Conférence : "Literary History and Topology"
16-17 mai 2018
University of Copenhagen
Søndre Campus
Building 22
Emil Holms Kanal 2
2300 København S
PROGRAM
Wednesday May 16 2018
Room: 22.0.11
8.45: Welcome
9.00-12.15: Literary History and Topology
9.00-10.00: Frederik Tygstrup and Carsten Meiner (University of Copenhagen): “The double Topology. Literary History”
10.00-11.00: Christopher Prendergast (University of Cambridge): “Literary History and Counterfactuals”
11.00-11.15 : Coffee
11.15-12.15 : Andrea Del Lungo (Université Lille 3) : « Sémiologie et histoire de la représentation littéraire. La fenêtre »
12.30-13.30: Lunch
13.30-15.45: Global literary Topology
13.30.-14.45: Susan Suleiman and Christie McDonald (Harvard University): “Displacement: French Global and Beyond”
14.45-15.45: Anne Fastrup (University of Copenhagen): “Functions of the Turk in French Literature from Gabriel Bounin to Madeleine de Scudéry”
15.30-15.45: Coffee
15.45-16.45: Michael Høxbro Andersen (University of Copenhagen): “Arriving in Paris. The Evolution of a Topos from Molière to Mabanckou”
Thursday May 17 2018
Room: 22.0.11
9.00-12.30: Topoi and Technology
9.00.-10.00: Masha Belenky (George Washington University): “Engine of Modernity: The Omnibus and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris”
10.00-10.15: Coffee
10.15-11.15: Morgane Cadieu (Yale University): “Intermedial Figures of an Elusive Train."
11.15-12.15: Knut Ove Eliassen (NTNU): “The Topos of the Ship: Technology, Politics, Anthropology”
12.30-13.30: Lunch
13.30-16.00: Topoi of Decadence
13.30-14.30: Barbara Vinken (Luwig-Maximillians-Universität München): “The Topos of Babylon in 19th Century Literature”
14.30-14.45: Coffee
14.30- 15.30: Peter Borum (University of Copenhagen): “Not far from Paris. Loci corrupti from Rousseau to Maspero”
15.30-16.00: Closing discussion
CONTACT
For questions or comments on the program, please contact Amanda Grimsbo Roswall on cjw858@hum.ku.dk.