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Dear colleagues,
Please find below details of the Cross-Cultural Seminar 'Paradoxical
Languages: Eating Disorders in Contemporary Women's Writing',
organised Dr Francesca Calamita and Prof. Gill Rye, Centre for the
Study of Contemporary Women's Writing (IMLR, University of London).
The seminar is free and open to all, but please inform the Centre's
Director, Prof. Gill Rye (Gill Rye <[log in to unmask]>), if you plan
to attend.
Please note the availability of Travel bursaries for PhD students.
Best wishes,
Adalgisa Giorgio
University of Bath, UK
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CCWW Cross-Cultural Seminar (see below for PhD student travel bursaries)
Friday 16 May 2014, 2-5.30 pm, room G34, Senate House, University of London
'Paradoxical Languages: Eating Disorders in Contemporary Women's Writing'
Organisers: Francesca Calamita (IMLR) and Gill Rye (IMLR)
Speakers:
Kathryn Robson (French, Newcastle): ?Recovering (from) Anorexia:
Reading Narratives of Eating Disorders in Contemporary French Women?s
Writing?
Petra M. Bagley (German, Central Lancashire): ?The Austrian Art of
Starvation as depicted by Anna Mitgutsch and Helene Flöss?
Francesca Calamita (Italian, IMLR-CCWW): ?Filling the Void:
Bulimarexic Characters in Postmodern Italian Women?s Writing?
Victoria Richardson (French, Cambridge/IMLR-CCWW): ?Anorexia in
Contemporary French Women?s Writing: Marie NDiaye?s ?Le Jour du
Président? [?The Day of the President?]?
Throughout the history of Western culture the relationship between
women and food has often been perceived as a metaphor for something
else. From the much debated biblical episode of Eve and the apple to
postmodern society, women?s eating habits have been read not only as
acts of self-nourishment but also as a display of affection, sexuality
and tendency to sin. This multifaceted relationship between women and
food reaches its crisis point in the development of contemporary
discussion on eating disorders which, however, have existed under
numerous guises for centuries. Pathological starvation and binging are
an unidiomatic and paradoxical language employed by women ? and more
recently by men ? to communicate their deepest feelings, expressing
their identity and protesting about their socio-cultural roles. Since
before the medicalization of these pathologies in the late nineteenth
century through to the present day, writers across a variety of
languages and cultures have depicted the complex meaning of anorexia,
bulimia, binge eating and troubled relationships with food and bodies.
This cross-cultural seminar seeks to explore the fictional portrayal
of these self-destructive yet paradoxically and arguably
self-empowering behaviours in recent women?s writing.
All Welcome - If you plan to attend, please advise Gill Rye ?
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Travel bursaries:
We are able to offer some small travel bursaries to PhD students
wishing to attend the above seminar. If you wish to apply, please
email me ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) with your
travel costs (cheapest possible), university affiliation and name of
supervisor by 30 April 2014. Successful applicants will need to
provide tickets/receipts after the event in order for us to be able to
process the reimbursement.
Further information:
http://events.sas.ac.uk/imlr/events/view/15231/Paradoxical+Languages%3A+Eating+Disorders+in+Contemporary+Women%27s+Writing
Professor Emerita Gill Rye,
Director, Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women?s Writing,
Institute of Modern Languages Research,
School of Advanced Study,
University of London,
Senate House,
Malet Street,
London WC1E 7HU,
U.K.
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http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/centre-study-contemporary-womens-writing
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Dr Adalgisa Giorgio
Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies
Italian Convenor
Coordinator: Incoming and Outgoing Erasmus Students, English Language
Assistantships, Italian Year Abroad
Chair University Equality & Diversity Network
Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies University
of Bath Claverton Down Bath BA2 7AY - UK
Tel: 0044 (0) 1225 386171
Office Number: 1WN 2.3
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