Rural Spaces in the UK (18th-21st centuries):
Identities, Mutations, and Representations
9:00 – Welcome and introductory words by Anthony Larson (Head of the School of Modern Languages) and Sylvie Bauer (Head of the Research Team ACE)
Identities and Mutations of the British Countryside - chair: David Haigron
9:30 – Yvon Le Caro (University of Rennes 2, France)
The Protection of the Countryside under the Planning & Compulsory Purchase Act 2004: Policy and Practice in the Creedy Taw area, Mid-Devon
10:00 – Madeline Zielinski (University of Rouen, France)
“England’s green and pleasant land”: The Second World War, the English Landscape and National Identity
10:30 – Brendan Prendiville (University of Rennes 2, France)
Political Protest in Rural Spaces in Britain
11:00 – Discussion and break
Rural Representations in Photos, Films and Visual Arts - chair: David Haigron
11:30 – Prof. Jonathan Bignell (Guest speaker, University of Reading, UK)
Agents, Beneficiaries and Victims: Picturing People on the Land
12:15 – Discussion and lunch break
Rural Representations in Photos, Films and Visual Arts (cont.) - chair: Alice Byrne
14:00 – Georges Fournier (University Jean Moulin-Lyon 3, France)
The Filmic Representations of British Rural Spaces in Patrick Keiller’s Trilogy (London, Robinson in Space, Robinson in Ruins)
14:30 – Richard Tholoniat (University of Le Mans, France)
London’s Greenbelt and Suburbs: The English Countryside through the Eyes of French Travellers (1814-1914)
15:00 – Kate Corder (University of Reading alumni, independent artist and researcher)
Explorations and Observations of Heathrow’s former “Grade One” Agricultural Land and Contemporary Landscape
15:30 – Discussion and break
The British Rural Landscape in Poetry and Literature - chair: Delphine Lemonnier-Texier
16:00 – Kerry Featherstone (Loughborough University, UK)
Rural Sites: Transformations and Experiment in the Poetry of Mark Goodwin
16:30 – Thierry Goater (University of Rennes 2, France)
“The horizons and landscapes of a partly real, partly dream-country”: Thomas Hardy’s Dissonant Representations of Rural Spaces in Under the Greenwood Tree, Far From the Madding Crowd, and The Woodlanders
17:00 – Jessica Le Flem (University of Rennes 2, France)
Rosamond Lehmann’s In-between Landscape: Taking Possession of the Empty Pastoral Scene
17:30 – Discussion and concluding remarks
