Department of Dutch Literature and Literary Theory
& Faculty of Arts and Philosophy (Universiteit Gent),
Master Literary Studies (KU Leuven, Universiteit Gent,
Universiteit Antwerpen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel),
& Research Foundation - Flanders
PRESENT
AVANT-GARDE NOW !?
FOURTH GHENT CONFERENCE ON LITERARY THEORY
17 March 2005 -- Het Pand
Many have pronounced the avant-garde dead. H.M. Enzensberger, Eric Hobsbawn, Roland Barthes, Susan Gablik, Andreas Huyssen, James S. Ackerman, George T. Noszlopy, Frank Kermode and Robert Hughes are but some scholars and critics who have relegated the avant-garde to the past. This conference will take the trope of death as an incentive to embark on a genealogical quest for an avant-garde today. Papers presented at the conference will take any number of 'death theories' as their starting point to highlight aspects of (early) twentieth century avant-gardes that are not discussed in these theories. They will then return to the twenty-first century, bracket the alleged death of the avant-garde, and open up new theoretical perspectives on emerging (avant-garde) art and literature today.
SPEAKERS
Peter BÜRGER (Französische Literaturwissenshaft, Universität Bremen)
Walter FÄHNDERS (Neuere Germanistik, Universität Osnabrück)
Sven LÜTTICKEN (Kunstgeschiedenis, Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Peter NICHOLLS (American Studies, University of Sussex)
Tania ØRUM (Litteraturvidenskab, Københavns Universitet)
Marjorie PERLOFF (English, Stanford University)
Dietrich SCHEUNEMANN (Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh)
Hubert VAN DEN BERG (Nederlandse Literatuur, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
To receive the COMPLETE PROGRAMME or for REGISTRATION, please contact:
Sascha Bru
Department of Dutch Literature
and Literary Theory, Universiteit Gent
Rozier 44 -- B-9000 Gent
Fax : ++32 (0)9 264 41 91
Sascha.Bru@UGent.be
Conference fee : 25, 5 (students and unemployed)