AUR President, Dr. Scott Sprenger, and Dr. Patrick Bray, Director of the Centre for French and Francophone Research at University College London (UCL), will host a 1-day colloquium focused on听Taste and Democracy in the 19th Century (Le go没t et la d茅mocratie au XIXe si猫cle).听
At this event, Dr. Sprenger will present a paper on one of his particular subjects of expertise, the French novelist Honor茅 de Balzac, entitled听Balzac et le go没t: Une critique de Kant听(Balzac and Taste: A Critique of Kant).
Speakers include听faculty experts on the topic from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Italy. The schedule is as follows:
10:00 am - Ouverture (Opening)
Jusqu鈥檕霉 m猫ne le mauvais go没t? D茅calages du go没t, d茅calages temporels dans Le Rouge et le Noir听
(How far does bad taste lead?听: Shifts in taste, temporal shifts in Le Rouge et le Noir)
Patrick BRAY (UCL)
10:45 - 12:00 听
Balzac et Stendhal (Balzac and Stendhal)
Moderator: Lia BROZGAL (UCLA)
Balzac et le go没t: Une critique de Kant (Balzac and Taste: A Critique of Kant)
Scott SPRENGER (AUR)
Stendhal, Balzac ou les ambivalences de l鈥檃rgent niveleur听(Stendhal, Balzac or the ambivalences of leveling money)听
Francesco SPANDRI (Roma 3)
12:00 - 2:00 pm - Lunch
2:00 - 3:15 pm
Philosophies du go没t (Philosophies of taste)听
Moderator: Annalisa IZZO (Pepperdine University)
La critica di Guyau al trivialismo. L鈥檈mergere di un nuovo gusto letterario nell鈥檈stetica francese di fine Ottocento
(Guyau's critique of trivialism. The emergence of a new literary taste in late nineteenth-century English aesthetics)
Annamaria CONTINI (Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Marques, signes, signaux听: pour une esth茅tique stendhalienne (Marks, signs, signals: for a Stendhalian aesthetic)
Alessandra ALOISI (Oxford).