‘Time’
Society for Early Modern French Studies
39th Annual Conference, 5-7th September 2016
Wadham College, Oxford
PROGRAMME
Monday 5 September
14.00-14.20Arrival and Registration
14.20Welcome
14.30-15.30Session 1: Eternity and Atemporality
Alysha Janée Allsman (University of Colorado, Boulder)
The Politics of Eternity in Seventeenth Century French Religious Texts
William Dinning (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
The atemporality of Pascal’s Pensées
15.30-16.00Tea / Coffee
16.00-17.00Session 2: Molière
Jean Luc Robin (The University of Alabama)
Temps et poétiques : la dramaturgie dilatoire chez Molière
Éric Turcat (Oklahoma State University)
Dom Juan ou le temps du libertinage
17.15-18.45Session 3: Holy Living
Joanna Barker (Durham University)
Time Sanctified
Mette Birkedal Bruun (University of Copenhagen)
Time well spent: Devotional Schedules and temporal Discipline
Lars Nørgaard (University of Copenhagen)
Les petits carnets and Mme de Maintenon’s everyday religious life
19.15Dinner
Tuesday 6 September
From 8.00Breakfast in Hall
9.00-10.30Session 4: Tragedy
John Lyons (University of Virginia)
Tragedy and the Weight of Time
Joe Harris (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Killing time? Revenge, procrastination, and the ‘Hamlet principle’ in Corneille
Paul Hammond (University of Leeds)
Time and Tragedy in Racine’s Andromaque
10.30-11.00Coffee
11.00-12.30Session 5: Imaginative Prose
Lise Leibacher-Ouvrard (Université d'Arizona, USA)
Entre prophétie et prospective: Michel de Pure, de La Précieuse
(1656-1658) à Epigone, histoire du siècle futur (1659).
Isabelle Moreau (University College London)
The Politics of laziness
Ann Lewis (Birkbeck, University of London)
Shifting Frames of Reading: Illustrating Rousseau’s Julie, ou La
Nouvelle HeloïseThrough Time.
13.00Lunch in Hall
14.30-15.30AGM
15.30-16.00Tea / Coffee
16.00-17.00Session 6: Present and Past
Cédric Ploix (St Hugh’s College, Oxford)
Time control and time perception in modern translations of
Molière's comedies
Pierre Zoberman (Université Paris 13)
Reading the Past: Between Historicism and Anachronism
17.15-18.15Keynote Paper
Neil Kenny (All Souls College, Oxford)
Families over time: literature, inheritance, social status
18.15Drinks Reception, Cloister Garden (Antechapel if raining)
Sponsored by Taylor & Francis Ltd, publishers of
Early Modern French Studies
19.15Conference Dinner, Old Library
Wednesday 7September
From 8.00Breakfast in Hall
9.00-10.30Session 8: Poetry
Timothy Chesters (Clare College, Cambridge)
Thinking Fast and Slow in Maurice Scève and Some Others
Adam Horsley (University of Nottingham)
The Good Times and the Bad: the Optimism, Pessimism and
Nostalgia of François Maynard
Allen Wood (Purdue University)
Anticipation, the Future and La Fontaine’s Fables
10.30-11.00Coffee
11.00-12.30Session 9:The End
Thomas Worcester (College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, USA)
Jesuit Time in Early 17th-Century France
Richard Maber (Durham University)
Time: for amendment of life, or gathering rosebuds? A Jesuit
moralist and the paradoxes of mortality
Philippa Woodcock (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers/
University of Warwick)
A matter of time: strategies for prompt and delayed burial in
seventeenth-century Maine
Concluding remarks, Michael Moriarty, Chair of the Society
CLOSE OF CONFERENCE