In light of Penn's recent announcement, it is with a heavy heart and great disappointment that we inform you that the 2020 FIGS Conference, Apocalyptic Landscapes, is officially cancelled. Please refer to this link for further information about Penn’s latest announcement https://coronavirus.upenn.edu/.
We worked very hard to organize a wonderful conference for you all and as events have shown our topic was timely, if not prophetic. The universe, it seems, decided to have the apocalypse instead of the conference.
We worked very hard to organize a wonderful conference for you all and as events have shown our topic was timely, if not prophetic. The universe, it seems, decided to have the apocalypse instead of the conference.
9 :00-9 :45 – Breakfast
9 :45-10 :00 – Welcome and Opening remarks
10:00-11:15 – Keynote Address – Professor Codruţa Morari, Wellesley College, "Donner à voir/ Affording Sight: Jean-Luc Godard's Apocalyptic Movement.”
Break 15 min
11:30-12:30 – Panel 1 (3 speakers) Warnings of the eco-threat: silence, resignation, and indifference – Chair: Pauline Carbonnel, University of Pennsylvania.
12:30-1:45 – Lunch
1:45-2:45 – Panel 2 (3 speakers) Apocalyptic backdrops in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period – Chair: Giulio Genovese, University of Pennsylvania.
- Massimiliano Lorenzon, University of Pennsylvania. “The Black Death of 1348: the Decameron as a possible source for two Florentine chronicles of the Trecento.”
Break 15 min
3:00-3:45 – Panel 3 (2 speakers) Personalizing the Apocalypse: inner perspectives on the end of times – Chair: Tommaso de Robertis, University of Pennsylvania.
Break 5-10 min
4:00-5:15 – Panel 4 (4 speakers) The 20th and 21st-century novel of the Apocalypse – Chair: Samantha Gillen, University of Pennsylvania.
a.The End of Time(s)
Break 15 min
5:30-6:15 – Panel 5 (2 speakers) Visualizing the Apocalypse in contemporary literature and films – Chair: Marcus Dominick, University of Pennsylvania.
6:15-6:30 – Closing Remarks (Keynote)
7:00-… Reception at the LGBT Center.
9 :45-10 :00 – Welcome and Opening remarks
10:00-11:15 – Keynote Address – Professor Codruţa Morari, Wellesley College, "Donner à voir/ Affording Sight: Jean-Luc Godard's Apocalyptic Movement.”
Break 15 min
11:30-12:30 – Panel 1 (3 speakers) Warnings of the eco-threat: silence, resignation, and indifference – Chair: Pauline Carbonnel, University of Pennsylvania.
- Sophie Dolto, University of Pennsylvania. ““Sick Planet:” The situationists on the ecological crisis.”
- Clara-Louise Mourier, ENS Paris-Saclay. “The Silent Apocalypse in Ecofiction (Into the Forest, Jean Hegland).”
- Zachary Loeb, University of Pennsylvania. “Cry out with terror – Eugène Huzar and the scientific apocalypse.”
12:30-1:45 – Lunch
1:45-2:45 – Panel 2 (3 speakers) Apocalyptic backdrops in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period – Chair: Giulio Genovese, University of Pennsylvania.
- Massimiliano Lorenzon, University of Pennsylvania. “The Black Death of 1348: the Decameron as a possible source for two Florentine chronicles of the Trecento.”
- Lauriane Guihard, University of Pennsylvania. “The furiosus in the tragédie nationale, a reflection on gender and sovereignty in the 16th century.”
- Lindsay Fieger, University of Notre Dame. “Portraits of Maternity in Gargantua and Les Tragiques.”
Break 15 min
3:00-3:45 – Panel 3 (2 speakers) Personalizing the Apocalypse: inner perspectives on the end of times – Chair: Tommaso de Robertis, University of Pennsylvania.
- Simon Willemin, University of Geneva. “An Unimaginative Man? The Apocalypse According to the Bible Peddler in Ramuz’s The Signs Among Us.”
- Peerawat Chiaranunt, University of Notre Dame. “Leopardi’s Poetics and the Apocalypse of Nature.”
Break 5-10 min
4:00-5:15 – Panel 4 (4 speakers) The 20th and 21st-century novel of the Apocalypse – Chair: Samantha Gillen, University of Pennsylvania.
a.The End of Time(s)
- Natascia Cappa, Rutgers University. “Clock Time and Individual Times in Dino Buzzati’s Apocalyptic City.”
- Marie Bellec, University of Pennsylvania. “Triggering the Apocalypse: A Reading of Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians.”
- The Outcasts
- Beatrice Basile, University of Pennsylvania. “The depiction of “the Other” in Tommaso Pincio’s novel Cinacittà (2008).”
- Deion Dresser, University of Pennsylvania. “Reading between the lines: the portrayal of the feminine in fairy tales and its contribution to our gendered society.”
Break 15 min
5:30-6:15 – Panel 5 (2 speakers) Visualizing the Apocalypse in contemporary literature and films – Chair: Marcus Dominick, University of Pennsylvania.
- Julien Brugeron, University of Paris Nanterre. “‘The whites spiderwebbed with red’: chromatic mediations of the Apocalypse in contemporary American prose fiction.”
- Hanna E. Morris, University of Pennsylvania. “Gazing on the Apocalypse: Aesthetics of Violence in Climate Change Photography.”
6:15-6:30 – Closing Remarks (Keynote)
7:00-… Reception at the LGBT Center.
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