Baudelaire’s Worlds
9.00 – 9.15
Thomas C. Connolly (Yale University)
“Welcome and Introduction to Baudelaire’s Worlds”
09.15 – 10.15
Universal Baudelaire – Chair, Pierre Saint-Amand (Yale University)
Andrea Schellino (Università Roma Tre / ITEM, CNRS-ENS)
“Baudelaire Primitivist”
Michèle Hannoosh (University of Michigan)
“‘The beautiful is always bizarre’: Baudelaire and the Universal Exhibition of 1855”
10.45 – 12.15
Modern Mondes – Chair, Dominique Brancher (Yale University)
Maurice Samuels (Yale University)
“Après Coup: Baudelaire’s Politics”
Elissa Marder (Emory University)
“Baudelaire’s Black Notebooks”
Catherine Witt (Reed College)
“Baudelaire, Man of the Clouds”
14.00 – 15.30
Baudelaire’s Decolonial Worlds – Chair, Kaiama L. Glover (Yale University)
Seth Whidden (University of Oxford)
“On Voices in the World (Baudelaire, Glissant, Métellus)”
Laurent Dubreuil (Cornell University, Tsinghua University)
“Colonial Worlds and Beyond”
Ramla Bédoui (Yale University)
“Decolonizing Baudelaire: Mediating Poetry in the Arab World”
16.00-17.30
Baudelaire In Extremis – Chair, Robert F. Barsky (Bandy Center, Vanderbilt University)
Patrick Thériault (University of Toronto)
“Baudelaire in Belgium (1864-1866): The Experience of the Modern World as ‘Uninhabitable’”
Paul Grimstad (Yale University)
“Notes on Baudelaire and America”
R. Howard Bloch (Yale University)
“Atomic Baudelaire”