Then we celebrated the end of the day with a conference dinner on Place Stanislas! (3/3)

Professor Laurent Mellet then wrapped up the conference with some final thoughts for reflection, encouraging everyone to think of how we study, read and teach Forster today... (2/3)

Which Valentine Lacoste then concluded with an unearthing of Forster's contributions to 'Wine and Food' magazine (3/3).

This was followed by Anasthasia Castelbou's paper on the moral, political and stylistic value of anecdote in Forster's writings... (2/3)

Before Charlotte Mion (ENS-PSL/Sorbonne) deconstructed and illuminated Forster's use of colour in 'Where Angels Fear to Tread' and 'A Room with a View' (3/3)

Then, Yuri Ochi (from Keio University) applied Foucault to 'A Passage to India', and made the case for the Marabar Caves to be considered heterotopian spaces... (2/3)

Then, Claire Monk dissected both William di Canzio's 'Alec' (2021) and Bethan Roberts' 'My Policeman' (2012) through the lens of corporate publishing practices (3/3).

IEMFS Chair Krzysztof Fordonski @forster1970.bsky.social discussed the effectiveness of Kevin Kwan's 'Sex and Vanity' (2020) as an update of 'A Room with a View'... (2/3)