Chères et chers collègues,
Vous trouverez ci-dessous le programme du colloque international “Mina Loy and Her Networks” qui se tiendra à Paris, à Sorbonne Université et à l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, les 8 et 9 septembre 2023.
Le colloque est organisé dans le cadre des laboratoires VALE (Sorbonne Université) et PRISMES (Sorbonne Nouvelle), avec le soutien du Fonds d’Intervention pour la Recherche de Sorbonne Université, de l’ED IV de Sorbonne Université, et de la Société d’études modernistes.
Si vous n’avez pas accès aux bâtiments de la Sorbonne, vous pouvez nous écrire aux adresses suivantes : diane.drouin et yasna.bozhkova.
Bien cordialement,
Diane Drouin et Yasna Bozhkova
Friday 8 September, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
Maison de la Recherche (4 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris), Salle Claude Simon
9:30 – 11:00 : Panel 1: Loy’s Late Work
Chair: Benoît Tadié (Université Paris Nanterre)
- Sanja Bahun – University of Essex
“Communal Cot: Mina Loy, the Homeless, and the Economy of Discomfort” - Linda Kinnahan – Duquesne University
“‘Shopping with Mina Loy’: The Streets and Flea-Market Economies” - Alex Goody – Oxford Brookes University
“Incipient Form and Inhuman Affect in Mina Loy’s Late Work”
11:00 – 11:30 : Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30 : Keynote 1
Chair: Diane Drouin (Sorbonne Université)
- Laura Scuriatti – Bard College Berlin
“Mina Loy’s Ephemeral Collectivities, Interrupted Communities”
12:30 – 2:00 : Lunch
2:00 – 3:00 : Panel 2: Poetry, Art and Craft
Chair: Sanja Bahun (University of Essex)
- Bowen Wang – Trinity College, Dublin
“Portraying the Avant-Garde: Readymade and Painterly Abstraction in Mina Loy’s Art Poems” - Amy Wells – Université de Caen Normandie
“Mina Loy’s Parisian Lamps: A Case Study for Modernist Craftivism”
3:00 – 3:30 : Coffee break
3:30 – 4:30 : Panel 3: New Approaches to Loy’s Visual Art
Chair: Juliette Utard (Sorbonne Université)
- Anne Goodyear – Bowdoin College Museum of Art
“Reinventing Mina Loy: The Dynamics of Her Visual Art” - Jennifer Gross – Independent Art Historian and Curator
“Truant of Heaven: The Artist Mina Loy”
4:30 – 5:00 : Coffee break
5:00 – 6:00 : Panel 4: Loy’s Poetics of Location
Chair: Hélène Aji (École normale supérieure, Paris)
- Karla Kelsey – Susquehanna University
“A Childhood Composed in Paris” - Mary Ann Caws – CUNY
“Mina Loy and the Poetry of Place”
Saturday 9 September, Sorbonne Université
Sorbonne Université (17 rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris), Amphi Chasles
9:30 – 11:00 : Panel 5: Avant-garde Networks
Chair: Linda Kinnahan (Duquesne University)
- Eva Isherwood-Wallace – Queen’s University Belfast
“‘Conformed / to continent sculpture’: Mina Loy, Laura Riding and Sculptural Modernism” - Johanna Pelikan – University of Hamburg
“Ostracized with Gods in France – Mina Loy’s Parisian Network as Key to her Aesthetic Theory” - Joanna Makowska – University of Warsaw
“Poetics of Crisis: Docu-assemblages in the Works of Mina Loy and Kay Boyle”
11:00 – 11:30 : Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30 : Panel 6: Editing and Networking Loy’s Poetry
Chair: Alex Goody (Oxford Brookes University)
- Elise Ottavino – University of Western Ontario
“Resisting the Baedeker: Mina Loy and the Feminist Side of Editing” - Richard Aldersley – NYU
“‘The Long Nightmare’: Mina Loy’s ‘Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose’ and Networking the Modernist Long Poem”
12:30 – 2:30 : Lunch
2:30 – 3:30 : Panel 7: Mina Loy and Arthur Cravan
Chair: Olivier Hercend (Université Paris Nanterre)
- Jennifer Ashby – European University Institute
“‘My fatal plurality!’: Mina Loy, Arthur Cravan, and the Remains of Love” - Charlotte Estrade – Université Paris-Nanterre
“‘I swear to you there is something massive and eternal in me’: Arthur Cravan and Mina Loy”
3:30-4-00 : Translating Loy
Chair: Diane Drouin (Sorbonne Université)
- Olivier Apert – Mina Loy’s French translator
“Mina Loy : comment parler d’elle pour s’en rapprocher davantage”
4:00 – 4:30 : Coffee break
4:30 – 5:30 Keynote 2:
Chair: Yasna Bozhkova (Université Paris Nanterre)
- Susan Rosenbaum, University of Georgia
“Mina Loy, Modernism, and the Archive”
Optional walking tour: Mina Loy’s Paris