Provisional programme subject to change
All sessions will take place at the “Maison de la Recherche” on the Pessac Campus (get off Tram B at the Montaigne-Montesquieu stop).
More details on the conference's website: https://rls2020.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/6
Wednesday 17th June : Film evening at Cinéma Jean Eustache in Pessac (subject to confirmation)
Thursday 18th June
9h – 9h30 Welcome. Opening address by Nathalie Jaëck (CLIMAS) and Lesley Graham (LACES).
9h30-10h30 : Keynote address: Jean-Pierre Naugrette, Université Paris Sorbonne. ‘Stevenson and the pleasure of nightmares’.
10h30 : coffee break
11h – 12h30 Session 1 Pleasure and the art of fiction (salle des thèses)
· Richard Dury (Honorary fellow, University of Edinburgh): ‘Stevenson and Charm’.
· Richard Ambrosini (Université de Rome) : ‘R. L. Stevenson and Henry James's arts of fiction’.
· Robert Louis Abrahamson (University of Maryland). ‘The Pleasures of a Literary Vagrant’.
12h30 : Presentation of the the European Cultural Route ‘In the Footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson’, followed by an apéritif.
13h00 – 14h00 : Lunch (buffet on site)
14h – 16h Session 2 Travel and the pleasures of the map (salle 33)
· Xavier Amelot (Université Bordeaux Montaigne) : ‘Itinérance cartographique et plaisir du texte’.
· Martin White (European Cultural Route): ‘The Hunting of the Snark Skelt’.
· Andrew Brown and Hervé Gournay (Société Historique de Maroilles) : ‘Robert Louis Stevenson and Pleasure in An Inland Voyage’.
· Kévin Cristin (Aix-Marseille Université): ‘An “invalid marching to and fro upon the roads”: pleasure and exertion in Robert Louis Stevenson’s early travel narratives’.
16h-16h30 : coffee break
16h30-18h : Session 3A Linguistic pleasures (salle des thèses)
· Kate Ashley (Acadia University, Canada): ‘Stevenson’s Comic Calques / La Comédie des calques chez Stevenson’.
· Caroline Crépin (Université de Lyon 3 et Paris 10). ‘Seeking and hiding: the linguistic concealment of pleasure in R. L. Stevenson’s work’.
· Neil Macara Brown (Independent scholar): ‘Making Hays on the beach: fun in names, and other frolics, in The Ebb Tide’.
16h30-18h Session 3B Pleasure and Childhood (Salle 33)
· Audrey Murfin (Sam Houston State University): ‘A ‘World of Moonshine’ and the Pleasures of Imagination: Stevenson’s Theories of Childhood’.
· Mark J. Sanderson (Independent scholar). ‘”If studious youth no longer crave”: Is Treasure Island relevant for young people in the 21st Century?’
· Maki Sadahiro (Meijigakuin University, Japan). ‘Management of Pleasure: R. L. Stevenson and the Construction of American Children’s Literature’.
19h. Cocktail reception
Friday 19th June
9h – 10h30 Session 4 The Pleasures of the Shorter Text.
· Burkhard Niederhoff (University of Bochum, Germany): ‘The Pleasure of the Intertext: Aesthetic Self-Fashioning in “Providence and the Guitar”’.
· Lena Linne (Ruhr University Bochum): ‘[A] gaming-table, a duel, and a Roman amphitheatre”? Pleasure and the Suicide Club’.
· Patrick Antoniol (Professeur agrégé): ‘Plaisir d’écrire, plaisir de lire, plaisir de classe : où sont les vrais plaisirs ? dans The Body Snatcher ’.
10h30 : coffee break
11h – 13h Session 5 The pleasures of the text.
· Penny Fielding (University of Edinburgh). ‘Guilty Pleasures: Stevenson and Popular Fiction’.
· Stéphanie Ravez (Université Bordeaux Montaigne): ‘A Dog’s Life: Pleasure and Conscience in Stevenson’s Underwoods’.
· Duncan Milne (Napier University). ‘Pleasure and the Pre-Modernist: Generic Ambivalence in The Master of Ballantrae’.
· Glenda Norquay (Liverpool John Moores University): ‘Stevenson and “The Pleasures of Performance”’.
13h – 14h Buffet lunch
13h30 'An Apology for Idlers': a presentation with a dramatic reading by Robert-Louis Abrahamson and Richard Dury outside the Maison de la recherche.
14h – 16h Session 6 Pleasure and literary correspondence/collaboration
· Hilary J Beattie (Columbia University, NY): ‘The pleasures and the perils of collaboration: Robert Louis Stevenson, Belle Strong and Graham Balfour, in Samoa and beyond’.
· Michael Shaw (University of Stirling) ‘‘”Tis Then There Would be Larks”: The Imagined Meetings of Robert Louis Stevenson and J. M. Barrie’.
· Thomson Moore Prentice (independent scholar): ‘Love In The Time Of Calvinism: The Illicit Romances Of Robert Louis Stevenson’.
· Mafalda Cippione (Perugia Museum, Italy). ‘I was quite out of my mind with delight. The Mentonese letters’.
16h– 16h30 coffee break
16h30 – 18h Session 7A Regulating pleasure (salle des thèses)
· Adam Kozaczka (Texas A&M International University): ‘Reenacting the “Excitements” of Eighteenth-Century Scots Law in Stevenson’s Historical Novels.
· Matthew Kaiser (University of California, Merced): ‘The Anti-Eugenic Pleasures of Robert Louis Stevenson’.
· Lucio de Capitani (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice): ‘“Greedy of all Pleasures”/ “Divinely Free from Malice”: Enjoyment and Ethics in Stevenson and Melville’.
16h30 – 18h Session 7B Thrilling pleasures (salle 033)
· Linda Dryden (Napier University). “‘”I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements’: The thrill of being Mr Hyde”.
· Gilles Ménégaldo (Université de Poitiers) : ‘Dreadful Pleasures in Some Filmic Adaptations of "The Body Snatcher" (1881) and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)’
· Mathilde Giret (Université Bordeaux Montaigne) : ‘Science is the New Religion : Re-thinking Pleasure through Science in Stevenson’s Tales of Terror’.
20h. Conference dinner, restaurant La Belle Epoque (registration required)
Saturday 20th June
9h30 – 10h30 Keynote address : Michel Le Bris.
10h30 : coffee break
11h – 13h Session 8A The Pleasures of the Pacific (Salle des theses)
· Catherine Mathews (Independent Scholar and lawyer, Sydney, Australia): ‘The ‘Splendid Gift’, the ‘Exquisite Pleasure’ and ‘the Lesson of’ the Road of Gratitude (the Road of Loving Hearts): Robert Louis Stevenson’s Address to the Samoan Chiefs, Vailima (7 October 1894)’.
· Sylvie Ortega (University of Tahiti): ‘The Beach of Falesá – the pleasure of writing/reading’.
· Jacqueline Dillion (Pepperdine University). ‘“My Conscience Smote Me”: The Shames of Pleasure in The Beach of Falesá’.
· Tim Hayes (Chowan University, North Carolina). ‘The problem with Huish: Class Prejudice and disgust in The Ebb-Tide’.
11h – 13h Session 8B Pleasures and Popular Culture (Salle 033)
· Jean-Paul Gabilliet (Université Bordeaux Montaigne): ‘How Charles Crumb’s childhood obsession with Stevenson’s Treasure Island finally drove him crazy’.
· Nicolas Labarre (Université Bordeaux Montaigne). ‘Playing the classics? The strange case of the Jekyll and Hyde video game adaptations’.
· Nicolas Champ ( Université Bordeaux Montaigne) : ‘Le plaisir de l’adaptation de Treasure Island’.
· Lionel Larré (Université Bordeaux Montaigne). ‘Guilty pleasures and representing the Indians’.
13h00 – 14h00 Lunch (buffet on site)
14h. Excursion to Saint-Emilion (registration required)