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SPARK Festival Lost
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Join Dr Qian Liu (SMLC) and Dr Florin-Stefan Morar from City University of Hong Kong for an interactive, intercultural SPARK talk on how literature can be Lost in Translation, affecting issues of gender, diversity, and inclusion on Wednesday 20th October 2021, 9am (UK time) - info here.

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GHCC Reading Group - Doing Global History: An Introduction in 6 Concepts by Roland Wenzlhuemer
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Roland Wenzlhuemer, Doing Global History: An Introduction in 6 Concepts (Bloomsbury, 2020)

reading chapters Ch. 1: Global History (pp. 1-17) & Ch. 8: Doing Global History (pp. 169-177), and an additional chapter of choice about one of the six concepts.

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Work in Progress Seminar
MS Teams

Simone Mucci, University of Warwick (Chair: Manuela Marai)

“Conspicuous consumption of antidotes: Galen's De Antidotis in the light of Veblen's theory of the leisure class”

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Research Seminar: Dr Lalitha Gopalan (University of Texas at Austin): Cinemas Dark and Slow in Digital India’
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Research Seminar: Dr Lalitha Gopalan (University of Texas at Austin): Cinemas Dark and Slow in Digital India’
Date: 20/10/2021
Time: 4.30pm
Venue: MS Teams
All welcome
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Research seminar: Colin Davis (RHUL), Interpretation and Overinterpretation: Camus’s ‘Jonas ou l’artiste au travail’
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This paper has three parts. The first revisits issues in hermeneutic theory concerning interpretation and overinterpretation, with reference to Gadamer, Eco and other theorists. How do we acknowledge the fluidity of meaning whilst retaining a sense that some interpretations are better than others? How do we distinguish between creative overreading and mere error or nonsense? The second part attempts a reading of Albert Camus’s short story ‘Jonas ou l’artiste au travail’, from the collection L’Exil et le royaume, giving particular weight to its epigraph from the Biblical Book of Jonah. My suggestion is that, whilst foregrounding a self-ironising portrait of the artist as flawed and all-too-human, the epigraph and its resonance through the story suggest a much more Romantic vision of the artist as the unacknowledged saviour of humankind. The third part of the paper attempts to look back, self-reflexively, on the interpretive moves involved in this reading, to assess its plausibility and value.

Colin Davis is Emeritus Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, having previously held posts at Cambridge, Oxford and Warwick. His work focuses mainly on the connections between literature, film and philosophy. His most recent publications include Traces of War: Interpreting Ethics and Trauma in Twentieth-Century French Writing (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2018), Freedom and the Subject of Theory: Essays in Honour of Christina Howells, co-edited with Oliver Davis (Oxford: Legenda, 2019), The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma, co-edited with Hanna Meretoja (London and New York: Routledge, 2020), and Silent Renoir: Philosophy and the Interpretation of Early Film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).

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