“Charles Dickens and Europe” international conference Université de Haute-Alsace, 10 th -12 th May 2012 Thursday 10 th May – Salle du Conseil (Maison de l’Université, campus Illberg) 2pm: Conference opening and welcome 2.20pm- 5.30pm: speeches. Moderator: 2.20 Mario Martino (Rome-La Sapienza): “Defining Europe in Little Dorrit ” 2.45 Ana Drobot (Bucharest): “Travelling to Europe and Social Status in Little Dorrit and Great Expectations ” 3.10 Efraim Sicher (Ben-Gurion): “Dickens the European: Rereading the City in Our Mutual Friend and Les Misérables ” 3.35 Questions and discussion Pause - coffee, tea, viennoiseries 4.20 Dominic Rainsford (Aarhus): “Dickens’s European Maps” 5.00 Questions and discussion 6.30 Short guided walk through Mulhouse’s historic centre with Marie-Claire Vitoux, historian. Free evening. Friday 11 th May, morning – Salle du Conseil (Maison de l’Université, campus Illberg) 9.00am-12.30am: speeches. Moderator: 9.00 Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir (Iceland): “Charles Dickens’s Historical Fiction: the Importance of the French Revolution” 9.25 Leyli Jamali and Reza Sattarzadeh Nowbari (Tabriz): “The French Revolution as a Feminine Character in A Tale of Two Cities–a Feminist New Historicist Reading” 9.50 Amel Dhifallah (Paris VIII): “Dialogism in A Tale of Two Cities ” 10.15 Questions and discussion Pause – coffee, tea, viennoiseries 10.45 Galina Alekseeva (Leo Tolstoy Museum-Estate): “Charles Dickens in Leo Tolstoy’s Universe” 11.10 Michael Hollington (Toulouse): “Dickens and Dostoevsky” 11.35 Ignacio Ramos Gay (Valencia): “‘Green’ Dickens? French Abattoirs, Animal Welfare and the Anti-Smithfield Campaign” 12.00 Questions and discussion 12.30pm: lunch at the Centre sportif régional (on campus) Friday 11 th May, afternoon – Salle du Conseil (Maison de l’Université, campus Illberg) 2.00pm-5.00pm: speeches. Moderator: 2.00 Azer Banu Kemaloglu (Çanakkale): “Traces of Switzerland in Dombey and Son ” 2.25 Suzy Anger (British Columbia): “’A Mind Locked Up in a Case’: Dickens in Lausanne” 2.50 Alfie Bown (Manchester): “Caricature in Paris and London: Dickens, Daumier and Grandville” 3.15 Questions and discussion 3.35 Nathalie Jaëck (Bordeaux III): “France as England's Mr Hyde in A Tale of Two Cities ? Dickens's complex voice in the topical European issue of duality" 4.15 Questions and discussion Pause – coffee, tea, viennoiseries 5.00pm-5.40pm: panel discussion chaired by Nathalie Jaëck, with Jeremy Tambling, Dominic Rainsford, and Michael Hollington 7.30pm: dinner at the Restaurant de la Tour de l’Europe (Mulhouse city centre) Saturday 12 th May – Hôtel des Trois Rois, Basel 8.15 Bus leaving from Mulhouse 9.00am-12.20pm: speeches. Moderator: 9.00 Francesca Orestano (Milan): “Dickens and Italy: a Stereoscopic View” 9.25 Samia Ounoughi (Grenoble III): “The Swiss Alps and the Framing of Identity in No Thoroughfare ” 9.50 Neil Forsyth and Martine Hennard-Dutheil (Lausanne): “Dickens in French-speaking Switzerland” 10.15 Questions and discussion Pause 11.00 Jeremy Tambling (Manchester): “Dickens and the Cosmopolitan” 11.40 Questions and discussion 12.20pm: concluding words – end of the conference .