2022, October 20-21 annual SEAC conference, University of Lorraine (Metz, France).
By Société d’Études Anglaises Contemporaines, Society of Contemporary British Studies
For SEAC, Sarah Gould and Diane Leblond coordinated an international conference : “Ways of Picturing, Thinking and Telling Our Time: Fifty Years of Seeing with John Berger”.
Most of these contributions have then been published in the publication n°65 of Études britanniques contemporaines (EBC). The issue was based on the work presented at the annual SEAC conference in 2022, but also comprises other material assembled during the editing process, among which a letter from John Berger himself in which he evokes the time he spent in Metz in 2002. Sarah Gould and Diane Leblond thank to Timothy Neat for sharing this piece of personal correspondence, and trusting them to include it in the publication, as well as to the Berger estate for agreeing to it. They also thank their colleagues at SEAC, especially to Vanessa Guignery for her unfailing support, to Jean-Michel Ganteau as editor, and to the entire team at EBC for their excellent work.
It is the first time in France that a journal publishes a monographic issue on Berger, and we are delighted that this work should become part of the history of EBC.
Table of contents:
Sarah Gould et Diane Leblond Fifty Years of Seeing with John Berger? Anniversaries and Un-niversaries
John Berger in Metz: Three Letters
John Berger A Letter to Timothy Neat, 22.06.2002
Olivier Cohen Pour saluer John Berger
Anne-Marie Carlier John Berger, un sésame
Articles
Maura Coughlin ‘“We do not live apart”: John Berger and the Radical Politics of Rural Life’ « Nous ne vivons pas séparés » : John Berger et le radicalisme de la vie rurale
Jean-Michel Ganteau King: A Street Story and the Ethics of AttentionKing: A Street Story ou l’éthique de l’attention en pratique
Riccardo Venturi An Encyclopedia of Silences. John Berger visite la grotte Chauvet An Encyclopedia of Silences: John Berger’s visit of the Chauvet Cave
Liliane Louvel How to Be Both: When Ali Smith Meets John Berger How to Be Both : Ali Smith rencontre John Berger
Diane Leblond Letters From A to X: An Ethics and Politics of Space A to X : Éthique et politique de l’espace
Working with John Berger: Testimonies
Michael Pinchbeck Leaving a Space to Listen: Working with John Berger on Another Way of Telling Laisse un espace d’écoute : collaborer avec John Berger sur Another Way of Telling
Flora Hibberd Inside The Message: Writing Songs After John Berger Inside the message : écrire des chansons après John Berger
Reviews
Anasthasia Castelbou Élise Brault-Dreux (dir.), L’Air du temps de 1922. Royaume-Uni et États-Unis au rythme d’une année Paris : Sorbonne Université Presse, 2022, 405 p.
Anne-Pascale Bruneau-Rumsey Mark Hussey (edited and introduced by), Selected Letters of Clive Bell: Art, Love and War in Bloomsbury Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2023, 248 p.
Paula Currás-Prada Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteau (eds), The Poetics and Ethics of (Un-)Grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction New York and London: Routledge, 2023, 229 p.
Marie Ruiz Valérie Morisson, Locating the Self, Welcoming the Other in British and Irish Art, 1990–2020 Bern: Peter Lang, 2022, 388 p.
