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Program“Monarch of all I survey”: Literary Posterity and Cultural Legacies20–21 November 2025
PROVISIONAL PROGRAM
Organised by Vanessa GUIGNERY (ENS de Lyon), Julien NÈGRE (ENS de Lyon), Emmanuelle PERALDO (Aix-Marseille University), Amanda BENMOULOUD (ENS de Lyon), Marion PERRIN (ENS de Lyon), Anne-Élise PINZARU (ENS de Lyon), and Adrien SPIGA (Aix-Marseille University)
Thursday 20th November 2025École Normale Supérieure de Lyon Site Buisson, room D8-001, 15 Parvis René Descartes, 69007 Lyon
08.30-45: Welcome and coffee 09.00: Opening of the conference 09.15: Emmanuelle Peraldo (Aix-Marseille University): “Robinson Crusoe (1719), Forefather of the ‘Monarch-of-all-I Survey’ Trope”
09.45: Keynote lecture: Julia Kühn (University of Groningen) “Imperial Eyes and Butterflies; or, How Nineteenth-Century Naturalists saw South America” Chair: Emmanuelle Peraldo (Aix-Marseille University)
10.45: Coffee break
PANEL 1Chair: Julia Kühn (University of Groningen) 11.15: Arman Martirosyan (University of Strasbourg and Sorbonne University): “Local Knowledge, National Interests, and Landscape Surveillance: British Travelers in Circassia Amid the Struggle for Independence Against the Russian Empire (1836–1840)” 11.45: Floriane Reviron-Piégay (University Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne): “The Representation of Liminal Spaces in Isabella Bird’s Asian and Middle-Eastern Travel Accounts: Gendering the monarch-of-all-I-survey Gaze”
12.30-14.00: Lunch break (Brasserie des Sciences, Monod)
PANEL 2Chair: Vanessa Guignery (ENS de Lyon) 14.15: Rosie Blacher (Kingston University, London): “Surveying the Senses in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India” 14.45: Sreya Chatterjee (University of Leeds):“Rewriting Conquest as Compassion: Postcolonial Travel Writing by Indian Women”
15.15: Coffee break
PANEL 3Chair: Christine Lorre (University of Caen) 15h45: M. Mirac Ceylan (Gaziantep University, Turkey): “‘O Solitude!’: Isolation and Power in J. M. Coetzee’s Foe” 16.15: Cédric Courtois (University of Lille): “‘Mapping is different. It is to help us by bringing attention—’: Mapping as Survival Strategy in Chioma Okereke’s Water Baby (2024)”
19.30: Conference dinner, Restaurant “Le F2” – 2, place de l’Hôpital 69002 Lyon (Métro Bellecour).
Friday 21st November 2025École Normale Supérieure de Lyon Site Buisson, room D8-001, 15 Parvis René Descartes, 69007 Lyon
09.00: Welcome and coffee
09.30: Keynote lecture: Nicholas Spengler (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) “Settler Solitudes and Racial Surveillance: Echoes of Cowper in US Abolitionism and Transcendentalism” Chair: Julien Nègre (ENS de Lyon)
10.30: Coffee break
PANEL 4Chair: Caroline Hildebrandt (Grenoble Alpes University) 11.00: Emilia Le Seven (University of Lille): “Master of None: Geographical surveying and geological depths in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Crater (1849)”
11.30: Julien Nègre (ENS de Lyon):“Jack Kerouac’s Maps and the Undoing of the Monarch”
12.00-13.30: Lunch Break (Descartes)
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