Schedule for the Day
- 9:00 a.m. – 9:25 a.m. Welcome and coffee (11 Place Marcelin-Berthelot, 75005 Paris, Marguerite de Navarre Auditorium)
- 9:25 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Introductory remarks by Thomas RÖMER (Chairman of the Collège de France, subject to confirmation), Florence Berthout (Mayor of the 5th arrondissement, subject to confirmation), and William MARX (Collège de France)
- 9:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Inaugural lecture by Benoît PEETERS (screenwriter, writer): The Adventures of the “Ligne Claire”
Hergé’s Legacy in Contemporary
Comics Roundtable discussion. Moderator: Pierre MARLET
- 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Featuring Benoît PEETERS and the artists BLUTCH, EXEM, and Olivier SCHWARTZ
- 12:00 p.m. – 12:15 p.m. Questions from the audience and discussion
- 12:15 PM – 2:00 PM Lunch on your own
Criticism and Exegesis
Session Chair: Jacques LANGLOIS
- 2:00 PM – 2:05 PM Introduction
- 2:05 p.m. – 2:25 p.m. 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 p.m. – 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 PM – 5:00 PM Questions from the audience and discussion