The Between-ness of the Lyric / L’entre-deux lyrique / Lyrik im Dazwischen

June 4 to 7, 2019

A lyrical valley is also a high-place for reflection on poetry. The University of Lausanne and the International Network for the Study of Lyric have organised the second international conference on study of poetry from 4 to 7 June, 2019. Some one hundred of the world’s leading poetry researchers have met for the occasion.

Following Boston University in 2017, the University of Lausanne has hosted the second international conference on poetic and lyric studies. This event was an opportunity to bring together the leading edge of international poetry research, and to share the main questions arising in the field today. The theme of the conference was “The Between-ness “. Poetry is currently undergoing a significant transformation from books to the digital/multimedia universe. This conference aimed to clarify how to articulate the historical and theoretical approaches, linguistic and global conceptions, the possibilities of finding lyrical form in various genres, as well as current innovations.

Scientific Committee: Heather Dubrow (Fordham University, NYC), Ralph Mueller (Freiburg University), Antonio Rodriguez (University of Lausanne), Dominique Rabaté (Paris-Diderot), Hans Kristian Rustad (Universitetet i Oslo), William Waters (Boston University) .

Organisation: Antonio Rodriguez (University of Lausanne). French and English Sections of the University of Lausanne; Foundation for the University of Lausanne, Swiss National Science Foundation.

TUESDAY 4 JUNE

PLENARIES: Jahan Ramazani (U. Virginia, USA), Colin Burrow (Oxford, UK), Jan Baetens (Leuven, B)

F. Budelmann (Oxford, UK), A. Galloway (Cornell, USA), A. Killian (Yale, USA)

B. Bonhomme (Nice, F), E. Lloze (Saint-Etienne, F), L. Michel (Paris-Sorbonne, F), Cl. Ber (F)

D. Nowell Smith (East Anglia, UK), McGuinn (U of London, UK), J. Grossmann (Queen Mary U London, UK)

J. Jaguscik (Zürich, CH), I. Kukulin (Moscow, R)

O. Thévenaz (Lausanne, CH), B. Delignon (ENS Lyon, F), N. LeMeur (ENS Lyon, F), D. Bovet (Lausanne, CH)

D. Brassard (UQAM, CA), Z. Carandell (Paris-Nanterre, F), Ch. Lombez (Nantes, F), N. Abadlia (Sétif, DZ)

A. Slater (Toronto, CA), E. LeRud (Emory U, USA)                            

A. Cojocaru (UC Berkeley, USA), J. Sarkar (Heidelberg, D), A. Zhitenev (Voronezh State U, RU)

WEDNESDAY 5 JUNE

PLENARIES: Gustavo Guerrero (Cergy-Pontoise, F), Michel Murat (Paris-Sorbonne, F), Heinrieke Stahl (Trier, D), Elizabeth Helsinger (U. Chicago, USA)

B. Costello (Boston U., USA), D. Stonecipher (U. Iowa, USA), C. Swensen (Brown U., USA)

D. Rabaté (Paris-Diderot, F), M. Froidefond (Paris-Diderot, F), C. Millet (Paris-Diderot, F)

R. Von Hallberg (Claremont McKenna, USA), K. Fields (U. Stanford, USA), D. Fried (Cornell, USA), O. Izenberg (UC Irvine, USA)

S. Wolosky (Jerusalem, IL), A. Gavryliuk (Trier, D), K. Smola (Dresden, D)

P. Franz (Yale, USA), K. Molde (Cornell, USA), M. Mukim (Warwick, UK), N. Fernández (Bern, CH)

R. Müller (Fribourg, CH), P. Hühn (Hamburg, D), J. Böhm (Trier, D)

E. Heggdal (Oslo, NO), C. Brickman (Berkeley, USA), E. Ronzheimer (Bielefeld, D)

C. Miller (Buffalo, US), K. Priya (U. London, UK), I. Palmer (Birmingham, UK)

N. Cohen (Louvain, B), Ch. Imperiali (Bern/FNS, CH), F. Deotto (Genève, CH)

THURSDAY 6 JUNE

PLENARIES: Eva Zettelmann (Wien U, AT), Marion Thain (King’s College London, UK), Rosanna Warren (Chicago, USA)

C. Benthien (Hamburg, D), P. Larsen (Aalborg, DK), B. Meyer-Sickendiek (Berlin, D)

M. Scharinger (Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, D), Ch. Knoop (Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, D), S. Blohm (Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, D)

T. Schwessinger (Friedrich-Schiller, Jena, D), E. Evgrashkina (Trier, D), A. Schmitt (Trier, D)

J. Hedley (Bryn Mawr, USA), R. Sastri (Edinburgh, UK), A. Keniston (U Nevada Reno, USA)

J. Oholi (Giessen, D), W. Funk (Mainz, D)         

S. Haag (Wien, AT), N. Zügel (Freiburg, D)

O. McKenzie (Genève, CH), D. Powelstock (Brandeis, USA)

S. Klimek (Fribourg, CH), A. Bers (Göttingen, D)

Social Event at Chillon Castle

FRIDAY 7 JUNE

PLENARIES: Adalberto Müller (Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, BR), Michel Collot (Paris Sorbonne-Nouvelle F), Jonathan Culler (Cornell, USA), Claudia Benthien (Hamburg, D), Kirsten Stirling (Lausanne, CH)

H. Yamamoto (Tokyo, JP), M. Machova (South Bohemia, CZ), M. Mewhinney (Boston, USA)

Th. Austenfeld (Fribourg, CH), M. Holmes (Virginia, USA), F. Giusti (ICI Berlin Institute, D)

S. Schneider (UC Berkeley, USA), F. Sprang (Siegen, D), A. Viragh (UC Berkeley, USA)

Y. Elhariry (Dartmouth, USA), E. Friis (Lund U., SE), K. Nykvist (Lund, SE), B. Rath (Innsbruck, AT)

P. Lindholm (Lausanne, CH), J. Mueller (Chicago, USA), K. Hegedüs (Lausanne, CH)

I. Huber (München, D), E. Jones (Cambridge, UK), M. Gorji (Cambridge, UK)

E. Yanota (Texas, USA), J. Hrdlicka (Charles U., Prague, CZ), K. Mitchell (Chicago, USA)

Organisation: University of Lausanne French and English Sections, under the direction of Professor Antonio Rodriguez.