Programme of Events

2011-2012

Unless Otherwise stated, CRPLA seminars take place on Tuesdays, 5.30-7.00pm in room S 0.11 (Ground Floor, Social Studies). All Welcome.

 

Term 1

 

11th October 2011 Andrew Milner (Monash): Landmarks without Landscapes: Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art

http://arts.monash.edu.au/ecps/people/andrew-milner/


25th October 2011 Gerald Moore (Oxford): Embers of the Sumblime: Sacrifice and the Ressurection of the Sensible (Or: Nancy, Stiegler and 'the feeling of being alive')

 

22nd November 2011 Fabian Dorsch (Fribourg)

http://www.ideengeschichten.de/

 

6th December 2011 Christine Achinger (Warwick): Making the World Readable: Realism and Antisemitism in Gustav Freytag's Debit and Credit

 

Term 2

 

17th January 2012 Hector Kollias (KCL) Shameless: Jouhandeau and Genet, Two French Perverts between Abjection and Sublimation

 

31st January 2012 Andrew Bennett (Bristol) Inside David Foster Wallace’s Head: Boredom, Paradox and Suicide

 

28th February 2012 Richard Stamp (Bath Spa) Jacques Rancière's animated Vertigo: or, how to be specific about medium

 

13th March 2012 Paul Bishop (Glasgow) Orpheus redivivus? The late Goethe between Neoplatonic Mysticism and Existential Therapy

http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/mlc/staff/paulbishop/

 

TERM 3

 

TBC