9.15-9.30: Welcome
9.30 – 10.30:
Margaret Higonnet (University of Connecticut), “Borderwork Reworked”.
10.30 – 11: Break
11 – 13: panel 1, “Place”. Chair
Margaret Higonnet;
Róisín Healy (NUIG, History), Trading Places? Ireland and Prussian Poland in the Early Twentieth Century”;
Felix Ó Murchadha (NUIG, Philosophy), "Home, Violence, Place: the Groundlessness of Belonging and the Necessity of Building";
Bill Richardson (NUIG, Spanish) “Borges and Space”;
Nicholas Allen (NUIG, English), “The Place of Literature and the Real Economy”.
13- 14: lunch
14 – 16: panel two, “The Real”. Chair
Daniel Balderston (University of Pittsburgh);
Paolo Bartoloni (NUIG, Italian), “Suspension and the Thingness of Art;
Paul Crowther (NUIG, Philosophy), “Reality as Subversion”;
Hans-Walter Schimdt-Hannisa (NUIG, German), “Wounds / Signs. Stigmatics in 20th Century Film”;
Maria Scott (NUIG, French), “Traces of the Real in French Realist Literature”.
16 – 16.30: Break
16.30-17.30: General Discussion
Sponsored by The College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies; The School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures; and The Moore Institute.
Abstracts
Further Information:
paolo.bartoloni
nuigalway.ie