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Friday 23 September

9 am Registration

9.15 am Conference opens

9.30-11.00 Chair : Catherine Delyfer

Richard Hayes (Independent scholar, New York): “The Construction of Subjectivity in British Aestheticism”

Caroline Dakers (University of Arts, London) “Secret Spaces: The Private Life of Frederic Leighton”

Lene Østermark-Johansen (University of Copenhagen): “Paterian Interiors”

Coffee break

11.15-12.45 Chair: Emily Eells

Claire Nally (University of Northumbria, UK): “Oscar Wilde as Editor and Writer: Aesthetic Intervention and Material Culture”

Melissa Buron (Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco): “Wilde in San Francisco”

Aurélie Petiot (King’s College, Cambridge): “Charles Robert Ashbee’s Educational Work”

Lunch

2.00-3.00 Chair : Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada

Xavier Giudicelli (University of Reims, France): “Polyglossie et vies esthétiques: les langues étrangères dans The Spirit Lamp (1892-1893)”

Emily Eells (University of Paris-Nanterre, France): “Oscar oscarisé: Wilde’s Use of French in Self-Fashioning”

Refreshments

3.15-4.15 Chair: Xavier Giudicelli

Evgenia Grammatikopoulou (University of Thessaloniki): “De la banalité de la réception à l’originalité de l’(auto)création: le cas de Natalie Clifford Barney”

Miciah Hussey (City University of New York Graduate Center): “Strange Affinities: Aesthetic Lives, Queer Relations in Henry James’s The Author of Beltraffio”

4.30-5.30 pm Keynote address

Dennis DENISOFF

(Ryerson University, Canada)

“The Aesthetic Lives of Humans and Other Animals”

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Dinner at 7.30 pm

Brasserie du Théâtre – 22, boulevard Victor Hugo

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Saturday 24 September

9am-10am Keynote address

Ana PAREJO VADILLO

(Birkbeck, University of London)

“Living Art: Michael Field and Aesthetic Dress”

10-11.30 Chair: Dennis Denisoff

Wendy Parkins (University of Otago, New Zealand): “Jane Morris and the Beauty of Life: A Case-Study of Aesthetic Self-Formation”

Stefano Evangelista (Trinity College, Oxford): “Passion Flowers and Potatoes: Ouida’s Self-Fashioning as Aesthetic Critic”

Sally Newman (Monash University, Australia): “Aestheticism and the Construction of the Modern Self”

Coffee break

11.45-12.45 Chair : Stefano Evangelista

Laurel Brake (Birkbeck, University of London): Pater’s Face: the Physiognomy of the Work

Laura Pfeffer (Arizona State University): “The Dionysus in Dorian: Wilde’s Critique of Pater’s Gods in The Picture of Dorian Gray”

Lunch

2.00-3.00 Chair: Lene Østermark-Johansen

Jessica DeCoux (City University of New York Graduate Center): Oscar Wilde, Dorian Gray, and Pater’s “Many Currents”

Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada (University of Rouen): “To the end that I myself may be a perfect work of art, issuing thus into the eyes of all Greece”: the Troubled Politics of Pater’s Aesthetic Self-fashioning

Refreshments

3.15-4.15 Chair: Bénédicte Coste

Gilbert Pham-Thanh (University of Paris 13): “The Truth of Maximilian Beerbohm’s Masks”

Charlotte Ribeyrol (University of Paris IV): “Topographies of the Self: W. Pater, J.A. Symonds and Pausanias’s Periegesis”

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Closing drinks

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