Dear colleagues,
You are warmly invited to attend the interdisciplinary colloquium
"Face to Face - Encounters between the Arts and Sciences" on 22nd of
June at Queen Mary University of London. This event is free to attend
but registration is essential. Please send an email to Annja Neumann
([log in to unmask]) or Marcela Pozarkova ([log in to unmask])
until 16th of June.
http://www.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/research/anglogerman/events/index.shtml
Face to Face – Encounters between the Arts and Sciences
Interdisciplinary Colloquium
to be held at
Queen Mary University of London, Friday, 22nd June 2012
PROGRAMME
09.30-10.00 Coffee and Registration (Lockkeepers' Cottage, Georg Steiner Room)
10.00-10.15 Welcome and Introduction
10.15-10.55 KEYNOTE LECTURE: Prof. Leonard Olschner (Queen Mary
University of London): 'A Science of Literature'
1st Panel: Literature - 'L'Objet ambigu'
11.00-11.40 Florian Strob (Queen's College, Oxford): 'The Meaning and
Importance of 'maybe' - Literature, Literary Studies and Valéry on the
Beach'
11.40-12.20 Manon Mathias (Bangor University): 'Crystallography in
Sand, Stendhal and Pictet'
12.20-14.00 Lunch (own arrangements)
2nd Panel: Science on Stage
14.00-14.40 Eric Heinze (QMUL): 'The Empirically Imperial in
Shakespeare's Cymbeline'
14.40-15.20 Annabel Cox (QMUL): 'Representations of Medicine in the
Literature of Madness'
15.20-15.50 Tea
3rd Panel: Anglo-German Literary Representations of Science
15.50-16.30 Nina Engelhardt (University of Edinburgh): 'Face to Face
in the Imaginary Domain: Mathematics and Literature in Musil's The
Confusions of Young Törless and Pynchon's Against the Day'
16.30-17.10 Annja Neumann (QMUL) 'Face to Face with Science and
Literature. Two poems by Edgar Allan Poe and John Herschel'
17.10-17.30 Closing Discussion
17.30 Wine Reception
Dr Annja Neumann
Year Abroad Co-ordinator
Teaching Assistant
Department of German
University Address:
Queen Mary, University of London
School of Languages, Linguistics and Film
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
UK
Fax: 0044208980 5400
Mobile: 07873 926618
Email: [log in to unmask]
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