Dear colleagues,
Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, will be giving a talk at the Leeds Humanities Research Institute, University of Leeds on Saturday 28 March, entitled ‘The Hatred of Poetry: Barthes/Bataille’. Professor Rabaté's talk (at 12 noon) will be the closing session of the two-day conference 'Roland Barthes and Poetry'.
The talk and conference are free to attend. If you would still like to attend on one or both of the days, please contact Dr Andy Stafford: [log in to unmask]
The programme can be consulted here and is also appended below.
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/125233/roland_barthes_and_poetry/2534/programme
Best wishes,
Richard Hibbitt
Roland Barthes and Poetry
With the generous support of the Modern Humanities Research Association, the Society for French Studies, and the British Comparative Literature Association.
Friday 27 March
2.00: Welcome, Andrew Stafford (French, University of Leeds)
Session 1 – chair: Michael Sheringham (Marshal Foch Professor of French, All Souls College, Oxford)
2.15: Claude Coste (Professor of French Literature, University of Grenoble-Alpes) – ‘Roland Barthes: “Terreur dans la poésie”’
3.15: Adam Piette (Professor of English, Sheffield) – ‘“The Word shines forth”: Barthes and Prose/Poetry’
4.00 - 4.30: Tea and coffee break
Session 2 – chair: Claire Lozier (French, University of Leeds)
4.30: Calum Gardner (PhD Student, Cardiff) – ‘“It is the word that is the dwelling-place”: Roland Barthes and the Early Language Poets’
5.15: Benoît Bondroit (PhD student, Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle) – ‘A → Ω3: Louis Zukofsky de “A” à (S/)Z ?’
6.00: Vin d’honneur
7.30: Conference meal
Saturday 28 March
Session 3 – chair: Fiona Becket (English, University of Leeds)
10.00: Neil Badmington (Reader in English, Cardiff) – ‘For Henriette's Tomb: Barthes, Mallarmé, Mourning’
10.45: Marcio Renato Pinheiro da Silva (São Paolo / Campinas) – ‘Roland Barthes, From History to Haiku’
11.30 -12.00: Tea and coffee break
Session 4 – chair: Nigel Saint (French, University of Leeds)
12.00: Jean-Michel Rabaté (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania) – ‘The Hatred of Poetry: Barthes/Bataille’
1.00: Closing remarks and end of conference
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