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Relational Forms II Ex certa scientia:

Literature, Science and the Arts – An International Conference

CETAPS Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies

Venue: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto

13-15 December 2012

Conference Programme

Thursday, 13 December 8.30 Registration 9.00 Opening Session │ Anfiteatro Nobre

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Thursday, 13 December Anfiteatro Nobre Sala de Reuniões DEAA Sala 201

Panel Sessions 1-4 Science Fiction on Screen Early Modern Psychology The Age of the Royal Society Narratives of Beauty and Connecting

9.30-11.00 Chair: Carlos Azevedo Justyna Galant (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin) Grotesque Science in Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro’s “The City of Lost Children” Katarzyna Pisarska (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin) From Science to Myth: The Hero Journey in James Cameron’s Avatar Jorge Bastos da Silva (Universidade do Porto) The Singularity is Here: Utopia, Science Fiction and Battlestar Galactica

Chair: Maria Teresa Castilho Kate De Rycker (TEEME, Universities of Kent and Porto) ‘Rather than not be Mistress of a World...I have made One of my own’: Margaret Cavendish and the Science of Self-Fashioning Sarath Chandra Jakka (TEEME, Universities of Kent and Porto) ‘As medicine of the mind’: Of Theatre as Therapy in Richard Brome’s The Antipodes Miguel Ramalhete Gomes (CETAPS/FLUP) The Early Modern Couch: Richard Brome’s The Antipodes as Freudian Material

Chair: Nuno Ribeiro Eugenio Enrique Cortés

Ramírez

(Universidad de Castilla – La

Mancha)

Knowledge Is Power. Sir Francis Bacon’s Theory of Idols’ Ideology as the Basis for a Cultural, Political & Ideological Revolution (1688) since the Creation of the Royal Society of London Cristina Carvalho (Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril) Charles II: Caught Between Tradition and Science Isabel Donas Botto (Universidade de Coimbra) Sir Christopher Wren, the Scientist Turned Architect

Chair: Jorge Almeida e Pinho Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim (University of Gdansk) A Beautiful Mind-Body Problem: Scientists in Contemporary Literature and Cinema Mashhad Al-Allaf (Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi) Isomorphic Beauty (Notes on the Epistemology of Beauty in Art, Science, and Religion) Makai Péter Kristóf (University of Szeged) The Paradox of Reading Autistic Fiction

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11.00 Break

Thursday, 13 December Anfiteatro Nobre Sala de Reuniões DEAA Sala 201

Panel Sessions 5-8 Seventeenth-Century Figures

Inscriptions of Disease Modes of Re-writing Ecocriticism and Nature Writing

11.15-12.45 Chair: Filomena Vasconcelos

Patricia Lawler (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul) The Leviathan’s Art and Science of the Figure

David Walton (University of Murcia) The Transgressive Space of Empirical Science. The Royal Society and the Cultural Significance of the Female Satirical Comic Type known as ‘the Virtuosa’

Chair: Joana Caetano

José Amador (Miami University) Colonial Circuits, Imperial Mirrors, and Disease Images: Puerto Rico’s Hookworm Campaign and the Tropicalization of the U.S. South

Teresa Casal (University of Lisbon) Writing and Reading: In Sickness as in Health?

Raúl Ianes (Miami University) Art, Fiction, and Medicine in William Henry Hudson’s Ralph Herne

Chair: Marta Azevedo

Alexandra Claudia Manta (Central European University, Budapest) Moral Styles of Science-Writing: Factual Aesthetics and Self-Judgment in Albrecht von Haller's De partibus corporis humani sensilibus et irritabilibus

Jorge Almeida e Pinho (ISAG, Porto; CETAPS) The Translation of Silence: The Interdisciplinary nature of A Book of Silence and its Implications for Translation

Diana Almeida (University of Lisbon) ‘Because I didn’t know enough’: Elizabeth Bishop’s Revision of Robinson Crusoe

Chair: Helena Lopes

Jamal Assadi (The College of Sakhnin for Teacher Education, Sakhnin and An-Najah National University, Nablus) Naturalizing the Cultural and Culturalizing the Natural: The Convergence of Poles in Saul Bellow's Ravelstein.

Philip Mosley (Penn State University) Maurice Maeterlinck and the Nature Essay

Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves (Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro) ‘The wild breath of the forest, fragrant with bark and berry’: Signs of Nature’s History in Susan Fennimore Cooper’s Rural Hours

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12.45 Break

14.30 Plenary Session │ Anfiteatro Nobre Bernhard Klein (University of Kent) "Marginal Figures. Othello, Oroonoko, and the Mapping of Africa" Chair: Jorge Bastos da Silva

15.30 Break

Thursday, 13 December

Anfiteatro Nobre Sala de Reuniões DEAA Sala 201

Panel Sessions 9-12 Science and Culture in Britain I (20th century)

Science Fiction, Utopia and Dystopia

Language in Advertising and Academic Writing

Deciphering and Fascination: Early modern to postmodern

15.45-17.15

Chair: Gabriela Gândara Terenas

Aline Ferreira (Universidade de Aveiro) The Fantasy of Ectogenesis in Interwar Britain: Texts and Contexts Maria do Rosário Lupi Bello (Universidade Aberta) Identity and Ethics in Science-Fiction Movies: the Importance of Memory and Dreams

Chair: Isabel M.ª Fernandes Alves

Marta Komsta (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin) Jacob’s Ladder, or Non-disclosure Physics in Jacek Dukaj’s The Plunderer’s Daughter

Ildney Cavalcanti and Joan Haran (Cardiff University) Eugenics and Genetic Mutation: Revisiting Essentialism in

Chair: Ana Luísa Amaral Karen Bennett (CEAUL, University of Lisbon) Plain English: the Myth of Linguistic Realism and its Consequences for Globalization Marisa Diez-Arroyo (University of Oviedo) Scientific Language in Skin-Care Advertising: Use and Abuse

Chair: Kate De Rycker Milagros Torrado-Cespón (Universidad Internacional de La Rioja) Fascinating Shakespeare: an Analysis of Evil Eye References in some of Shakespeare’s Works Monika Keska (University of Granada) and David Martín López (IHA- Universidade Nova de Lisboa, University of

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17.15 Break

Thursday, 13 December 15.45-17.15 (cont.)

Margaret Atwood´s “Freeforall” and Octavia E. Butler´s “The evening and the morning and the night”

Andrzej Kowalczyk (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin) An Ironic Representation of Science in Marcin Wolski’s Laboratory No 8

Jessica Sands (Cornell University) The Politics of Global English Discourse: Expectations and Implications in American Scientific Academic Writing

Granada) The Reinterpretation of Natural Sciences in the Work of Matthew Barney

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Thursday, 13 December

Anfiteatro Nobre Sala de Reuniões DEAA

Panel Sessions 13-15 Science and Culture in Britain II (19th century)

Environment and Identity Postmodern Times

17.30-19.30

Chair: Mª Rosário Lupi Bello

Ana Rita Padeira (Universidade Aberta) Antecipating Freud: the Importance of Self-Consciousness in Uma Família Inglesa and in Some Other Novels by Júlio Dinis

Gabriela Gândara Terenas (Univ. Nova de Lisboa) Jane Marcet and the Popularization of Science in Britain Sara Vicente (Univ. Nova de Lisboa) Visual Darwinism Caged in the Exoticism of Natural Theology: Echoes of Victorian Ornithology in Jane Eyre

Chair: Gonçalo Vilas-Boas

Adrian Rainbow (University of Zürich) Ecoliteracy and Consilience: Bridging Science and the Humanities Eduardo Barros Grela (Universidade da Coruña) Spatial Representations and Cultural Performances of Ecocriticism Charles Pigott (University of London) Reciprocity, Survival and Identity in Andean Songs Sílvia Maria Guerra Anastácio (Federal University of Bahia) A Safe Haven for Elizabeth Bishop

Chair: Elena Galvão

Belén Piqueras (Univ. Autónoma de Madrid) The Conflicting Confluence of Subject and Object in Postmodern Societies: A Literary Approach

Ana Rull Suárez (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) Scientific Expression in Thomas Pynchon’s Work María Concepción Brito Vera (University of La Laguna) A Cosmology of Three: the Role of Science in the Literary Works of Singaporean Author Catherine Lim

Rupsa Banerjee (The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad) The Rhetoric of Science and the Rhapsody of Bodily Perspective: A Study of J. H. Prynne’s Poetry

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Friday, 14 December

Friday, 14 December Anfiteatro Nobre DEAA Sala 201 Sala 203

Panel Sessions 16-19 Innovation, Creation, Cognition Ireland, Science and Narrative Eighteenth-Century Vistas Poetic Science

9.30-11.30

Chair: Laura Bulger

Giuli Liebman Parrinello (Università “Roma Tre”) Who Wrote the Article?

Katarzyna Kaczmarczyk (University of Warsaw) Can Neuroscience tell Anything New about our Encounters with Art (?) or The Aesthetic Experience Revised Eirini Papadaki (Technological Institute of Epirus) Making a Work of Art: a Step towards Knowledge. The Case Study of Mihalis Papadakis’ “The Girl with the Mirror” Teresa Botelho (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) The Idea is the Thing: Science Plays after Copenhagen

Chair: Teresa Casal Márcia Lemos (Universidade do Porto) ‘As Jambudvispa Vipra Foresaw of Him’: Finnegans Wake Or How Vico’s ‘Dark Night’ Became Joyce’s ‘Nightynovel’ Marta Azevedo (Universidade do Porto) The Scientist as Artist: John Banville’s Doctor Copernicus and the Influence of Wallace Stevens Zuzanna Sanches (ULICES – University of Lisbon) Science of Literature: Making of the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Volumes IV and V

Chair: Isabel Donas Botto

Daniel Essig García (Univ. Autónoma de Madrid) Readers of Tears and Nerves: From the Plague to Richardson

Paula Rama da Silva (Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies) William Hogarth’s 18th-Century Interdisciplinarity: Glimpses of the many Arts in the Art of Engraving

Wojciech Nowicki (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin) The Mad Scientist in Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Chair: Sofia de Melo Araújo

Maryam Serajiantehrani (University of Cambridge) Science vs. Romantic Sepehri or Sepehri and Romantic Science? Perplexities of Science in Sohrab Sepehri's Poetry

Joana Rodrigues E. Oliveira (Universidade do Porto) Science and Imagination in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry

Amir Brito Cadôr (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) Poetic Science and Artists’ Books

Mª Luz González Rodríguez (University of La Laguna) Cosmology and Ritualistic Dance in Gwendolyn MacEwen’s Poetry

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Friday, 14 December (cont.) 11.30 Break 11.45 Plenary Session │ Anfiteatro Nobre George Rousseau (University of Oxford) "Getting Connected: Networks, Narratives, and Neuromania in the 21st Century" Chair: Rui Carvalho Homem 12.45 Break 14.30 Plenary Session │ Anfiteatro Nobre Maria Leonor Machado de Sousa (Professor Emerita, Universidade Nova de Lisboa) "English Surgery and Portugal" Chair: Gualter Cunha 15.30 Break

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17.15 Break

Friday, 14 December Anfiteatro Nobre DEAA Sala 201 Sala 203

Panel Sessions 20-23 Psychology and Madness Comics and Graphic Art Theatre, Science and Community

Narrative, Science and Education: Augustan to Victorian

15.45-17.15 Chair: Zuzanna Sanches Camila Mello (State University of Rio de Janeiro) Gothic Literature in Brazil: Science and Madness in a Short Story by Lília A. Pereira da Silva Ricardo Rato Rodrigues (University of Nottingham) Speaking with Angels: Hell and Madness in António Lobo Antunes “Conhecimento do Inferno” Laura Bulger (UTAD) Hanif Kureishi’s Something to Tell You, a Hip Shrink’s own Case History

Chair: Inês Botelho Chantal Herskovic (Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte – UNI-BH) Intermediality in the Work of the Graphic Artist Dave McKean

Akemi Ishihara Alessi (Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte - UNI/BH) and Marcos da Silva Araújo (Associação Educativa do Brasil Soebrás) Analysis of Adaptation of the Book Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis to Comic Strip

Chair: Inês Evangelista Marques Mohammad Reza Mohseni and Mahboubeh Fahimkalam (Islamic Azad University) Street theater, a Reflection of Social Matters Angelita Cristiane Candido (Univ. Federal da Bahia) Experience and Emotional Expression: A Neuroscientific Approach to the Paths of Emotion - Feeling, Conscience and Scenic Action in Stanislavski’s Methods

Chair: Zulmira Castanheira Mihaela Irimia (University of Bucarest) The Arts Meet the Sciences in Exploring the Continent: Some Grand Tour Imagology Ana Santandreu Aranda (Universitat de les Illes Balears) Transgender Virus: From Male Contagion to Female Immunization in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man Maria Cândida Zamith Silva (Universidade do Porto) William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites

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Friday, 14 December Anfiteatro Nobre DEAA Sala 201

Panel Sessions 24-26

Museums and the Art of Collecting Vision and Wonder Murdoch and Woolf: Identity and Otherness

17.30-19.30

Chair: Maria Leonor Machado de Sousa Julie Boivin (University of Toronto) The Curious Case of Rococo Objects: Between Frivolous Volupté and Scientific Exploration Alda Rodrigues (University of Lisbon) The Collector at Home Anunciación Carrera de la Red (Universidad de Valladolid) The Obscure Thrill of Discovery, Illustrated by a Case of the Society of Antiquaries of London, c. 1761 Ana Mehnert Pascoal (University of Lisbon) Science as a Symbol of Royal Power: Representations of Science in Portuguese Royal Palaces

Chair: Nuno Ferreira Artur Blaim (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin) “[The rest was not perfected.]” Magic, Proto-Science and Science in Early Modern Utopian Fiction Júlio Alessi (Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte, UNI/BH) Analysis of an Intermedial Film: Prospero’s Books with respect to Painting Cristina Susigan (Universidade do Minho) The Meeting of the Arts with Science – The Geographer and The Astronomer by Johannes Vermeer Anna Markowska (University of Wroclaw, Poland) Seeing Plagued with Perplexities. On some Paintings from Portugal

Chair: M. Cândida Zamith Silva Maria Aparecida de Oliveira (State University of São Paulo) Virginia Woolf and Clarice Lispector’s Perception on The Modern Writer’s Mind Maria de Deus Duarte (CETAPS, FCSH-UNL) 'What a wonderful piece of work is a woman!': Orlando and The Enigma of the Sexes Sofia de Melo Araújo (Universidade do Porto) A ‘Philosophical Myth’ – Jean-Paul Sartre, Iris Murdoch, Art and Ethics

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Saturday, 15 December

Saturday, 15 December Anfiteatro Nobre Sala 201 Sala 203

Panel Sessions 27-29 Cognition and Representation Academia: Early Modern to Postmodern Science and Culture in the Public Sphere

9.30-11.30

Chair: Fátima Vieira

Char Roone Miller (George Mason University) Observed by All the World: Money and Visibility in Adam Smith Mateusz Marecki (University of Wroclaw) Between the Cognitive and the Poetic: The ‘Scientification’ of Literary Studies in Cognitive Poetics Dolors Collellmir Morales (University Rovira i Virgili) Accommodating Differences: Mythical Wisdom in a Quantum World Pedro Lopes de Almeida and Inês Evangelista Marques (Universidade do Porto) ‘No man can put all the world in a book’: On the Concept of Scientific Representation in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian

Chair: Sarath Chandra Jakka

Denis Poniž (University of Ljubljana) Janez Vajkard Valvasor (Johann Weichard von Valvasor), First Slovene and One of the Earliest Foreign Fellows of the Royal Society

Joanna Kokot (Univ. of Warmia and Mazury) ‘A Certain Doctor Thorndyke’: R. Austin Freeman’s Detective Stories and Forensic Science at the Beginning of the 20th Century Alexandra Cheira (University of Lisbon) Science Imparted by Literature: a Meeting of ‘the two cultures’ in A. S. Byatt’s Fiction Elżbieta Perkowska-Gawlik (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin) Crime, Literature and Science in the Academic Mystery Novel

Chair: Tiago Garcia José Carlos del Ama and Ismael López Medel (Central Connecticut State University) Visual Popular Culture and Political Power David E. Griffiths (Universidad de Cantabria) Dr W.H.R. Rivers and Dr Lewis Yealland: the Literary Representation of Scientific Discourse in the Deployment of Power Daniel Pawley (Azusa Pacific University) Situating Fandom in the Global Interdisciplinary Conversation Katarzyna Jarosz (Warsaw University) Archaeology and Popular Culture

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Saturday, 15 December (cont.) 11.30 Break 11.45 Plenary Session │ Anfiteatro Nobre Hélia Correia (Novelist, Lisbon) – a talk and a reading «O Corpo dentro de Água» │ «The Body in the Water» Chairs: Miguel Ramalhete Gomes and Márcia Lemos 12.45 Closing Remarks │ Anfiteatro Nobre