Agenda
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Conférence:

Conférence: "Literary History and Topology" (Copenhague)

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.