9h00 Formal Opening of the Conference.
Yves-Jean Bignon, Deputy Mayor of Vichy, in charge of Thermalism and Heritage.
Fabien Conord, Professor of Contemporary History and Head of the Department of Journalism, Université Clermont Auvergne.
13h30 All is Deep. All is Shallow. The Ambivalence of Ecocritics and Nature Writers towards Deep Places.
Richard Kerridge, Bath Spa University.
14h15 Questions.
Palais des Congrès - Salon Relais des Parcs
Pôle Universitaire de Vichy
Salon d'Honneur - Hôtel de Ville de Vichy
12h Buffet.
14h30 “Bathing […] in origane and thyme” (I.ii.40): The Ambivalence of Baths in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene.
Alix Desnain, Université Clermont Auvergne.
14h55 Waters, Wells and Spas in John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi: An Impossible Purification?
François Laroque, Sorbonne Nouvelle.
15h20 “For Music is wholesome the Doctors all think”: The Curative and Restorative Function of Music in Eighteenth-century English Spas.
Pierre Degott, Université de Lorraine.
15h45 Questions.
16h-16h30 Coffee break.
16h30-18h Guided Tour of Vichy.
18h End of the Conference.
9h Drowning in Health: Mineral Spring Water and Alcohol in Eighteenth-Century England.
Vaughn Scribner, University of Central Arkansas.
9h25 Mineral Waters as a Treatment for Barrenness in the Eighteenth Century.
Sophie Vasset, Université Paris-Diderot.
9h50 Robert Wittie's Mineral Winters: Cryotherapy in the Spaw (1660).
Lowell Duckert, University of Delaware.
10h15 Questions.
10h30-11h Coffee break.
11h The Poor, the Public, the Polity, and the Pools: Medical Care at the Seventeenth-Century British Spa.
Amanda Herbert, Folger Institute.
11h45 Questions.
16h30 Récit du séjour en cure d’une princesse bavaroise : Maria Anna von Bayern (1728-1797).
Anne-Sophie Gomez, Université Clermont Auvergne.
17h00 De thermes en thermes : le cas Tourgueniev.
Christine Chaze, conférencière indépendante.
17h30 Questions.
14h00 Ouverture
Yves-Jean Bignon, Adjoint au maire de Vichy en charge du Thermalisme et du Patrimoine.
14h15 Réflexions sur le thermalisme médiéval en Europe.
Didier Boisseuil, Université de Tours, et Marilyn Nicoud, Université d’Avignon.
14h45 Marguerite de Navarre et les bains de Cauterets : de la pratique sociale au motif littéraire.
Nora Viet, Université Clermont Auvergne.
15h15 Le thermalisme en Angleterre et au Japon : traditions historiques et représentations littéraires.
Eri Ohashi, Nagasaki University (Japon).
15h45 Questions.
16h00-16h30 Pause café / Coffee break.
16h Taking the cure: mineral waters and love’s folly in Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania (1621).
Tiffany J. Werth, UC Davis, University of California.
16h45 Questions.
14h Bristol and Bath in Frances Burney’s Evelina (1778).
Anne Rouhette, Université Clermont Auvergne.
14h25 “Oh! Who can ever be tired of Bath”? (Northanger Abbey I.X.59): The Representation of Bath in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.
Marie-Laure Massei-Chamayou, Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne.
14h50 Bathing in Verse: Christopher Anstey, The New Bath Guide, and Georgian Resort Satire.
Shaun Regan, Queen’s University Belfast.
15h15 Questions.
15h30-16h Coffee break.
12h Buffet.
13h30 Water tasting (Source des Célestins).
18h Reception in the City Hall.
19h30 Dinner at La Véranda – Aletti Palace.
11h Bath, Spas and Belief.
Tiffany Stern, Shakespeare Institute.
11h45 Questions.
9h30 “Water of Paradise”: the Place of Balneology in Bacon's Philosophy.
Mickael Popelard, Université Caen Normandie.
9h55 An Elusive Legacy: Ancient Balneology in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
Giacomo Savani, University College Dublin.
10h20 Questions.
10h30-11h Coffee break.
