SAUTE2015: Economies of English
Programme
Friday 24 April
Bastions Building: Rue de Candolle 5
9:00
9:30
Registration and morning coffee
Welcoming remarks – B101
Keynote Lecture – B101
John Joseph, University of Edinburgh
10:00
Saussure’s Value(s)
11:00
12:15
13:30
15:00
15:30
Chair: Genoveva Puskas
Panel 1: B101
Money and Language in EarlyModern England
Chair: Lukas Erne
Richard Waswo,
University of Geneva
Panel 2: B111
The Value of Language and
Literature
Chair: Miriam Locher
Claire Forel,
University of Geneva
Shakespeare and the Modern
Economy
Margaret Tudeau-Clayton,
University of Neuchâtel
The Value of and in Learning
Foreign Languages
Martin Leer,
University of Geneva
Putting the Monetary and Linguistic Store of Value, Measure of Value,
House in Order: Gresham’s Law
Means of Exchange: Money and
and ‘The King’s English’
Literature
Lunch – Centre Médical Universitaire, rue Lombard
SAUTE AGM – B101
Coffee break
Panel 3: B111
Panel 4: B101
Economies of Style
Economy and Shakespeare
Chair: Virginia Richter
Chair: Indira Ghose
Justin Edwards,
Alice Leonard,
University of Surrey
University of Neuchâtel
Counterfeit Fictions: Charles
Brockden Brown, Money, and the
Circulation of Texts
20 April 2015
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The Economy of Foreignness in
Henry V and The Dutch Connection
Sangam MacDuff,
University of Geneva
Derek Dunne,
University of Fribourg
‘Scrupulous Meanness’, Joyce’s
Gift, and the Symbolic Economy of
Dubliners
Nicholas Weeks,
University of Geneva
Counterfeiting Hamlet
Beckett – Vico – Joyce: ‘A Savage
Economy of Hieroglyphics’
The Economics of Misattribution
and Cupid’s Cabinet Unlock’d by W.
Shakespeare
Lukas Erne,
University of Geneva
Keynote Lecture – B101
Laura Brown, Cornell University
17:30
19.30
Species, Specie and Forms of Affinity in
Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Chair: Erzsi Kukorelly
Conference Dinner – Café du Marché
(16, Boulevard Henri-Dunant, tel. 022 320 85 46)
Saturday 25 April
Philosophes Building: Boulevard des Philosophes 22
Keynote lecture – Phil 201
François Grin, University of Geneva
9:15
Assessing the Economics of English in Europe
Chair: Martin Leer
10:15
10:30
Morning coffee
Panel 5: Phil 102
Panel 6: Phil 211
The Production of Literature from
Social Capital and Economies
Typing to Publishing
of Status
Chair: Nicholas Weeks
Chair: Barbara Straumann
Alexandre Fachard,
Indira Ghose,
Universities of Geneva and Lausanne University of Fribourg
The Socioeconomic Lives of Early
Typists
20 April 2015
2
Honour and Cultural Capital in
Renaissance Courtesy Literature
11:40
12:50
14:00
Anna Iatsenko,
University of Geneva
Crispin Thurlow,
University of Bern
The Market of Black Print: Strategies
of Resistance in Toni Morisson’s The
Bluest Eye and Vincent O. Carter’s
Such Sweet Thunder
Panel 7: Phil 102
Economy and Ecology
Chair: Bryn Skibo
Ronald Milland,
Queens College
‘A World Apart’: Language,
Materiality and the Global
Semioscope of Super-Elite Status
Panel 8: Phil 211
Economies of the Body
Chair: Anna Iatsenko
Martin Mühlheim,
University of Zurich
Re-reading Economics: Analysing
the Financial Superstructure through
the Lens of Literary Analysis
Arnaud Barras,
University of Geneva
Slippery Subjects: Intersecting
Economies of Genre in Coming-Out
Films, 1995-2015
Carla Scott,
Collège de Genève
Economy, Ecology, Ecopoiesis:
The Economy of (De)Fining the
Trace and Plasticity in Jane
Body: The Case of Ferguson
Urquhart’s A Map of Glass
Lunch: picnics will be made available in the covered courtyard
Panel 9: Phil 201
Panel 10: Phil 211
Panel 11 : Phil 102
Money, Debt and
The Value of the
Spiritual and Moral
Poverty in the
English Language
Economies
Victorian Novel
Chair: Didier Maillat
Chair: Margaret
Chair: Valerie
Tudeau Clayton
Fehlbaum
Barbara Straumann,
Virag Csillagh and Eva Sarah Brazil,
University of Zurich
Waltermann,
University of Geneva
University of Geneva
How to Live Well on
Nothing a Year:
Money, Credit and
Debt in William
Makepeace
Thackeray’s Vanity Fair
20 April 2015
Teaching and Learning
English in Geneva:
Questions of Economy,
Identity, Globality and
Usefulness
3
Buying Back Grace:
The Economics of
Redemption
Sarah Chevalier,
University of Zurich
Marlon Ariyasinghe,
University of Geneva
The Value of English in
Multilingual Families
The Vicious Cycle of
Moral Hazard in Kate
Jennings’s Moral
Hazard and William
Shakespeare’s The
Merchant of Venice
Rahel Orgis,
University of Neuchâtel
Virginia Richter,
University of Bern
Chathurika
Senanayake,
Monash University,
Australia
The Agency of the
Poor: Economy in
Thomas Hardy’s
Novels
Linguistic Journey
towards Economic
Success in Martin
Wickramasinghe’s
Koggala Trilogy
16:00
Panel 12: Phil 211
Economies of Narrative
Transgression
Chair: Kimberly Frohreich
Lisann Anders,
University of Zurich
16:20
“Father and son, I ha’
done you simple
service here”: The
(Interrupted Circulation
of Money in Dekker
and Middleton’s
Roaring Girl
Coffee Break
Panel 13: Phil 102
Economies of Contemporary
Poetry
Chair: Rachel Falconer
Andrew Miller,
Copenhagen
‘Caught in the Image’: A Literary
Approach to Transgressing
Boundaries in New York City in the
1920s
Sonia Nayak,
Duke University
The Ekphrastic Economy
Oran McKenzie,
University of Geneva
The Rhizombie Novel: An
Spillage and Banditry: Anne
Alternative to Capitalist Narrativity
Carson’s Derivatives
Keynote lecture – Phil 201
Stefan Collini, University of Cambridge
17:30
The Muse in Academe: ‘English’ and Its History
Chair: Martin Leer
18:30
20 April 2015
Apéro d’adieu
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