Study Day 29 May 2015
This is the opening workshop of the Language and Violence research strand. We will be exploring the links between forms of violent action and experience and the ways in which they are expressed or encoded in language.
Edge of Words / Language and Violence study day
- Time
- 29th of May, 2015
- Venue
- The Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Hope Park Square
Sessions will present ideas across different cultural and linguistic contexts, and from a variety of disciplinary perspectives (literary and linguistic studies, translation, memory studies). Contributions are designed to encourage open discussion, exchange, and experimentation with ideas and ways of formulating original research questions.
All welcome!
Programme
| 10.00-11.00am | Session 1 | Collaboration and finding common ground |
| Linguistic Creativity, Literary Subversion, and Violence: The Case of the Grotesque | ||
| Emmanuelle Lacore-Martin | Violence and the grotesque in Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel | |
| Rose France | the role of the grotesque in the works of 20th-century author Mikhail Zoshchenko. | |
| 11.00-11.15am | Break | |
| 11.15-12.45pm | Session 2 | Formulating ideas: Poetic language and violence |
| Lara Ryazanova-Clarke | Linguistic violence from a theoretical perspective | |
| Bárbara Fernández | Challenging the Unspeakable: The case of Bobby Sands in Pinochet's Chile | |
| Peter Davies | An inconceivable offence? The legacy of violence in a line of Yiddish poetry from the Warsaw Ghetto | |
| 12.45-1.30pm | Lunch | |
| 1.30-2.45pm | Session 3 | Interdisciplinary perspectives |
| Raquel Ribeiro | Memórias, Íntimas, Marcas: a transnational dialogue between Cuba, Angola and South Africa in the aftermath of the Angolan War | |
| Carlos Soler Montes | Portuguese and Spanish Language Contact: A Thousand Years of Linguistic Cacimbo | |
| 2.45-3.00pm | Break | |
| 3.00-3.30pm | Strand discussion | |
| Frauke Matthes | Future perspectives |