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FORSKERUTDANNINGSKURS BERGEN, JUNI 2012. |
TBLR/Bergen–Norwegian National
Researcher Training School: PhD Researcher training course in Bergen Poststructuralism (Re)Visited PhD-course at Sydneshaugen skole, University of Bergen June 18-19, 2012 (Sem.room
304A, Sydneshaugen) Course description Thematic focus Day 1 (18 June) Poststructuralism (Re)Visited: The
aim of the seminar is to address the heritage and relevancy of
poststructuralist thought at the present historical juncture, especially as
seen from the vantage point of PhD-students of today working on questions of
aesthetics. While poststructuralism has always engendered heated debate and
has had its fair share of opponents even from the start, the sheer amount of
criticism seems to have increased during the last few years, as has the
tendency to simply dismiss this entire philosophical tradition as
un-scientific, without bothering to address it on its own terms. Rather
than accept outright this all too common view that poststructuralism has run
out of steam and has lost its relevancy (if it ever had any – something
many of its more vocal opponents deny), through this seminar we wish to
discuss its good and bad aspects with an open mind. Is poststructuralist
thought still important, and, if so, why? Which of the famous poststructuralist
thinkers do still have something to teach us, and which do not? Is there
anything poststructuralist theory can offer us that other approaches cannot,
and, if so, what? And for those of us who do think the poststructuralist
tradition worthy of engaging with, how might the criticism from those who
simply label it obscurantism or nonsense best be met? We are happy to welcome Prof.
Catherine Belsey (UK) and Prof. Colin Davis (UK) as keynote lecturers,
then there will be Commentary segments, and Plenary
discussions of lectures, commentaries and curricular texts. This plenary
session (the whole of Day 1) will be conducted in English. LIST OF PARTICIPANTS (click here) MONDAY (Sem.room 304A, Sydneshaugen skole –
plenary sessions all day) Keynote guest lecturers and programme: 10:00-12:00: Prof. Catherine Belsey (Swansea University): In Defense of Poststructuralism – Abstract – Prof. Belseys Homepage 12:00-13:00: Lunch (The
Student Center) 13:00-15:00: Prof. Colin Davis (Royal Holloway University of London): Remains of Poststructuralism: Ethics, Trauma
and Hermeneutics – Abstract – Prof. Davis Homepage 15:00-16:00 (if necessary timewise): Plenary summing up. Commentary segments: The keynote lectures will be of 45-50 min.s length. Then
there will be a 20 min. commentary segment by a PhD-student after each guest
lecture: PhD-student Bo
Byrkjeland (Spanish and Latinamerican Studies, Dept of Modern Foreign
Language) will comment prof. Belsys lecture; PhD-student Anders M.Y.
Gullestad (Comparative Literature, Dept of Linguistic, Literary and
Aesthetics Studies) will comment Colin Davis lecture. These will open the
plenary discussions that welcome further comments, questions and perspectives
(please feel free to relate to your own PhD-projects). TUESDAY (Sem.room 304A, Sydneshaugen skole –
plenary sessions all day) Focus Day 2 (19 June) Group work on submitted PhD-papers. 10:00-12:00 (then Lunch 12:00-13:00, (at Hanne P Hyden), and 13:00-15:00
(or max 16:00). See enlistment and submission
deadlines below. Any paper topic, related to your ongoing PhD-work, is
welcome; it does not have to be connected to the thematic focus of Day 1.
Each PhD-student enlisted with a paper (submitted papers will be made
available with a link from this webpage, then to be removed when the course
is ended) first presents his/her paper orally 5-7 min.s (for example by
contextualising it); then the paper will be discussed with the author and
commented upon by all participants: other PhD-students, TBLRs faculty staff,
other PhD supervisors, as well as our English guest lecturers. Since we have 4 enlisted papers, we will stay in the
plenary group also throughout Tuesday and discuss the four papers together,
as one group. NB: Papers can be submitted
either in Norwegian or in English; if in Norwegian, then please enclose an
abstract in English. Discussion language will be English when
non-Scandinavian native speakers are present, otherwise discussions will be
conducted in Norwegian. Course venue 18 June: Seminar room 304A, Sydneshaugen skole. Course venue 19 June: Sem.room 304A, Sydneshaugen skole, we start the day by meeting there. Since we
have four papers, we will stay in one plenary group at room 304A. (We do also
have at our disposal Sem.rooms GI, K217 and K310, Sydneshaugen skole.) Curriculum / Reading materials: All materials should
be read beforehand. Materials are announced below; some are available for
downloading and printing; one textbook is available at Studia University
Bookstore (shelf for Literary Studies). Prof. Catherine Belseys lecture: Catherine Belsey: A Future for
Criticism (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, 143 pp.), available at Studia (NOK
239,–). Prof.
Colin Davis lecture (all titles will be available here for downloading;
click on titles): Martha Nussbaum:
Introduction: Form and Content, Philosophy and Literature (Part 1), Introduction: Form and
Content, Philosophy and Literature (Part 2), in Loves
Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature (New York and Oxford: OUP,
1990), pp. 3-53. Stanley Cavell:
Introduction: Words for a Conversation (Part 1), Stanley Cavell:
Introduction: Words for a Conversation (Part 2), in Pursuits of
Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage (Cambridge (Mass.) and
London: Havard University Press, 1981), pp. 1-42. Cathy Caruth: Unclaimed Experience: Trauma and the
Possibility of History (Freud, Moses and Monotheism), in Unclaimed
Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History (Baltimore and London: The
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), pp. 10-24. Colin Davis: Conclusion: In Praise of Overreading, in Critical
Excess: Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Žižek and Cavell
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), pp. 164-87. PhD-Papers: The PhD-students are
encouraged to submit papers (in English or Norwegian, max. length 15 pp,
double spacing), to be discussed in groups (30 minutes each). If submitting
your paper in Norwegian, then please include an abstract of max. a page in English. Links to submitted papers will be given
below. Papers will be removed from the webpage immediately after the course
has been terminated. All materials should be read beforehand. PhD-paper: Hans Jacob Ohldieck ECTS: Participation without a paper: 2 ECTS (studiepoeng); participation with a
paper: 5
ECTS. Enlistment deadline: Friday 18 May. Deadline for submitting papers: Friday 8 June. Please, submit enlistment as well
as PhD-papers per e-mail to: anders.gullestad@lle.uib.no
and lars.saetre@lle.uib.no Organizer: Norwegian National Researcher Training
School Text Image Sound Space (TBLR), Bergen branch, University of
Bergen. Financial support: Faculty of Humanities, and Infomedia,
UiB. Welcome to
Poststructuralism (Re)Visited in June! |
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