Littérature, espace(s) public(s) et démocratie Literature, Public Space(s) and Democracy Topic: French Literature from the Modern to the Post-Modern
Organisers :
Philippe Roussin, CNRS/MFO; Mike Holland, St Hugh’s College, Oxford; Philippe Daros, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle; Annick Louis, Université de Reims-CRAL, EHESS ; Sebastian Veg, EHESS (Paris) - CEFC (Hong-Kong); LabEx Création arts et patrimoine (Pres-Hesam)
Partners:
St Hugh’s College, Oxford Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris CRAL, EHESS, Paris CEFC (Hong Kong)
About the conference:
The important roles played by literature and by autonomous frameworks of discussion in the formation of a democratic public space, in Europe at the time of the Enlightenment, are well known. How can we, in a now globalized world, rethink the question of possible links between literature and democracy - whether we define the latter as a form of society (the exchange of words and discourses), a problem, or a moment in time? How can we define the place of literature in the public space as it is now configured? What are the contemporary forms of literature’s contribution to a democratic public space? What are the modes of participation in the public space and in what sense can literature represent a specific form of intervention in it? Which role do the history and reception of a work of literature play in its interaction with the public space? In other words, what does literature do in the world, in the democratic debate, today, whether one judges that this democratic debate is already taking place in a constituted public sphere, or that it is still to come in a public space to be established in another time or place.
Program:
1er novembre/1st November
9:00-9:15: Ouverture/Welcome
9:15-9:45 Alain Viala, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford: «Littérature restreinte et démocratie restreinte, retour à Victor Cousin» (Restricted literature and restricted democracy, looking back at Victor Cousin)
10:00-10:30 Jean-Marie Gleize, ENS-Lyon: «Démocratie(d')après Rimbaud» (Democracy according to/after Rimbaud)
Pause/Break
11:00-11:30 Esther Cheung, Hong-KongUniversity :«The Iterability of Hong Kong Topographical Poetry»
14:00-14:30 Carle Bonafous-Murat,Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle : «Thewriter, the intellectual and public space in Ireland»
14:45-15:15 Graciela Montaldo, Columbia University : «Culture, Democracy, and Spectacle in Early Twentieth Century Argentina»
Pause/Break
15:45-16:15 Anne Simonin MFO CNRS/MAE «The First Sade: the politics of war»
16:30-17:00 Mike Holland, St Hughs College, Oxford : «The street as literary space. Blanchot and politics in May 68» 2 novembre/2Nd November
2 novembre/2nd November
9:30-10:00 Philippe Roussin, MFO CNRS/MAE : «Fiction and democracy»
10:15-10:45 Philippe Daros, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle «La New Italian Epic (Wu Ming) : un espace public virtuel paradoxal» (A paradoxical virtual public space)
Pause/Break
11:15-11:45 Wang Chaohua, independent Scholar : «Globalizing the Republic of Letters?–Controversies Surrounding MoYan's Nobel Prize in Literature»
12:00-12:30 Emmanuel Bouju, Université Rennes II: « Ce sujet à éclipses qu'on dit démocratique : fiction collective et mémoire partagée» (This fleeting subject which is called democratic : collective fiction and collective memory)
14:30-15:00 Annick Louis, CRAL/Université de Reims: «Public space as Origin and ending. Rodolfo Walsh steps into non-fiction (Argentina 1956-1977)»
15:15-15:45 Peter D. McDonald, St Hughs College, Oxford: «Whose literature? Whose democracy? Which public space? The lessons of 1988»
16:00-16:30 Sebastian Veg,French Centre for Research on Contemporary China,Hong-Kong and EHESS, Paris: «The Debate on Maoïsm and its displacement to the literary sphere in contemporary China»
