Biological Perspectives in 21st-Century Literature and Performance
Symposium n°1: New Scales
June 7, 2019
9.00 – 9.15: Welcome
9.15 – 10.05: Josie Gill (University of Bristol)
‘Pharmacogenomics, Racial Medicine and Colson Whitehead’s Apex Hides the Hurt’
10.10– 11.00: Pieter Vermeulen (University of Leuven):
‘Depopulating the Novel
Nonscalability and Population at the End of the World’
11.00 – 11.20: Coffee break
11.20 – 12.10: Ben de Bruyn (Maastricht University)
12.15-13.00: Eric Bapteste (CNRS)
Respondent: Frédérique Aït-Touati
13.00 – 14.30: Lunch break
14.30-16.00: Frédérique Aït-Touati (CNRS – EHESS), Eliane Beaufils (University of Paris 8), Liliane Campos (Sorbonne Nouvelle University)
Round-table: ‘New biological scales in contemporary performance’
16.00 – 16.15: Coffee break
16.15 – 17.05: Sophie Musitelli (University of Lille / IUF)
‘Still Life and Vital Matter in Gillian Clarke’s Poetry’
17.10 – 18.00: Derek Woods (Dartmouth College):
‘Fungoid Life: The Novels of Jeff VanderMeer’
18.00: Drinks
