Therapeutic Modernisms

8.30
Coffee and Welcome
9.30-10.30
Keynote: Fabienne Brugère (Université Paris 8) From Care Ethics to Care Politics
Panel chair: Hélène Aji (École normale supérieure – PSL)
10.30-11.00
Coffee
11.00-13.00
THERAPEUTIC FICTIONS
Panel chair: Charlotte Estrade (Université Paris Nanterre)
Tobias Jenkins (King’s College London) Modernist Mindscapes in W.R. Bion’s A Memoir of the Future
Justine Baillie (University of Greenwich) Fitzgerald, Modernism and Race
Henry Carmines (Université Paris Nanterre) The Modernist Stimmung of Henry James’s The Europeans
Emma Frigo (Université Paris Nanterre) Évasion et guérison : la Grèce thérapeutique et anti-moderne de Henry Miller
13.00-15.00
Lunch – Buffet in the MaCI
15.00-16.30
IN THE WAKE OF WOOLF: THERAPEUTIC (AND ANTI-THERAPEUTIC) PROJECTS
Panel chair: Caroline Pollentier (Université Sorbonne nouvelle – IUF)
Savina Stevanato (Università degli Studi Roma Tre) “Only writing composes it”: Woolf’s Modernist and Therapeutic Form(s)
Olivier Hercend (Université Paris Nanterre) Virginia Woolf and the Pharmakon of Reading
Éric Binet (École de Psychologues Praticiens, Paris) Hermann Hesse et la quête de Soi : une exploration jungienne des traumatismes de guerre
17.00-19.00
MODERNIST DANCE WORKSHOP, with Claudie Servian
Live Arts Lab
20.00 Banquet dinner at Les Jardins de Sainte Cécile

8.30-9.00
Coffee
9.00-10.00
Keynote: Jean-Paul Rocchi (Université Gustave Eiffel) Shifting Viewpoints: Antiracism as Therapeutic Modernism in African American Literature and Art
Panel chair: Nicholas Manning (Université Grenoble Alpes – IUF)
10.00-10.30
Coffee
10.30-12.30
THERAPEUTIC PERFORMANCES
Panel chair: Gretchen Schiller (Université Grenoble Alpes)
Claudie Servian (Université Grenoble Alpes) Une vision thérapeutique de la danse étatsunienne au début du 20e siècle
Jenessa Kenway (University of Nevada) Failed Dance Therapy: Feminine Alterity in the Unconsciousness of Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood
Kristina Polakova (Università degli Studi Roma Tre – Sorbonne Université) Violent Writing, Writing Violence: Boris Pasternak and Isaac Babel
Charlotte Estrade (Université Paris Nanterre) Representing Boxers in the Modernist Era: the Aesthetic and Politics of Gendered Bodies
12.30-14.30
Lunch at L’Oiseau blanc
14.30-16.30
POETIC THERAPIES I
Panel chair: Vincent Bucher (Université Grenoble Alpes)
Chloé Thomas (Université d’Angers) The Therapeutic Argument in Modernist Defenses of Poetry
Juliette Utard (Sorbonne Université) Satire as a National Therapeutics in Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology (1915)
Samantha Lemeunier (École normale supérieure – PSL) Autothérapie et thérapies de l’écriture : les ordonnanciers de William Carlos Williams
Diane Drouin (Sorbonne Université) “From Black to White Magic in One Movement”: Mina Loy, Joseph Cornell, and the Healing Powers of Surrealism
16.30-17.00
Coffee
17.00-19.00
THERAPEUTIC CRITICISMS
Panel chair: Christine Vandamme (Université Grenoble Alpes)
Xavier Kalck (Université de Lille) Goodnight, Modernity: Linguistic Balms and Acidic Words in Jewish Modernist Writing
Moris Fadel (Nouvelle Université Bulgare) Literary Criticism as Therapy
Caroline Pollentier (Université Sorbonne nouvelle – IUF) Fictional Empathy, Survival, and the Dark Sides of Well-Being
Anthony Cordingley (University of Sydney – Université Paris 8) Teaching Therapy, or an Exploration of Modernist Unknowing

8.30-9.00
Coffee
9.00-10.00
Keynote: Rebecca Bowler (Keele University) “Do I dare to eat a peach?”: The Moral Dichotomy of Eating Fruit
Panel chair: Benoît Tadié (Université Paris Nanterre)
10.00-10.30
Coffee
10.30-12.30
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOTHERAPEUTICS
Panel chair: Yasna Bozhkova (Université Paris Nanterre)
Adam Frank (University of British Columbia) Kafka, Klein, Countertransference
Catherine Enwright (Boston College) Across the Black Waters de Mulk Raj Anand à travers le prisme psychanalytique de l’étrangeté de Freud
Molly Thomas (Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis) Therapy on the Run
Isabelle Blondiaux (LIPHA – Paris-Est) L’écriture moderniste : une tentative thérapeutique ? À propos de Louis-Ferdinand Céline et de Virginia Woolf
12.30-14.00
Lunch – Buffet in the MaCI
14.00-16.00
POETIC THERAPIES II
Panel chair: Xavier Kalck (Université de Lille)
Andrea Lupi (Università di Pisa) T.S. Eliot’s Insomniac Modernism: Coping with Sleeplessness In/Through Poetry
Aakanksha Virkar (University of Brighton) Art as Reconciliation: T.S. Eliot, Beethoven and “the still point of the turning world”
César Eduardo (Université Paris Nanterre) T.S. Eliot and César Vallejo: Experiencing Psychic Convolutions During the Spanish Civil War and World War II
Jennifer Harvey (Université de Lille) Modernism, the Symptom? Wars, Words, and Wounds, 1914-1945
16.00-16.30
Coffee
16.30-17.30
ROUNDTABLE AND CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
Panel chairs: Hélène Aji, Nicholas Manning, Benoît Tadié
Participants: Rebecca Bowler, Fabienne Brugère, Adam Frank, Jean-Paul Rocchi
18.00-19.30
Buffet and drinks in the MaCI