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Friday March 13 – Institut Historique Allemand (8, rue du Parc Royal, Paris 3e)

10:00 Meet and greet

10:20 Opening words by Professor Doktor Klaus OSCHEMA, director of the DHIP/Institut Historique Allemand, and Professor Wilfrid ROTGÉ (CÉMA, Sorbonne Université)

10:40-11:25 Keynote 
Professor Francis LENEGHAN (St Cross College, University of Oxford)
Beowulf: A Text Without Context?
Chair: Louise SIMONGIOVANNI (CÉMA & ASU-GHI, Sorbonne Université) 

Session 1 – Beowulf, medievalism and ideologies
Chair: Remon BADAN (CÉMA, Sorbonne Université)

14:00-14:20 Suzanne KLARE (Leiden University)
Names Resounding in Glorious Song: Philip Blommaert’s ‘Biewolf’s dood’ (1848) and the Nineteenth-century Flemish Movement

14:25-14:45 Dr Simon HELLER (University of Oxford)
From westen to Western : Visions of the American West Through  Beowulf

14:50-15:10 Tristan LE FOLL (Université de Rennes 2)
‘Hwæt, hark, bro’: Hypotextual Tensions and Ambiguous Circulating Motions in Contemporary American Adaptations of Beowulf

Session 2 – Beowulf, circulations and migrations
Chair: Dr Olivier SZERWINIACK (TrAme, UPJV Amiens)

15:45-16:05 Dr Arnaud LESTREMAU (ArScAn-Thémam, Université Paris Nanterre)
Passer les frontières dans Beowulf : un imaginaire administrativo-poétique

16:.10-16:30 Dr Erica WEAVER (UCLA)
Refugee Beowulf

Friday March 13 – Sorbonne, Amphithéâtre Michelet (46 rue Saint Jacques, Paris 5e)

19:00 A public reading of Beowulf
Directed by Julie VATAIN-CORFDIR and accompanied by Livia PHOEBE 

Saturday March 14 – Sorbonne, Salle des Actes (17 rue de la Sorbonne, Paris 5e)

9:15 Morning coffee

9:45-10:30 Keynote
Professor Irina DUMITRESCU (Universität Bonn)
‘Beowulf, she wrote’
Chair: Julia PINEAU (CÉMA, Sorbonne Université)

Session 3 – Beowulf, thematic circulations and analogues
Chair: Dr Pierre-Brice STAHL (REIGENN, Sorbonne Université)

11:00-11:20 Danielle MULLER (Clare Hall, University of Cambridge)
Monster Mother: A Scandinavian Analogue for Grendel’s Mother

11:25-11:45 Prof. Paul ACKER (Saint Louis University)
The Beowulf Dragon in Context

Session 4 – Translating Beowulf in romance languages
Chair: Prof. Catherine DELESSE (Université de Nancy)

14:30-14:50 Prof. Alban GAUTIER (Université de Caen Normandie)
Beowulf en français :  un héros anglo-saxon dans la culture francophone, de la fin du XIX^e siècle à nos jours

14:55-15:15 Dr Angélica VARANDAS and Dr Luísa AZUAGA (School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon / ULICES)
Translating Beowulf in Portugal: Problems and Perspectives

Session 5 – Beowulf, a Book of Kings?
Chair: Prof. Leo CARRUTHERS (CÉMA, Sorbonne Université)

16:00-16:20 Dr Rachel BURNS (Hertford College, University of Oxford)
Who has Heard of the Spear-Danes? Audience and Knowledge in Fitt I of Beowulf

16:25-16:45 Prof. Adrian PAPAHAGI (University of Cluj, Romania)
Beowulf and The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle

16:50-17:10 Dr Chris VINSONHALER (The City University of New York)
Hrothgar’s Hidden Crime: Dynastic Guilt in the Danish Court