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PresentationThe present-day globalization of Victorian writing can be traced&#160;back to the extraordinary plasticity of its textual&#160;and visual forms, as it travels from&#160;place to place and media to media.&#160;Such temporal, geographical,&#160;cultural and intermedial persistence is to be the subject of a&#160;seminar which will consider the different modes of resistance of literature within the nineteenth-century as well as its&#160;survival and rebirth in later times.&#160;Three texts from the following domains will be chosen for each session: 1.&#160;theory/philosophy 2. academic criticism and 3. literature/journalism. They will be made available beforehand. The idea of the seminar is to allow speakers to discuss their area of research with others through a study of the three texts and chosen images, and thus open out the subject to other corpora, centuries, disciplines. The seminar takes place at the universit&#233; Paris Diderot and is&#160;supervised by Sara Thornton, Professor of English studies, as&#160;part of the LARCA research centre. (UFR d&#8217;Etudes anglophones Charles V,&#160;10 rue Charles V,&#160;75004 Paris, m&#233;tro Bastille, Sully Morland or Saint-Paul.)Programme for the following sessions10th October 2012: Sonia Ouaras&#160;(Universit&#233; Sorbonne Nouvelle), "The Mind in Distress: Investigation into the Uncanny in Victorian Fiction".&#160;Fran&#231;ois Vergne (Ma&#238;tre de conf&#233;rences, Universit&#233; Sorbonne Nouvelle)&#160;will be her respondent. (Salle A11)14th November 2012: C&#233;line Prest&#160;(Universit&#233; Sorbonne Nouvelle), "Circulation, Saturation and Implosion: the Dynamics of Paper in Dickens&#8217;s Novels". Andr&#233; Topia&#160;(Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the Universit&#233; Sorbonne-Nouvelle)&#160;will be her respondent.&#160;&#160;(Salle A50)5th December 2012: Sarah Gould&#160;(Universit&#233; Paris Diderot), "From &#8220;Sir Sloshua&#8221; to significant surface: the approach to texture in Rossetti&#8217;s Ecce Ancilla Domini and early Pre-Raphaelite painting".&#160;David Peters Corbett (Professor of Art History and American Studies,&#160;University of East Anglia) will be her respondent.&#160;(Salle A50)7th December 2012: "Victorian Persistence: Persistence in/of Victorian Literature and Culture", A one-day postgraduate conference (A50). Our two keynote speakers will be Professor Juliet John (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Professor Jeremy Tambling (University of Manchester)16th January 2013: Shannon Delorme (Oxford University / Universit&#233; Paris Diderot), "Physiology or Psychic powers? William Carpenter and the debate over Spiritualism in Mid-Victorian Britain". Thibaud Trochu (universit&#233; Paris 1) will be her respondent.27th February 2013: Mathieu Duplay (Universit&#233; Paris Diderot) and Jagna Oltarzewska (Universit&#233; Paris-Sorbonne), &#8216;From Emerson to Eminem&#8217;20th March 2013: Marie Laniel (Ma&#238;tre de Conf&#233;rence, Universit&#233; d&#8217;Amiens &#8211; Picardie-Jules-Verne), "Virginia Woolf&#8217;s Victorians". Catherine Bernard (Professeur de litt&#233;rature britannique et d&#8217;histoire de l&#8217;art, Universit&#233; Paris Diderot) will be her respondent.17th April 2013: Marie Ruiz (Universit&#233; Paris Diderot), "Overpopulation in Victorian England: &#8216;&#8220;Surplus Women&#8221;: Emigration as the nineteenth-century solution to female overpopulation", Marie Terrier (Universit&#233; Sorbonne Nouvelle), "Annie Besant and nineteenth-century Neomalthusianism: &#8220;family limitation&#8221; or &#8220;birth-restricting checks&#8221; as remedy to overpopulation and poverty". Pr. Myriam Boussahba Bravard (Universit&#233; Paris Diderot) will be their respondent.15th May 2013: Marina Poisson (Universit&#233; Sorbonne Nouvelle), "Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith: Persisting Figures, Persistent Visions"june 2013: Helena Gurfinkel (Southern Illinois University), "The Ethics of the Signifier: Wilde with Lacan"