10.00 // Catherine Lanone (Toulouse 2, Chair of the Société d'études anglaises contemporaines) // Opening remarks
Panel 1 // Poetic rhythm: history and theory Chair // Paul Volsik
10.15 // Lacy Rumsey (ENS LSH) // The limits of scansion
10.55 // Rosalía Rodríguez-Vázquez (Vigo) // Folksong is not poetry: advocating for a non-modular view of text-setting
11.35 // Andrew Eastman (Strasbourg) // Ideologies of English: Anglo-Saxon, stress-clash, and twentieth-century conceptions of rhythm
12.15 // Lunch
Panel 2 // Early twentieth-century rhythm Chair // Catherine Lanone
14.15 // Jason Hall (Exeter) // Mechanized Metrics: From Verse Science to Laboratory Prosody, 1880-1918
14.55 //Laurence Estanove (Toulouse 2) // Rhythm in Thomas Hardy's verse: "new continuities of meaning''
15.35 // Break
15.50 // Wim Van Mierlo
(School of Advanced Studies, University of London) // Rhythmically
Formed: Creative Poetics in the Manuscripts of some Early
Twentieth-Century British Poets
16.30 // Vita Zilburg (Freie U, Berlin) // T.S. Eliot and Paul Celan: Rhythm - Time - Poetics
9.00 // David Nowell-Smith (Cambridge) // An experience with rhythm: W.S. Graham
9.40 // Dominique Delmaire (Lyon 2) // Rhythm as spiritual pursuit in the poetry of George Mackay Brown
10.20 // Coffee
10.35 // Tomasz Wisniewski (Gdansk) // Rhythm, composition and semantics in R.S. Thomas's "No", "Kneeling", and "Via Negativa"
11.15 // David Kennedy (Hull) // Rhythm and Reader Identity in Philip Larkin and Keston Sutherland
12.00 // Lunch
Keynote address
13.30 // Derek Attridge // In Defence of the Dolnik
14.30 // Break
Panel 4 // Late-century poetic rhythm in Britain and Ireland Chair // Jason Hall
14.45 // Franck Miroux (Paris 3) // Echoes, Interferences and Rhythms: Disruption and Continuity in Seamus Heaney's Poetry
15.25 // Martin Ryle
(Sussex) // "I want you to tell me if grief, brought to numbers, cannot
be so fierce": stanzaic form, rhythm and play in Paul Muldoon's long
poems
16.05 // Claire Hélie (Paris 3) // "It's my voice; that's how I speak": the rhythms of Northern English in Simon Armitage's poetry