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)

Evening Reading at the Maine

Frei and Irtysch

Karsten Steinmetz (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg)

The Stones Themselves

Simon Bracken (Independent Writer & Researcher)

Drinks at the Maine Bank or

Discussion with Emmanuel Ruben about his Book Sur la route de la Loire

Librairie Lhériau, 10 Pl. de la Visitation, Angers

Dinner

Restaurant L‘Ardoise (7 Pl. Molière, 49100 Angers)

Geopoetic Walk

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

Boat Trip Round the Loire

Loire Odyssée, Port Saint-Maur, 49250 La Ménitré

Lunch Break

Restaurant Reflets de Loire (2 Pl. du Port Charles Sigogne, 49250 Loire-Authion)

Film Screening and Discussion

L‘île de Chalonnes-sur-Loire: entre enjeu et identité
with the director, Maëlle Boisteau
Loire Odyssée, La Maison de Loire en Anjou, Saint-Mathurin

Conversation

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

Atelier
Bodies in Convergence: Somatic Practices and Landscape Interpretation on the Banks of the Loire
Compagnie Noesis, Saint-Mathurin

Panel 4: Contemporary Writing

On the Roads of the Danube
Isabelle Trivisani-Moreau (Université d'Angers)
“There’s Nobody Home”: Rivers of London and the Limits of Reading Fantasy Ecocritically
Carsten Kullmann (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg)
How Do Odra Rivers Speak? A Variety of Ideas for Listening to the River’s Voice
Joanna Wyrwa (Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy we Wrocławiu)

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

Keɗoɗaa maayo / Listen to the River
Frank Guillemain and Marie Lorin: the Voice of the Senegal River