Pedagogical University, Ufa, Russia)

2:00 – 3:00 pm Keynote Address: Eric Savoy (University of Montreal, Canada) Room C102 “Burns the Fire: Muriel Spark’s ‘Aspern Papers’”

3:00 – 3:15 pm Coffee Break 3:15 – 5:30 pm Afternoon Panels

Panel 3: “French Connections II: Historical Dialectics” Room C102 -“Spacings, Rivets, Curves, and Value: Marginal Economics and Vitalism in The Ivory Tower and Within the Rim” Geoffrey Gilbert (American University of Paris, France) chair

-“In Defense of Culture: Henry James’s Legacy beyond ‘Within the Rim’” Hitomi Nabae (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Japan)

-“Napoleon Buonaparte by Henry James” Elizabeth Duquette (Gettysburg College, PA, USA)

-“The Anti-Modern James, Balzac & Barthes”

Erik S. Roraback, (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)

Panel 4: “21st-Century Reverberations” Room C103 -“A Contemporary Perspective: James’s The Wings of the Dove and Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Unaccustomed Earth” Linda Raphael (George Washington University, Washington DC, USA) chair

-“‘The price of adaptation may be very high’: Jamesian Transmission in Michiel Heyns’s Invisible Furies (2012)” Bethany Layne (University of Reading, UK)

-“Calling the Master Out: Joyce Carol Oates’s Rewriting of Henry James” Anna De Biasio (Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy)

-“When the Master Refuses to Vanish: Henry James’s Legacy in Leslie Marmon Silko” Carlo Martinez (Università G. d’Annunzio, Chieti-Pescara, Italy)

5:30 – 5:45 pm Coffee Break 5:45 – 6:45 pm Keynote Address: Jean Perrot (Emeritus Professor, Paris XIII) Room C102 “Michel Butor’s ‘Mobile’ Figure in Henry James’s Carpet” 6:45 – 7:45 pm Reception (room C104) Friday, 21 October

9:00 – 11:15 am Morning Panels

Panel 5: “Reassessing James” Room C102 -“Illusion and Reality in The Portrait of a Lady and The Bostonians” Vijay Prakash Singh (University of Lucknow, India) chair

-“Regaining Confidence” Rory Drummond (Independent Scholar)

-“Henry James’ ‘The Turn of the Screw’: How Uncanniness Lies in Ambiguity and Repetition” Kaini Kuo (National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan)

-“Interpretation and Knowledge in Henry James’s What Maisie Knew” Christopher Stuart (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA)

Panel 6: “Staging and Drama “ Room C103 -“Reciprocity of Haunting: The Stage Adaptation of Henry James’s Portrait of a Lady at Teatr Wybrzeże, Gdansk, Poland (2015)” Mirosława Buchholtz (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland) chair

-“Tradition, Transmission and the Théâtre Français: re-configuring James’s dramatic heritage” Dee MacCormack (Sheffield University, UK)

-“Luca Ronconi: Temporality and Illusions in the Adult-child” Matteo Gonfiantini (Independent Scholar)

-“Marriage Plot and Its Discontents: the Legacy of Jamesian Masculinity” Joewon Yoon (Korea University, S. Korea)

11:15 – 11:30 Coffee Break

1:30 – 2:30 pm Keynote Address: Philip Horne (University College London) Room C102 “String of Pearls: James, Maupassant and ‘Paste’”

2:30 –2:45 pm Coffee Break

2:45 – 5:00 pm Afternoon Panels

Panel 7: “Speech & Voice” Room C102 -“The Production of the ‘Echo Effect’ in The Golden Bowl” Nathalia King (Reed College, Oregon, USA) chair

-“On The Phenomenological Link of Speech, History and Humanity” Victor Gerardo Lopez Rivas (University of Puebla, National University of Mexico)

-“Shifting Selves and Ghostly Others: James and the Linguistics of Memory” Ivanna Cikes (Douglas College, Canada)

-“The Wail of the Voice: the Fate of Transmission from ‘Nona Vincent’ to The Wings of the Dove” John Holland (Independent Scholar)

Panel 8: “James and Film” Room C103 -“The Aspern Papers: Again, and Yet Again?” Rosella Mamoli Zorzi (Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Italy) chair

-“‘The Turn of the Screw’ on Screen: Playing the Game of Re-Transmission” Dennis Tredy (Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle, France)

-“Screen adaptation of Henry James’ The Portrait of a Lady” – The image of Isabel Archer in a postmodern cultural space: a dialogue of arts, cultures, eras” Dilara Kireeva (Bashkir State Pedagogical University, Ufa, Russia)

-“Reading The Europeans and Black American Princesses in the Late Nineteenth Century” Korey Garibaldi (University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA)

5:00 – 5:15 pm Coffee Break

8:00 pm Conference Dinner

Saturday, 22 October

9:30 – 9:45 am Coffee 9:45 – 11:45 am Morning Panels

Panel 9: “Objets d’Art & Painting” Room C102 -“‘Serious in spite of its lightness': James and Watteau” Tamara Follini, Clare College, Cambridge, UK) chair

“Once more things melted together: Aesthetic Empathy and Physical Responsiveness in The Wings of the Dove” Christy Wensley (University College London, UK)

-“The Circulation of Things in ‘Maud-Evelyn’” Thomas Constantinesco (Paris Diderot / IUF, France)

Panel 10: “What the Children Know” Room C103 -“The Wished-For Children of Henry James” Paula Marantz Cohen (Drexel University, PA, USA) chair

-“The Relapse of Institutional Knowledge in James from Foucault: The child, the governess, and the reparation/retardation of ab/normality” Rommel Chrisden R. Samarita (De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines)

-“Becoming a drainpipe: thought transmission in The Awkward Age” Shari Goldberg (Franklin & Marshall College, PA, USA)

11:45 – 12:00 am Coffee Break

2:00 – 4:15 pm Afternoon Panels

Panel 11: “Art, Vision and Knowledge” Room C102 -“Facing the Imagination: the Specular Encounter with Sargent’s Portrait of Major Henry Lee Higginson in The American Scene” Richard Anker (Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand I, France) chair

-“Thwarted Transmissions: Henry James Blocks Bombast in William Wetmore Story and His Friends and “The Abasement of the Northmores” Kathleen Lawrence (George Washington University, USA)

-“Henry James and Cognitive Science” Kyung Ah Kim (Hyupsung University, Whasung, South Korea)

-“‘Claims of Art and Social Duties’: Hyacinth Robinson’s Choice in The Princess Casamassima and Henry James” Keiko Beppu (Kobe College, Japan)

Panel 12: “Transmission of Jamesian Values” Room C103 -“Liking Henry James in the 21st Century” Michael Nowlin (University of Victoria, Canada) chair

-“Henry James - On the Art and Theory of Fiction” Liliana Colodeeva (Dunarea de Jos University, Galati, Romania)

-Henry James in Korean Cultural Context: from the Horizon West to the Horizon East” Choon-Hee Kim (Seoul National University, S. Korea)

-“‘Plumes from the Imperial Eagle’: Henry James, Moral Irony, and the Hypertext of Empire” Selma Mokrani (Badji Mokhtar-Annaba University, Algeria)

4:15 – 4:45 pm Coffee Break & End of Conference