sporting life - Université Paris Descartes

The organizers of the Sporting Life
symposium, Professors Alexis Tadié
and Daniel O’Quinn, wish to thank the
following individuals and institutions
for their generous support and
assistance: Armelle Chataigner-Guidez,
Amelie Tard, Lori Barnsley, Michiel
Duvekot, Fonds France Canada pour
la Recherche/France Canada Research
Fund, Ambassade de France à Ottawa,
Institut Universitaire de France,
Université Paris-Sorbonne and the
University of Guelph.
SPORTING LIFE
An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the cultures of
sport in the 18th and 19th centuries
Salle des Actes, Université Paris Sorbonne
March 13-14, 2014
Thursday, March 13
2.15: Opening
Introduction: Alexis Tadié
1. The Human Animal Interface (2:30- 4:00)
Chair: Alexis Tadié , Université Paris-Sorbonne; Institut Universitaire de France
“From Riding House to Hunting Field: Equestrian Enlightenment”
“Descartes Goes to the Circus: Views of the Brute Creation in
Performance, c. 1750-1850”
Tea (4:00 - 4:30)
2. Turf Wars (4:30 – 6:00)
1. Phil Dine, National University of Ireland, Galway
“Horse racing in Early olonial Algeria: from Anglophilia to Arabomania”
2. John McLeod, University of Leeds
“Colonial Sport and Postcolonial Writing”
Friday, March 14
3. Ludic Practices (9:00 – 10:30)
Chair: Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise, Université Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle
1. Frans De Bruyn, Université d’Ottawa
“Angling, Hunting, and Shooting: Arts of Rural Sport and the Art of
Poetry, 1650-1800”
2. Daniel O’Quinn, University of Guelph
“Funereal Games: Sporting Events, Historical Encounters, Artistic
Figures”
Coffee Break (10:30 – 11:00)
4. Unprofaned by Vulgar Tread (11:00 – 12:30)
Chair: Daniel O’Quinn, University of Guelph
1. John Whale, University of Leeds
“Writing Fighting: Pugilism and Aesthetics, 1785-1830”
2. Sharon Harrow, Shippensburg University
“Boxing for England: Daniel Mendoza and the Theatre of Sport”
Lunch (12:30 – 2:00)
Chair: Sophie Vasset, Université Paris-Diderot
1. Alexander Regier, Rice University
“What is Training?”
2. Alexis Tadié, Université Paris-Sorbonne; Institut Universitaire
de France
“The Birth of Modern Tennis”
Tea (3:30 – 4:00)
6. Extremities (4:00 – 5:30)
Chair: Laurent Folliot, Université Paris-Sorbonne
1. Simon Bainbridge, Lancaster University
“Romanticism and the Invention of Mountaineering”
2. Supriya Chaudhuri, Jadavpur University
“Pilgrim, Pundit, Photographer, Spy: the Ambiguous Origins of
Mountaineering in India”