Thursday 20 february 2020
8.30 Accueil des participants- Welcome tea & coffee
Welcome speech Anne Page, U.R. 853 - LERMA, AMU & Laurence Roussillon-Constanty, SFEVE
9.30 Conférence / Keynote speech Berny SEBE (Birmingham)
‘Showcasing Empire’ Past & Present: A Brief History of Popular Imperialism,
from Britannia to Brexit.
10.30 Courte pause / Short Break
Session 1 Imagining the Empire, Chair Person : Walter Bruyere-Ostells (Science Po AMU)
10.45 S1-a- Patricia CROAN-VERON (Paris-Est Creteil): Showcasing Empire in Victorian and Edwardian popular fiction: maps, pictures, amulets, Zulu warriors … and the power of imagination.
11.15 S1-b- S1-c- Nolwenn CORRIOU (Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne): The Egyptian Museum in Fiction: The Mummy’s Eyes as the “Black Mirror” of the Empire.
11.45 Question Time
12.00-14.00 Déjeuner / Lunch - Cube
Session 2, Wilderness, Wildlife and domesticated nature Chair person: Prof. Anne Marie Motard (U. Paul Valery Montp III)
14.00 S2-a- Amina ZARZI (Birmingham): Showcasing Emptiness: The conquest of the desert and the development of ‘Sahararomania’.
14.30 S2-b- Marine BELLEGO (EHESS): The Raj and its Banyan: the Calcutta Botanic Garden as an Imperial Microcosm
15.00 S2-c- Irina KANTARBAEVA-BILL (Toulouse Jean-Jaures): The Empire of Beasts: Victorian Animals Then and Now.
15.30 Question Time
15.45 Pause / Break
Session 3 Too far East is West Chair person : Dr Matthew Graves (AMU)
16.15 S3-a- Helen GOETHALS (Toulouse Jean Jaurés): Showcasing Empire in J.A. Froude’s The English in the West Indies, or the Bow of Ulysses (1888).
16.45 S3-b- Sonia LAMRI (Birmingham): Aesthetisation of the Orient in T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (1922).
17.15 S3-c- Tri TRAN (Tours) : Partir dans l’Empire avec les compagnies maritimes au XIXe siècle.
17.45 Question Time
18.15-19.00 General Assembly of the SFEVE (French Society for Victorian & Edwardian Studies)
20.00 Spectacle / Show
On t'appelle Vénus, (They call you Venus)
Le Cube, 29 Av. Robert Schuman
Discussion with the artist
Friday 21 Feb. 2020 Aix-Marseille Université
8.30 Accueil des participants – Welcome tea & coffee (AMU)
Session 4 Missionary & Masonic (popular) cultures, Chair person: Prof. Fabienne Moine (U. Paris-Est-Creteil)
9.00 S4-a- Sam Antony KOCHERI CLEMENT (Birmingham), The Cultural Mine: The Bible.
9.30 S4-b- Maud MICHAUD (Le Mans): British Missionary Exhibitions (1880-1914): Empire and God’s Work on Display.
10.00 S4-c- Simon DESCHAMPS (Toulouse Jean Jaurés), Masonic Ritual and the Display of Colonial Power in 19th Century India.
10.30 Question Time
10.45 Pause / Break
11.15 Conference / Keynote speech John MacKenzie
‘Cultures of Display: the Mirror of Imperialism’
12.30 Déjeuner / Lunch Cube
Archives Nationales d’Outre-Mer, 29 chemin du Moulin de Testa, Aix-en-Provence
Session 5 (ANOM) Displaying the Empire Chair Person: Prof. Henry Medard (AMU)
14.00 S5-a- Nicole HARTWELL (National Museums Scotland): A Victorian Military Martyr: The Relics of General Charles Gordon.
14.30 S5-b- Sara MECHKARINI (Birmingham): The Representation of the Algerian War in French History Textbooks.
15.00 S5-c- Dega Sian RUTHERFORD (Birmingham): Spaces of Exaltation: Projecting superiority through display in urban Hong Kong.
15.30 Question Time
15.45 Pause / Break
16.15 Conférence / Keynote speech Vilasnee Tampoe Hautin (La Réunion)
Reverse perspectives. Empire seen from Within. Cinema Objects, Spaces and Edifices in the Limelight in Colonial India and Ceylon (1899-1950)
Visite guidée des ANOM / Guided tour of the French overseas archives
18.30 End of Conference
20.30 Conference diner
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