9.30-10.30 PLENARY ADDRESS BY JENNIFER GREIMAN[Amphi Richelieu, Sorbonne Université] "Oil & Light, Figure & Shadow: Democratic Aesthetics from Melville to Ellison"
10.45-11.15Coffee [Maison de la Recherche, Sorbonne Nouvelle]
11.15-12.45 Session 1 [Maison de la Recherche, Sorbonne Nouvelle / ENS Ulm]
1.Melville & Environment I: A Workshop (Chairs: John Levi Barnard & Meredith Farmer) [ENS, Amphi Jaurès] A series of brief presentations by Thomas Dutoit, Stephanie Foote, Devin Griffiths, Jamie Jones, Jeff Insko, Dana Luciano, Martha Rojas, Nicholas Spengler, and Edward Sugden
2.Aesthetic Transfers (Chair: Édouard Marsoin) [MR, Salle du Conseil] Emilio Irigoyen, “From Hawthorne's French to Melville's Spanish: Pseudotranslations, Mirrorings, and the Ideal of a Multilingual Reading Community” Ariel Silver, "Call Me Hagar: Melville’s Aesthetic Vision of Dispossession in France and America” Benoît Tadié, “Underground Energies: The Confidence-Man’s Noir Legacy”
3.Technologies of the Mind (Chair: Ralph Savarese) [MR, Salle Athéna] Hannah Murray, “Pierre and the Sway” Peter Balaam, “‘Wind ye Down’: Melville in the Underland” Zachary Hutchins, “Fugitives from ‘Man’s Aggressive Energy’: Wandering in the Wilderness of Clarel” K. L. Evans, “An Ignorant Schoolmaster: Melvillean Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation”
12.45-2.15 Lunch provided (sandwiches) [Maison de la Recherche]
2.15-3.45 SESSION 2 [Maison de la Recherche, Sorbonne Nouvelle / ENS Ulm]
4.Melville & Environment II: A Workshop (Chairs: John Levi Barnard & Meredith Farmer) [ENS, Amphi Jaurès] A series of brief presentations by Thomas Dutoit, Stephanie Foote, Devin Griffiths, Jamie Jones, Jeff Insko, Dana Luciano, Martha Rojas, Nicholas Spengler, and Edward Sugden
5. Intertextual Energies (Chair: John Bryant) [MR, Salle du Conseil] Chris Rice, “‘The Quest that Nothing Can Appease’: Menippean Energies in Melville’s Mardi” Bruno Monfort, “Melville’s Shorter Poems and the Energeia/Enargeia of Allusiveness” David Greven, “The Torment of Mildness: Melville, Bloom, and a New Theory of Literary Influence”
6.Domesticity Unbound (Chair: Hélène Cottet) [MR, Salle Athéna] Nat Hurley, “Melville’s Childlessness” Rodrigo Andrés, “Escaping Homogenizing Domestic Arrangements: The Energy behind Ishmael’s Motion” Marek Paryz, “Themes of Domesticity in Melville’s Short Fiction”
3.45-4.15 Coffee
4.15-5.45 SESSION 3 [Maison de la Recherche, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Centre Culturel Irlandais]
7. Melville’s Exhaustions: A Roundtable (Chair: Thomas Dutoit) [MR, Salle du Conseil] Matthew Rebhorn, “Melville’s Temporal Exhaustion” Ashley Barnes, “Melville’s Exhausted Capital” Justine S. Murison, “Melville’s Exhausted Bodies” Christopher Hanlon, “Melville’s Postwar Exhaustion” 8.Melvillean Menageries (Chair: Agnès Derail) [MR, Salle Athéna] Neill Matheson, “Meat and Light: Animal Energies in ‘The Whale as a Dish’” Stephanie A. Smith, “Tattspeak: Melville’s Interspecies Inscriptions” Sammy Moriarty “‘The Companionship of Worms': Whiteness, Metabolism, and Melville’s Invertebrate Attachments.” Karah Mitchell, “Melville, Montaigne, and Energetic Kittens”
9. French Melville (Chair: Michel Imbert) [CCI, Salle de Réunion 1] Carol Colatrella, “Reading Melville’s Pierre in the Context of French Realism” Justina Torrance, “Melville’s Comédie (In)humaine” Maki Sadahiro, “Billy Budd, or the Problem of Frenchness”
10.ReenergizingBartleby (Chair: Ronan Ludot-Vlasak) [MR, Salle Formation] François Specq, “Bartleby or the Energy of Silence” Vivian Delchamps, “Melville’s Adagios: Crip Time in ‘Bartleby the Scrivener’” Tae Sung, “Khoretic Energy”
6.00 RECEPTION (Mairie du Ve arrondissement, place du Panthéon)
TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2022 (Université Paris Cité)
9.30-11.00 SESSION 4 [Bâtiment Sophie Germain, Université Paris Cité]
11.Get to Know the Melville Society [SG, Amphi Turing] An opportunity to know more about the Melville Society’s numerous programs and projects, and how you may get involved
12. Recent Publications in Melville Studies [SG 0011] A series of brief book presentations by John Bryant, Meredith Farmer & Jonathan Schroeder, Wyn Kelley, Christopher Ohge, Hannah Murray, Damien Schlarb, and Nicholas Spengler
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-1.00 SESSION 5 [Bâtiment Sophie Germain, Université Paris Cité]
13.Energies of the Nonhuman (Chair: Melissa Gniadek) [SG 0011] Tomoyuki Zettsu, “Beyond Monogamy: Botanical Energies in Pierre” Lesley Ginsberg, “Melville’s Ecogothic Energies” Alex Benson, “Fast Land, Loose Land, and Melville’s ‘Happy Failure’” Monica Pelaez, “Wartime Energies and the American Landscape in Melville’s Battle-Pieces”
14.Racialized Vision in Melville (Chair: Edward Sugden) [SG 1021] Xine Yao, “Pacifying Pacific Indigeneities: Herman Melville’s Surveillance of White Settler Colonial Tactics of Antiblackness and Orientalism” Nicholas Spengler, “‘Monarch of all I survey’: Racialized Vision and the Settler-Colonial Poetics of Solitude” Kelly Ross, “The Revolt of the ‘Blind Slave’: White Oversight in ‘The Bell-Tower’”
15.Another Look at Moby-Dick: Artists at Work (Chair: Tony McGowan) [SG, Amphi Turing] Claire Illouz, “Dear Leviathan, or The Power of Fear” Jos Sances, Jeffrey Peterson & Erica Zimmer, “Or, The Whale by Jos Sances: Ark of the Anthropocene” Peter Martin, “Call Me Ahab”
1.00-2.00 Lunch(provided)
2.00-3.30 SESSION 6 [Bâtiment Sophie Germain, Université Paris Cité]
16. Melville’s Data I: A Roundtable on the Energy of Digital Humanities in Melville Studies (Chair: Samuel Otter) [SG 1021] John Bryant, on the Melville Electronic Library Christopher Ohge & Brandon Hurst, on Text Analysis and Editorial Informatik at Melville’s Marginalia Online Robert K. Wallace & Clementine Farrell, on Melville’s Print Collection Online
17. An Eye on Race (Chair: Kirsten Silva Gruesz) [SG 0011] David Blake, “Hives of Subtlety: Babo, Fedallah, and Melville’s Islamicized Gaze” Mary Grace Albanese, “‘Tender of heart and tough of constitution’: Women’s Energy in ‘Benito Cereno’” Peter Brown, “Whiteness as Cosmopolitanism in The Confidence-Man” Alice Hofmann, “Like the Weather: Racial Hatred as Circulation in The Confidence-Man”
18. Cosmo-Geo Melville: Extraction, Exhumation, Expropriation (Chair: Jeff Insko) [SG, Amphi Turing] Timothy Marr, “Vesuvius’s Crater, or Melville’s Cosmogonies” Paul Gilmore, “Pierre and Darwin’s Year: Geological Energy and Human Agency” Katrina Dzyak, “‘Its birdlime gleams in the golden rays’: Between Energy and Exhaust in Melville’s ‘The Encantadas’”
3.30-4.00 Coffee
4.00-5.30 SESSION 7 [Bâtiment Sophie Germain, Université Paris Cité]
19. Melville’s Data II: A Roundtable on the Energy of Digital Humanities in Melville Studies (Chair: Wyn Kelley) [SG 1021] Édouard Marsoin & Julien Nègre, on Mapping Melville in Paris Dennis Mischke, on Computational Close Readings of Melville’s Works Erica Zimmer, on Digital Pedagogy
20. Melvillean Historicisms: Migrants, Radicals, Theodicists, and Numbers (Chair: Jennifer Greiman) [SG, Amphi Turing] Anna Brickhouse, “Melville’s Theodicists” Russ Castronovo, “Melville's Numbers” Susan Gillman, “Melville’s Radicals” Rodrigo Lazo, “Melville’s Migrants”
21. “Monarchy or Republic?”: A Roundtable on Melville and Alternatives to Democracy (Chair: Mark Niemeyer) [SG 0011] Paul Downes, “Democratic Sovereignty: Melville and Hobbes” Elizabeth Duquette, “The Tyrant in ‘Timoleon’” Paul Hurh, “Ahab’s Advocate” Shirley Samuels, “Haunted by the River” Lenora Warren, “Melville’s Revolutionary Pessimism”
6.00 COCKTAIL/EXHIBITION (Hall des Grands Moulins, Université Paris Cité) With works by Jos Sances, Peter Martin & David Rosenthal, Matthew Cumbie & Tom Truss, and a public reading by John Bryant
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2022 (Université Paris Cité)
9.30-11.00 SESSION 8 [Bâtiment Sophie Germain, Université Paris Cité]
22. Labor and Production (Chair: Elizabeth Duquette) [SG, Amphi Turing] Arturo Corujo, “Homeward-Bound Energies: Naval Domesticities, Intellectual Labor, and Flowing Temporalities on board Melville’s Neversink” Mark Niemeyer, “Varying Energies of Work: Artisanal Labor and Industrial Labor in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale” Geoffrey Kirsch, “Corporate Leviathan: Agents, Principals, and the Personified Impersonal in Moby-Dick”
23. Image, Media, Text (Chair: Robert K. Wallace) [SG 1021] Tony McGowan, “‘Pierre. Look again’: Melville, Portraiture, and the Extinction Industry” Henry Kirby, “Ahab's Contract with God: The Transformation of Moby-Dick in Will Eisner's Graphic Novels”
24.Archipelagos (Chair: Nicholas Spengler) [SG 0011] Rebecca Cheong, “Melville’s Decontinentalizing Aesthesis” Melissa Gniadek, “‘A Polysensuum’: Archipelagic Visions through Mardi’s Trees” Yui Kasane, ““Archipelagic Narrative: “Benito Cereno” and Its Textual Strategy” Ikuno Saiki, “A Woman on a Deserted Island: Sexuality and Environmental Energies in “The Encantadas” and Tokyo Island”
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-1.00 SESSION 9 [Bâtiment Sophie Germain, Université Paris Cité]
25. The Art of Surfacing: Pictures, Poems, Gems (Chair: Vesna Kuiken) [SG 1021] Kylan Rice, “Melville as a Minor Craftsman” Dan Beachy-Quick, “Ghostly Energies: On Melville’s Phantasmic Poetics” Samuel Otter, “‘Him’ and Her: Constructing Timoleon Etc.”
26. ReWritten: Exploring Melville Through Dance, Performance, and Experiments in Pedagogy (Chair: Matthew Cumbie) [SG, Amphi Turing] Matthew Cumbie & Tom Truss, Scenes from ReWritten Brian Yothers, “‘Wild Grace’: The Presence of Dance in Melville’s Career” Katherine Stubbs & Matthew Cumbie, “Revisiting ‘Staging Hawthorne and Melville’”
27. Affective Ecologies (Chair: Xine Yao) [SG 0011] James Emmett Ryan, “Ecologies of Affection: Denis de Rougemont’s LoveintheWesternWorld and Melville’s Pierre” Yoshiaki Furui, “Transnational Intimacy in Israel Potter” Ralph Savarese, “‘The Apple-Tree Table’ and Auditory Hallucinations” Pilar Martínez Benedí, “‘NO TRUST’: Delusional Misidentification Syndromes and The Confidence-Man”
1.00 Lunch on your own / Lunch for early-career professionals
3.00-6.00 OPTIONAL MUSEUM TOURS
THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 2022 (Quartier Latin: Maison de la Recherche Sorbonne Nouvelle / Sorbonne Université)
9.30-11 SESSION 10 [Maison de la Recherche, Sorbonne Nouvelle / Centre Culturel Irlandais]
28. The Energy of Matter: Melville and Science (Chair: Meredith Farmer) [MR, Salle du Conseil] Bruce Fishbein, “Herman Melville, Physicist” Federico Bellini, “Melville’s Curves: Calculus and the Melvillian Imagination” Michael Jonik, “‘To restore your lost energy’: Medical Science, Vitalism and Minerality in The Confidence-Man”
29. The Dynamics of Composition (Chair: Joel Pfister ) [MR, Salle Athéna] Alexandra Franklin, “Learning from Printing Moby-Dick” Jillian Spivey Caddel, “Paratextual Battle-Pieces: Toward an Aesthetics of History” John Bryant, “Source Appropriation and the Energies of Revision in Billy Budd”
30. Dialogical Melville (Chair: David Blake) [CCI, Salle Michel Guillaume] Paolo Simonetti, “Convers(at)ion in The Confidence-Man: Herman Melville’s Dialogue with Pierre Bayle” Giacomo Traina, “Melville’s Maimed Dialectics: Circles and Dead Ends in the ‘Cetological Center’ of Moby-Dick” Nicola Paladin, “Outspeaking Israel Potter: George III, Benjamin Franklin, and the Dialogical Distortion of the American Revolution” Jessica Jacquel, “‘With mask torn away’: Carnivalesque Energies and the Nautical Gothic in Melville’s ‘Benito Cereno’”
11-11.30 Coffee
11.30-1.00 SESSION 11 [Maison de la Recherche, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Centre Culturel Irlandais]
31. Political Motions (Chair: Thomas Constantinesco) [MR, Salle du Conseil] Philip Gould, “Melville and the Time of War” Mary K. Bercaw Edwards, “Melville, Shipboard Space, and Maritime Oppression” Scott Reznick, “‘The Calm Full Fraught’: Bleak Liberalism and the Poetics of Gesture in Melville’s Postbellum Work” Paul Downes, “Moby-Dickin vacuo”
32.Melville’s Queer Energies (Chair: Rodrigo Andrés) [MR, Salle Athéna] Jordan Alexander Stein, “Sex in Translation” Adam Fales, “Inherited Desires: Pierre and Property” Dana Seitler, “Melville, Sendak, Pierre, and Pierre” Dana Luciano, “Black Feminist Futures of Moby-Dick: Ellen Gallagher’s Oceanic Ecstasies”
33.Melville Islanded: Biology, Ecology, Aesthetics (Chair: Michael Jonik) [CCI, Salle Michel Guillaume] Branka Arsić, “Marvelous Extinctions: Melville on Animal Suffering” Vesna Kuiken, “Melville and Thaxter on Islands: Two Models of Outlandishness” Stuart Burrows, “Islanded: Rancière’s Melville”
1.00-2.30 Lunch provided (sandwiches) [Maison de la Recherche]
2.30-4.00 SESSION 12 [Maison de la Recherche, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Centre Culturel Irlandais]
34. Melville’s Drives: Psychic Energies from Moby-Dick to Billy Budd (Chair: Branka Arsić) [MR, Salle Athéna] Jennifer Fleissner, “Too Much of a Good Thing: Melville, Injustice, and the Intensity of the Will” Russell Sbriglia, “Le non-dupe Pierre; or, Pierreavec Lacan” Jonathan Schroeder, “The Whiteness of the Will: Ahab and Monomania”
35. Faith’s Retreat (Chair: Brian Yothers) [MR, Salle du Conseil] Dawn Coleman, “Melville’s Secular Spiritual Energies” Damien Schlarb, “Melville’s Skeptical Energies” Caroline Hildebrandt, “Clarel’s Messianic Energies” Hélène Guillaume, “Creative energy in Clarel”
36.Indigenous Perspectives (Chair: Mary K. Bercaw Edwards) [CCI, Salle Michel Guillaume] Matthew Knip, “Indigenous Relationalities in Melville’s Pacific World” Stephen Andrews, “Moby-Dick, Makah Nation, and the Promise of Transmotion: A Vizenorian Reading” Ross Martin, “Lima’s Fire: Ahab, the Sun, and Ungraspable Desideratum”
4.30-5.30 PLENARY ADDRESS BY JEFF INSKO [Amphi Richelieu, Sorbonne Université] “Resource Extraction and Melville’s Extracts”
6.00 RECEPTION AND CONCERT (Fondation des États-Unis, Cité Internationale Universitaire)