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Conference Program

Friday April 19, 2013
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard University

9 AM: Welcome
Virginie Greene (Harvard)

9:15 AM: Art's Way
Chair: Ewa Lajer-Burcharth (Harvard)
  • Nathalie Mauriac Dyer (ITEM-CNRS), “Proust du côté des Primitifs” 
  • Sophie Duval (Bordeaux III), “‘Some dear or sad fantasy’: Foi, Idolâtrie, Infidélité”
  • Christie McDonald (Harvard), “If I were [not] a painting”      

10:45 AM: Break

11 AM: Ancient to Nouveau                                
Chair: Katherine Kolb (Southeastern Louisiana)
  • Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa (Kyoto), “Proust et les découvertes archéologiques”
  • Virginie Greene (Harvard), “Art and Craft in Proust’s Life and Works”     
  • Elaine Scarry (Harvard), “Glass and Clay, Proust and Gallé” 

12:30 PM: Lunch 

1:15 PM: Patronage
Chair: Susan Rubin Suleiman (Harvard)
  • Caroline Weber (Barnard), “Proust's Muses: Mesdames Straus, de Chevigné, and Greffulhe as Patrons of the Arts”
  • Suzanne Guerlac (Berkeley), “Swann’s Gift – Odette’s face (Photography, Money and the Social World in À la recherche du temps perdu)”
  • Maurice Samuels (Yale), “Proust, Jews, and the Arts”    

2:45 PM: Break

3 PM: Proust at Harvard
Chair: Christie McDonald (Harvard)
  • Susan Ricci-Stebbins (Independent Scholar), “Parallel Passions: Ruskin, Proust and Harvard”
  • François Proulx (Harvard), “‘Irregular’ Kin: Proust in Reynaldo Hahn’s Unpublished Letters to Madeleine and Suzanne Lemaire”    

                                                
Saturday April 20, 2013
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard University

9 AM: Young Scholars
Chair: François Proulx (Harvard)
  • Stefanie Goyette (Harvard), “Proust and the Pose of Early Photography”
  • Matthew Rodriguez (Harvard), “Artist, Connoisseur, Undertaker: Death on Exhibit from Painting to Writing”
  • Christina Svendsen (Harvard), “Proust’s Photographic Flash”

10:30 AM: Break

10:45 AM: Sound and Resonance 
Chair: Alexander Rehding (Harvard)
  • John Hamilton (Harvard), “‘Cette douceur, pour ainsi dire wagnérienne’: Musical Resonance in Proust’s Recherche”
  • Sindhumathi Revuluri (Harvard), “Sound and Music in Proust: What the Symbolists Heard”
  • Louis Epstein and Hannah Lewis (Harvard), “Proust and Music: Reflections on Contemporary Performance”

12:15 PM: Lunch

1 PM: Art and Reflection
Chair: Tom Conley (Harvard)
  • Evelyne Ender (CUNY), “‘Inside a Red Cover’: Proust and the Art of the Book”          
  • Françoise Leriche (Grenoble III), “Proust au miroir des images”    
  • Richard Moran (Harvard), “The Involuntary, the Magical, and the Other in Proust”     

2:30 PM: Break

2:45 PM: Proust's Last Laugh
Chair: Virginie Greene (Harvard)
  • Elisabeth Ladenson (Columbia), “Proust and the Marx Brothers”
  • Antoine Compagnon (Collège de France/Columbia), “L’art de l’échec”

3:45 PM: Closing Remarks
Christie McDonald (Harvard)


Above: Claude Monet, The Gare Saint-Lazare: Arrival of a Train (1877, detail). Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest from the Collection of Maurice Wertheim, Class of 1906, 1951.53.
                                                                                                    All photos courtesy of Imaging Department © President and Fellows of Harvard College.