The Graduate Students of the Departments of French and Comparative Literature invite you to a conference at La Maison Française (16 Washington Mews), March 31-April 2.
Revolution: Figure, Fiction, Event
Thursday, March 31, 6:30pm
Opening Remarks: Nancy Ruttenburg, New York University
Keynote Lecture: “The Politics of Prescription,” Peter Hallward, Middlesex University
Followed by a dessert reception at 19 University Place, Room 222
Friday, April 1
10-11:30 Identity and its Discontents: Rethinking Solidarity and Community
Defining the Terms of Quebec’s Quiet Revolution in Liberté’s Dictionary Issues - Meadow Dibble-Dieng, Brown University
Richard Wright and C.L.R. James, 1944-47 - John Pat Leary, New York University
Beyond Identity: the Practice of the Letter and the Methodology of the Oppressed -- Christopher Vitale, New York University
11:45-1:15 Revolution: Narration of the Impossible?
Against the Novel: Revolution in Narrative Language and the Late Work of Marguerite Duras - Daniel Just, New York University
Lyonel Trouillot’s Rue des Pas-Perdus and “Unimaginable” Narrative - John Nimis, New York University
On Philip K. Dick and Mohammed Dib - Jennifer Kaplan, New York University
1:30 Break for Lunch
2:30 -4:00 History and Temporality in Hegel, Marx, and Beyond
Marx and the Problem of Radical Revolution - Jean-Baptiste de Froment, Paris X (Nanterre)
Wasting Time, or the Creation of Revolutionary Time - Meredith Gill, University of Minnesota
Hegel’s End of Art and the Suburbs of the Universal: Towards an Aesthetic of the Margins - Mariano Siskind, New York University
4:30pm Keynote Lecture: “Tabula Rasa,” Rebecca Comay, University of Toronto; Introduction by Xudong Zhang, New York University
Saturday, April 2
10:00-11:30 L’Invention de l’Histoire
La Révolution et l’écriture de l’Histoire chez Michelet - Christophe Litwin, New York University
Ecrire La Révolution: histoire et roman dans les récits de Lamartine, Blanc, Michelet, et Toqueville - Marie George, Paris
Fontenelle ou la révolution du point de vue - Isabelle Mullet, New York University
11:45-1:15 Media/Politics/History: Terror, Spectacle, and Technological Revolution
Notes on the Trembling Image: The Aesthetic Conditions of Revolutionary Violence in Sorel and Benjamin - Benjamin Young, UC-Berkeley
Refuse-ing History: Benjamin, Gramsci, and Hegemonic Discourse - Erica Weitzman, New York University
Theatrics of Terror: Conscience, Consciousness, and Cruelty in Endgame and Information for Foreigners - Stephen Dekovich, University of Washington
The World Archive(d): Italo Calvino, Margins, and Memory - Chadwick Smith, New York University
1:30 Break for Lunch
2:30-4:00 Freedom, Subjection, Anarchy
Revolution within the Revolution: Symbolism, Anarchism, and Auto-Immunity - Erin Williams Hyman, UCLA
Rousseau, Sacher-Masoch, and the End of Revolution - Fayçal Falaky, New York University
Subjects of Freedom, Grounds of Universality and the Problem of Ethico-Political Motivation: a Defense of the Unity of Rousseau’s Thought - Rafeeq Hasan, University of Chicago
4:30 Closing Remarks by Denis Hollier, New York University; Introduction by Emily Apter, New York University
Followed by a reception at 19 University Place, 1st Floor