INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi Reconsidered
13-15 Dec. 2018, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Site Descartes, Amphi Descartes
THURSDAY
13.30 Opening of the Conference, Sophie LEMERCIER-GODDARD (ENS de Lyon) and Sophie CHIARI (Université Clermont Auvergne)
CHAIR: Line COTTEGNIES (Sorbonne Université)
13.45 Anna DEMOUX (Université Clermont Auvergne), ‘Reconsidering The Duchess of Malfi and its Sources in Context’
14.15 Rachel E. HOLMES (University of Cambridge), ‘Reading The Duchess of Malfi Transnationally’
14.45 Lisa HOPKINS (Sheffield Hallam University), ‘Diamonds or Pearls? Doubling the Duchess’
15.15 Discussion
15.30-16.00 Break
CHAIR: Line COTTEGNIES (Sorbonne Université)
16.00 Keynote: Jane KINGSLEY-SMITH (University of Roehampton), ‘“Mine Eyes Dazzle”: Editing The Duchess of Malfi’
16.45 Discussion
17.00 End of Day 1
FRIDAY
CHAIR: Sophie LEMERCIER-GODDARD (ENS de Lyon)
9.00 Keynote: Wendy WALL (Northwestern University), ‘Reversions: Domestic Ecologies in The Duchess of Malfi’
9.45 Discussion
10.00-10.30 Break
CHAIR: Anne-Valérie DULAC (Sorbonne Université)
10.30 Roberta BARKER (Dalhousie University), ‘“The Spirit of Greatness or of Woman”: The Duchess of Malfi in the Repertoires of her First Players’
11.00 Eike KRONSHAGE (Chemnitz University of Technology), ‘“Purchased honour”: Economic Expediency in The Duchess of Malfi’
11.30 Sophie CHIARI (Université Clermont Auvergne), ‘“The work of heaven” in The Duchess of Malfi’
12.00 Discussion
CHAIR: François LAROQUE (Université Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle)
14.00 Keynote: Michael NEILL (The University of Auckland): ‘ »Superfluous Men »: the Graveyard Politics of The Duchess of Malfi?’
14.45 Discussion
CHAIR: François LAROQUE (Université Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle)
15.00 Misako TAKAHASHI (University of the Sacred Heart), ‘Seeking for the Female Body: The Duchess and Ferdinand in Canine Skins’
15.30 Joseph KIDNEY (Stanford University), ‘Man is Wolf to Man: Playing Dead in Webster and Shakespeare’
16.00 Discussion
16.15-16.45 Break
16.45-17.45 Conversation with Anne-Laure LIEGEOIS (Compagnie ‘Le Festin’, with Sophie LEMERCIER-GODDARD and Sophie CHIARI)
18.00 End of Day 2
SATURDAY
CHAIR: Michèle VIGNAUX (Université Lyon 2)
8.45 Sophie LEMERCIER-GODDARD (ENS de Lyon), ‘“Strange Geometrical Hinges”: Going Places in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi’
9.15 François LAROQUE (Université Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle), ‘Webster’s camera obscura: The Duchess of Malfi’
9.45 Discussion
10.00-10.30 Break
CHAIR: Sophie CHIARI (Université Clermont Auvergne)
10.30 Keynote: Dympna CALLAGHAN (Syracuse University), ‘Theatre, Art, the Woman and the Wolf: Revisiting The Duchess of Malfi’
11.15 Discussion
11.30-12.15 Round Table: Dympna CALLAGHAN (Syracuse University), Anne-Valérie DULAC (Sorbonne Université), Jane KINGSLEY-SMITH (University of Roehampton), Wendy WALL (Northwestern University), François LAROQUE (Université Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle), Michael NEILL (The University of Auckland), Will N. WEST (Northwestern University)
12.30 End of the Conference