THE NEWSLETTER OF IDEA I N T E R D I S

VOL 11 NO 1 ISSN 1960-1816 INTERDISCIPLINARITÉ DANS LES ÉTUDES ANGLOPHONES Spring 2017

TomJones Letter from the ment to autonomy and greatly improve ing’s 18-century novel . its chances to attract post-doctoral can - IDEA has remained Director didates and fund its own PhD students. extremely active these past few By John S. Bak, While post-docs remain out of months, and with a few activities Université de Lorraine IDEA’s reach at the moment, given its already being planned for the fall, it limited budget, IDEA can, and will need looks to maintain this momentum until s we approach the final months to, attract more PhD students over the the end of its current contract. § of our current quinqennial con - next few years. The new Master’s pro - tract, it is perhaps time to reflect grams in Nancy and Metz could help New Books oAAn what we have accomplished togeth - alleviate the problem in terms of recruit - er and what challanges IDEA still faces ing local candidates, but IDEA will also by IDEA during the next five years. need to be attractive to candidates from Members The HCERES committee deliv - outside Lorraine and even France. The ered its final evaluation of IDEA’s Bilan Colette Stévanvitch and Projet only way for this to happen is for its pro - Anne Mathieu, eds. Les and last March, and, while it was fessors to maintain a national and inter - “Mort d’Arthur” moyen- generally positive in its remarks and national research profile. anglaises en ver s. observations, there were also some There are several other areas Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. serious criticisms that IDEA will need to IDEA will need to improve upon in the Sophie Aymes, Brigitte address in the immediate future. years to come, but these seem to me to Friant-Kessler, Maxime While I detail and respond to be the most urgent. IDEA’s new direc - Leroye, eds. Illustration and these criticisms in my reply to the tor, Isabelle Gaudy-Campbell, and the Intermedial Avenues. HCERES (see insert), it is perhaps Conseil BPTI 5 . Nathalie Collé next to be elected to help her, Monica Latham, gen. eds. opportune to highlight a few here. will no doubt address these concerns in Nancy: PUN – Éditions HCERES still feels that IDEA the months ahead. Universitaires de does not live up to its claims of being a Finally, I’d like to highlight Lorraine, 2017. research center concerned with the IDEA’s recent activities, the majority of study of interdisciplinarity. The work which are detailed in the following INSIDE conducted these past few years by the pages. The Discipline project put Letter from the Director 1 project on the evolution of academic together two separate half-day work - disciplines counters this conclusion to a shops that addressed the rise of CR : Projet “Oralité” 2 certain extent. And yet, HCERES is not Institutes and Studies (e.g., Postcolo- CR: IDEA Seminar Series, “Genealogical entirely incorrect in its assessment. The nial Studies) as an alternative pedga - Histories” 3 various research projects, in spite of gogical model to traditional academic I?EA News Briefs 3 their achievements, simply do not disciplines. “speak” to each other, even if several The Oralité project published a CR: IDEA Seminar Series, “Brazilian Literary Journalism,” ReportAGES Project 3 IDEA members contribute to more than volume entitled Micro-/Macro-syntaxe one project. and continues to hold workshops and CR: Two, half-day workshops, IDEA’s first challenge will be to “Instituitionalization of Disciplines” seminars on the translation of language Project 4 reorganize its research poles and find markers. ways to encourage synergy between its The Voixetsilence project CR : Séminaire 4, “Voix et silence dans les arts” 6 various projects and their members. hosted an international conference in Such interaction would encourage inter - June, and once again worked with local IDEA’s Reply to HCERES 7 disciplinarity within IDEA’s federative artistic partners like the Manufacture. CR : Colloque, “Literary Journalism project and thus fulfill one of its greatest The ReportAGES project held and Civil Wars” 8 research promises. its fourth international conference Rencontres des doctorants 10 Second, IDEA will need to (again off-site, this time in Malaga, wean itself from its financial dependen - ) and is continuing editing two CR : IDEA Seminar Series, “Transferts cy upon the Univeristé de Lorraine and culturels et circulation des idées” 10 PôleTELL forthcoming books. the , money which will poten - The BPTI project published its Échanges avec Sarrebrück 11 tially be disappearing or greatly 5th volume, with numbers 6 and 7 cur - Members’ 2017 Activities 12 –13 reduced in the years ahead. European rently in production. (H2020) or national (ANR) contracts Colloque, “Voice(s) and Silence And the Collective Identity pro - in the Arts” 16 represent a real challenge, one that ject recently held a seminar on the would demonstrate IDEA’s committ - « transferts culturels » of Henry Field- PAGE 1 THE NEWSLETTER OF IDEA

CR: Projet Oralité ment circonscrits et se proposent d’articuler différentes échelles d’analyse, tant pour l’examen de certains Par Vasilica Le Floch, phénomènes langagiers et marqueurs que pour une Université de Lorraine théorisation de leur niveau d’appréhension. L’analyse micro- s’enrichit de la prise en compte du contexte (écrit, e Projet Oralité a vu se oral, situation pragmatique, perspective énonciative, concrétiser la publication dimension cognitive). Le changement d’échelle dans du volume Micro-/Macro- l’analyse des constituants met également en évidence leur sLLyntaxe:laquestiondel’échelle nécessaire complexité et permet de renouveler notre d’analyseenlinguistique approche de leur étiquetage et de leur catégorisation. anglaise , dans Modèles Le Projet Oralité continue à travailler de concert Linguistiques (Tome XXXVII, avec OSLiA qui se réunit toutes les 6 semaines à Censier. année 2016, fascicule 1, vol. 73, Ce projet a été également nourri par des conférences en Éditions des Dauphins, Toulon). traduction, notamment : « La traduction : défis et enjeux » Cette revue à comité de (Corinna Anderson et Christine Lécluse-Voirin), « lecture devrait être consultable Traduction, sous-titrage et oralité » (Elisabeth Kargl, à terme dans https://ml.revues. Université de Nantes), « L'histoire des traductions » (Claire org/?lang=en. Placial, Université de Lorraine), « Le Multilinguisme en Les articles rassemblés Europe » (Sandrine Kerespars, Commission Européenne). se donnent pour la plupart Faisant intervenir des chercheurs et des professionnels de comme point de départ une posture micro-syntaxique, la traduction, ces conférences se proposent de contribuer en traitant d’éléments au fonctionnement a priori limité à la vulgarisation de la recherche et se situent à l'interface et isolé et qu’on peut catégoriser comme unités de pre - enseignement, recherche et monde professionnel. Les mière articulation, aux rangs inférieurs de la proposition étudiants du Master Traduction (département LEA) et les : constituants nominaux (pronom personnel de seconde étudiants du Master Recherche (département d'Anglais) personne you ), constituants adverbiaux ( but , now ), con - sont invités à ces conférences et participent régulièrement. structions syntagmatiques (syntagme prépositionnel) et Le Projet Oralité s’est réuni le 23 mai pour faire le syntaxiques (pseudo-clivage). Mais s’il est possible point sur les projets en cours et ceux à mettre en œuvre à dans un premier temps d’expliquer leur fonctionnement partir de septembre 2017. Il a été convenu que plusieurs en termes d’ordre séquentiel et/ou de rection, certaines ateliers seront organisés, avec la participation ponctuelle contraintes syntagmatiques et syntaxiques (place, ori - de chercheurs invités. Les doctorants et les étudiants du entation, focalisation), certains problèmes liés à l’inter - Master recherche (linguistique) seront également conviés § prétation référentielle (volatilité de la référence) ou à ces ateliers. encore à des rapports sémantiques, et certains phénomènes de liage marqués par des constituants CR: IDEA Seminar Series, extra-phrastiques (marqueurs du discours comme “Genealogical Histories: A New genre en français, like en anglais et so en allemand) conduisent à envisager l’imbrication des deux ordres de Literary Genre for an ‘Uncertain combinatoires que sont la micro-syntaxe et la macro- Elite,’” Jonathan Spangler, syntaxe. C’est l’orientation qu’adoptent les différents auteurs au fil de leurs articles. 7 February 2017 Dès lors, le consensus sur le traitement micro- By Jérémy Filet, (localiste) des constituants mentionnés est remis en Université de Lorraine question : you ne procède plus seulement d’un fonc - tionnement déictique ou anaphorique mais répond n 7 February 2017, IDEA (in partnership with the now également à un fonctionnement cohésif ; dépassse ÉcoleDoctoralStanislas ) hosted Dr. Jonathan le marquage adverbial temporel pour permettre un fonc - Spangler as part of its Seminar Series. His talk but tionnement argumentatif ; dépasse le niveau argu - wOOas entitled “Genealogical Histories: A New Literary Genre mentatif et cohésif interphrastique pour construire une for an Uncertain Elite.” dimension argumentative sur un plan intersubjectif et Dr. Spangler, a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern finalement réflexif; les énoncés présentant un pseudo- History at Manchester Metropolitan University in England, clivage sont moins à appréhender en termes de sail - is a specialist of genealogy, heraldry, and high court nobil - lance d’un élément qu’en termes d’articulation des dif - ity in France, specifically the Lorraine-Guise family. His férents temps du discours. talk addressed the elites’ obsession with 17th-century Ainsi, à l’instar de Wilmet (1997, p. 582) selon genealogical histories – “a blend of narrative derived from qui « le texte se présente comme une extrapolation de medieval chronicles with data formerly presented as trees la phrase », les travaux rassemblés dans ce volume Continued on next page franchissent la frontière de marqueurs syntagmatique - PAGE 2 INTER DIS / SPRING 2017 THE NEWSLETTER OF IDEA

I?EA News Briefs or lists” – during the 18th century, which On 1 February, IDEA included numerous volumes on some of members in Nancy and in Metz France’s greatest families, including returned to the ballot box and Béthune, La Tour d’Auvergne, voted in its next director, Montmorency, and La Trémoïlle. Isabelle Gaudy-Campbell. Her The question Dr. Spangler’s talk Monica Martinez mandate will begin on 1 raised was “Why was this so”? “If these January 2018, the start of the families were as grand as these new quinquennial contract. She genealogical histories proclaim,” he CR: IDEA Seminar will replace John S. Bak on, noted, “why was there the need to trum - Series, “Brazilian pet it in such a public (and expensive) who has been IDEA’s director Literary Journalism,” since 2010. fashion?” In March, IDEA Drawing upon a wide range of Monica Martinez, received the HCERES report, Lorraine, French and British sources, 20 January 2017 such as HistoireGénéalogiqueet evaluating its past five years of ChronologiquedelaMaisonRoyalede By John Bak, scientific activities and its pro - France,desPairs,desGrandsOfficiers Université de Lorraine ject for the next contractual peri - delaCouronne&delaMaisonduRoy od. The report was fair and , n January, IDEA welcomed Dr. accurate and by and large posi - Dr. Spangler argued that these narra - Monica Martinez, from the Univer- tive, though it did fault IDEA for tives, meant to educate the public as well sidade de Sorocaba (Brazil), as a few things, including its pro - as to raise money by public subscription, pIIart of this year’s Seminar Series. jects’ synergy and dedication to ostensibly served to improve the reputa - Returning from India, where she the center’s interdisciplinary tions of some of the most precarious had been lecturing for the previous mission. IDEA now awaits news noble families – in short, to protect, to two weeks, Dr. Martinez had a brief on how the Université and the legitimize and sometimes even to create layover in Paris, which allowed her to PôleTELL will use this evalua - their noble status. come to Nancy to present the talk tion to determine its annual bud - The talk, given in English, was “Brazilian Literary Journalism: Reports attended by numerous graduate stu - from José Hamilton Ribeiro ( Reali- get. dadeMagazine In the past, centers dents and IDEA members, but also by ) on Vietnã and several colleagues from different depart - Patrícia Campos Mello ( Folhade were given letter grades, which S.Paulo the Pôle used in calculating a ments and research centers who are ) on the Syrian War.” interested in the history of Lorraine. Like the American Michael Herr co-efficient that helped deter - Dispatches mine its budget. A new system Dr. Spangler is the coordinator of with , José Hamilton will have to be decided upon by an international academic network study - Ribeiro went to Vietnam in 1968 as a Pôle ing transnational elites, and senior editor Realidade war correspondent and the in order to turn narra - TheCourt of the journal of court studies, ended up, after losing the lower part of tive assessment into a calcula - Historian ble number. More on that will . He is also a fellow of the Royal his left leg in a mine explosion, resort - Historical Society, and the Higher ing to literary journalism to capture the come to light this fall. § Welcome! IDEA has Education Academy (UK). insanity of the war. Today, it is consid - recently added two new mem - ered to be one the finest pieces written bers to its team from recruit - Jonathan Spangler during the magazine’s golden age ment sessions in May: Yvon (1966–1968) and one of the best Keromnes, a PR in Metz, who examples of Brazilian literary journal - specializes in linguistics, and ism. Barbara Muller, a MCF in More recently, Patrícia Campos Mello, war reporter for FolhadeS. Nancy, with specializations in Paulo language studies and Shake- , covered the Syrian war, using speare. § in-depth interview techniques to cover events that created a wave of global INTER DIS solidarity among refugees, such as the death of Alan Kurdi, 3, on the Turkish Spring 2017 Vol 11 No 1 beach of Bodrum. Editor: John S. Bak Both writers offered Dr. Martinez to introduce the audience to Brazil’s © 2017 The Newsletter of the NovoJornalismo, called Jornalismo Research Group IDEA Literário , which draws upon its crônica All rights reserved. tradition that merges feature writing with investigative reporting. § INTER DIS / SPRING 2017 PAGE 3 THE NEWSLETTER OF IDEA

CR: Two half-day workshops, Cécile Perrot Institutionalization of Disciplines Project 6 April & 9 June 2017 By Marilyne Brun, Université de Lorraine

ollowing on the heels of a three-day international conference in June 2016, IDEA’s project on the Institutionalization of Disciplines (“INDI”) was fur - FtFher developed in 2017 with two half-day workshops organized on the LettresetSciencesHumainesde Nancy campus. The first half-day workshop (6 April 2017) was entitled “Reconfigurations of disciplines in the postcolo - nial English-speaking world” and focused on the emer - gence and evolutions of academic fields of study in économique : interdisciplinarité exemplaire ou limite de South Africa, Canada, India and Australia. Cécile l’interdisciplinarité ?”. The seminar, which took place on Perrot (Université Paris Descartes) discussed the 26 April 2017, included fruitful discussions between South African “Rhodes Must Fall” movement and IDEA members. recent debates on the decolonization of South African The second half-day workshop organized by universities (e.g., the hiring of more non-white faculty, the INDI project (9 June 2017) focused on regional the teaching of courses in languages other studies and the specificity of their institutionalization. than English, the insertion of an African- The workshop centered curriculum), while Jean-Michel included contribu - Lacroix, Professor Emeritus at Université tions on Welsh Paris 3 and well-known specialist of studies by Canadian society, gave a presentation on Stéphanie Bory the institutionalization of Canadian studies (Université Jean in France. Moulin Lyon III), Thierry Di Costanzo (Strasbourg) two combined pre - addressed evolutions in the teaching of sentations on Indian and Pakistani history in Europe and Breton and Celtic India, and Marc Delrez, Professor in studies by Hervé Liège, discussed the institutional position - Le Bihan and ing of Australian studies in Europe and Erwan Hupel Australia. (Université Another event organized by the Jean-Michel Lacroix Rennes 2), a INDI project was a seminar where paper on Basque Vanessa Boullet presented work in progress on the studies by Jean academic field of civilisation entitled “La civilisation Casenave (Université Bordeaux-Montaigne) and a pre - sentation on oceanic studies by Sarah Mohamed- Gaillard (INALCO), which included a reflection on the institutionalization of Oceanic studies, in particular on the teaching of Kanak and Polynesian languages in metropolitan and overseas France. Both workshops, and the seminar on econom - ics, advanced the projects’ goal of addressing the state of disciplinary studies in France, both English (and its various manifestations in a postcolonial world) as well as other languages tangentially related to English and their study throughout France. Matthew Smith and Richard Somerset are actively working on two publication projects related to Vanessa Boulet (IDEA) the 2016 conference and seminars and have submitted Continued on next page

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Institutionalization JEs (cont.) “Rhodes Must Fall” Movement a seminar proposal for the 2018 ESSE confer - ence in Brno (Czech Republic). §

Hervé Le Bihan and Erwan Hupel

Publication of Book Practices & Textual Itineraries, volume 5 Illustration and Intermedial Avenues DEA is happy to announce the publication of volume 5 of Book Practices & Textual Itineraries: Illustration andIntermedialAvenues , eds. Sophie Aymes, NIIathalie Collé, Brigitte Friant-Kessler & Maxime Leroy, Collection Regards croisés sur le monde anglophone, Nancy: PU de Nancy – Éditions Universitaires de Lorraine, 2017 (184 pages, ISBN 978-2-8143-0301-0). IllustrationandIntermedialAvenues contains nine original articles by artists and researchers who offer a variety of perspectives on illustration from the nine - teenth century to the twenty-first century. This selection is the result of the research work carried out by Illustr4tio, a French interdisciplinary network devoted to expanding the field of Illustration Studies worldwide and to bringing together illustrators, printmakers, publishers, curators, collectors and academics who have a common interest in illustration. It offers a wide spectrum of stances and prac - tices which highlight the intermedial dimension of the illustrative image. The topics under consideration range from the illustrator’s and reader’s investigation of and bodily involvement with a literary text to the aesthetic, commercial and technical constraints that shape the illus - trator’s work – as well as its reception – and define his or her object and status. The collection offers insight into a specific case of intermedial transaction and throws light on the dialogic relationship between text and image, writer or patron and artist, and more broadly between readers, texts and books. §

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CR : Séminaire 4, « Voix et silence dans les arts », 5 février 2017 Par Claudine Armand, Université de Lorraine

ans le cadre du séminaire 4 du 5 février 2017 et avant le colloque international du 14–17 juin, les membres du projet « Voix eDDt silence dans les arts » ont proposé deux man - Voix et silence dans les arts ifestations qui se sont tenues dans la salle d’ex - position de la Bibliotèque Universitaire du piedsdanslapoussière est « une histoire d’amour, Campus Lettres. d’abandon et de désespoir. Zéphira l’africaine est une En effet, l’objectif des membres était dou - Médée d’aujourd’hui », pour reprendre les termes de ble : viser un auditoire plus large et sensibiliser le Denis Milos, directeur du TUN. public à la matérialité de la voix et du silence. En Depuis cette date, le groupe de recherche se premier lieu, les participants ont pu voir et enten - consacre à la préparation du colloque international « Voix et silence dans les arts/Voice(s) and silence in Nathalie Galloro the arts » qui se tiendra à Nancy du 14 au 17 juin, sur et Domnique le Campus Lettres, le Théâtre La Manufacture – Boiseau Centre Dramatique National Nancy Lorraine. Pour toute information, voir le site : https://idea-udl.org/. §

Théâtre Universitaire de Nancy

dre Nathalie Galloro accompagnée du contrebassiste Dominique Boiseau. Nathalie Galloro est conteuse professionnelle et comédienne, co-fondatrice de la compagnie Tourbillon à Metz. Pour cette occasion, elle a choisi le conte Barbe Bleue qu’elle a interprété à la fois avec beaucoup d’humour et de gravité, en jouant sur les modulations de la voix et en laissant entendre des éclats de voix mêlés à du silence. La seconde manifestation a été menée par trois étudiantes du Théâtre Universitaire de Nancy, Léa Balthazard, Célia Fernandes et Marie Grosdidier. Sous la direction de Caroline Bornemann, les trois comédiennes ont mis en voix le texte Zéphira,Les piedsdanslapoussière écrit en 2002 par Virginie Thirion. Inspirée d’un fait divers, la pièce relate l’his - toire d’une jeune femme africaine qui décide de quitter Théâtre Universitaire de Nancy son pays pour aller vivre en Europe. Zéphira,Les

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IDEA’s Reply to the HCERES recherche de l’unité et l’étude théorique de l’interdiscipli - narité” (p. 5). IDEA does not fully disagree with this. Committee’s Evaluation As to the first point, IDEA is not, and probably will By John S. Bak never be, a world-renowned center for interdisciplinarity Université de Lorraine studies, though several of its members have obtained – or one day will – an international reputation for their interdis - pon reading the HCERES committee’s evalua - that tion report of the research center IDEA, its direc - ciplinary research. IDEA cannot be center simply tor, Conseil and members have found its findings because it is institutionally monodisciplinary by nature, UcUomplete, accurate and for most part justified with and hopes to remain so. For all of their advantages, mul - respect to IDEA’s recent contractual period (2013–17) tidisciplinary research centers confront as many problems and future quinquennial project (2018–22). IDEA has of synergy as monodisciplinary ones, and IDEA recog - known for some time what its strengths and weakness - nizes that the strength of its interdisciplinary mission lies es are, and the HCERES committee has clearly noted not in its willingness to abandon its current research tra - both. jectories or profiles (several of which have brought IDEA In terms of its strengths, IDEA recognizes itself international acclaim), but rather in its commitment to pro - as a dynamic research center for English studies with mote an individual project’s engagement with academic international aspirations and scientific ambitions, some of and cultural partners that will complement the interdisci - which, it is happy to report, was achieved during the past plinary nature of its research – in short, looking into the contractual period with its several projects and numerous fundamentals of interdisciplinarity from a bottom-up rather publications. It has successfully communicated these than a top-down approach. As such, IDEA has not aspirations and ambitions to the academic community at required each of its seven projects to embrace interdisci - large through its website, and internally to its own mem - plinarity as its governing principle (IDEA has one project bers through its newsletter, Interdis . It has maintained a specifically devoted to that task of theorization) but rather notable synergy between its members and its graduate to explore the limits, the advantages, and the handicaps students, between its obligations to produce scholarship of employing interdisciplinarity as a research imperative at a high level and its commitment to train the scholars of within the humanities in general and within English stud - tomorrow, doctoral and masters students alike. It has ies in France in particular. supported the efforts of seven individual research pro - Nor has it asked each of its members to abandon jects, yet still found ways to articulate these projects’ their current scholarship and recalibrate their research cohesion with the center’s central mission of interdiscipli - toward the study of interdisciplinarity. Not only would this nary studies. Finally, it has felt that it made incredible be counter-intuitive, but also counter-productive. It has, strides since its last contractual period in establishing however, asked its members to balance the two by con - long-term partnerships with other universities and tinuing to produce their individual research as they have research centers in France, throughout Europe, and always done and also by bringing their disciplinary exper - abroad (England, U.S.A., Brazild), as well as in securing tise into the wider discussion of interdisciplinarity through financial contracts that would wean it off of its depen - their contributions to one or more of the projects within the dence upon institutional funds from the Université de research center. Lorraine and its PôleScientifiqueTELL . Of course, IDEA could have adopted a more con - Despite these achievements, which HCERES servative path in defining its federative theme – as many has duly noted in its report, IDEA also recognizes its English research centers have done throughout France – shortcomings. There is, for example, still not enough the - and named itself (as it once was) the Centre for orization of interdisciplinarity among all of its projects, not Anglophone Studies. Such a name would have made enough publications in international journals, too few IDEA, given its scientific output, largely impermeable to institutional, cultural and socio-economic partnerships, HCERES’ present criticism. But in doing so, IDEA would too few doctoral students supported by research grants also have made itself a research center that chose its (be it from the doctoral school, the Région or ANR/H2020 name singularly to justify its research rather than a research center that conducts research to justify its name. contracts), and an imbalance between its members’ com - solely mitment to IDEA and/or individual scientific output. Because IDEA cannot be a center of inter - However, there are a few criticisms or sugges - disciplinary studies (that is, it cannot hope to hire col - tions made by HCERES in its report that IDEA and its leagues whose specialty is interdisciplinarity because members do not entirely agree with and would like to such a research profile does not exist within the discipli - respond to here: nary mandates of the CNU), it must use its disciplinary 1) Throughout the report, HCERES has repeatedly (1) resources as best as it can to study the nature of interdis - questioned IDEA’s commitment to its federative theme of ciplinarity, which is both a rich and innovative field of interdisciplinarity and (2) criticized it for having not clear - research that merits the scholarly inquiry IDEA devotes to ly brought about and questioned “l’articulation entre la it. IDEA simply feels that HCERES should have recog - pratique de l’interdisciplinarité dans certains projets de Continued on page 14

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present had a relative who fought and died in the war, CR: Colloque ReportAGES, and not all were fighting on the same side. The healing “Literary Journalism and process is still underway in Spain, and this conference Civil Wars,” revealed just how much longer that healing will take. The following is a selection of the various point of views pre - Universidad de Málaga, sented during the two days. 25 –26 May 2017 Much discussion centered, of course, on how the Spanish press covered the war. Aurora García González By John S. Bak, (Universidade de Vigo) looked at how the northern paper, Université de Lorraine VozdeGalicia , reported on the war, while Juan Tomás Luengo Benedicto (Universidad de Málaga) discussed el arious scholars working on ReportAGES, the literary periodismoradiofónico from the local Radio Málaga-EAJ journalism and war project begun five years ago, 9 in the south, a city that was a Republican stronghold up convened for the project’s fourth international con - until its defeat in February 1937; the radio station was gVVress, held this year in the Communications Faculty of the soon seized by the Fascists and used as a propagandist University of Malaga in Spain. Given the conference theme mouthpiece for the Nationalists. on literary journalism and civil war, Spain seemed a fitting One specific battle – or massacre, since it is con - country to host the conference. sidered one of the cruelest and most violent moments of Co-organized with the – was the topic of two talks in a Antonio Cuartero, a recent PhD session entitled “The Battle of and the War from the university and an active Press.” Manuel João de Carvalho Coutinho participant in the ReportAGES (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) discussed a young project, the conference welcomed Portuguese journalist, Mário Neves, whose 1936 Antonio Cuartero two keynote speakers and nine - reportages for the Portuguese newspaper Diáriode teen presenters, the majority of Lisboa were the last to appear before censorship was whom teach at Spanish universities. enforced by ’s own dictator, António Oliveira While it seemed strange at first that the conference Salazar, who was aligned with Franco. Clara Sanz would draw more Spanish colleagues than foreign ones, the Hernando (Universidad de Burgos) next studied various reason soon became clear during the lively, and sometimes crónicas published in the dailies DiáriodeNoticias , Diário heated, discussions: talking about the Civil War has long deLisboa , DiáriodaManhã and OSéculo to demon - been a sensitive issue in Spain, just as it would be in any strate how the media was one of Salazar’s main country that turned brother against brother in battle. What weapons to discredit the defenders of the legitimate these animated debates revealed is that, today, the Spanish Republican government and extol the insurgents. can – and, moreover, desire to – talk about their Civil War, There were also the inevitable discussions of the history of which has been captured more by the count - various foreign correspondents, male and female alike, less foreign war correspondents and writers who covered whose reportages contributed to the international com - part of it, from Orwell to Hemingway and from Gellhorn to munity’s understanding of what was to be the prequel to Parker, to name just a few. the Second World War. Working from Kapuściński affir - And yet, many of these celebrated foreign writers mation that there is no real journalism without empathy did not speak much Spanish, nor did they really understand with the Other, Juan Francisco Plaza (Universidad the historical context responsible for the war, which was Loyola Andalucía) compared the war correspondents much more complex than the simplistic fascist/communist Faulques and Folwer in two literary works, Elpintorde binary that was repeatedly presented. Still, each of these batallas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte and TheQuiet foreign authors used direct dialogue in their literary journal - American by Graham Greene, to discuss the modern war istic books or dispatches, dialogue that could have only reporter’s role when faced with issues of implication vs. come from a translator – or from their own neutrality and empathy vs. indifference. Celia Wallhead imaginations. This was one of the main (Universidad de Granada) then presented her consor - arguments presented by Alberto Lázaro tium’s current research project on comparing the testi - (Universidad de Alcalá), whose keynote talk, monies of various literary journalists of the Spanish Civil entitled “Crónicas inglesas de la Guerra War and their various biographers’. Civil española: entre el periodismo, la histo - Dolors Palau Sampio (Universitat de València) ria y la novela,” opened the conference. also looked in the war testimonies of Martha Gellhorn, Only now, as we approach the cen - while Renée Lugschitz (Universidad Miguel Hernández tury mark of the Civil War, are the Spaniards Alberto Lázaro de Elche) discussed the work of several foreign female willing to talk about the atrocities the nation war correspondents of the Spanish Civil War, who found visited upon itself. Most of the colleagues Continued on next page

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narrative journalism a more appropriate medium to capture the Spain will fully recover from its war. Consider the fact the horror of the war as it was visited upon the civilian population? several Southern states in the U.S. are only now remov - Literary journalism, she argued helped these women authors ing the signs of the Confederacy, be it flags on govern - to establish their niches among the ment buildings in Georgia or statues of Confederate gen - male-dominated contingency of war erals in New Orleans. Though Franco is largely a per - reporting. sona non grata in Spain today, there are still many José Ruiz Mas (Universidad de Spaniards who still believe in some of the ideas he had Granada) then compared Kate O’Brien’s espoused. FarewellSpain (1937), a book about her And as we turned our attention from the civil experiences in the Basque Country in wars in Spain and the U.S. to those more recent, be it the 1920s and on her pre-war journeys in Bosnia or Syria, what was discussed was just again how central and northern Spain in the 1930s, little we know about the wars and their historical contexts TheTimes with ’ reporting on the siege of from the people involved. These witnesses could not give the Alcázar of Toledo, a symbol of an accurate portrait, so heavy is any state or insurgent Spanish Nationalism. He argued that the information on the propaganda during a war, and foreign correspondents siege and defense of the Alcázar (July–September 1936) that once again have to rely on their wits, translators and O’Brien included in her book did not always coincide with that sometimes their imagination in trying to present to a TheTimes provided by , a newspaper she favored because of largely ignorant Western reader just what is happening its alleged “neutrality.” Her reflections and interpretations of there, or has happened, and why. the Spanish Civil War, and more specifically of the siege of the Like her colleague, Lucía Ballesteros Aguayo, fortress as a key war event in the early days of the conflict, are who looked at the targeting of children through cartoon mainly based on journalists’ accounts of British left-wing for - books steeped in Francoist ideologies, Natalia Meléndez TheTimes eign correspondents, and not exclusively on . Malavé (Universidad de Málaga) discussed Joe Sacco’s War testimonies as literary journalism would preoccu - graphic book SafeAreaGoražde (2000), based on the py the research of two other presenters. Antonio Cuartero oral histories of his interviewees over a period of four crónicas (Universidad de Málaga) explored the of Manuel months he spent in Bosnia in 1994–95 during that coun - Chaves Nogales, one of the main figures of Spanish literary try’s civil war. And Manuel João de Carvalho Coutinho Asangreyfuego journalism, focusing on his book , a collection gave the second of his two talks on Scott Anderson’s “On of nine reports and chronicles on the conflict that portray the the Syrian Civil War (2016), a reportage about the Arab authentic stories and tragedies of Falangists, anarchists, Spring and the resultant migrant crisis. Republicans and insurgents alike. Javier Sánchez Zapatero Mirta Núñez Díaz- and Manuel González de la Aleja (Universidad de Salamanca) Balart (Universidad Com- discussed the work of the British press and contributions from plutense de ) some of its most controversial volunteers and correspondents closed the conference whose work, today housed in 68 boxes in the Documentary with a second keynote Center of the Historical Memory of Salamanca, offers in terms speech about the legacy of a detailed vision of what these newspapers believed were Mirta Núñez Díaz-Balart of Spanish literature and and Juan Antonio García Galindo the causes of the war. Their case study was on Keith Scott journalism in the pursuit of Watson’s dispatches for the Daily Express and his resultant maintaining a balance in the documenting of the Spanish testimony about the war, Single to Spain (1937). Civil War. While the Spanish Civil War preoccupied the majority By the conference’s end, it was universally of the talks, civil wars past and present were not entirely agreed that literary war journalism continues to be one of neglected. Víctor García González (Universidad de Málaga) the most efficient means in capturing the available truths talked about war and the press during the reign of the Spanish of war. Because of its long-form attributes (column space King Felipe V, and María Galán (Universitat de València) com - to provide context and commentary and not just hard pared journalistic texts produced by professional correspon - facts and death tolls, and immersion reporting to allow dents, including Peter W. time to verify facts), literary war journalism can provide a Alexander and Felix G. de more accurate and nuanced reading of the wars that his - Fontaine, with those penned by tory will only tell in decades to comes, if it tells them at Confederate soldiers, who collabo - all. Sadly, what history will perhaps recall of the Syrian rated sporadically with various Civil War will be the mass immigration it caused through - newspapers during the American out Europe, more than the geopolitical complexities Civil War. responsible for the war. If we consider that in certain parts of the United One final conference, on the literary war journal - States, there is still a lingering resentment over its Civil War a ism of Pacific Rim nations (including Oceania, China and century and a half ago, it could very well be a while before Russia), is being planned for 2019. § INTER DIS / SPRING 2017 PAGE 9 THE NEWSLETTER OF IDEA

Rencontres des CR: IDEA Seminar Series, doctorants, 2016 –2017 « Transferts culturels et circula - By John S. Bak, tion des idées entre la France et Université de Lorraine la Grande Bretagne au siècle des aëlle Lafarge, a sec - Lumières », ond-year doctoral stu - dent, presented her Frédéric Ogée (Paris-Diderot), GrGesearch in process on nine - 9 March 2017 teenth-century American trav - Par Céline Sabiron, el narratives. Université de Lorraine The second half of the evening was devoted to près avoir reçu le Prof. Matthew Reynolds (Oxford) publishing in journals outside sur le concept de « traduction prismatique », puis of France. IDEA members Gaëlle Lafarge deux collègues de l’Université de Lorraine, Kerstin discussed their experiences AWAiedermann (CEGIL) et Claire Placial (Ecritures) sur la of and strategies publishing in academic journals in the question de la traduction et des transferts culturels dans le U.S. and in the U.K., as well as in Ireland and Australia. domaine franco-allemand (la notion de transfert culturel One of the points stressed was how Anglo-Saxon jour - ayant été « développée dans le cadre d’études de nals are looking for articles and not essays, with the l’Allemagne du XIXe siècle dans ses liens avec la major difference being that an article engages in a debate France » et étudiée par Michel with other scholars on a specific issue and thus necess - Espagne et Michael Werner), l’axe « esiates the inclusion of a literature review. Identité(s) Collective(s) / identité(s) A second point that was raises is that Anglo- Anglophones et Européennes » a Saxon journals, unlike SHS journals in France, are rigor - eu le plaisir de recevoir le ously ranked. So part of a researcher’s strategy is not Professeur Frédéric Ogée (Paris only recognizing what is the best journal to place their Diderot) le 9 mars dernier pour une research per the journal’s mission statement but also its conférence sur les transferts cul - ranking in the hierarchy of journals that publish similar turels et la circulation des idées research. Placing one’s research in a low-ranked journal entre la France et la Grande diminishes its impact factor, whereas trying to place it in Bretagne au siècle des Lumières. a journal likely out of reach is a poor usage of that Auteur d’ouvrages de Frédéric Ogée researcher’s time. Scholars need to be aware not only of référence sur le sujet (comme BetterinFrance?Thecir - a journal’s reputation and its publishing focus but also of culationofideasacrosstheChannelinthe18thcentury the potential impact of their own research. [Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2005], ou The evening finished with the traditional wine Intellectualjourneysthetranslationofideasin reception, where PhD students were allowed to discuss EnlightenmentEngland,FranceandIreland , in collabora - their research with others in a convivial environment. tion with Lise Andries, Darach Sanfey and John Dunkley, The “Rencontres” will return again in Novemeber § volume: SVEC 2013:12 [Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2017 with a new speaker and a new theme. 2013]), M. Ogée travaille sur un projet franco-écossais qui l’amène à analyser les échanges entre France et l’Écosse depuis David Hume et Rousseau (double portrait peint par Allan Ramsay en 1766) jusqu’à Walter Scott et sa vie de Napoléon. M.Ogée s’interroge sur l’admiration des Français pour une certaine Écosse (associée à Ossian, Walter Scott entre autre) et l’impact de ces échanges et transferts en France, d’abord à la période des Lumières puis du pré-Romantisme, puis du premier Romantisme (y compris en musique avec des adaptation à Paris par des Italiens de textes de Walter Scott). Lors de cette conférence, il a choisi de travailler la notion de transfert franco-britannique de manière assez large afin de donner des outils conceptuels et d’analyses au public présent avant de s’intéresser à un ouvrage sin - Continued on next page PAGE 10 INTER DIS / SPRING 2017 THE NEWSLETTER OF IDEA

TomJonesdesEnfants gulier, le (épelé ainsi au XIXe siè - Échanges avec Sarrebrück et cle) publié en français en 1812. M. Ogée a lu ce livre à l’occasion d’un article qui lui a été commandé pour un valorisation de l’internation dans ouvrage collectif portant sur les adaptations de grands le cadre de l’UE 101R romans pour les Par Isabelle Gaudy-Campbell, enfants en Europe Université de Lorraine depuis 1750. Il a donc proposé donc une es premières prises de contact entre le archéologie du pas - département d’anglais de l’université de la sage du roman de Sarre et le département d’anglais, site de Fielding, TomJones LMLetz, ont débouché sur des échanges fructueux. (1749) en français et Suite à de premières conférences invitées don - la manière dont il a été nées au printemps 2016 à Sarrebrück par Nelly traduit et expurgé Graziani, Claire Bardelmann et Yann Tholoniat, jusqu’à donner cet le département a reçu Joachim Frenk en sep - avatar en 1812. Peu de critiques et spécialistes se sont tembre 2016 pour une conférence intitulée “James Bond: ensuite intéressés à Fielding jusqu’en 1960. Considéré From the Cold War to Brexit.” comme « graveleux et peu fréquentable », il a été délais - Une combinaison de financements de l’UFR ALL sé au profit d’auteurs comme Pope, Addison et Metz et d’IDEA a également permis de recevoir Dr. Lena Richardson. La deuxième partie de cette conférence est Steveker pour une conférence intitulée “Shakespeare’s présentée comme un appendice, plutôt qu’une illustration TheTempest Then and Now” en février 2017, qui revisitait de la notion de transfert culturel. les thématiques du colonialisme et de l’impérialisme dans La conférence a permis de mettre en lumière des adaptations théâtrales actuelles. Outre les étudiants quelques réalités des transferts culturels au XVIIIe siècle de Master 2 assistant à ces conférences dans le cadre de qui sont liés aux conflits internationaux (politiques ou l’UE 101R (Participation à des colloques et des sémi - religieux surtout). De manière assez paradoxale, ils en naires), les étudiants de Master 1 et de L3 ont pu béné - sont souvent les conséquences. Loin d’interrompre les ficier de cette formation par la recherche et de la variété échanges et les transferts, les crises les engendrent et les d’approches proposée par les collègues germaniques. accélèrent. Ils en sont souvent le corollaire et sont opérés Le mois d’avril a été l’occasion pour un groupe par des intermédiaires qui font office, parfois malgré eux d’étudiants de Master 2, d’agrégation et de thèse de con - ou à leur insu, de véhicules (secrétaires, traducteurs) fronter leurs projets et perspectives de recherches doctor - sans en avoir forcément la vocation ou les qualités, et ales à l’international. Reçu par le département de avec des intérêts divers. La conférence a fait émerger Sarrebruck dans un contexte tri-national venu étoffer le cette notion de coïncidence entre l’Histoire et une histoire programme d’échange avec l’université de Varsovie personnelle. C’est la rencontre, souvent fortuite, entre les (Ostpartnerschaften-Programm des Deutsch-Akadem- deux qui sert de moteur aux échanges, d’où le caractère ischen Austauschdienstes), les doctorants Laura Davidel hétéroclite des idées et des textes qui passent la frontière, et Jérémy Filet, l’étudiante de Master Jutta Demullier et les d’où leur transformation lors de la transmission. La con - agrégatifs Jérôme Chemin et Angélique Schüler ont férence a également permis de pointer du doigt l’impor - respectivement pu présenter leurs travaux et projets de tance des journaux et donc des métadiscours (comme thèses devant une trentaine de pairs. TheSpectator ) dans la diffusion des idées. Pour un Cette formation à la recherche compte-rendu de la en contexte international a été permise conférence en elle- par un financement conjoint de l’UFR même, vous pouvez ALL Metz et d’IDEA. Le déplacement a aller consulter le été un véritable enrichissement humain résumé de Justine et scientifique. Une nouvelle con - Feindry, étudiante en férence invitée est prévue en juin à études anglophones Sarrebruck et sera donnée par Pierre de M1. Il est accom - Degott sur TheBeggar’sOpera . pagné de l’enreg - Les échanges entre les deux istrement audio de la institutions sont co-ordonnés par Joachim Frenk (épaulé conférence et du PowerPoint de M. Ogée. par Lena Steveker et Heike Missler) et par Isabelle Gaudy- For more information on the seminary, see Campbell. Tous souhaitent désormais les pérenniser et en https://idea-udl.org/identitescollectivesidentites renforcer la visibilité. § anglophoneseuropeennes/. §

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Claudine Armand a récemment publié deux arti - take place in Lausanne on 10–14 July 2017. Together cles : « Collisions et télescopages temporels dans les they have also been organizing an international con - installations de Fred Wilson », dans le numéro spécial « ference in collaboration with the Manchester School of Art intempestif/Démesure du temps », Polysèmes: Art, UK, which is devoted to the question “Illustrating Revued’étudesintertextuellesetintermédiales 17 Identity/ies” and will take place in Nancy on 9–10 (2017), et “California Forgets. Luna Remembers: November 2017. Sensing Contemporary Native American Realities in Laura Davidel has recently presented the James Luna’s performance ‘Native Stories: For Fun, paper “The ‘Dark Gift’ Aspects of Vampiric Profit & Guilt,’” Neohelicon 44.1 (2017). Transformation in Anne Rice’s VampireChronicles ” at Since January, John S. Bak has published one the Academic Conference of the International Vampire article: “The Red Devil of Comox Street: Tennessee Film and Arts Festival in Sighisoara, Romania. In April, Williams in Vancouver, 1980 & 1981,” Tennessee she took part in the workshop organized by the WilliamsAnnualReview 16 (2017): 59 –99. He was Université de Lorraine, Universität des Saarlandes and asked to write the dust jacket blub for the book HisOther Warszawa University, presenting a paper entitled Life:SearchingforMyFather,HisFirstWife,and “Those Who Must Be Kept : Vampires as Figures of TennesseeWilliams by Melanie McCabe (New Orleans: Disability.” University of New Orleans Press, 2017). He was also Pierre Degott est intervenu dans le cadre asked by Oxford University Press to contribute to its new d’une journée d’études organisée à Caen autour de la blog (https://blog.oup.com/). His three-part contribution production d’un oratorio de Haendel mis en scène par is entitled “Tennessee Williams, Painter: Self-Portraits of Krzysztof Warlikowski et dirigé par Emmanuelle Haïm. the Playwright as a Young, Middle-Aged and Aging Man.” Il a également présenté à l’Arsenal de Metz une con - In March, he was invited to speak at the annual férence sur une « serenata » de Vivaldi, de même qu’il Tennessee Williams congress in New Orleans, where he a rédigé plusieurs programmes pour la Philharmonie presented the talk “The Mutilated: Tennessee Williams, de Paris. Au mois de juin il présentera à Sarrebruck, Disability Studies and ‘One Arm.’” In May, he was invited dans le cadre d’échanges franco-allemands, une com - on France Culture’s radio program “La Compagnie des munication consacrée aux sources anglaises (Fielding, auteurs” to discuss literary journalism and Truman Hogarthd) du Rosenkavalier de Richard Strauss et Capote’s nonfiction novel. Later that month, he co-orga - Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Il travaille actuellement à la nized the conference “Literary Journalism and Civil co-organisation de plusieurs colloques ainsi qu’à la Wars,” held at the Universidad de Málaga, and continued codirection d’un volume de LaRevueMusicorum con - his work as general editor of the ReportAGES book sacrée à la comédie musicale anglaise. series. Finally, he was nomiated to the post “Chaire Catherine Delesse a présenté une communi - Franco-Brésilien” for Journalism Studies at São Paulo cation intitulée « Traduire le jeu de mot dans son rap - State University, where he will work this summer, deliv - port avec l’image dans Astérix » au colloque interna - ering a series of lectures and tutoring doctoral students. tional « Traduire le jeu de mots » qui s’est déroulé à Nathalie Collé published, with colleagues l’Université de Lille 3 les 23–24 mars 2017. Sophie Aymes (Université de Bourgogne, Dijon), Brigitte In the past few months, Jérémy Filet orga - Friant-Kessler (Université de Valenciennes) and Maxime nized an IDEA Seminar talk by Jonathan Spangler (see Leroy (Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse), the 5th insert) and has been an active member of the steering volume of BookPracticesandTextualItineraries: committee of the “Early Career Researchers Inter- IllustrationandIntermedialAvenue (http://www.lcdpu.fr/ national Conference,” to be held on 16 June 2017 in livre/?GCOI=27000100440130). She recently compiled Metz. He published an article in TheConversation enti - and designed the Spring 2017 issue of the newsletter of tled “When I grow up, I want to be a researcher...” In the International John Bunyan Society (https://johnbun - March, he participated in the annual conference of the yansociety.org/the-newsletter/). She has been working French Society for Irish Studies at the Université de with Nicolas Brucker, Pierre Degott and Anne-Elisabeth Caen and presented a talk entitled “The networks and Spica on the organisation of the “Colloque Jeunes connections of Francis Taaffe, Earl of Carlingford and Chercheurs SEAA XVII-XVIII, SFEDS, & Société du 17e Lorraine ‘prime minister’: an ambiguous pro-Jacobite siècle,” which will take place on 22–23 September 2017 or an opportunist Williamite?” He is currently preparing at the Université de Lorraine, on the Metz campus, and his next year in Manchester (UK), as part of his joint will be devoted to “Book- and Text-Wrapping in the 17th PhD program with Manchester Metropolitan University. and 18th Centuries.” With the Illustr4tio research team, Rachel Hutchins presented a talk with co- she has organized a panel entitled “Reproducing and author Daphne Halikiopoulou (Reading University) at recycling literary illustration from the 17th century to the the annual meeting of the American Political Science 21st century” for the 11th International IAWIS/AIERTI Association in Philadelphia. 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MEMBERS’ SPRING 2017 ACTIVITIES (cont.) under review for publication. In September, Rachel was (« Virginia Woolf and the World of Books » qui se tien - interviewed and cited in TheNewYorkTimes regarding dra à Reading, UK, 29 juin–2 juillet) au sujet de leurs debates over history education in France travaux. Son intervention est intitulée “Reading Pen in (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/arts/joan-of-arcs- Hand.” Monica coordonne également l’édition des shaky-pedestal-france-battles-over-its-identity-at- numéros 6 et 8 de la série “Book Practices and Textual school.html ). Rachel’s review of TeachingHistoryand Itineraries” confiés à des GuestEditors . theChangingNationState:Transnationaland Céline Sabiron recently gave a paper entitled InternationalPerspectives , edited by Robert Guyver, “Embedded Metatextual Discourses: Translating Walter appeared in the spring 2017 issue of the BritishJournal Scott in the Context of Franco-Scottish Romantic ofEducationStudies . Critical Dialogues” at a Dundee conference addressing Depuis le mois de janvier, Anita Jorge a publié the history and future of the adaptations of Walter un article intitulé “Liminal Soundscapes in Powell & Scott’s works (31 March–1 April 2017). This paper, Pressburger’s Wartime Films” StudiesinEuropean which is being turned into an article entirely focused on Cinema 14.1 (2017): 22–32. Elle a également présenté writer, translator, and critic Amédée Pichot and his par - une communication intitulée “A ‘Symphony of Britain at roting of Walter Scott’s literary voice (with a reference War’ or the ‘Rhythm of Work-a-day Britain’?: Len Lye’s to his pastiche LePerroquetdeWalterScott , 1834), WhenthePieWasOpened (1941) and the will be published in a special issue of American journal Musicalisation of Warfare,” lors du colloque internation - StudiesinScottishLiterature early 2018. al “Sound and Music in Documentary Film,” qui s’est Barbara Schmidt co-translated Darran tenu les 23 et 24 février à la University of Huddersfield. Anderson’s ImaginaryCities for Inculte Dernière Marge André Kaenel a publié une recension du livre (http://www.inculte.fr/, due to be published Summer de Jean Kempf, UnehistoireculturelledesÉtats-Unis 2017), and is currently co-writing a book on profes - (Armand Colin, 2015), dans la RFEA (RevueFrançaise sional English with Matthew Smith for Bréal (due to be d’ÉtudesAméricaines ) 148 (2017) : 122–25. published 2017). Monica Latham a publié deux articles: Fin décembre, Yann Tholoniat a participé à “‘Serv[ing] under two masters’: Virginia Woolf’s une émission de Radio Bienvenue Strasbourg pour Afterlives in Contemporary Biofictions,” Biographical présenter la conférence donnée ensuite à la Maison de Fiction:AReader , ed. Michael Lackey (London: l’Amérique Latine à Strasbourg, conférence intitulée : Bloomsbury, 2017): 405–22 ; et “Revamping the « Pablo Neruda y Walt Whitman: dos cosmovisiones Passion in Lamb:TheGospelAccordingtoBiff,Christ’s poéticas », montrant les rapports entre les deux poètes ChildhoodPal by Christopher Moore,” AunomduPère. “américains”. Le 30 janvier 2017, il a donné une con - LesréécrituescontemporainesdelaPassion , éds. férence à l’université de Saarbruck, « Remembering Emilie Walezak et Maxime Decout (Paris: Classiques and dismembering the sonnet in World War 1 poetry: Garnier, 2017): 51–68. Monica a aussi rédigé une Brooke, Asquith, Sorley, Owen », à l’invitation du « blurb » pour l’ouvrage collectif ExperimentsinLife- Professeur Joachim Frenk, responsable du départe - Writing:IntersectionsofAuto/BiographyandFiction , ment Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Anglophone Kulturen. eds. Julia Lajta-Novak and Lucia Boldrini (London: Le 17 mai, il est allé dans la khâgne du lycée Poincaré Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Monica a réalisé et traduit à Nancy pour présenter un poème de Thomas Hardy : une interview avec Laurent Binet, auteur de HHhH (Prix “Digging in Thomas Hardy’s ‘grave’ humour: ‘Ah, Are Goncourt 2010) et LaSeptièmefonctiondulangage You Digging on My Grave.’” Un article a été publié : (Prix Interallié et Prix du roman Fnac 2015) pour un « Mélancolère : le venin de Robert Burns », in ouvrage réunissant des conversations avec des auteurs Mélancolyre.Lireetpenserlamélancolie :romantisme internationaux de fiction historique et biographique qui allemandetanglo-américain , ouvrage coordonné par paraîtra en 2018 chez Bloomsbury Publishing. En col - Laurent Folliot, Jean-Marie Fournier et Marc Porée laboration avec l’Institut des Textes et des Manuscrits (Paris : Michel Houdiard Éditeur, 2016), 162–77. Modernes / ENS Paris et grâce à une subvention In March, Jeremy Tranmer carried out obtenue du Pôle TELL de l’Université de Lorraine, research about the left and popular music at the Monica transcrit actuellement les Carnets manuscrits Working Class Movement Library in Salford and at the de lecture de Virginia Woolf avec une équipe de généti - Hull University Library. In May, he gave a paper (“ OK ciens et spécialistes de Virginia Woolf. Ils réaliseront Computer : a sign of the political times?”) at a one-day par la suite une édition des Carnets 14 et 46 (con - conference in Rennes about the twentieth anniversary tenant, entre autres, les notes préparatoires de l’essai of Radiohead’s album OKComputer . He also published « Phases of Fiction »). Ils travaillent ensemble à un pro - an article in a special edition of the RevueFrançaise jet de publication chez Brepols Publishers. Avec cette deCivilisationBritannique about the United Kingdom équipe de chercheurs, Monica a organisé un « panel » and the crisis of the 1970s (“A Force to Be Reckoned à la Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference with? The Radical Left in the 1970s”). §

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“HCERES” (cont.) examine its federative theme. What remains for IDEA to do is not to abandon this project but rather to strengthen nized its efforts more here. it during its next contractual period by encouraging each of the other projects within Poles 2 and 3 to engage peri - odically with it. The resultant interaction would effective - Desquestionsseposentsurl’articulationentrelapra - ly anchor this federative interdisciplinary project around tiquedel’interdisciplinaritédanscertainsprojetsde which all of the other projects would pivot, thus generat - recherchedel’unitéetl’étudethéoriquedel’interdis - ing a needed synergy among the projects and securing ciplinarité.Ceconcept,fondamentalpourl’identitéde IDEA’s research direction. l’unité,nejouepasunrôlesuffisammentfédérateur, 2) IDEA has been criticized (and even criticized itself Bilan dumoinsnepermet-ilpassuffisammentdefonder in its ) for not attracting enough doctoral candi - dates, for not obtaining enough doctoral contracts, and certainsprojetsetsous-projetsquidoivents’inscrire HDR danslamiseenpratiquedesconceptsetdimensions for not holding enough PhD or defenses. IDEA théoriquesdéveloppésparlethèmefédérateur. does not disagree with these findings, but it would like to defend its numbers a bit more within the given context. Contrary to what HCERES maintains, or would hope to believe, doctoral students rarely choose a research cen - As to the second point, IDEA agrees that could ter over a director. Potential students who come to IDEA have looked more into the nature of interdisciplinarity (if come here because there is a professor with whom they only as it is practiced or theorized in France) by bringing its hope to work, not because they wish to conduct inter - projects together more collaboratively from time to time to disciplinary research. This practice is largely consistent share their findings and compare their results. (Coincident- with any English research center in France and does not ally, and not as a result of the HCERES report, IDEA has reflect a problem specific to IDEA. Perhaps IDEA could already planned a one-day internal conference in the fall of be faulted for not recruiting professors with more attrac - 2017 to do precisely that). One of HCERES’ most provoca - tive research profiles for these potential students, but it tive recommendations for resolving this quandary suggests cannot be faulted because potential doctoral students do that IDEA “resserrer, recentrer les recherches sur les pro - not wish to write a PhD thesis on literary journalism, jets phares de l’unité en leur donnant une dimension medieval literature or English opera, for which the likeli - encore plus interdisciplinaire et en s’inspirant de la hood of securing a MCF job later would be difficult at recherche au niveau international” (p. 12). While IDEA’s best. IDEA has conducted research in the past based on current projects – heavily disciplinary in nature – do need to a scientific need rather than on a job-market trend to synergize more and thus encourage interdisciplinary dia - attract doctoral students. And while it would be great to logue amongst themselves, they need to be tightened and have a PhD student come to IDEA to work on Oralité , or recentered to meet the demands of IDEA’s federative on translating BD s, or even on literary journalism, there theme. is little demand at present, but that does not undermine Several of IDEA most ambitious projects, for exam - the need for such research to continue. ple, are already interdisciplinary in nature. Forcing one of its In terms of obtaining a doctoral contract, IDEA’s projects down a trajectory that would benefit IDEA while success rate has been on par with other research cen - potentially harming or weakening that research project is ters with respect to its doctoral school and clearly undesirable. IDEA is more the sum of its separate university/region. With only eight doctoral contracts per and projects working independently in concert with IDEA on year within the doctoral school “Stanislas” but ten the notion and nature of interdisciplinarity than it is a domi - research centers (including historians, philosophers, nant theme mandating the research goals and vectors of geographers and psychologists) vying for those con - various sub-projects; it is more a republic than a monarchy. tracts, IDEA’s candidates have often found it difficult to A recentering of IDEA’s current projects would ensure their compete. When weighed against doctoral students commitment to a federative theme, but it would also poten - whose projects promise to conduct research that will tially derail those projects whose past scholarship has help the elderly deal with aging or those suffering from drawn national and international appeal. A better approach psychological disorders, or will unearth valuable trea - to ensuring its federative theme, IDEA feels, would be to sures from digs in Jordan, IDEA’s candidates, who offer encourage inter-project dialogue and meta-analysis. studies of vampire fiction or 19th-century travel narra - Given all of this, IDEA considers it rather unfair that tives, can barely match up. But IDEA has learned how to HCERES has reproached it for not living up to its interdis - improve its candidate’s arguments and presentations, ciplinary mission. With the interdisciplinary research it has and its promise to groom and train its students from M1 produced these past few years (two book collections; two onwards to prepare for these concours should in the major international conferences; several one-day symposia future reap the benefits. and seminars) and commits to produce in the future, IDEA IDEA does not refute HCERES’ findings that the feels that its Pole 1 project on the establishment of disci - lack of an ANR or European contracts has prohibited it plines within the academic world reflects its earnest efforts from obtaining other sources of funding for doctoral – or to fulfill the research center’s interdisciplinary mission and Continued on next page

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even post-doc – contracts. It is IDEA’s goal, albeit a rewards of the Interdisciplinarity project of Pole 1. It rec - reserved one, given the competition for such contracts – to ognized in Pole 2 the Cultural Identity project’s synergy secure at least one ANR to help fund its doctoral students’ among various research centers within the Université de research in the coming contractual period. Such monies Lorraine, and the international outreach of the would also give it the ability to offer a doctoral contract that ReportAGES project. It has also noted, though much is linked specifically to one of its research projects and more briefly, the contributions and achievements of the attract potential candidates from around Europe or even the four projects that constitute Pole 3. And while IDEA does world. not contest its findings and suggestions in general here In short, IDEA recognizes that it has to do more to per each of these projects, it does feel that HCERES compete with the many English studies research centers has not been as fair in its assessment of Pole 3 as it was throughout France (or even doctoral programs abroad) to with the other two poles. attract doctoral candidates by submitting applications for an For instance, HCERES has rightly pointed out ANR contract, by applying for other grants with the Région the lack of a joining link between the four projects of GrandEst , with the Benelux INTERREG , or with potential Pole 3, and the danger (or opportunities) that this cre - institutional partners, like the British Academy or ates in terms of the Pole’s role within IDEA’s federative Leverhulme. IDEA promises to address this point in the next theme of interdisciplinarity. A thoughtful solution that contractual period. HCERES offered is one that IDEA will seriously consid - 3) While it is true that IDEA has greatly increased its col - er: “On pourrait repenser l’interdisciplinarité de ce thème laboration with various national and international research et son aspect multimodal/intermédial en croisant dans institutions, it has not pursued solidifying those collabora - un seul projet oral et écrit, forme matérielle du texte (le tions with formal conventions, whose legal work is often livre)/forme immatérielle (électronique et oral) mais daunting and fatiguing. It is not through the want of trying, aussi analyse contrastive des langues et traductologie however. It is just that IDEA has found it difficult to convince appliquée à l’oral et aux textes” (p. 17). foreign universities to formalize collaborative research However, IDEA regrets that each of the four pro - beyond the efforts of occasional financing of conferences or jects in Pole 3 was given less intensive scrutiny than the short-term projects. Moreover, it has secured one co-tutelle three projects in the other two Poles, and only brief men - in the past year with Manchester Metropolitan and hopes to tion was made about what they accomplished, as if their pursue more, provided its future doctoral students are will - goals and achievements or shortcomings were largely ing to do so. interchangeable, which they are not. IDEA clearly delin - Bilan 4) IDEA fully admits that it has a certain number of mem - eated in its the differences between the four pro - bers whose research publications are modest – or lacking jects – their research goals, networks, out-reach, pro - entirely – but it would like to add that this truism is counter- ductions – and it is to their detriment that they were not balanced by those members who are active, or very active, studied more individually and seemingly cast off collec - in publishing. Thus IDEA’s publication rate per enseignant- tively because there was no apparent link joining them chercheur is probably on average with other English studies per interdisciplinarity. research centers in France. IDEA is proud that it has helped For instance, the Book Practices & Textual formerly inactive researchers to return to scholarship after a Itineraries project has been a major asset to IDEA’s brief or long hiatus, but it also acknowledges that, without commitment to international publications, both in what institutional support of one kind or another, it cannot always its members publish abroad in academic journals and in BPTI convince other inactive members to uphold the research whom it attracts to publish within its own collection. half of the enseignant-chercheur positions that they occupy And the fact that its two main contributors have simulta - other within the university. IDEA also recognizes that this problem neously cultivated sub-projects with international is endemic with research centers through France and even profiles (Illustratio on illustration practice and history; Europe and not unique to it. editing Virginia Woolf’s private journals), all the while 5) IDEA agrees fully with HCERES’ point when it writes: sustaining the project’s collective mission, is highly com - “il serait bon de chercher les moyens de faire dialoguer les mendable and perhaps should have been acknowl - différents projets collectifs afin qu’ils puissent servir d’ap - edged as such by HCERES. That one of the future puis supplémentaires à la réflexion théorique et enrichir Master’s programs within the Université de Lorraine will cette dernière.” As announced in the Projet part of its be centered around this project should attest to its dossier, IDEA has planned several internal one-day confer - stature and good standing with respect to IDEA. ences (including one this fall, as noted above) whose pur - To conclude, IDEA feels that, these six points pose is precisely to encourage inter-project dialogue that noted above notwithstanding, the report produced by HCERES describes here. It is IDEA’s hope that such HCERES offers a complete, fair, and accurate repre - exchanges will help it to compare and meta-analyze each sentation of IDEA’s accomplishments, shortcomings, projects’ contribution to IDEA’s federative theme of interdis - risks and future opportunities. Finally, IDEA wishes to ciplinarity. thank the committee members of HCERES for their pro - 6) IDEA feels that HCERES well evaluated the strengths, fessional conduct, both during the visit to the Université weaknesses, risks, and opportunities of most of its future de Lorraine back in November 2016 and during the § projects. HCERES saw the recent strides and potential intervening months that produced this report. §

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Colloque “Voice(s) and silence in the arts” By Claudine Armand, Université de Lorraine The voice, according to Henri of voices, words, gestures, glances, Meschonnic, is “the intimate exterior,” silences, breathingd. he objective of this confer - and its texture is specific to each per - In the improvised poems of ence is to look into various son. In the David Antin, the hybrid artistic experiences — in same way, voice and body lan - mTTusic, in performance poetry, in silence, a guage are at the origin visual arts and the performing arts notion which of the creative process, — that are built in the space where is equally and so are breathing art produces a fusion of voice and complex, is and the silent pauses in silence, of what is said and what is not simply Gary Snyder’s poems. withheld, of speech and its deliber - the absence As for the cinema, ate omission. of speech or its power and the fasci - Voice and silence take dif - sound. By its nation it exerts are for ferent forms depending on the very nature, the most part linked to medium, the physical set-up, the a painting is the formal processes places of production and reception. silent and its and the various config - The physiological definition of voice meaning can urations of the interac - is the emission of sounds produced only be ver - tions of voices, silence, by the vibration of the vocal chords balized and images. at the moment of exhaling. It is thus metaphorically. This conference not only a means of transmitting As far as music is concerned, aims to put into perspective the breath, but also the physical as John Cage pointed out, absolute numerous studies devoted both to embodiment of speech and the silence does not exist, for we are voices and to silence. Its objective is medium of transmission of the emo - immersed in a ceaseless hum. In the to focus on the way in which concepts theatre, voice and silence cannot be might interact, on the shifts, contacts tions; furthermore, it cannot be dis - § sociated from the notion of a speak - separated, for the theatrical experi - and echoes between one another. ing subject and subjectivity. ence is composed of an intermingling

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