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Aesthetics
and (Self) Deception -
French Graduate Student Conference
October
12-13, 2007
Event
Poster (pdf format)
Keynote Address:
Friday, October 12, 2007
5:30pm
CMU 226
Professor Matei Calinescu, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature,
English, and West European Studies at the University of Indiana - Paradoxes
of Exile and Identity: Ionesco and Cioran in Postwar Paris
Call for
Papers (pdf format)
"Man, however, has an unconquerable tendency to let himself
be deceived..." (Nietzsche, On Truth and Lying in an Extra-moral
Sense).
The nature
and utility of representation are topics that have long been debated,
in terms of their controversial power to blur the distinction btween truth
and lies, reality and illusion, pedagogy and pure entertainment. Looking
back on the development of this debate, to what extent do we perpetuate,
whithin a (post)modern and (post)colonial world, issues related to the
dangers and shortcomings of representation?
Drawing on the rich potential of "aesthetics" and "deception,"
this graduate student colloquium seeks to investigate the nature and the
politics of any act of creation as it relates to the tension between identity
and representation, the individual and its social image, the original
and the copy, and reality and its siulacrum, within a variety of fields
such as art, literature, literary theory, history, the history of ideas,
religion, cultural studies, film and theatre. We welcome 20-minute papers
in English or French (12 pages MLA) pertaining, though not limited, to
the following themes and topics:
Aesthetics,
Ethics and Deception
Aestehtics and Ideology
Nature vs. Art and Representation
Imperial, Colonial and (Post)Colonial Rhetoric and Aesthetics
Images of the Self and Cultural/National Stereotypes
The Philosophy of Kirsch and Mass Produced Culture
Trendiness in Literary and Critical Approaches
Narrative Strategies, Translation and Unreliability
Imitation, Parody, Irony and Various Masks
Camouflaged Influences and Intertextuality
Please submit
abstracts of 250 words, including your name, university affiliation, and
paper title by May 18th to frengrad@u.washington.edu.
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