Text,
Action and Space
Performative language and topographical patterns
as converging areas in modern drama, prose fiction and film
First conference: Paris, 20-22 Nov. 2006
Dear colleagues,
26.10.2006
TIME and
VENUE
The conference
will be held
Monday
20 Nov. room
214 10.00-18.00
Tuesday
21 Nov. room
215 12.00-20.00,
and
Wednesday
22 Nov room 214 09.00-17.00
at
Centre de
cooperation franco-norvˇgienne en sciences sociales et humaines,
situated at
Maison des sciences
de lÕhomme (MSH), 54, Boulevard Raspail.
AGENDA
Focus this
time:
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Further elaboration of basic questions by examples
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Performative language - Performativity - Performative Aesthetics
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The relationship between performativity and topography.
- Working
language: English.
A
few photo-copied articles/chapters with relevance for the basic problems have
been sent to you by snail-mail.
The
third conference day, Wednesday, is thought for planning ahead, but also
for items that we might have to
displace from Tuesday.
PROGRAMME:
MONDAY 10.00-18.00 (Moderators: Lars Saetre and Atle
Kittang)
(25-30
min. papers, followed by 30-45 min. comments and discussion – lunch will
be organized in the middle each day)
-- Lars
Saetre: Words of welcome; presentations; project updates
-- Svend
Erik Larsen: Places, Spaces and Scapes
-- Erika
Fischer-Lichte: The key notions of enunciative
performativity, topography, and
transformation. - Can we tighten up the project? Make its basic foci
more precise?
LUNCH
-- Patrizia
Lombardo: The converging of genres. Language, action and space
in film,
prose and drama
-- Frederik
Tygstrup: Topographical Modelling: Between Representation and Construction
TUESDAY 12.00-20.00 (Moderators: Lars Saetre and Atle Kittang)
(25-30
min. papers, followed by 30-45 min. comments and discussion – lunch will
be organized in the middle each day)
-- Ragnhild
Reinton: Representation and construction (I): Topographies of
experience in
the enunciative acts of prose, drama and film
-- Tone
Selboe: Representation and construction (II):
Phenomenological significances of
house and home in drama and prose fiction
LUNCH
-- Lars
Saetre: Concentration and expansion. The performative
shaping of topographical
space, with a view
to ideology
-- Atle
Kittang: Observation, imagination, reflection. Topography and
textual action
-- Ensemble:
Reformulation of executive project plan. Strategies ahead.
WEDNESDAY 09.00-NOON
Prospective
displacements from Tuesday; further future planning.
Tutorial
for the project PhD-students.
(There may
be adjustments to the program.)
LUNCH
We
will arrange joint dinner sessions Monday and Tuesday nights.
ACCOMMODATION
We have booked
rooms for us all (except Patrizia) at this hotel, just east of Jardin du
Luxembourg (15-20 minutesÕ walk away from the French-Norwegian Centre at Raspail):
L'H™tel de
Senlis
7-9, rue
Malebranche
75005 Paris
tel.0033(0)143299310
fax
0033(0)143290024
e-mail:
hoteldesenlis@wanadoo.fr
Transfer from Charles de Gaulle Airport:
From Terminal 1: Free Shuttle
Bus (ÓNanetteÓ) to railway station - RER train (make sure it is a RER train!)
to Jardin du Luxembourg - from there five minutesÕ walk to the hotel in Rue
Malebranche.
From Terminal 2: Enter railway
station - take RER train as described above.
In case
of questions, please contact:
signe.solberg@lili.uib.no
lars.saetre@lili.uib.no
atle.kittang@lili.uib.no
Lars
mobile/cell phone: + 47 95823232
Atle
mobile/cell phone: + 47 90873185
Signe
mobile/cell phone: + 47 91560933
TRAVEL
Please book and
pay your travels yourselves according to your wishes as soon as you can
(preferably as inexpensively as possible). Collect all paid bills, public
ground transportation and flight tickets - they are to be handed over to Signe
Solberg in Paris and/or after you have returned home. Signe will provide you
with the necessary forms to fill in while we are in Paris.
WELCOME!
Best greetings from
- Lars, Atle and Signe
Text, action, space, seminar in Paris November 20 –
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Participants |
Dates |
Remarks |
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Signe Solberg (signe.solberg@lili.uib.no) |
Sun-Wed |
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Lars S¾tre (lars.saetre@lili.uib.no ) |
Fri-Wed |
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Atle Kittang (atle.kittang@lili.uib.no) |
Fri-Wed |
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Tone Selboe (tone.selboe@ilos.uio.no ) |
Sat-Tues |
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Ragnhild Evang Reinton (r.e.reinton@ilos.uio.no ) |
Sat-Tues |
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Erika Fischer-Lichte (theater@zedat.fu-berlin.de ) |
Sun-Tues |
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Patrizia Lombardo(patrizia.lombardo@lettres.unige.ch |
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Own apartment |
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Anemari Neple (anemari.neple@student.uib.no) |
Sun-Wed |
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Merete S¾bæ Torvanger (ms-torva@online.no) |
Sun-Wed |
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Svend Erik Larsen (litsel@hum.au.dk) |
Sun-Wed |
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Frederik Tygstrup (frederik@hum.ku.dk) |
Sun. ev.– Tue. ev. |
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Lars Mossefinn (lars.mossefinn@gmail.com) |
Fri-Wed |
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Randi Koppen (randi.koppen@eng.uib.no ) |
Sun-Wed |
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Contact in Paris: Kirstin Skjelstad (skjelsta@msh-paris.fr ) |
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We have extended two more invitations for
participation at the conference:
Associate Professor Randi Koppen,
English Department, U of B, who has written on the dramatist Caryl Churchill, and
is presently conducting a study on Virginia Woolf; and
Professor Peter Larsen, Department
of Information Science and Media Studies, U of B, who possesses broad
competencies in literary and media theory, and in literary studies, film and
media studies, music, and studies of the arts.