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Events

Talks

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2022

Monday, October 31, 2022, 1:30pm (McLennan Library, Colgate room)

  • Nicholas Cronk (Oxford University) : « La correspondance de Voltaire: œuvre de fiction ? »

2021

Tuesday, November 30, 2021, 1:30pm (Arts 160)

  • Isabelle Perreault (Université du Québec à Rimouski):« À l'écoute du roman (1945 à nos jours) »

Wednesday, January 20, 2021, 4:00pm (zoom)

  • Jonathan Paine (Oxford University): "Selling the Story – Balzac, Dostoevsky and Economic Criticism"

2020

Tuesday, February 18, 2020, 10:30am (Arts 160)

  • Daniel Desormeaux (Johns Hopkins University): « Alexandre Dumas et l'esthétique de la dérive romanesque »

Thursday, February 13, 2020, 12:30pm (McLennan Library, Colgate room)

  • Violaine François (Université de Montpellier; Visiting Student, 鶹ýվ): « Figurations de l'écrivain en voix au XIXe siècle: entre méfiance et dévotion »
  • Zora Kadyrbekova (鶹ýվ): "Animals in Dostoevsky's Christian Universe"

2019

Friday, December 6, 2019, 4:00pm (Arts 160)

  • Anna Battigelli (Plattsburg): « Sight and Sound in Jane Austen's Representation of Thought »

Friday, November 1st, 2019, 10:00am (Arts 160)

  • Richard Saint-Gelais (Université Laval): « Berthe Bovary, Emma Hudson, Georges Vinteuil et autres personnages transfrontaliers »

Tuesday, October 22, 2019, 10:00am (McLennan Library, Colgate room)

  • Mathieu Bouchard (鶹ýվ): "Typography and the Limits of Editorial Control in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa"
  • Edoardo Cagnan (鶹ýվ): « S'octroyer une place dans le champ littéraire: Ousmane Sembène (1956-1966) »

Tuesday, March 12, 2019, 1:00pm (Birks 104)

  • Isabelle Perreault (Université de Montréal): « Rêver le roman comme une partition : l’imaginaire musical du roman au XXe siècle, de Proust à Robbe-Grillet »
  • Catherine Quirk (鶹ýվ): "'I acted to please myself': Performing a Character in Charlotte Bronte's Villette."

2018

Wednesday, December 12, 2018, 2:30pm (Ferrier 456)

  • Brad Kent (Université Laval): "Equivocal Values: PEN, Literary Censorship, and Freedom of Expression in Ireland"

Tuesday, September 18, 2018, 1:30pm (McLennan Library, room M3-37A)

  • David Garrioch (Monash University, Melbourne): « L’amitié épistolaire des femmes au XVIIIe siècle »
  • Ashley Marshall (University of Nevada, Reno): "Fabricating Defoe: The Problem of the ‘Father of the Novel’"

Friday, April 6, 2018, 10:30am (Arts Building, room 350)

  • Jacques Neefs(Johns Hopkins University): « L’idée de littérature dansBouvard et Pécuchetde Flaubert »

Thursday, March 15,2018,1:30pm (Colgate Room,Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library)

  • Kimiyo Ogawa(Sophia University, Tokyo): "Jane Austen's Influence on Natsume Sōseki'sMeianand "Sokuten Kyoshi""
  • Alex Noël(Université Laval): « Les formes de la dépossession dans le roman québécois »

Thursday, February 15, 2018,1:30pm (Colgate Room,Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library)

  • David Bélanger(Université du Québec à Montréal): « David Turgeon, une poétique echenozienne »
  • Keelan Harkin(鶹ýվ): "Dutiful Engagement: Memory and Emigration in John McGahern’sThe Leavetaking"

Monday, January 29, 2018, 3:30pm (Arts building, room 230)

  • Gilles Philippe(Université de Lausanne): « Édition critique et contraintes de collection. L’exemple de la Bibliothèque de la Pléiade » (sur les éditions critiques de Bernanos, Bataille, Camus, Sartre, Duras, Genet).

2017

Thursday, November 2, 2017,1:30pm(Colgate Room,Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library)

  • Cecilia Benaglia(鶹ýվ): « Horloger, flâneur, copiste: Alberto Arbasino et l’héritage romanesque européen »

Wednesday, September 27, 2017,2:00pm(Colgate Room, Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library)

  • Beatrijs Vanacker(KU Leuven): "Authorial Self-fashioning and Networks of Authority in Fanny Burney’s Journals and Letters"

Tuesday, March 21, 2017,12:00pm(Colgate Room, Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library)

  • Chris Langlois(鶹ýվ): "The Terror of Thinking in Samuel Beckett'sThe Unnamable"
  • Catherine Lavarenne(Université du Québec à Montréal): « Le roman et le paysan: tensions entre littératie et oralité »

Tuesday, February 21, 2017,12:00pm(Colgate Room, Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library)

  • RaphaëlleDécloître (鶹ýվ): « En quête d’un genre: tentative de circonscription du récit allégorique de la fin du Moyen Âge »
  • Gabriel Cholette (鶹ýվ): « Le Diable est dans les détails. Variantes génériques dans les manuscrits duRoman de Robert le Diable »

2016

Thursday, November 29, 2016,2:00pm (Colgate Room, Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library)

  • Catherine Nygren (鶹ýվ): "Text Mining Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing"
  • Alex Bellemare (Université de Montréal): « La fabrique du monde. Poétique et imaginaire du lieu dans la fiction utopique (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles) »

Monday, October 31, 2016, 3:00pm (Colgate Room, Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library)

  • Nicholas Cronk (University of Oxford): « 'Que dire quand tout semble dit?': Voltaire,Candideet la posture auctoriale »

Thursday, October 6, 2016, 11:00am (Colgate Room, Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library)

  • Scott Black (University of Utah): "Without the Novel: Romance, Recursion, Anachronism in Burney'sThe Wanderer."

Tuesday, April 19, 2016, 1:30pm (Leacock Building, room 738)

  • Christophe Pradeau (Paris-Sorbonne University):« Chez le personnage »

Tuesday, Februrary 16, 2016, 1:30pm (Colgate Room, Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library)

  • Vincent Lambert(鶹ýվ): « Résurgences épiques dans le roman québécois contemporain »
  • Emily Kopley(鶹ýվ): "Virginia Woolf’s "immature and ill considered and wild and annoying ideas about prose and poetry""

2015

Monday, November 23, 2015, 1:00pm (Colgate Room, Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library)

  • Marcie Frank (Concordia University): "Theater and the Theory of the Novel"
  • Isabelle Daunais (鶹ýվ): « Le roman et la "crise de la mémoire" »

Wednesday, October 14, 2015, 1:30pm (Colgate Room, Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library)

  • Robin Graham, (Concordia University): "The Exemplification of Exhaustion: Capitalist Realism in the Economic Novel"
  • Sébastien Roldan, postdoctoral fellow (University of Strasbourg): « Aux sources de la fluvialité dans la théorie du roman français : Balzac et Sainte-Beuve »

Wednesday, May 6, 2015: 2:00pm (Leacock Building, room 738)

  • Benoît Peeters(novelist, screenwriter, biographer and critic): «Paul Valéry et le roman»

Tuesday, April 7, 2015: 2:30pm(Leacock Building, room 738)

  • Marielle Macé(École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris): «Nécessiterle réel: sur le style documentaire en littérature»

Tuesday, March 31, 2015: 4:00pm(Arts Building, room 160)

  • Lyndsey Stonebridge(University of East Anglia): "Reading Statelessness: Arendt, Kafka, and Coetzee"

Tuesday, January 27, 2015, 2:00pm (Arts Building, room 160)

  • Nicholas Dames(Columbia University): "The Chapter: from Caesarea to Victorian London"

Monday, January 12, 2015: 1:30pm(Colgate Room, Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library)

  • Olivier Parenteau (Cégep de Saint-Laurent): « L'art du roman selon Michel Houellebecq»"
  • Daniel Newman (Concordia University): "The Novel as Thought Experiment: Quantum Decoherence and Narrative Causality in David Lodge'sThinks..."

2014

Tuesday, November 25, 2014, 2:30pm(Colgate Room, Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library)

  • Paul Kawczak (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi): « Roman d'aventures et aventure dans le roman: histoire d'une notion littéraire de l'aventure du symbolisme à l'existentialisme »
  • Mitchell Brown (鶹ýվ): "Human Rights and Postwar Internationalism in Graham Greene's The Third Man"

Thursay, October 16, 2014, 2:30pm (Colgate Room, Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library)

  • Isabelle Arseneau (鶹ýվ): «Duromanà laromance: contre une appréhension téléologique de l’histoire du roman »
  • Audray Fontaine (鶹ýվ): « ”Mon engin n’est pas jusque la habille”: l’impéritie stylistique du prosateur duChevalier qui la nef maine»
  • Vincent Moreau (鶹ýվ): « De l'épopée à la chronique : à propos de deux passages de la mise en prose deGarin le Loherain »

2013

Wednesday, November 27, 2013: 10:30am (Colgate Room, Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library)

  • Pierre-Olivier Brodeur (Université de Montréal): « Un contre-poison au poison romanesque: leroman édifiant (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles) »
  • Simon Macdonald (鶹ýվ): "Identifying MrsMeeke: Another Burney Family Novelist"

Thursday, October 24, 2013, 10:30am (Arts Building, room 160)

  • Trevor Merrill(California Institute of Technology): « Le désir triangulaire dans une nouvelle de Milan Kundera »

Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 10:30am (Colgate Room, Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library)

  • Trevor Merrill(California Institute of Technology): "A Paradox at the Heart of Jane Austen’s Defense of the Novel"

Wednesday, April 3, 2013, 10am(Colgate Room, Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library)

  • Discussion withDominique Rabaté (Université Paris-Diderot)

Thursday, March 14, 2013, 4:00pm (Arts Building, room W20)

  • Massimo Rizzante (University of Trento): "The Essay and the Novel. Notes about a massacre"

Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 11am (Colgate Room, Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library​ /Arts Building, room W20)

  • Massimo Rizzante (University of Trento): « Milan Kundera et l'art de la fugue romanesque »
  • Massimo Rizzante (University of Trento): « L'Identitéde Milan Kundera », with the participation of François Ricard.

Monday, February 17, 2013, 3:00pm (688 Sherbrooke West, room 1041)

  • Tiphaine Samoyault(Université Paris III): « L'idée de littérature contemporaine »

2012

Wednesday, November 28, 2012, 1:30pm (Colgate Room, Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library)

  • Hilary Havens (鶹ýվ): "Cougars on the Hunt in the Novels of Henry Fielding and Frances Burney"
  • Guillaume McNeil-Artaud (Université Laval): « "Les ouvriers de la même heure": le journal dans la poétique romanesque d’Émile Zola. »

Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 1:30pm (Colgate Room, Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library)

  • Katerine Gosselin (Université Paris 8): « Déchronologie romanesque, de Claude Simon au roman contemporain »
  • Allan Hepburn (鶹ýվ): "Elizabeth Bowen and the Technique of the Novel"

Wednesday, April 16, 2012, 1:30pm (Colgate Room, Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library)

  • Ariel Buckley (鶹ýվ): "Under the Volcano: Elizabeth Taylor and the Postwar Novelist"
  • Gabrielle Roy-Chevarier (鶹ýվ): « Entre lecture et relecture: l'influence de Proust sur l'art du roman d'Elizabeth Bowen »

Monday, February 13, 2012, 1:30pm (Colgate Room, Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library, 鶹ýվ)

  • Maude Labelle (鶹ýվ): « Le romancier en lecteur de faits divers : Flaubert, Goncourt et Zola »
  • Laurence Williams (鶹ýվ): "Robinson Crusoe Meets the Tartars: Nomadism and the Early Eighteenth-Century Novel"

2011

Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 1:30pm (Colgate Room, Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library)

  • Ashley Woodward (Concordia University): “Media and Social Mediation in Mansfield Park”
  • Joanna Donehower (Concordia University): "The English Stage and the English Novel: Performances of The Stranger in Godwin's St. Leon."

Wednesday, November 2, 2011, 1:30pm (Colgate Room, Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library)

  • Michel Biron (鶹ýվ):« L’autre solitude ou l’art du non roman : le nord et le roman québécois delangue française»
  • Renaud Roussel (鶹ýվ): "Northern Disappearances in Mordecai Richler'sSolomon Gursky Was Here"

Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 2:20pm (Colgate Room, Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library)

  • Marcie Frank (Concordia University): "Elizabeth Inchbald on how not to write a novel"
  • Isabelle Daunais (鶹ýվ): « "Le romancier des romanciers": James lecteur de Flaubert »
  • Cynthia Quarrie (University of Toronto): "No One's History: Kazuo Ishiguro and the State of the Contemporary British Novel"

Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 2:30pm (Colgate Room, Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library)

  • Louise-Hélène Filion (Université du Québec à Montréal): « Yvon Rivard lecteur de Handke : la plongée dans l'"instant"»
  • Thomas Mainguy (鶹ýվ):« Comme un château de sable : le roman d'Hubert Aquin »

2010

Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 10:00am (Colgate Room, Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library)

  • Luba Markovskaia (鶹ýվ): « Lire le libertinage au XXe siècle: Vivant Denon lu par Milan Kundera, Philippe Sollers et Louis Malle »

Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 10:00am (Colgate Room, Rare Books and Special Collections, McLennan Library)

  • François Masse (鶹ýվ): « Jean-Philippe Domecq: les joies indigestes de la vitesse »
  • Julie McIsaac (Concordia University): "Walking and Narrative Form in Daniel Defoe'sA Journal of the Plague"

Colloquiums and workshops​

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2023

April 17, 2023

Colloquium : "Au coeur et à l'ombre de l'histoire: Journée d'études sur l'oeuvre de Dominique Fortier"

Organized by Michel Biron (鶹ýվ), Isabelle Daunais (鶹ýվ) and Katerine Gosselin (UQAR), with communications by Marie-Pascale Huglo (Université de Montréal), Marilie Gagnon (UQAR), Joannie Lemieux (Cégep de Baie-Comeau), Madeline Tessier (鶹ýվ), Marianne Ducharme (鶹ýվ), Martin Robitaille (UQAR), Antoine Tanguay et Dominique Fortier.

Affiche du colloque: renseignements en lettres vertes sur fond blanc, avec l'image d'une sphère au centre de laquelle se trouve un voilier.

2019

March 20-21, 2019

Colloquium : «Construire la mémoire du roman: du moderne au contemporain», UQAR

With communications by Élise Côté-Lévesque (UQAR), Marie-Laurence Dumont (鶹ýվ) Justine Falardeau (鶹ýվ), Jolianne Gaudreault Bourgeois (鶹ýվ), Katerine Gosselin (UQAR), Claude La Charité (UQAR), Julie Larivière (UQAR), Joanie Lemieux (UQAR), Gabriel Marcoux-Chabot, Guillaume Ménard (鶹ýվ), Isabelle Perreault (Université de Montréal), Mathieu Simard (UQAR).

Poster Colloquium Construire la mémoire du roman. Du moderne au contemporain

2018

October 15, 2018

Colloquium: « À quoi le roman nous relie-t-il? »

With communication by Marek Bienczyk (Académie polonaise des sciences), Michel Biron (鶹ýվ), Marie-Claire Blais, Isabelle Daunais (鶹ýվ), Yannis Kiourtsakis, Francesca Lorandini (U. Trento), Trevor C. Merrill (CalTech), Lakis Proguidis (L'Atelier du roman), Thomas Pavel (U. Chicago), François Ricard (鶹ýվ), Massimo Rizzante (U. Trento), Yannick Roy.

Poster Colloquium À quoi le roman nous relie-t-il?

March 29,2018

Colloquium: "Qu’est qu’une «œuvre de jeunesse»?"
Organized by IsabelleDaunais and Jane Everett, with communications byMichel Biron (鶹ýվ), Anthony Glinoer (U. Sherbrooke), Sophie Létourneau (U. Laval), Véronique Samson (Cambridge) and Nathalie Watteyne (U. Sherbrooke).

Poster Colloquium Qu'est-ce qu'une oeuvre de jeunesse?

2017

May 4 - 5, 2017, 9am to 5:30pm(Birks Building, room 111, 3520 University)

Colloquium: "Diplomacy and the Modern Novel: Britain, France, and the Mission of Literature"

Organized byIsabelle DaunaisandAllan Hepburn, with communications from Yves Baudelle (Lille III),Michel Biron (鶹ýվ),Robert L. Caserio (Penn State University),Isabelle Daunais (鶹ýվ),Claire Davison (Paris III), Maxime Decout (Lille III), Maria DiBattista (Princeton),Allan Hepburn (鶹ýվ),Caroline Z. Krzakowski (University of Northern Michigan), Maxime Prévost (U. Ottawa), François Proulx (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign) and Stephen Ross (U. Victoria).

Poster colloquium Diplomacy and the Modern Novel

March 30, 2017,9am to 5pm (Ballroom,Thomson House, 3650 McTavish, 鶹ýվ)

Organized byIsabelle Daunais,Gabrielle Roy-Chevarier and Véronique Samson, with communications byIsabelle Daunais (鶹ýվ),Philipp Lammers (Universität Konstanz, Judith Lyon-Caens (EHESS), Sophie Ménard (UQAM), Gabrielle Roy-Chevarier (鶹ýվ), Véronique Samson (鶹ýվ), Melissa Verhey (Princeton) and Damien Zanone (U. Catholique de Louvain).

Poster Colloquium Vivre et raconter

2016

December 6, 2016(Thomson House, room 404)

Organized by Julien-Bernard Chabot and Vincent Lambert, with communications by David Bélanger (UQAM), Julien-Bernard Chabot (鶹ýվ), Pierre Hébert (U. Sherbrooke), Vincent Lambert (鶹ýվ), Martine-Emmanuelle Lapointe (Université de Montréal), Caroline Loranger (Université de Montréal), Élisabeth Nardout-Lafarge (Université de Montréal) and Myriam Vien (鶹ýվ).

Poster colloquium Le roman au futur antérieur

April 20, 2016, 9:30AM-5PMGold Room, Faculty Club, 鶹ýվ

​Colloquium: "Mettre en livre. Pour une approche de la littérature médiévale"

Organized byIsabelle Arseneauand Anne Salamon, with communications byIsabelle Arseneau (鶹ýվ),Ariane Bottex-Ferragne (Université de Montréal), Raphaëlle Décloître (鶹ýվ), Francis Gingras (Université de Montréal), Sandrine Hériché-Pradeau (Paris-Sorbonne), Anne Salamon (U. Laval) and Sabrina Vervacke (U. Laval).

Poster colloquium Mettre en livre

2015

February 18, 2015 : 9:30am-12:30pm(Arts Building, room 160, 鶹ýվ)

Workshop:La Fête de l’insignifiancede Milan Kundera

Organized by Isabelle Daunais and François Ricard, with communications by Francis Mus(Katholieke Universiteit Leuven),Lakis Proguidis(revueL’Atelier du roman),Yannick Roy(Cégep du Vieux-Montréal) and Isabelle Daunais(鶹ýվ).

Poster workshop La fête de l'insignifiance

2013

April 2, 2013

Colloquium: "Les années cinquante et soixante: une autre histoire du roman", organized by Mathieu Bélisle, Sonia Théberge and Véronique Samson.

2012

March 22-23, 2012

International Colloquium: "La mémoire du roman", organized by Isabelle Daunais, Michel Biron and François Ricard.​

2011

March 10, 2011

Colloquium: "La pratique du roman", organized by Isabelle Daunais and François Ricard.​

2010

February 18, 2010 and April 15, 2010 (Rare Books and Special Collections, 4th Floor, McLennan Library, 鶹ýվ)

Workshop: "Novelists' Correspondences (I)"

  • Peter SaborandKatie Gemmill(鶹ýվ), Frances Burney's French Letter Book
  • Cécile Facal(鶹ýվ), Novelists of La Relève
  • Sarah Skoronski(鶹ýվ), Pointed Opinions: Lady Bradshaigh's Marginalia on Samuel Richardson'sClarissa

Workshop: "Novelists' Correspondences (II)"

  • Mathieu Bélisle(University of Chicago), Une amitié littéraire. De Gide à Martin du Gard
  • Allan HepburnandPaula Derdiger(鶹ýվ), Writing Circles: Bowen and Woolf, Taylor and Bowen
  • Yannick Roy(revue 'ԳDzԱéԾԳ), Gustave Flaubert and Mlle Leroyer de Chantepie

2009

December 9, 2009, 2pm - 4pm(Rare Books and Special Collections, 4th Floor, McLennan Library, 鶹ýվ)

Workshop: Contemporary novelists on the novel

  • Mathilde Barraband (Université de Montréal):« Le roman dépassé. Une histoirefin de siècle(autour de P. Bergounioux et F. Bon) »
  • Audrey Camus (鶹ýվ):« Contre le roman: Chevillard, Senges, Volodine »
  • Marty Fink (CUNY Graduate Center, New York):"Novel Approaches to HIV/AIDS: The Care Giving Testimony and the Return of the Queer"

November 11, 2009, 2pm - 4pm(Rare Books and Special Collections, 4th Floor, McLennan Library, 鶹ýվ)

Workshop: War Novelists

Has the experience of war - unique in itself - opened up an otherwise inaccessible space for novelists to reflect on the possibilities of their art? Has it led to a new perception or a new awareness of the novel as a means of thinking about the world and about human existence? And in what capacity has the novel shaped our understanding of the experience of war?

  • Caroline Krzakowski (鶹ýվ):Lawrence Durrell
  • Olivier Parenteau (鶹ýվ): Louis Aragon
  • Ian Whittington (鶹ýվ): E.M. Forster

October 21-23, 2009

International Colloquium: "Gabrielle Roy et l’art du roman".

Organized by François Ricard, Isabelle Daunais, Jane Everett and Sophie Marcotte.​

March 18, 2009

International Colloquium: "Le rire et le roman"

Organized by Mathieu Bélisle.

2008

November 6-7, 2008

International Colloquium: "La poétique des romanciers / Novelists on the Novel".

Organized by Peter Sabor, Allan Hepburn and Isabelle Daunais.

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