CLIC is thrilled to present the international conference titled:
“I love you …to fragments”
Love and desire expressed in graffiti, street poetry and short poetic fragments outside of the book
« Je t’aime… mais en fragments »
L’amour et le désir exprimés en graffitis, poésie de rue et courts fragments de « poésie en dehors du livre »
Date: 10-11 March 2025 / 10-11 mars 2025
Location / lieu: Maison française d’Oxford, University of Oxford
Organized by / organisé par: Professor Ann Peeters (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Professor Patrick McGuinness (University of Oxford), Dr. Michael Rosenfeld (Vrije Universiteit Brussel - FWO Vlaanderen) & Rachele Gusella (Vrije Universiteit Brussel – FWO Vlaanderen)
Programme 10 March
11:00 – 12:30: Welcome and Lunch
12:30 - 12:45: Introduction
12:45 – 14:15: Panel I - Love and Desire in Unexpected Places
- Afaf Ettaib (Université Hassan II-Casablanca): « Je t’aime » dans le chant de la Aita : l’expression dépareillée
- Eleonora Baggio Compagnucci (Independent researcher, founder of Collettivo Sincronie): From the Stadium with Love. Mapping Fragments of Poetry in San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy: A Case Study
- Laura Castillo Bel (University of Cambridge): It’s Time for Revolution (and Love)! A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Latrinalia in Madrid's Public Universities.
14:15 – 14:45: Coffee Break
14:45 – 16:15: Panel II - Queer Poetic Desire
- Rebecca Boyd (St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford): “This is my body that is broken for you”: Renée Vivien, Sappho, & the Poetics of Fragmentation
- David Gullentops (Vrije Universiteit Brussel/Académie Royale Flamande de Belgique): La salle des mariages de Menton par Jean Cocteau. Fragments d’un serment amoureux alternatif.
- Michael Rosenfeld (FWO/Vrije Universiteit Brussel): “Vive les flics homosexuels”. Queer Graffiti and Latrinalia in Italy and in Paris 1890-1910
16:15 – 16:30: Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00: Panel III - The Poetics of Resistance
- Ugo Russo (Université Savoie Mont Blanc): « A(r)miamoci nei covi » : le désir politique dans les graffitis du Mouvement de 1977 à Bologne
- Jadwiga Bodzinska-Bobkowska (Université de Gdańsk): « Faites l’amour pas la guerre » ou le discours amoureux de mai ’68
- Arvi Sepp (Vrije Universiteit Brussel): The Materiality of Prison Writing during the Holocaust: The Poetics of Love Graffiti and Inscriptions as Lithic Life Writing
18:00 – 18:30: Poetic interlude with Célia Ballini, Slameuse
19:30 – 21:30: Dinner at St Anne’s College
Programme 11 March
9:00 –10:30: Panel IV - Different Kinds of Love and Poetry
- Kila van der Starre (Universiteit Utrecht): Candlelight’s Love Poems. The Meaning of Radio Poetry
- Foteini Thoma (Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier): L’amour qui se tisse par fragments : poèmes d’amour-graffitis
- Henning Hufnagel (University of Zurich/Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg): Fragments of Some Lovers’ Discourses. Pierre Louÿs, Marie de Heredia, Henri de Régnier et al
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30: Panel V - New Technologies of Love and Fragmentation
- Charlène Clonts (Kyushu University): Francophone Insta-Poetry: (Self-)Loving Female Bodies, Beyond Walls
- Corentin Lahouste (FNRS-UCLouvain/Musée royal de Mariemont): Des senryūs numériques d’Anne Archet : Mille gouttes opalines, pour un érotisme hypermédiatique protéiforme et émancipatoire Chiara Zampieri (Vrije Universiteit Brussel/KU Leuven): Weaving Words of Love. Numero Cromatico’s Exhibition Eternal Struggle of My Desire
12:30 – 14:00: Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:30: Panel VI - Where the Streets have no Name
- Denis Saint-Amand (FNRS-Université de Namur): Écritures sauvages du care
- Ann Peeters (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) & Rachele Gusella (FWO/Vrije Universiteit Brussel): “Love is in the air, everywhere I look around”: Love in European Street Poetry
- Patrick McGuinness (St Anne’s College, University of Oxford): Odilon-Jean Périer’s Imagined Graffiti
15:30 – 16:00: Conclusion and Goodbye
