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SFEVE Annual Conference : "Becoming Animal with the Victorians"Université Paris Diderot, Thursday 4 – Friday 5 February 2016 Amphithéâtre Turing, Bâtiment Sophie-Germain, Université Paris Diderot8 place Aurélie Nemours, 75013 Paris&#160;Thursday 4 FebruaryMoral codes, ethics and didacticism (workshop 1)Chair: Sara Thornton, Université Paris DiderotDominic Rainsford (Aarhus University, Denmark): ‘Squirrel’s Heartbeat: Moral Quantification in Victorian Literature and Philosophy’Sally Blackburn (Liverpool University): ‘Vernon Lee and Vivisection: A Mutilation of Morality’Emilia Quinn (Oxford University): ‘The Monstrous Vegan: Historicising Veganism in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’ Hybridity and mongrelisation (workshop 2)Chair: George Letissier, Université de NantesBéatrice Laurent (Université des Antilles): ‘Missing Link or ‘Mongrel’? the Mermaid and the Victorian Imagination’Silvia Granata (University of Pavia, Italy): ‘“At once pet, ornament, and subject for dissection”: The unstable status of marine animals in Victorian aquaria’Anne Kerchy (University of Szeged, Hungary): ‘Alice’s Animal Alterities and Ethics’Canine Subjectivities and standpoints (workshop 3)Chair: Nathalie Saudo-Welby, Université de PicardieGeorges Letissier (Université de Nantes): ‘From Dog Alterity to Canine Sublime: A Cross-Century Reading of Victorian Fiction’Pauline Macadré (Université Paris-Sorbonne): ‘“Solving the problem of reality” in Virginia Woolf’s Flush’Peter Merchant (Canterbury Christ Church University): ‘Rescued by Rover: Terriers, Tenacity, and Thomas Anstey Guthrie’Melissa Dickson (St Anne’s College, Oxford University): ‘The Dog’s Bach and the Victorian Animal’s Love of Music’ Keynote speakerChair : Laurence Roussillon-Constanty, Université de PauBeryl Gray (Birkbeck College and Independent scholar): ‘In the Eyes of the Beholder: depicting the dog in the long nineteenth century’&#160;Friday 5 FebruaryKeynote speakerChair: Fabienne Moine, Université Paris Ouest, NanterreHilda Kean (Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Visiting Professor at Greenwich University): ‘Aspects of the changing feline – human relationship in Victorian Britain’Animal spectacle and décor (workshop 4) (Turing)Chair: Nicholas Daly , University College DublinSune Borkfelt (Aarhus University, Denmark): ‘“Disgusting Spectacle”: Victorian Cattle Markets, Abattoirs and the Marginalization of Animals’Barbara Lasic (University of Buckingham): ‘Crafty Tales: Aesop’s Fables and the Late Nineteenth-Century British Interior’(2 parallel sessions):Humanimality and the grotesque (workshop 5) (Room 014)Chair: John Miller, Sheffield UniversityMichael Hollington (University of Kent, Canterbury): ‘Corvidae in Dickens’Amber Regis (Sheffield University): ‘On not becoming human: Victorian animal life-writing and the problem with poodles’Hubert Malfray (Lycée C. Fauriel, St Etienne): ‘Freak shows on the page: The animalization of criminality in Newgate Fiction’Humanimality and monstrosity (workshop 6) (Turing)Chair: Estelle Murail, Université Paris DiderotNeil Davie (Université Lyon 2): ‘“An unbidden guest at your table”: Purity, danger and the house-fly in the middle-class home, c. 1880-1910’Richard Somerset (Université de Lorraine): ‘From monsters to animals: palaeontological popularisers and the ideology of historical process’Briony Wickes (King’s College, London) : ‘Riding on the Sheep’s Back: Settler Colonisation and the Sheep-Shepherd Relationship in Victorian Fiction’.(2 parallel sessions):Evolution, regression and progress (workshop 7) (Room 014)Chair: Hubert Malfray, Sorbonne Paris 4 and Saint EtienneRose Roberto (University of Reading): ‘Counting Animals and Visualising Natural History in Chambers’s Encyclopaedias’Nathalie Saudo-Welby (Université de Picardie): ‘The rhetorical uses of female animals in novels by Mona Caird, Sarah Grand and George Paston’Chair: Béatrice Laurent, Université des AntillesBen Moore (Cardiff University): ‘Becoming Evolutionary?: Alton Locke’s Dream’John Miller (University of Sheffield): ‘James Thomson’s Abyssal Creatures’Fashion and ornament (workshop 8) (Turing)Chair: Clémence Folléa, Université Paris DiderotRóisín Quinn-Lautrefin (Université Paris Diderot): ‘“An exquisitely perfect and beautiful skeleton”: salvaging animal waste in Victorian domestic handicraft’Arianne Fennetaux (Université Paris Diderot): ‘Retro-futuristic Animal Chic: Alexander McQueen’s Victorian Cabinet of Curiosities’Chair: Ariane Fennetaux, Université Paris DiderotJulia Courtney (Independent scholar): ‘Animal Objects: Memory, Desire and Mourning’Nicholas Daly (University College Dublin): ‘Fur and Feather Fashion at the Fin de Siècle’Sarah Laurenson (Edinburgh University): ‘Fashioning the wild: animal parts and products in Scottish jewellery of the Victorian era’&#160;Programme complet&#160;