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Dear everyone, Please be reminded that the Inaugural Graduate Conference in Philosophy and Literature at Queen Mary, University of London, will be taking place on Friday, May 27, 2016. Topic: The Problem of Mimesis in Literature Our Keynote speaker is: Dr Paul Davies, University of Sussex For any queries please contact [log in to unmask] Conference blog:https://queenmarymimesis2016.wordpress.com/ Schedule: 9.30 - 10 Registration and coffee 10 - 11 session 1 - Tom Stuart Marshall: Mimesis and Phenomenology in Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria - Bryan Norton: Shading, Syllepsis: Sketching Schelling’s Natural Philosophy 11 - 11.15 Short coffee break 11.15 - 12 (Keynote): Dr. Paul Davies 12 -13.30 Lunch 13.30 - 14.30 Session2 - Matthias Grüne: Mimesis of experienced reality. A new perspective on the poetics of German realism - Stephen Klemm: Goethe, Mimesis, and the Operations of Nature 14.30 - 15 session 3 (1 paper) - Florencia Sannders: The Reception of Jorge Luis Borges work in the GDR. A struggle for a mimetic literature? 15 - 15.30 Coffee 15.30 - 16.30 session 4 - Jakub Kowalewski: The destitution of words. The Aporia of Writing in Levinas’s Totality and Infinity Jasmine Cooper: Mistaken Identity. Mimesis and (De)Constructing Identity 16.30 - 16.45 Short coffee break 16.45 - 17.30 Roundtable discussion and conclusion Moderator: Dr. Angus Nicholls Panellists: Dr. Paul Davies, Dr. Danielle Sands, Dr. Sean Gaston Apologies for cross-posting.