Dear All
** with apologies for cross-posting **
You are invited to attend this international, interdisciplinary Conference.
VENUE
Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
DATES
8-10 December 2016
KEYNOTES
Juliet Mitchell, Laura Mulvey, Jean Owen, Naomi Segal, Naomi Tadmor
In the face of changing family relations in the west, we have moved rather suddenly from one replacement series to another: one or two
centuries ago, replacement children were commonplace, as child mortality often led to families naming a baby after a dead sibling; nowadays serial monogamy means that children or adults contend with others both absent and present, whether living or dead. Replacement
has effects both across and within generations and signifies both unruly passion and the attrition of passions lost, exchanged or conserved.
The Conference includes 5 keynote talks, 36 shorter papers, an art exhibition
and three film-showings: Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940), A Secret
(Claude Miller, 2007) and 45 Years (Andrew Haigh, 2015).
ALL INFO
https://replacementweb.com/
BOOKING
https://www2.bbk.ac.uk/brakc/
Any queries to Naomi Segal ([log in to unmask]) or Jean Owen ([log in to unmask]).
See you there!
Naomi
Professor Naomi Segal
Professorial Fellow in French & German Studies
Dept of Cultures & Languages, School of Arts
Birkbeck, University of London
43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7272
6438
Dept webpage:
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/languages/
My webpage:
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/languages/our-staff/naomi-segal
Cultural Literacy in Europe project:
http://cleurope.eu/