Research Seminars 2009-10
Print versionInterdisciplinary Research Seminar in French Studies
For this session the departmental research seminars will feature presentations by staff, students and external speakers on a variety of questions generated by the topic of 'Forms/Frames of Knowledge'.
The following may be considered as prompts for reflection only and should not be taken to constrain any potential topics, which can be focused on literature or non-literary material: What kinds of desires for knowledge are put in play by literary texts? What forms of knowledge fall outside the purview of literature? Or indeed textual culture? How can works of literature, poetic, fictional or other, be considered to contribute to knowledge? How does (literary) form shape and frame knowledge, and do different (literary) forms produce different types of knowledge? What challenges to orthodox forms and frameworks of knowing are presented by literary texts? To what extent might literary works be considered to be sites of conflict between different epistemological frameworks? How is literature informed by the epistemic and/or epistemological forms current at the time of conception or reception? How has literary theory relativised forms and frameworks of knowledge held to be unquestionable?
Papers should be up to 45 minutes in length. Postgraduate students, if they wish, may present shorter papers of 20 minutes in length. The seminars will take place on Wednesdays at 5pm. Titles are still to be confirmed.
Seminars will take place on the following dates:
21 October 2009 - Room S8.08
Emily Butterworth and Clare Qualmann will give a presentation linked to their research project, 'Spinning Stories'
This collaborative project grew out of Emily's interest in gossip and story-telling and Clare's art practice of walking through urban and changing spaces, produced a walk around Bethnal Green (19 September 2009) and a live performance in a launderette (14 October). The seminar will discuss the collaborative process of research and development as well as the ideas underpinning the project: gossip, walking, the changing face of the east end of London, the boundary between the public and the private - and laundry.
25 November 2009 - Room S8.08
Michael Moriarty 'Rochefoucauld and the discourses of moral philosophy'
9 December 2009 - Room S8.08
Karen Pratt 'The nature and dynamics of knowledge in late-medieval French anthology manuscripts'
20 January 2010 - Room S8.08
Lea Vuong 'Pascal Quignard, Knowledge at Play'
24 Feburary 2010 - Room D11
Cecile Bishop 'Looking for Africa: Literature and Knowledge in the Age of Postcolonial Dictatorships'
17 March - Room S8.08
Ann Jefferson 'Genius as Pathology in Nineteenth-Century France'
28 April - Room S8.08
Ros Murray ‘Ces raclures de l’âme que l’homme normal n'accueille pas’: Artaud, Anzieu and the material surface
The following may be considered as prompts for reflection only and should not be taken to constrain any potential topics, which can be focused on literature or non-literary material: What kinds of desires for knowledge are put in play by literary texts? What forms of knowledge fall outside the purview of literature? Or indeed textual culture? How can works of literature, poetic, fictional or other, be considered to contribute to knowledge? How does (literary) form shape and frame knowledge, and do different (literary) forms produce different types of knowledge? What challenges to orthodox forms and frameworks of knowing are presented by literary texts? To what extent might literary works be considered to be sites of conflict between different epistemological frameworks? How is literature informed by the epistemic and/or epistemological forms current at the time of conception or reception? How has literary theory relativised forms and frameworks of knowledge held to be unquestionable?
Papers should be up to 45 minutes in length. Postgraduate students, if they wish, may present shorter papers of 20 minutes in length. The seminars will take place on Wednesdays at 5pm. Titles are still to be confirmed.
Seminars will take place on the following dates:
21 October 2009 - Room S8.08
Emily Butterworth and Clare Qualmann will give a presentation linked to their research project, 'Spinning Stories'
This collaborative project grew out of Emily's interest in gossip and story-telling and Clare's art practice of walking through urban and changing spaces, produced a walk around Bethnal Green (19 September 2009) and a live performance in a launderette (14 October). The seminar will discuss the collaborative process of research and development as well as the ideas underpinning the project: gossip, walking, the changing face of the east end of London, the boundary between the public and the private - and laundry.
25 November 2009 - Room S8.08
Michael Moriarty 'Rochefoucauld and the discourses of moral philosophy'
9 December 2009 - Room S8.08
Karen Pratt 'The nature and dynamics of knowledge in late-medieval French anthology manuscripts'
20 January 2010 - Room S8.08
Lea Vuong 'Pascal Quignard, Knowledge at Play'
24 Feburary 2010 - Room D11
Cecile Bishop 'Looking for Africa: Literature and Knowledge in the Age of Postcolonial Dictatorships'
17 March - Room S8.08
Ann Jefferson 'Genius as Pathology in Nineteenth-Century France'
28 April - Room S8.08
Ros Murray ‘Ces raclures de l’âme que l’homme normal n'accueille pas’: Artaud, Anzieu and the material surface
KCL Postcolonial Studies Seminar
29 January 2010 - Room S8.08
Celia Britton
'Slavery and Miscegenation in Faulkner, Glissant and Condé'
Main Texts covered:
Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom
Glissant, Faulkner, Mississippi and Le quatrième siècle
Condé, Traversée de la mangrove
Celia Britton
'Slavery and Miscegenation in Faulkner, Glissant and Condé'
Main Texts covered:
Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom
Glissant, Faulkner, Mississippi and Le quatrième siècle
Condé, Traversée de la mangrove
