Fri
May 9
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8:00 PM
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Rusty Pelican - dinner
2425 Rocky Point Dr.
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Sat
May 10
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Show and Tells may be held by various people
throughout the day, until the business meeting starts.
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9:00 AM
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Opening remarks
- Jean-Michel Margot
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9:15 AM
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Verne as viewed by his contemporaries
- Jean-Michel Margot
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9:45 AM
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Verne and Frank R. Stockton (a novel comparision)
- Jean-Michel Margot
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10:15 AM
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Break
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10:30 AM
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Des leçons d’abîme: Translation and textual
relays of Voyage au centre de la terre
- Terry Harpold
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11:00 AM
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Was Verne really anti-feminist? Or just schizoid?
New evidence in The Mighty Orinoco
- Walter James Miller
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11:30 AM
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Book discussion: The Mighty Orinoco (the first
English translation of Le Superbe Orénoque)
- Dennis Kytasaari and everyone present!
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12:00 PM
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Lunch (nearby restaurant TBD)
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1:30 PM
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Verne, Doyle and vanishing diamonds
- Rick Walter
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1:50 PM
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Jules Verne’s prototype of A.C. Doyle’s Professor Moriarty
- David McCallister
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2:10 PM
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The case of Jules Verne and the implications for adaptation studies
- Brian Taves
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2:45 PM
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Break
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3:00 PM
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Business meeting begins
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6:00 PM
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Adjournment
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8:00 PM
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Dinner (nearby restaurant TBD)
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Sun
May 11
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9:00 AM
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Conclude any unfinished business and journey
to nearby JV sites and Salvador Dalí
museum for those who are interested.
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