Symposium: “Adaptation and the Protean Poetics of Margaret Atwood”
Journée d’études : « L’adaptation et la poétique protéenne de Margaret Atwood »

February 1, 2019
Université de Bourgogne
Centre Interlangues : Texte, Image, Langage – EA 4182
MSH, Room R03

Programme

9h Welcome/ Accueil – Opening remarks, Fiona McMahon et Shannon Wells-Lassagne (Université de Bourgogne)

9h15 Elizabeth Mullen (Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest), “Ordinary Horror(s): Adapting Feminism, Facts and Fear in The Handmaid’s Tale (Atwood 1985, Miller 2017-)”
9h40 David Roche (Université de Toulouse II Jean Jaurès), “Shallow Focus Aesthetics in the Hulu series The Handmaid’s Tale”
10h05 Discussion

10h20 Pause

10h50 Ingrid Bertrand (Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles / UCLouvain), “From the Silenced Biblical Maid to the 21st-Century Web TV Rebel: The Protean Transformation of the Servant in Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and its Hulu Adaptation”
11h15 Trip McCrossin (Rutgers University, États-Unis), “The Persistence of Job: The Role of the Problem of Evil in Grounding Atwood’s Protean Poetics”
11h40 Discussion

12h-14h Lunch / déjeuner

14h Nicole Coté (Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada)“Atwood’s Protean Poetics in the Service of Survival”
14h25 Lena Crucitti (Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles / UCLouvain), “Transforming the human and the novel: monstrosity in Margaret Atwood’s trilogy Maddaddam”
14h50 Discussion

15h15 Pause

15h45 Ruby Niemann (University of Adelaide, Australie), “Negotiating with the Dead: Authorial Ghosts and other Spectralities in Atwood’s Adaptations”
16h10 Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris (Université Paris Nanterre), « ‘A lot of it is lies’. The unreliable female (narrator) in Mary Harron’s TV series Alias Grace »
16h35 Penny Farfan (University of Calgary), “Feminist Adaptations/Adaptations of Feminism: Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad
17h00 Discussion and Closing remarks

17h30 Fin JE/End Symposium