Call for Registration

International Conference IN(TER)DISCIPLINE. NEW LANGUAGES
FOR CRITICISM, Cambridge University, 19-21 September 2003

This two-day international conference will be hosted by the Cambridge
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
(CRASSH). It aims to stimulate discussion about the kinds of critical
languages used within the scholarly as well as the public sphere, and
the linguistic challenge that represents an increasingly
interdisciplinary research culture within the modern Humanities. Many
of our invited speakers have made powerful statements in this respect
through the very nature of their work. IN(TER)DISCIPLINE offers an
exceptional opportunity to debate these and other approaches, and to
examine the significance of language in criticism.

Programme:

Friday 19 September 2003, Opening lecture by:

Mieke Bal on 'Close Reading' and the Language of Affect


Saturday 20 September and Sunday 21 September 2003 speakers to
include:

Gillian BEER, "Island Encounters"
Malcolm BOWIE, "Is Music Criticism Criticism?"
Gabriele BRANDSTETTER, "Performance, Notation and
Performance-Analysis"
Elisabeth BRONFEN, "Describing the Visual"
Scott BURNHAM, "Musical Writing"
Friedrich KITTLER, "Ulysses' Bow: Poetics of Life and Death"
Laurence KRAMER, "Wittgenstein's Chopin: Interdiscipline and 'The
Music Itself'"
Beate PERREY, "On Borges' Blindness and Giacometti's Eyes"
Adam PHILLIPS, "Nuisance-Value"
Edward SAID, TBC
Peter SZENDY, "Orfeo's Indiscipline: Echoing the 'Mortal Ear'"

with SIMON MCBURNEY (London) and JOHN BERGER (France) on
"Other Ways of Seeing"

Saturday 21 September 2003, Closing lecture by

John TUSA


For more information on speakers, the programme and registration,
visit
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/events2003/newlangsconf.html or
contact Mary-Rose Cheadle at the Centre for Research in the Arts,
Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge, Old Press
Site, Silver Street, Cambridge, CB3 9EW, phone +44 (0) 1223-765279,
e-mail mailto:[log in to unmask]


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Dr Beate J Perrey
Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and
Humanities
University of Cambridge
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/projects/newlangs.html

From September 2003 - September 2004
Visiting Professor in Musicology
Ecole normale supérieure
45, rue d'Ulm
75005 Paris
FRANCE

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