Schedule for the Day
- 9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.: Welcome: 11 Place Marcelin-Berthelot, 75005 Paris, Marguerite de Navarre Lecture Hall
- 9:25 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.: Introductory remarks by William Marx (Collège de France)
- 9:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.: Keynote lecture by Benoît Peeters (scriptwriter, author): The Adventures of the “Ligne Claire” Style
Hergé’s Legacy in Contemporary
Comics Roundtable Discussion. Moderator: Pierre MARLET
- 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: Featuring Benoît Peeters and artists Blutch, Exem, and Olivier Schwartz
- 12:00 PM – 12:15 PM: Questions from the audience and discussion
- 12:15 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.: Lunch on your own
Criticism and Exegesis
Session Chair: Jacques LANGLOIS
- 2:00 PM – 2:05 PM: Introduction
- 2:05 PM – 2:25 PM: Chimène DUPUIS (University of Minnesota): Colonial Paternalism Put to the Test of Time: A Critical and Comparative Reading of *Tintin in the Congo* (1931) and *Madame Livingston* (2014)
- 2:25 PM – 2:45 PM: Michel PORRET (University of Geneva): “May God Have His Soul!” Images and the Imaginary of Death in the Tintin Saga
- 2:45 p.m. – 3:05 p.m.: Bertrand PORTEVIN (M.D., author): Hergé, a Well-Read Young Man
- 3:05 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.: Questions from the audience and discussion
- 3:30 – 3:45 p.m.: Break
- 3:45 p.m. – 4:05 p.m.: Jean Luc ROBIN (University of Alabama): Flirting with the Apocalypse. The Dramaturgy of the Off-Screen in The Calculus Affair
- 4:05 PM – 4:25 PM: Frédéric SAENEN (University of Liège): What Is *Tintin, My Friend*?
- 4:25 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.: Questions from the audience and discussion