événements et conférences
Simon Armitage: Probation Officer to Poet Laureate
PROGRAMME.
THURSDAY 12 MARCH
​9h00 - 9h30
Welcome and introduction.
​9h30 - 10h30
Keynote Speaker (chair: Dr. Aurélie Thiria-Meulemans, Université de Picardie)
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Pr. Terry Gifford (Bath Spa University): The Environmental Re-enchantment of ‘Commonplace Things’.
10h30 - 12h00
Early Armitage (chair: Dr. Steve Ely, Huddersfield University)
Pr Adrian Grafe (Université d’Artois): ‘Who is this guy?’: Simon Armitage’s Zoom! (1989)
Dr Joanna Kruczkowska (University of Lodz): Letters from Iceland and Moon Country: Authorship, Authenticity and Travel Writing
Sigurbjörg Þrastardóttir (poet and translator): Three Fingers. And Joe. – on receiving Simon Armitage’s poetry in Iceland
13h30 - 15h00
Translation Workshop (facilitated by Dr. Carole Birkan-Berz, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, and Dr. Samuel Trainor, Université de Lille)
​15h00 - 16h00
Armitage in situ and in books (chair: Dr. Sophie Laniel-Musitelli, Université de Lille)
Dr Cécile Beaufils (Sorbonne Université): Simon Armitage and the lie of the land: embodied writing, embodied publishing
Andrew Moorhouse (editor of Fine Press): Armitage in Fine Press Poetry
​16h30 - 17h30
Visit of the exhibition curated by the Arts students at the University Library
17h30 - 19h00
Keynote speaker (chair: Pr. Hélène Quanquin, Université de Lille)
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Steve Ely (Huddersfield University): “Armitage, Hughes and the GCSE” followed by a poetry reading
FRIDAY 13 MARCH
​9h00 - 10h30
Armitage, History and Politics (chair: Pr Adrian Grafe, Université d’Artois)
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Dr Sarah Montin (Sorbonne Nouvelle): Evading Authority: Simon Armitage and the problem of Memorial Poetry (an analysis of Still, with incursions into The Not Dead and Out of the Blue)
Dr Danny O’Connor (Liverpool University): ‘You can almost see Brexit from here’: Armitage, the Laureateship and the aesthetics of Englishness
Dr Kyra Piperides Jaques (University of York): ‘Seen through the padlocked iron gates’: Yorkshire, England and Europe in the post-Referendum poetry of Simon Armitage and Matt Abbott
​11h00 - 12h30
Roundtable on Armitage’s Influences (facilitated by Pr. Marc Porée, Ecole Normale Supérieure Ulm)
With Pr. Terry Gifford (University of Bath), Dr Carole Birkan Berz (Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle), Dr. Lacy Rumsey (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon), Bastien Goursaud, PhD (Sorbonne Université)
14h00 - 15h00
Armitage and the classics (chair: Pr Philippe Vervaecke, Université de Lille)
Pr Rowland Cotterill (Independent researcher): Epic performances: at war and at sea with Simon Armitage and Alice Oswald
Penelope Kolovou, PhD (Universität Bonn): Homer, Bowie, et al. at the marketplace
15h00 - 16h00
Exploring unpoetic territories (chair: Dr Claire Hélie, Université de Lille)
Dr Elise Brault-Dreux (Valenciennes): The endogenous poetry of hospital regulation – ‘The Flags of the Nations’
Dr François Ropert (Université Cergy Pointoise): Departures, displacements, and exile in Hansel and Gretel (A Nightmare in Eight Scenes), or ‘the Jelly Babies (for ironic effect)’ in print and on stage