"The Demon of Melancholy: Genealogies, Modernities "April 24 and 25th 2008
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Thursday April 24, 2008
Alumnae Hall - Crystal Room

2:00PM Welcome and Opening Remarks:

Réda Bensmaia, Chairperson, French Studies, Brown University

2:30-4:30PM Panel One :

Moderator: Lewis Seifert, French Studies, Brown Universty

Max Pensky, Philosophy, Binghamton University:
Melancholia and Philosophical History >>More Info

Rebecca Wilkin, French, Indiana University
Politics and Pathology:   Medical Melancholy under Henri IV >>More Info

4:30PM Break

5:00PM Keynote Address:

Christine Ross, Art History & Communication Studies, McGill University>>More Info
The Withering of Melancholia in Contemporary Art.

7:00PM Reception

Friday April 25,2008

John Hay Library - Lownes Room

9:00AM Breakfast

10:00-12:00PM Panel One:

Moderator: Kevin McLaughlin, English, Brown University

Jacques Khalip, English, Brown University:
Dead Calm: The Melancholy of Peace >> More Info

Peter Schwenger, English, Mount St. Vincent University, Halifax: >>More Info
The Melancholy of Waking

12-1:30PM Lunch

1:30-3:30PM Panel Two :

Moderator: Sanda Golopentia, French Studies, Brown University

Maurizia Natali, Art History, RISD:
Reframing Ariadne. De Chirico's suspenseful melancholia >> More Info

Éric Trudel, French Studies, Bard College:
"It's an awful word: commentary." The melancholy practice of Chris Marker >> More info

3:30-4:00PM Break

4:00-6:00PM Panel Three :

Moderator: Barrymore Bogues, Africana Studies

Elliott Colla, Comparative Literature, Brown University:
Postcolonial Melancholia: Loss in Mahfouz's Miramar >> More Info

Nathalie Etoké, French Studies, Brown University:
Melancholy and the Rwandan Genocide: How to Mend a Broken Heart in Boubacar Boris Diop's Murambi, The Book of Bones >>More Info

Closing Remarks:

Thangam Ravindranathan, French Studies, Brown University

6:00PM Reception

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