Dear All,
I am so sorry to have to miss this; I'll be in
the UK but only until May 12 this time around. He
was an outstanding scholar, and made an enormous
contribution to romance studies and
psychoanalytic studies.
Juliet
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> 'When familiar meanings dissolve...'
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> A CONFERENCE IN COMMEMORATION OF MALCOLM BOWIE
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>Friday 16 - Saturday 17 May 2008
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> at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
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>Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DN
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>further details:
>http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/events/conference/conf_Bowie.htm
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>In addition to his vast influence in the UK and beyond, Malcolm Bowie was the
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>founding Director of the Institute of Romance Studies in 1989
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>and when the IRS merged with the IGS to become
>the IGRS in 2004, he was its first Chair of
>Advisory Council.
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>This two-day conference is a celebration of the
>work and interests of Malcolm Bowie in the
>multidisciplinary field of 19c
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>and 20c French studies. It includes sessions on
>19c French poetry, Proust, literature & theory,
>music & the visual arts.
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>On the first evening there will be a vin
>d'honneur at the French Institute followed by a
>talk by Marina Warner.
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>Conference speakers (alphabetically) are: Joseph
>Acquisto, Nathalie Aubert, Hugues Azérad, Tom
>Baldwin, Philip Dravers, Alison Finch, Natasha
>Grigorian, Akane Kawakami, Henriette
>Korthals-Altes, Roland-François Lack, Richard
>Langham-Smith, Áine Larkin, Katherine
>Lunn-Rockliffe, Jo Malt, Tim Mathews, Kathy
>McIlvenny, Carol Murphy, Paddy O'Donovan, Mary
>Orr, Michael Sheringham, Gabrielle Townsend,
>Adam Watt, John Whittaker, Heather Williams &
>Kathrin Yacavone.
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>TO PRE-REGISTER, see
>http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/events/conference/PDF_reg_form_Bowie.pdf
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Juliet Flower MacCannell
University of California
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