18 → 20 juillet 2024
Maison française d’Oxford
ORGANISATION
Catriona Seth (All Souls College, Oxford) & Giovanni Iamartino (Università degli Studi di Milano Statale)
Thursday 18 –1.30-6.00 – Maison Française d’Oxford
1.30-2.00 – Conference registration and welcome address
2.00-3.40 – Session 1: Visiting England / En visite en Angleterre
Chair: Catriona Seth (Oxford)
LEENA EILITTÄ (Helsinki), The self in 18th-century British travelogues from the north
FRANCESCA PAGANI (Bergamo), « Ma tournée d’Angleterre ». La comtesse d’Albany et ses notes de voyage
DAMIANO BARDELLI (Lausanne), Sous l’aile de Gibbon. Le séjour anglais du jeune vaudois Wilhelm de Charrière de Sévery
ERICA VIANELLO (Augsburg / Venice), Les Lettres sur l’Angleterre, la Hollande et l’Italie d’Anne-Marie du Boccage : entre écriture de soi et représentations sociales
3.40-4.10 – Break
4.10-5.40 – Session 2: Paradigms / Paradigmes
Chair: Alba Graziano (Viterbo)
RICHARD ANSELL (London), Servants’ travel journals as life-writing
ELISABETTA LONATI (Eastern Piedmont), “The Author cannot help feeling himself under an obligation of apologising for the frequent egotisms”: the travelling self in medical geography
LAURA PINNAVAIA (Milan), Analysing 18th-century travelogues published in England: an insight into the travelling selves
AGNES DOBEK (Budapest), Journey to Italy: Identity-forming experiences described in the letters of Hungarian historian Joseph Koller
Wine and cheese reception offered by the Maison Française d’Oxford
Friday 19 –9 A.M.-5 P.M. – Maison Française d’Oxford
9-10.30 – Session 3: Italy and the arts / L’Italie et les arts
Chair: Anne-Sophie Gabillas (Maison Française d’Oxford)
MATHILDE VALLIERES (Paris / Montréal), « [U]n pays entièrement nouveau pour moi » : les Voyages de Montesquieu, récit d’une éducation artistique?
ELANIA PIERAGOSTINI (Independent), The life of an artist in Rome: The Memoirs by Thomas Jones (1742-1803)
ELISA DEBENEDETTI (Rome), Winckelmann et Mengs à Villa Albani à partir des dessins Torlonia
LAURA GIULIANO (Independent Scholar), “I expose myself to the censure of the first connoisseurs”. Lady Anna Miller and her personal perception of Italian Art
10.30-11 – Break
11-12.30 – Session 4: Fictions and travels / Fictions et voyages
Chair: Francesca Pagani (Bergamo)
ODILE RICHARD (Limoges), Grands-pères, pères et impairs : Le voyage à Berlin du petit-fils de Diderot (1800-1801). Un hommage véritable au célèbre auteur du Voyage à Bourbonne et à Langres (1770)?
MARIA FIORELLA SUOZZO (Salerno), “Shall I tell you my dreams?”: William Beckford’s crafted persona in his Grand Tour travelogue Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents
SOUAD BOUHOUCH (Gafsa), Des Carnets de voyages à Corinne ou l’Italie de Germaine de Staël: un “Moi” en voyage entre l’ambivalence et l’enthousiasme créateur
ANDREA GATTI (Bologna), Travelogues and fictional self. Joseph Addison’s Remarks on several parts of Italy
12.30-1.30 – Lunch
1.30-3 – Session 5: Women on tour / Des touristes femmes
Chair: Caroline Warman (Jesus College, University of Oxford)
BELLA TAKUSHINOVA (Turin), Through the female gaze. Russian women travellers of the Grand Tour in late 18th-century Italy
CINZIA RECCA (Catania), A female Grand Tour in Sicily: Amazement and magnificence in the travelling accounts of of Lady Ellis Cornelia Knight (1799-1800)
TIZIANA INGRAVALLO (Foggia), Women’s mobility in the 1790s: Helen Maria Williams and Mary Morgan
MIRIAM AL JAMIL (Independent Scholar), A vicar’s daughter in post-Napoleonic Europe
3-3.30 – Break
3.30-5 – Session 6: The self and others / Soi et les autres
Chair: Laura Pinnavia (to be confirmed)
GIANNI DE NITTIS (Modena and Reggio), Imagination and the Self. Reflections on identity and otherness in Goethe’s Italian Journey
THOMAS LEONARD-ROY (Sassari), Hating abroad: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Byron in Italy
DANIELE NIEDDA (Rome), The elusive Self of William Beckford in Italy
ESTER GIACHETTI (Venice), Pierre-Jean Mariette in Italy: letter to his father
Conference dinner – Hall, All Souls College
Saturday 20 –9.30-12.00 – Wharton Room, All Souls College, Oxford
09.30-10.30 – Session 7: Unusual guides / Des guides inhabituels
Chair: Giovanni Iamartino (Milan)
ANTOINE CHATELAIN (Lyon), Entre écrit du for privé et guide impersonnel : le journal de voyage en Italie de l’abbé Gougenot
MARILINA GIANICO (Independent), Un Jésuite à Rome : le voyage en Italie dans l’Itinéraire de l’abbé François-Xavier de Feller
THOMAS ARCHAMBAUD (Glasgow), A global Ancien régime? The travels of Sir John Macpherson and Abu Taleb Khan in revolutionary Europe, 1789-1803
10.30-11 – Coffee Break and departure of speakers
11-12 – Business meeting
