Opening Remarks / Introduction

Anne-Rachel Hermetet (Université d'Angers)

Nora Pleßke (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg)

Keynote Lecture

Water as Living Heritage: From the Orisha Oshun to Contemporary River Rights
Christina Horvath (Bath University)

Panel 1: Language, Songs & Cultural Mediation

(Ra)Conter la Loire. Rhétoriques fluviales et anastomoses écolinguistiques en milieu ligérien
Anatole Danto (Tartu Ülikool)
The Euphrates as a Cultural Generator: Readings through Songs and Myths
Hanan Alahmad (Magdeburg)
Le voci dei fiumi nelle opere di Giuseppe Verdi
Ivonne Begotti (Université Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis)

Panel 2: Scottish Waters

Arteries of Imagination: Examples of Writing with Rivers in Anglophone Literatures from the 19th Century to the Present
Gioia Angeletti & Lucia Scaringella (Università degli Studi di Parma)
Scotland Submerged: Interrupted Rivers and Flooded Glens
Emily Alder (Edinburgh Napier University)
River of Stories: Confluence, Empire, and Literary Memory between India and Scotland
Arunima Bhattacharya (Edinburgh Napier University)

Panel 3: Conversation

Se mouiller avec Nos RIVIÈRES: étude d‘un projet chorégraphique au fil de l‘eau
Caroline Granger & Flora Pilet (Université de Caen Normandie)

Evening Reading at the Maine

Location TBA

Drinks at the Maine Bank

Location TBA

Boat Trip Round the Loire

Loire Odyssée, Port Saint-Maur, 49250 La Ménitré

Lunch Break

Location TBA

Film Screening at the Loire

Inondations à Chalonnes

Geopoetic Walk

Isabelle Trivisani-Moreau, Cristiana Oghina-Pavie, Nuscia TaÏbi

Panel 4: Contemporary Writing

Thinking with Rivers: Confluence, Community, and Trespass in Contemporary British Nature
Writing
Dan Gander (University of Leeds)
“There’s Nobody Home”: Rivers of London and the Limits of Reading Fantasy Ecocritically
Carsten Kullmann (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg)
Bitter Waters – The River Mulde as a Chronotope of Depression in Bernd Wagner’s Die Sintflut von Sachsen, Daniela Krien’s Muldental and Tina Pruschmann’s Bittere Wasser
Max Jokschus (Duale Hochschule Sachsen)

Panel 5: Education & Ethics

Learning from Rivers: Rights of Nature and the Porous Limits of the Personhood
Marina Sportelli (Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès)
Water is Life: Environmental and Experiential Education at University
Maja Antonietti & Elena Nardiello (Università degli Studi di Parma)
Rivers in the Age of the Anthropocene: How Water Crises Emerge and How Societies Can Confront Them
Alessio Malcevschi (Università degli Studi di Parma)

Panel 6: Cinema

The Lost Language of the Rivers
Vítor dos Santos Gomes (Universidade de Évora)
Tales of the Great Rivers: A Cinematic Comparison of the Po and Mississippi
Carlo Ugolotti (Università degli Studi di Parma)

Film Screening (optional)

Film TBA