Friday, April 19th
Robertson Hall Bowl 016
8:15-9:00 Coffee-Breakfast
9:00 Welcome Address: Nick Nesbitt, Chair, Department of French and Italian
Introduction: Effie Rentzou
9:15 - 10:45 a.m. Modernist Novels
Chair: André Benhaïm (Princeton University, French and Italian)
David Ellison (University of Miami)
"On Situating French Modernism: The Strange Location(s) of Le Grand Meaulnes"
Gerald Prince (University of Pennsylvania)
"Les Caves du Vatican and the Real Novel"
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 p.m. Ethics and Aesthetics
Chair: Michael Wood (Princeton University, English, Comparative Literature)
Hannah Freed-Thall (Princeton University, Society of Fellows)
"Inestimable Objects: Proust, Modernism, Aesthetics"
Marjorie Perloff (University of Southern California)
"The Contradictions of ‘Simultaneity’: The Delaunay/Cendrars Collaboration on La Prose du Transsibérien"
12:30 Lunch
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Cinematic Writing
Chair: Maria DiBattista (Princeton University, English, Comparative Literature)
Jonathan Eburne (Penn State University)
"Fantômas and the Shudder of History"
Christophe Wall-Romana (University of Minnesota)
"The New Medium of Film in French Thought, 1900-1914"
3:30-3:45 Coffee Break
3:45 - 5:15 p.m. Modernist Poetics I
Chair: David Bellos (Princeton University, French and Italian, Comparative Literature)
Laurent Jenny (Université de Genève)
"Apollinaire’s Farewell to Lyricism"
Annette Becker (Paris 10-Nanterre)
"Chagall’s Homage to Apollinaire and European Avant-Garde: 1913 Between Peace and War"
Art Museum
6:00 Performance
L’Avant-Scène Presents Les Mamelles de Tirésias By Guillaume Apollinaire
7:30 Art Exhibition
"1913: The Year of Modernism"
Followed by a Reception
Saturday, April 20th
106 McCormick Hall
8:15 Coffee / Breakfast
8:45 Presentation: André Benhaïm
9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Other Modernisms
Chair: Tom Trezise (Princeton University, French and Italian)
William Marx (Université Paris 10 - Nanterre)
"1913, Year of the Arrière-Garde?"
Christopher Bush (Northwestern University)
"A Modernism that Has Not Yet Been: Untimely Segalen"
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15 p.m. 1913 Legacies
Chair: Jeff Dolven (Princeton University, English)
Simon Morrison (Princeton University, Music)
"The Chosen One: The Politics of The Rite of Spring, Then and Now"
Carrie Noland (University of California-Irvine)
"Marcel Duchamp, Merce Cunningham, and the Temporality of the Avant-Garde"
12:15 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Modernist Poetics II
Chair: Susan Stewart (Princeton University, English)
Virginie Pouzet-Duzer (Pomona College)
"1913: Point(s) Mallarmé!"
Mary Shaw (Rutgers University)
"Poetry Displaced: Nijinsky, Delaunay, Duchamp"
3:30 – 3:45 Coffee Break
3:45 - 5:15 p.m. Visual Materialities
Chair: Brigid Doherty (Princeton University, German, Art and Archaeology)
Guillaume Le Gall (Université Paris 4 - Sorbonne)
"Les Fortifications de Paris (1913) by Eugène Atget: A Landmark in the Photographic Modernity"
Lisa Florman (Ohio State University)
"Behind Picasso’s Pins"
5:15 – 5:30 Break
5:30 – 6:30 p.m. ROUNDTABLE
Chair: Effie Rentzou (Princeton University, French and Italian)
Hal Foster (Princeton University, Art History)
Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania)
Susan Stanford Friedman (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
