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 Fantastic Narratives and the Natural World April 27-28, 2012   A Bilingual, Interdisciplinary Conferencehosted by Dalhousie's Department of French and the Italian Studies Program Organizers: Elisa Segnini and Vittorio Frigeriofantasticnarratives@gmail.com   April 27th, 2012University Hall, Dalhousie University 8:30 - 9:15amRegistration and Coffee9:15 - 9:30amWelcome Robert Summerby-Murray, Dean, FASS 9:30 - 10:50amSession IAllegorical, Mythical and Poetical Readings of Natural LandscapesChair: Diana Pifano- Dalhousie UniversityChristopher R. Austin – Dalhousie UniversityThe Raising of Govardhana Mountain: Krsna’s Divine Intervention in the Braj LandscapeElisa Segnini – Dalhousie University‘This place is almost too strange to believe’: Words and Blood in the Forest of the SuicidesAdleen Crapo – University of TorontoThe Interaction of Non-normative Bodies and Landscapes in Paradise Lost10:50 - 11:05amCoffee Break!11:05 - 12:45pmSession IIEcology and the FantasticChair: Nelleke Strik- Dalhousie UniversityAlexander E. Pichugin – Rutgers UniversityLa nature et le fantastique dans le concept écologique d’Ernst KreuderBruce Wyse – Wilfrid Laurier UniversityUncanny Ecology and the Memento Mori Vision in Bulwer’s Kosem Kesamim, the MagicianBrian Noble – Dalhousie UniversityAnimating T. Rex, Modeling the Perfect Race:  Osborn, Doyle and the Phantasmatics of Lost EcologiesMichael House – Dalhousie UniversityNovalis and the Romantic Vision of Nature12:45 - 2:00pmLunch! ...2:00 -3:00pmKeynote Speaker Francesca Biliani  – University of ManchesterOneiric Sexuality and Destabilised Social Personae3:00 -5:00pmSession IIIUncanny, Magical and Imaginary SpacesChair: Patricia DeMeo – Dalhousie UniversityMathieu Lauzon-Dicsö - Université de MontréalLes natures mortes de Catherine DufourAmy J. Ransom – Central Michigan UniversityLe sublime naturel dans le ‘Cycle de Neubourg’ de Daniel SernineCatherine d’Humières – Université de Cergy-PontoiseLorsque peinture, littérature et musique suivent la piste des sirènes. L’imaginaire océanique dans De Profundis¸ album interactif de Miguelanxo Prado                        April 28th, 2012University Hall, Dalhousie University8:30 - 9:15amRegistration and Coffee9:15 – 11:00amSession IVNature and Cultural IdentityChair: Christopher Austin - Dalhousie UniversityRobert Summerby-Murray – Dalhousie UniversityThe Fantastic Black Panther in the Writing of Charles G. D. Roberts: Forging CanadianNational Identity from Primeval NatureVittorio Frigerio – Dalhousie UniversityThe Great North as Heaven and Hell. John Buchan’s Sick Heart RiverGoh Sook Yi (Jaymee) – McMaster UniversityPangolin Bear: Pinning Down the Real in Nickleodeon’s Avatar The Last AirbenderPaolo Matteucci – Dalhousie UniversityFantastic Landscapes, Phantasmatic Contours: The Un-doing of Italy in Pasolini’s Petrolio11:00 - 11:15Amcoffee break11:15 - 12:40AmSession VMetamorphoses Chair: Irène Chassaing- Dalhousie UniversityWalter Geerts – University of Antwerp, BelgiumPrimo Levi’s Outlook for Man. A Reading of the FantasticMatthew Reza – Pembroke College OxfordTracing Changes: Metamorphosis in Kafka, Tutuola, and CalvinoSophie Beaulé – St. Mary’s UniversityMonde végétal et devenir-intensité12:40 – 2:00pmLunch!...2:00 – 3:30pmSession VIEnchanted LandsChair: Anne Bérubé, Dalhousie UniversityJohn Barnstead – Dalhousie UniversityTowards a Dendropoetics of Science FictionDana Mount – Cape Breton UniversityThe Spirited Forest in Salman Rusdhie’s Midnight Children: Entirely OtherDiana Pifano – Dalhousie UniversityThe Role of Fantasy in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Gina Beltràn – University of TorontoThe Rainforest as a Locus of Obscurity in Horacio Quiroga 3:30 – 4:00:pmCoffee Break!4:00 - 5:00pmKeynote SpeakerArnaud Huftier - Université de Valenciennes‘Death by Landscape’ de Margaret Atwood: la représentation de la nature canadienne tue   5:00pmClosing RemarksVittorio Frigerio