Journée d'étude:

Organisers: Liliane Campos (Sorbonne Nouvelle), François-Joseph Lapointe (Université de Montréal) and Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr (Oxford University)

This events is part of the BioCriticism project (https://biocriticism.hypotheses.org/), supported by the Sorbonne Nouvelle, the Institut Universitaire de France and the FMSH “Biohumanities” programme.

PROGRAMME

8.45
Welcome: Gisèle Séginger, director of the Biohumanities programme

9.00-10.15
Panel 1

- Violaine Heyraud (Sorbonne Nouvelle) : « Le microbe dans les intrigues du théâtre de Grand-Guignol (1905-1930) : agent ou instrument ? »

- Daniel Ibrahim Abdalla (University of Liverpool), “‘A Strange and Secret Thing’: Staging Heredity in the Harlem Renaissance”

- Dr. Prateek (Birla Institute of Technology and Science), “Microscopic Marvels: Ronald Ross’s 1909 Exhibition and the Evolution of Taste in Colonial India”

10.15-10.45    Coffee Break

10.45-12.00
Panel 2

- Patrick Armstrong (Cambridge University), “Samuel Beckett’s Magnifiers”

- Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr (University of Oxford), “Reactivating Plays through the Microscopic Imaginary”

- Elisabeth Darrobers (Sorbonne Université) and Wallerand Bazin (University of Oxford), “Screening the probiotic: Jumping microbial and geomorphic scales on stage”

12.00-13.30
Lunch

13.30-14.30
Panel 3

- Martin Grünfeld (University of Copenhagen), “Notes from a museum underground: on the tiny agencies of mushrooms metabolizing objects, agencies and research processes in transdisciplinary multi-species collaborations”

- Diya Mehta and Claire Nettleton (Benton Museum of Art, Pomona College), “Microculture: Microbial Performances at the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College”

14.30-14.45
Short Break

14.45-16.00
Panel 4

- Marcela Moura (Sorbonne Nouvelle and UNIRIO), « Analyse systémique des interactions au sein de la performance ‘From plankton to human bodies : the dance of interacting types’ »

- Lois Oppenheim (Montclair State University), “Interoception and Reception: Performing and Viewing the Language of Gaga in ‘Naharin’s Virus’”

- Rosa Postlethwaite (Coventry University and Aarhus University), ““Solos” with Sourdough: Dramaturgy with microscopic living entities”

16.00-16.30    Coffee Break

16.30-17.45
Panel 5

- Amandine Mercier (Université d’Artois), « Mise en scène, incarnation et dramaturgie de la vie microscopique : projections des gamètes mâles sur les scènes du théâtre de Romeo Castellucci »

- Alison Humphrey (York University), “Embodying the Uncanny in Shadowpox: The Cytokine Storm”

- Tarsh Bates (Umeå University), “Microbial sense-ability: olfactory art, metabolism and queer microperformativity”