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)
10:45 AM: Break
11 AM: Ancient to Nouveau
Chair: Katherine Kolb (Southeastern Louisiana)
12:30 PM: Lunch
1:15 PM: Patronage
Chair: Susan Rubin Suleiman (Harvard)
2:45 PM: Break
3 PM: Proust at Harvard
Chair: Christie McDonald (Harvard)
Saturday April 20, 2013
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard University
9 AM: Young Scholars
Chair: François Proulx (Harvard)
10:30 AM: Break
10:45 AM: Sound and Resonance
Chair: Alexander Rehding (Harvard)
12:15 PM: Lunch
1 PM: Art and Reflection
Chair: Tom Conley (Harvard)
2:30 PM: Break
2:45 PM: Proust's Last Laugh
Chair: Virginie Greene (Harvard)
3:45 PM: Closing Remarks
Christie McDonald (Harvard)
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- François Proulx (Harvard), “‘Irregular’ Kin: Proust in Reynaldo Hahn’s Unpublished Letters to Madeleine and Suzanne Lemaire”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.