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Université de Toulouse II-Le Mirail (UTM)
INTO THE DEEP:
MONSTROUS CREATURES,
ALIEN WORLDS
EXPLORA
Conception graphique : Benoît Colas, UTM / CPRS - UMS 838. Illustration : Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom (1876).
INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE
Laboratoire Cultures Anglo-Saxonnes
(CAS, EA – 801)
14-15 juin 2012
Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle
de Toulouse
For registration and information:
[email protected]
EXPLORA
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
INTO THE DEEP:
MONSTROUS CREATURES, ALIEN WORLDS
Thursday 14 June, 2012
Friday 15 June, 2012
8.15-8.45:
8.45-9.00:
Chair: Wendy Harding (University of Toulouse (UTM))
Registration
Welcome speech
Chair: Philippe Birgy (University of Toulouse (UTM))
9.00-9.30:
9.30-10.00:
10.00-10.30:
10.30-11.00:
Shannon Delorme (University Paris Diderot/ New College, Oxford), ‘William Carpenter, the “Deep
Sea” and the Royal Society: Victorian Scientific Narratives of Ocean Discovery (1868–1876)’
Loïc Péton (University of West Brittany (UBO), Brest), ‘Azoïc Theories and Sea Monsters during the
19th Century’
Richard Somerset (University of Lorraine), ‘Into “the Unknown Abyss of Nature’s Laboratory”: The
Oceanic Prelude to the Story of Life’
Coffee Break
Chair: Hélène Machinal (University of West Brittany, Brest)
11.00-11.30:
11.30-12.00:
Julien Delord, ‘Jeanne Villepreux-Power, the Shepherdess who Invented Oceanography’
Laurence Talairach-Vielmas (University of Toulouse (UTM)), ‘Bringing the Sea to the City: The
Craze for Aquaria and the Popularisation of Marine Life in Victorian England’
12.00-13.30:
Lunch Break
13.30–15.00:
Visit of the Exhibition ‘Eau, l’Expo’
9.30-10.00:
10.00-10.30:
10.30-11.00:
11.00-11.30:
Coffee Break
Chair: Marie Bouchet (University of Toulouse (UTM))
11.30-12.00:
12.00-12.30:
Yvonne Reddick (University of Warwick), ‘“Full Fathom Five”: Sylvia Plath’s Literature of the Littoral and the Oceanic’
Wendy Harding (University of Toulouse (UTM)), ‘Narwhals and Us’
12.30-14.00:
Lunch Break
Chair: Laurence Talairach-Vielmas (University of Toulouse (UTM))
14.00-14.30:
Chair: S. Romi Mukherjee (IEP, Paris)
Hélène Guillaume (University of Perpignan), ‘Monstrous Life Forms in Melville: Whale, Squid
and Coral’
Mariaconcetta Costantini (G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara), ‘An Arctic Leviathan:
Fantasies of Regression and Eco-Gothic Concerns in Dan Simmons’s The Terror’
Francesco Marroni (G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara), ‘Stefano D’Arrigo’s Horcynus
Orca: A Twentienth-Century Sea Monster Between Mythical Scylla and Charybdis’
14.30-15.00:
Melody Jue (Duke University), ‘Cephalopods and Surrealism in the Fictional Science of Vilém
Flusser and Jean Painlevé’
Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard (University of Toulouse (UTM)), ‘British Early Cinema and
Scientific Filmmaking: The Camera as Witness and Inventor in Fathoms Deep Beneath the
Sea (1922)’
Gilles Menegaldo (University of Poitiers), ‘Asserting or Blurring the Boundaries: Evolutions in the
Representation of the Submarine Alien in Creature from the Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold, 1954)
and The Abyss (James Cameron, 1989)’
15.00-15.30:
15.30-16.00:
Philippe Birgy (University of Toulouse (UTM)), ‘Oceanic Feeling and Evolutionism: Abysmal Reason
in Greg Egan’s Oceanic’
J. Malcolm Shick (University of Maine), ‘Where Corals Lie’
16.00-16.30:
Coffee Break
15.30-16.00:
Coffee Break
16.00-17.30:
Visit of the Toulouse Natural History Museum
15.00-15.30:
Chair: Gilles Menegaldo (University of Poitiers)
16.30-17.00:
17.00-17.30:
20.00:
Hélène Machinal (University of West Brittany, Brest), ‘Myth and Science in Doyle’s The Maracot
Deep (1929)‘
Damien Alcade (University of Toulouse (UTM)), ‘Schooling Fish, Schooling Men: The Influence of
Marine Biology in Steinbeck’s Representation of Group Movement and Leadership’
Conference Banquet

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