Symposium Poster - Department of the History of Science

THE LIFE OF THE MIND: LITERATURE, AESTHETICS, AND
THE "SCIENCES DE L'HOMME," 1700-1900
4:00 pm to 6:15 pm Thursday April 16 , 2015, reception to follow at the French House
10:00 am to 4:00 pm Friday, April 17, 2015
9:00 am to 5:30 pm Saturday, April 18, 2015
The University of Wisconsin-Madison
Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, writers, philosophers, and physicians explored and quesƟoned the ways in which the mind operates. Although the Enlightenment has
long been associated with the triumph of raƟonality against the forces of obscuranƟsm, it also iniƟated queries into areas that escape the control of reason, such as
dreams, sensibility, melancholy, the imaginaƟon, and ecstasy. In the nineteenth century, various developments turned the mind into a puzzling dark conƟnent in which
the boundaries between the normal and the pathological--and between the human and the animal--became blurred. The purpose of this internaƟonal and interdisciplinary symposium is to bring together scholars from the elds of literature, music, and history in order to examine how, in this pre-Freudian age, French and Frenchspeaking writers and thinkers accounted for the idiosyncrasies, alteraƟons, powers, and pathologies of the mind.
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Thursday, April 16 (Pyle Center)
Saturday, April 18 (Pyle Center)
4:00 pm Introductory remarks (Gilles Bousquet, Anne Vila, and Florence Vatan)
9:00 am-10:15 am Session 4. Graduate student workshop panel
4:30 pm-6:00 pm Session 1. Reading, WriƟng, and the OperaƟons of the Mind
S㛥ƒÄ®ƒ B瑑®Ä® (Italian; University of Wisconsin)
"Casanova’s Double Life"
J›ÄÄ®¥›Ù G®ÖÝÊÄ (French; University of Wisconsin)
“Charles Nodier on the Dangers of Literacy”
AÙ®ƒ CƒÊã (Italian), “La Violence de passions où je suis naturellement portée: Reason
and Desire in the Works Of Marie Joséphine Thérèse De Lorraine"
AÄě Hƒ¹›» (French), “Le Nègre et la Créole: ReecƟng on Race in Early NineteenthCentury AnƟ-Slavery SenƟmentalism”
JƒÄ SãƒÙ‘þ›óÝ»® (French), “Raison philosophique et foi religieuse : Julie entre esprit et
Esprit”
Rƒ‘«›½ TƒÖ½›ù (French), “Mind-Reading and ‘Seconde Vue’ in Three Short Stories by
Balzac”
Friday, April 17 (Pyle Center)
10:00 am-12:00 pm Session 2. Music, Visual Arts, and the Mind
C«ƒÙ½›Ý D®½½ (Music; University of Wisconsin)
“Rameau‘s Cartesian Wonder”
10:30 am-12:00 pm Session 5. The Mind and Animality
GÏÙƒÄ B½®ø (French; Princeton University)
“The Zoology of Mind: the Clash of InsƟnct and Intelligence in 19th-Century Natural History”
CƒÙʽ®Ä› Jƒ‘Êã Gكփ (French; Université de Lille 3)
“L’Esquisse à l’oeuvre. Sur l’esquisse comme gure de la pensée”
F½Êٛđ› VƒãƒÄ (French; University of Wisconsin)
“L’esprit et la bêƟse: le cas Flaubert”
BÙ®ƒÄ Hù›Ù (Music; University of Wisconsin)
“On the Survival of Images in Act 1 Scene 3 of Pelléas et Mélisande”
2:00 pm-3:30 pm Session 6. Altered Psychic States (1)
SãÖ«ƒÄ®› DÊٗ-CÙÊçݽ (French; CNRS, UMR LIRE) :
2:00 pm-4:00 pm Session 3. Reason and Passion
A½›øƒÄ—Ù› W›Ä¦›Ù (French / Medical HumaniƟes; Université de Fribourg, Université de Genève)
“Comment l’esprit vient aux lles… et comment les garçons le perdent. Maladie
d’amour, médecine et cƟon romanesque (18e siècle)”
AÄě V®½ƒ (French; University of Wisconsin)
“Devices of Wonder: Diderot on Genius, Art, and Masterminds”
JçƒÄ R®¦Ê½® (French; Université de Genève)
“Le cœur des aliénés”
“SuggesƟon et hypnoƟsme dans Les Secrets de Monsieur Synthèse (1888-1889), roman
d’anƟcipaƟon scienƟque par Louis Boussenard”
B›Ùãكė MƒÙØç›Ù (French; Université de Strasbourg)
"Histoires incroyables et récits de cas : le fantasƟque comme « étude sur la pensée malade » (ClareƟe)"
4:00 pm-5:30 pm Session 7. Altered Psychic States (2)
T®½® BÊÊÄ C箽½ (French; Washington University at Saint Louis)
“Maladies of the ImaginaƟon: Dreams, Melancholy, and the Ossian Craze”
EÙěÝãÊ L®òÊÙÄ® (Italian; University of Wisconsin)
“Photography, Ghosts and the Spirit: Verismo, Science and SpiriƟsm”
This event has been made possible by the Anonymous Fund, the Center for European Studies, the School
of Music, the Division of International Studies, the Center for the Humanities, the Center for Interdisciplinary French Studies, and the Department of French and Italian.
For further informaƟon, contact Florence Vatan ([email protected]) and Anne Vila ([email protected])
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