Provisional programme

Stevenson and Pleasure

Université Bordeaux Montaigne

16^th-18^th June 2022

Provisional programme subject to change

All sessions will take place in the 'Salle des thèses' room at the 'Maison de la Recherche' on the Pessac Campus (get off Tram B at the Montaigne-Montesquieu stop).

Thursday 16th June

8h30-9h: Welcome and registration, morning coffee

9h-9h30: Opening address by Nathalie Jaëck (CLIMAS), Lesley Graham (LACES) and Julie Gay (FORELLIS, CLIMAS).

9h30-10h30: Keynote address – Jean-Pierre Naugrette, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 (chair: Nathalie Jaëck)

Stevenson and the Pleasure of Nightmares.

10h30: coffee break

11h-12h30: Session 1 –  Pleasure and artistic versatility (chair: Lesley Graham).

• Richard Dury (Honorary fellow, University of Edinburgh), Stevenson and Charm.
• Richard Ambrosini (University of Rome), Robert Louis Stevenson, Versifier.
• Robert Louis Abrahamson (University of Maryland), ‘The ship blew up with a glorious detonation': What kind of pleasure do we enjoy from Stevenson's Fables?

12h30: Presentation of the European Cultural Route ‘In the Footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson’ by Michel Legros, followed by an apéritif.

13h-14h:  Lunch (buffet on site)

14h-16h: Session 2 – Travel and the pleasures of the map (chair: Julie Gay).

• Xavier Amelot et Nathalie Jaëck (Université Bordeaux Montaigne), ‘But somehow it was never Treasure Island to me.’ The elusive climactic map of Treasure Island.
• Martin White (European Cultural Route), The Hunting of the Snark Skelt.
• Andrew Brown and Hervé Gournay (Société Historique de Maroilles), Robert Louis Stevenson and Pleasure in An Inland Voyage.
• Kévin Cristin (Aix-Marseille Université), An 'invalid marching to and fro upon the roads': pleasure and exertion in Robert Louis Stevenson’s early travel narratives.

16h-16h30: coffee break

16h30-18h: Session 3 – Games and pleasure (chair: Richard Dury).

• Caroline Crépin (Université de Lyon 3 et Paris 10), Seeking and hiding: the linguistic concealment of pleasure in R. L. Stevenson’s work.
• Caroline Howitt (Heriot-Watt University), Romance, Pleasure & Wellbeing.
• Audrey Murfin (Sam Houston State University), Pleasure for Profit: Opium in The Wrecker.

19h: Cocktail reception.

Friday 17th June 

9h-10h30: Session 4 – The Pleasures of the Shorter Text (chair: Antoine Ertlé).

• Burkhard Niederhoff (University of Bochum, Germany), The Pleasure of the Intertext: Aesthetic Self-Fashioning in 'Providence and the Guitar'.
• Lena Linne (Ruhr University Bochum), ‘[A] gaming-table, a duel, and a Roman amphitheatre'? Pleasure and the Suicide Club.
• Patrick Antoniol (Université de Lille 3), Plaisir d’écrire, plaisir de lire, plaisir de classe : où sont les vrais plaisirs ?

10h30: coffee break

11h-12h: Session 5 – The pleasures of the text (chair: Richard Ambrosini).

• Penny Fielding (University of Edinburgh), Stevenson and the Pleasures of Cosmopolitanism.
• Lucio de Capitani (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), ‘Greedy of all Pleasures'/ 'Divinely Free from Malice': Enjoyment and Ethics in Stevenson and Melville.

12h-14h: Lunch at "La Passerelle"

14h-16h: Session 6 – Thrilling pleasures (chair: Jean-Pierre Naugrette).

• Adam Kozaczka (Texas A&M International University), Reenacting the 'Excitements' of Eighteenth-Century Scots Law in Stevenson’s Historical Novels.
• Linda Dryden (Napier University), ‘I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements': The thrill of being Mr Hyde.
• Pam Lock (Bristol University), ‘A favourable stage of drink’: Re-framing Robert Louis Stevenson's approach to alcohol, health, and pleasure.
• Gilles Ménégaldo (Université de Poitiers), Dreadful Pleasures in Some Filmic Adaptations of 'The Body Snatcher' (1884) and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886).

16h-16h30: coffee break

16h30-18h: Session 7 – Pleasure and literary correspondence/collaboration (chair: Caroline Howitt).

• Hilary J Beattie (Columbia University, NY), The pleasures and the perils of collaboration: Robert Louis Stevenson, Belle Strong and Graham Balfour, in Samoa and beyond.
• Thomson Moore Prentice (independent scholar), A Tale of Two Louis -  Crossing Paths in the Cevennes.
• Mafalda Cipollone (independent scholar),'It is like a wind blowing to one out of fairyland': the Mentone Letters.

20h: Conference dinner, restaurant La Belle Epoque (registration required)

Saturday 18th June

9h-11: Session 8 – The Pleasures of adaptations (chair: Gilles Menegaldo).

• Lesley Graham (Université de Bordeaux), The pleasure of following Stevenson.
• Ali Bacon (Independent scholar and writer), Mrs Sitwell, pleasure or pain?
• Jean-Paul Gabilliet (Université Bordeaux Montaigne), How Charles Crumb’s childhood obsession with Stevenson’s Treasure Island finally drove him crazy.
• Nicolas Labarre (Université Bordeaux Montaigne), Playing the classics? The strange case of the Jekyll and Hyde video game adaptations.

11h-11h30: Announcement of the winner of the Fables Prize

11h30: Excursion to Saint-Emilion (registration required)