2025 Seminar
2025 Critical Theory Seminar:
Burning Cities: Culture, Excess, War
DATE: 8 and 9 May
VENUE: Warwick Venice Centre, Palazzo Giustinian LolinLink opens in a new window
Programme:
Thursday, 8 May
10:00: Opening
10:15: Prof Alexis Tadié (Sorbonne): ‘Standing Eyeless in Gaza: Gaza in Anglophone Literature’ (tbc)
10:30: Discussion
10:45: Dr Emily McGiffin (Warwick) ‘Colonial Aesthetics of Crisis: Geopower, Extractive Violence, and Political Instability in Burkina Faso’
11:00 : Discussion
11:15: Coffee break
11:30: Roundtable 1
Martina Balassonne (Sorbonne)
Michael Morgan (Warwick) 'Middle-Class Terror and Capitalist Realism: The Post 9/11 English Novel'
Thales Reis Alecrim (UCP) 'Dialectics of the Seventh Son (of a Seventh Son): Prophecy and Temporality in Orson Scott Card and Iron Maiden'
12:00: Dr Nick Lawrence (Warwick) ‘“An Apocalyptic sun explodes”: Modernist Precarity in the Age of Catastrophes’
12:15: Discussion
12:30: Dr Diana Gonçalves (UCP) 'Watch Me Watch 9/11: Reaction Videos and the Digital Afterlife of the 2001 Terrorist Attacks'
12:45-13:00: Discussion
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14:30: Dr Juliana Loupoukhine (Sorbonne) ‘The Modernist City and its Discontents’
14:45: 15:00 Discussion
15:00: Coffee Break
15:30: Roundtable 2
Zohar Iancu (UCP) 'Beyond the Israeli Border: Israeli Female Migrants and Alternative Diasporic Imaginaries'
Louise Delumeau (Sorbonne)
Valentine Lerouge (Sorbonne)
16:00 Roundtable 3
Prof Liz Barry (Warwick)
Dr Mae Losasso (Warwick)Link opens in a new window: Mae.Losasso@warwick.ac.uk
Prof Mena Mitrano (Ca'Foscari)
16:30: Tingxuan Liu (Warwick) 'From Self-Making to Subject-Making: Tash Aw’s Deconstructing Diaspora and Allegorizing Neoliberalism in Five Star Billionaire'
16:45 - 17:00: Discussion
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19:00 Dinner at OKE ZattereLink opens in a new window with a set fish menu (antipasto, second course, dessert)
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Friday, 9 May
10:00: Prof Shaul Bassi (Ca'Foscari) : 'The Environmental Humanities in Venice'
10:15: Discussion
10:30: Louisa Toxvaerd-Munch (Warwick) 'The Revenge of the Death Drive: Nihilism, Manhood and the War on Democracy’
10:45: Discussion
11:00: Coffee Break
11:30 Charlotte Spear (Warwick) ‘Aesthetic Excess and Structural Ignorance: Human Rights in DRC’
11:45: Discussion
12:00: Prof Paulo de Medeiros (Warwick) Politics of the Damned 2
12:15: Discussion
12:30: Planning Session
13:15 Concluding remarks
Sponsors:
Humanities Research CentreLink opens in a new window
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Extra: 18:30 Reception for Ca'Foscari Symposium on The Body Politic at Ca'Foscari University, Ca'Bernardo, in the Common Room.