All future events hosted by Faculty of Arts
Monday9Dec2019
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Picturebooks, Poetic Provocations, & Doin’ the Dozens: Pathways Towards Decolonising the Mind
Seminar/ForumThis seminar will explore how picture books, spoken word poetry, and call and response storytelling can be used to create emancipatory discourses for decolonising our minds. Denise will weave together dramatic performance, digital story creation...
PresentersDr Denise Chapman
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Thursday19Dec2019
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Why Was Lacan Not An 'Author'?
Seminar/ForumIn “What is an Author?” Michel Foucault expanded his concept of “author” when coining the concept of “inventors of discursivity,” among whom Freud and Marx figure preeminently. A “return” to their texts transforms the discursive practices gover...
PresentersProfessor Jean- Michel Rabaté
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Friday20Dec2019
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Joyce and Critical Theory
Seminar/ForumJean Michel will begin by evoking the James Joyce Symposium that took place in Paris in 1975, a moment marking the inception of a “political Joyce.” After Philippe Sollers called Finnegans Wake a “revolution,” Colin MacCabe followed suit. Howeve...
PresentersProfessor Jean- Michel Rabaté
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Monday20Jan2020