Day 5: Friday 9 June
Auditorium - Médiathèque: Médiathèque Michel-Crépeau, Avenue Michel-Crépeau
- 09:00-10:30
- REAPPROPRIATING THE NEW WORLD IN MASON & DIXON
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Chaired by Ali Chetwynd
Jeffrey Hogrefe, Heidi Lavine and Sergei Macura - ⇒ 09:00-09:30
- Mason and Dixon as Post Colonial Subjects in the Abolitionist Landscape
- Jeffrey Hogrefe
- ⇒ 09:30-10:00
- The Other America: Caribbean Crosscurrents in Mason & Dixon
- Heidi Lavine
- ⇒ 10:00-10:30
- Empire and its Discontent: Third Space, Anxiety and Paranoia in Mason & Dixon
- Sergei Macura
- 10:30-10:45
- Coffee Break
- 10:45-12:15
- REAPPROPRIATING THE NEW WORLD
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Chaired by Sergei Macura
Kostas Kaltsas, Prerita Sen and Erica Tasch - ⇒ 10:45-11:15
- 'This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl'
- Prerita Sen
- ⇒ 11:15-11:45
- Thomas Pynchon Passing
- Erica Tasch
- ⇒ 11:45-12:15
- She enjoys it, so?: Femininity and Motherhood in Late Pynchon
- Kostas Kaltsas
- 12:15-14:00
- Lunch
- 14:00-15:30
- TURNING THE WORLD INTO REAL ESTATE?
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Chaired by Bénédicte Chorier-Fryd
Inger Dalsgaard, Tiina Käkelä-Puumala and Eric Sandberg - ⇒ 14:00-14:30
- The Pop World of Thomas Pynchon
- Eric Sandberg
- ⇒ 14:30-15:00
- 'This Land Is My Land, This Land Also Is My Land ': Real Estate Narratives in Pynchon’s Fiction
- Tiina Käkelä-Puumala
- ⇒ 15:00-15:30
- New New York: Pynchon’s criticism of Virtual and Real Estate
- Inger Dalsgaard
- 15:30-15:45
- Coffee Break
- 15:45-17:15
- General Discussion
- Bénédicte Chorier-Fryd and Gilles Chamerois