Friday Nov. 8, A.M. (9:00-12:30)
- Workshop 1 The Exploitation Issue
Chair : Pierre Lagayette (Univ. de Paris IV)
Malcolm ROHRBOUGH (University of Iowa) American and French Forty-Niners: Reactions to the California Landscape, 1848-1854.
William FARR (University of Montana) Blackfeet Indians and the Great Northern Railroad.
Kathleen BROSNAN (Univ. of Tennessee) California Wine: Dixie Cups and Sustainable Agriculture in a Consumer Society.
Andrew MOSS (Cal Poly, Pomona) Nature, Community, Citizenship: Thematic Continuities in Corporate Discursive Practices.

Friday 8, P.M. (2:30-6:00) Amphithéâtre Liard & Salle des Actes
- Workshop 2 (Liard) Of Nature, Progress & Myths
Chair : Jean-Robert Rougé (Univ. de Paris IV)
Allan PHILLIPSON (Wales) Landscape Myths in New Zealand: From Pastoral Paradise to Middle Earth.
Valérie WERNET (Univ. de Strasbourg) De la sacralisation de la Nature à la naissance de l’écologie chez Bernardin de Saint-Pierre.
Eric MCGUCKIN (Sonoma State Univ.) The Dogs of Gankyi: Tibetans, Environmentalism, and New Age Alienation.
Elsa BISHOP (Univ. de Lyon 2) The Relevancy of the Nature/Progress Opposition in the New Age.

- Workshop 3 (Actes) The Lessons of Place
Chair : Jean-Claude Redonnet (Univ. de Paris IV)
Philippe FORET (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) Depicting the Landscape of Progress that Brought Asia and Europe Together: Postcards from Praia Grande, Macau.
Anne PRZEWOZNY (Univ. de Paris 4) A linguistic perspective of the contact between Civilization and Nature : some Australian interactions and developments.
Pascale SMORAG (Univ. de Besançon) Promoting Nature and Real Estate Development : How Toponyms Can Tell The Story.
Ludivine ROYER (Univ. de Paris 4) Consulting Aborigines on environmental questions in Australia : the politics of nature and the nature of politics.
Amy CLARY (Univ. of Louisiana, Lafayette) Claiming Alaska: Legislation and Differend on the Last Frontier.

Saturday Nov. 9, A.M. (9:00-12:30) Amphithéâtre Liard + Amphithéâtre Guizot
- Plenary Lecture (Liard) Ian TYRRELL (University of New South Wales, Sydney)

- Workshop 4(Liard) Defending and Reclaiming Nature
Chair : André Kaspi (Univ. de Paris I)
Paul LINDHOLDT (Eastern Wahington Univ.) The Iconography of Sabotage.
Lee ROZELLE (Louisiana SU) The (Eco)Terrors of Progress: Edward Abbey, the Unabomber Manifesto, and Earth First!
Olivier DELBARD (ESCP-EAP, Paris) The U.S. Deep Ecology Movement: Ecocentrism, Conservation and Progress.
Elizabeth RAYMOND & Peter GOIN (Univ. of Nevada, Reno) Dangers and Dilemmas of the “Natural” : Mining’s Paradoxical Legacies in the American Landscape.

- Workshop 5 (Guizot) Ecology and Progress: Discourses & Representations
Chair : Alain Suberchicot (Univ. de Lyon 3)
Catrin GERSDORF (Univ. of Leipzig) Progress in the Desert Writing of Joseph Woods Krutch and Gary Paul Nabhan.
James TROMBLEY (Univ. de La Rochelle) On Saving the Cougars of Cappucino County : the (Not-so-opposed) Legacies of Wallace Stegner and Edward Abbey.
Alain SUBERCHICOT (Univ. de Lyon 3) Ecriture d'environnement et progrès écologique chez Rick Bass.
Mike LAND (Assumption College) Wilderness Without and Within: How Contrasting American Conceptions of Nature Shape Grand Canyon and American Beauty.

Saturday 9, P.M. (2:30-6:00)

- Workshop 6 Amphithéâtre Liard + Amphithéâtre Guizot Handling the Wilderness : Conservation and Restoration
Chair : Ian Tyrrell (Univ. of New South Wales)
Lance NEWMAN (California SU, San Marcos) Shooting the Rapids with Margaret Fuller in 1843.
Jen HUNTLEY-SMITH (Univ. of Nevada) Making a Scene: Nature and Progress in Yosemite Valley.
François DUBAN (Univ. de la Réunion) The Management of National Forests in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska : A Wavering Ecological Conscience.
Alan McQUILLAN (Univ. of Montana) Forest Restoration by Fire: Kantian Aesthetics and the Question of Scale in the Manipulation of Nature.

- Workshop 7 (Guizot) Towards an Epistemology of Nature & Progress
Chair : Malcolm Rohrbough (Univ. of Iowa)
Wendy WHEELER (London Metropolitan University) A Complex Revolution: Nature, Culture and Science in the 21st Century.
Mary FLANAGAN (Univ. of Oregon) The Nature of Networks: Space and Place in the “Silicon Forest”.
Serge PAUL (Univ. de Bordeaux 3) Nostalgia for the Past / Nostalgia for the Future: The Two Natures of Land Art.
Megan McSHANE (Emory University) Art, Ecology and Consumer Society: Case Studies in Commodification.