Elizabeth Gaskell Conference
Université Paris Cité, Echelles
April 3 and 4, 2025
Bâtiment Sophie Germain, salle 0011
Programme of Events
Thursday 3 April
9.00-9.15 Welcome Address
9.15-10.00 ‘A bespoke Gaskell? French and German serialisations of Mary Barton
Philip Morey (Manchester Metropolitan University)
10.00- 10.40 ‘Gaskell’s Travel in China: Translation and Reception’
Lisu Wang (University of Leicester
10.40-11.05 Break
11.05-11.45 ‘Speed, Serialization, and Social Commentary: The influence of the railway on Elizabeth Gaskell’s periodical works’
Emilie Caugant (Université Bretagne sud, Lorient)
11.45-12.15 Q&A
12.15-13.45 Lunch
13.45-14.25 ‘Invisible spaces in Elizabeth Gaskell’s industrial novels
Mary Barton (1848) & North and South (1854-55)’
Marie-Gaëlle DROUET (Université Aix-Marseille)
14.25-15.05 ‘“I’d rather say nought about that…”; Chartist Silences in Mary Barton’
Michael Sanders (University of Manchester)
15.05-15.35 North and South: Gaskell and the Preston strike
Robert Poole (University of Central Lancashire)
15.40-16.10 Break
16.10-16.50 The Value of a Woman’s Voice: Elizabeth Gaskell and Gossip
Elizabeth Williams (Gaskell Society)
16.50-17.15 Q&A
Friday 4 April
9.00-9.40 Elizabeth Gaskell’s revolutionary language: replacing the father’s language by a motherly tongue in “Lizzie Leigh”
Aude Petit Marquis (Université de Nantes)
9.40-10.20 Gaskell, Maternity and Time
Josie Billington (University of Liverpool)
10.20-10.45 Break
10.45-11.25 Modelling God the Father: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Failed Fathers
Carolyn Lambert (Independent Scholar)
11.25-12.05 Elizabeth Gaskell: Authority and Rebellion
Shirley Foster (University of Sheffield, President of the Gaskell Society)
12.05-12.30 Q&A
12.30-13.45 Lunch
13.45-14.25 The Community as an Instrument of Abuse in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Fiction
Kathleen Gentle (Anglia Ruskin University)
14.25-15.05 Cranford and Elizabeth Gaskell’s abiding Amazonians.
Sara Zadrozny (University of Oxford Department of Education)
15.05-15.30 Break
15.30-16.10 The Voices of Elizabeth Gaskell
Joanne Shattock (University of Leicester)
16.10-17.00 “The Working of her Curse”: the Power of the Spoken Word in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Tales (Round the Sofa)
Nathalie Saudo-Welby (Université de Picardie, Amiens)
17.00-17.30 Q&A
17.30 Closing Remarks
