Conference programme

18 AND 19 JUNE 2009 – Université de Rouen

THOMAS HARDY CONFERENCE “THE LETTER”
Colloque Thomas Hardy : “La Lettre”

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Thursday, June 18

14.00: Welcome by / Accueil par M. le Président de l'Université de Rouen
14.30: Writing tragedy
Chair: Stéphanie Bernard
14.30: Isobel Heald (Université d’Angers): “Tess of the D’Urbervilles: ‘Had He Letter’”
15.00: Mohamed Yazid Bendjeddou (University of Annaba – Algeria): “Thomas Hardy’s Tess of The D’urbervilles : The Sense Of a Beginning”
15.30: Break
16.00: Fabienne Gaspari (Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour): “‘A letter for me?’: letters and destiny in ‘Destiny and a Blue Cloak’ and ‘An Indiscretion in the Life of an Heiress’ ”
16.30: Annie Ramel (Université Lyon 2): “The letter that vivifies in Hardy's texts.”


Friday, June 19

9.30: The Letter: Language, Scripture and Signs
Chair: Nicole Terrien
9.30: Emilie Loriaux (Université de Lille) : A chaque «lettre» hardyenne un registre de langue, des valeurs sociales recelées.
10.00: Michalina Bajda-Pawlikowska (Graduate Student, Yale University – USA): “The letter as an engraved mark”
10.30: Break
11.00: Claire Potter (doctorante Paris VII): “A Geometry of Words: Letters as Transitional Objects in Hardy”
11.30: Jacqueline Dillion (University of St. Andrews – UK): “The “Letter” of Scripture and the Spirit of Folklore in Far From the Madding Crowd”
12.00: Gildas Lemardelé (Université de Caen Basse-Normandie): "Love and letter: Pauline epistles and fictional rewriting in Hardy's novels."
12.30: Lunch

14.00: Between you and me
Chair: Annie Ramel
14.30: Laurence Estanove (Université Toulouse Le Mirail): “Reality in excess: letters and telegrams in Hardy’s poetry”
15.00: Nicole Terrien (Université de Rouen): “Delineating letters in A Pair of Blue Eyes”.
15.30: Break
16.00: Isabelle Gadoin (Université Paris III): “Tess as a letter-writer”
16.30: Stéphanie Bernard (Université de Rouen): “‘An Imaginative Woman’ and ‘On the Western Circuit’: Women of Letters and the Irony of Life”

Links

Here are a few useful websites:

The Thomas Hardy Association: http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/welcomet.htm

The Thomas Hardy Society (based in Dorchester, Dorset) : http://www.hardysociety.org/

University of Rouen: https://www.univ-rouen.fr/

Mappy : www.mappy.com/

Tourist office in Rouen: http://www.rouentourisme.com/

Registration form

The registration form is available at:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=phoiK3KUAYpmi6f5RLyghbA

Directions for travel

1) From Eurostar and Gare du Nord (recommended from London) :

At Gare du Nord station, take RER (fast metro) line E to “Haussmann St-Lazare”. Then follow signs to Gare SNCF Trains Grandes Lignes (long corridors and escalators – no problem if you have a trolley suitcase). Most trains from Gare St-Lazare go to Le Havre – all stop at Rouen RD. The recommended hotels are at most one minute from Rouen RD station.

2) From Charles-de-Gaulle airport (not recommended from London : you lose all the time you have gained on the plane in the RER or Roissybus). Allow at least one hour from the airport to Gare St-Lazare :

- RER B to “Gare du Nord”, then RER E to “Haussmann St-Lazare” (see above)
- or frequent direct bus to the Opera : Roissybus. Then walk (10 min. – no problem if you have a trolley suitcase) to Gare St-Lazare (see above). Better than the RER if the motorway is not jammed (avoid early morning).

3) By car from the Tunnel :

Rouen is signposted as you leave the Tunnel. Exit 13 (“Isneauville”) when you reach the outskirts of Rouen. Then Mont-Saint-Aignan is signposted, as well as Parc de la Vatine and the University when you reach Mont-Saint-Aignan.

Hotels in Rouen

Recommended hotels (early booking strongly advised)

1) For participants coming from Paris by train :

Three stars : Hôtel de Dieppe***
Place Bernard Tissot 76000 ROUEN (just across from the station, with a frequent bus service to the campus)
Tél. : (33) 2 35 71 96 00
Fax : (33) 2 35 89 65 21
hotel.dieppe@hoteldedieppe.fr
http://www.hotel-dieppe.fr/
Chambre Simple : 79 € - 89 €
Chambre Double : 92 € - 105 €
Petit Déjeuner : 11 € (free if you say it is for the Conference when you book)

Two stars : Hôtel Astrid**
11, Place Bernard Tissot 76000 Rouen (just across from the station, with a frequent bus service to the campus)
Tel. : (33) 2 35.71.75.88
Fax : (33) 2 35.88.53.25
hotel-astrid@orange.fr
http://www.hotel-astrid.fr/
Chambre single : 56€/85€
Chambre double : 60€/95€
Petit Déjeuner : 7€

One star : Hôtel Andersen* 4 rue Pouchet 76000 Rouen (on the side of the station, with a frequent bus service to the campus)
Tel. : (33) 2 35 71 88 51 Fax : (33) 2 35 07 54 65
hotelandersen@free.fr
http://www.hotelandersen.com/
Chambre single : 45/96€
Chambre double : 53/96€
Petit-déjeuner : 8€ 2)

2) For participants coming from the Channel Tunnel by car (motorway all the way from the M25 via the Channel Tunnel – only one set of traffic lights between the M25 and the hotel) :

Hôtel Campanile Mont-Saint-Aignan**
1, rue Jacques Monod
Parc de la Vatine
76130 Mont-Saint-Aignan
Tel. : (33) 2 35 59 75 00
Fax : (33) 2 35 59 86 63
rouen.montstaignan@campanile.fr
http://www.hotels-a-rouen.com/hotel.asp?ID=4
Chambre single: 63€
Chambre double: 63€
Petit-déjeuner : 7,20€
Free locked car park