Literature and animality: zoopoetic renewals In brief Guest speaker - Anne Simon (École normale supérieure (Paris)) Host - The Franco-Scottish Research Network Topic - Literature and animality: zoopoetic renewals Format - In-person talk in French; Q&A in French or English Book your free ticket on the Institut Français Écosse website About the talk By Anne Simon... What is more specifically human – more characteristic of our species – than literature? Myths, poems and novels bring our linguistic practices to their highest degree of complexity: classical rhythms, unrealistic metaphors, texts that echo each other seem to oppose literature to animality. This division needs to be put into perspective. Based on the expressiveness of animals, on our own animality, on our roaring and snaking alphabet, on the self-portraits of writers as owls, ants or flies, the talk will explain what "zoopoetics" is. Literature, far from cutting us off from the world, is a populated, welcoming and vital ark. About the speaker Anne Simon is Director of Research at the Center for Research on Arts and Language (CNRS / EHESS) and Director of the Centre international d’étude de la philosophie française contemporaine / PhilOfr at the École normale supérieure (Paris). She is the editor of the research notebooks PhilOfr, Pôle Proust and Animots. Her publications include four books on Proust and the zoopoetics essay, Une bête entre les lignes (Wildproject, 2021). About the Franco-Scottish Research Network The Franco-Scottish Research Network in the Humanities and Social Sciences is coordinated by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni. It brings together researchers from the Universities of St Andrews, Edinburgh, and Glasgow, including several based in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC). Since 2014, the Network has organised an annual Interdisciplinary Seminar where doctoral students from the three institutions are invited to present their work, along with a keynote speaker from France. This year, the Seminar is themed Living and dwelling/Habiter le monde. Chairs include Professor Marion Schmid who is chairing a session on Identities, Exile and Self. Speakers from the University of Edinburgh include Matthis Hervieux, a PhD student in Comparative Literature. His presentation, Uchi-soto book, features in a session on Spaces, Memory and Alerity. Matthis also spoke at the 2019 seminar on the theme of Identity / Identité. Other PhD students from the University of Edinburgh to have spoken at previous Interdisciplinary Seminars include: Chiara Quaranta - Film Studies PhD - 2017 seminar: Violence Rosalee Ross - Comparative Literature PhD - 2017 seminar: Violence Ellen Davis-Walker - French PhD - 2016 seminar: Témoignages Naomi Stewart - History of Art PhD - 2016 seminar: Témoignages François Giraud - French PhD - 2015 seminar: Migrations Sarah Arens - French PhD - 2014 seminar: Paysage/Landscape Miruna Cuzman - History of Art PhD - 2014 seminar: Paysage/Landscape Are you interested in postgraduate research in French? We supervise Masters by Research and PhD students with topics spanning the language, literatures and cultures of France and the many countries around the world in which French is spoken. Working with colleagues elsewhere in LLC, and across the wider University, we are able to support research which crosses boundaries between disciplines, including Comparative Literature and intermediality - the relationship between different art forms. Find out more about postgraduate study in French at Edinburgh Find out more about our research centres and networks in French Mar 02 2023 18.00 - 19.00 Literature and animality: zoopoetic renewals Join the Franco-Scottish Research Network for a talk by Anne Simon as part of the Institut Français Écosse's Mois de La Francophonie 2023. Institut français d'Ecosse 379-381 High Street Edinburgh EH1 1PW Find the venue: Institut français d'Ecosse Book your free ticket through the Institut français
Literature and animality: zoopoetic renewals In brief Guest speaker - Anne Simon (École normale supérieure (Paris)) Host - The Franco-Scottish Research Network Topic - Literature and animality: zoopoetic renewals Format - In-person talk in French; Q&A in French or English Book your free ticket on the Institut Français Écosse website About the talk By Anne Simon... What is more specifically human – more characteristic of our species – than literature? Myths, poems and novels bring our linguistic practices to their highest degree of complexity: classical rhythms, unrealistic metaphors, texts that echo each other seem to oppose literature to animality. This division needs to be put into perspective. Based on the expressiveness of animals, on our own animality, on our roaring and snaking alphabet, on the self-portraits of writers as owls, ants or flies, the talk will explain what "zoopoetics" is. Literature, far from cutting us off from the world, is a populated, welcoming and vital ark. About the speaker Anne Simon is Director of Research at the Center for Research on Arts and Language (CNRS / EHESS) and Director of the Centre international d’étude de la philosophie française contemporaine / PhilOfr at the École normale supérieure (Paris). She is the editor of the research notebooks PhilOfr, Pôle Proust and Animots. Her publications include four books on Proust and the zoopoetics essay, Une bête entre les lignes (Wildproject, 2021). About the Franco-Scottish Research Network The Franco-Scottish Research Network in the Humanities and Social Sciences is coordinated by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni. It brings together researchers from the Universities of St Andrews, Edinburgh, and Glasgow, including several based in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC). Since 2014, the Network has organised an annual Interdisciplinary Seminar where doctoral students from the three institutions are invited to present their work, along with a keynote speaker from France. This year, the Seminar is themed Living and dwelling/Habiter le monde. Chairs include Professor Marion Schmid who is chairing a session on Identities, Exile and Self. Speakers from the University of Edinburgh include Matthis Hervieux, a PhD student in Comparative Literature. His presentation, Uchi-soto book, features in a session on Spaces, Memory and Alerity. Matthis also spoke at the 2019 seminar on the theme of Identity / Identité. Other PhD students from the University of Edinburgh to have spoken at previous Interdisciplinary Seminars include: Chiara Quaranta - Film Studies PhD - 2017 seminar: Violence Rosalee Ross - Comparative Literature PhD - 2017 seminar: Violence Ellen Davis-Walker - French PhD - 2016 seminar: Témoignages Naomi Stewart - History of Art PhD - 2016 seminar: Témoignages François Giraud - French PhD - 2015 seminar: Migrations Sarah Arens - French PhD - 2014 seminar: Paysage/Landscape Miruna Cuzman - History of Art PhD - 2014 seminar: Paysage/Landscape Are you interested in postgraduate research in French? We supervise Masters by Research and PhD students with topics spanning the language, literatures and cultures of France and the many countries around the world in which French is spoken. Working with colleagues elsewhere in LLC, and across the wider University, we are able to support research which crosses boundaries between disciplines, including Comparative Literature and intermediality - the relationship between different art forms. Find out more about postgraduate study in French at Edinburgh Find out more about our research centres and networks in French Mar 02 2023 18.00 - 19.00 Literature and animality: zoopoetic renewals Join the Franco-Scottish Research Network for a talk by Anne Simon as part of the Institut Français Écosse's Mois de La Francophonie 2023. Institut français d'Ecosse 379-381 High Street Edinburgh EH1 1PW Find the venue: Institut français d'Ecosse Book your free ticket through the Institut français
Mar 02 2023 18.00 - 19.00 Literature and animality: zoopoetic renewals Join the Franco-Scottish Research Network for a talk by Anne Simon as part of the Institut Français Écosse's Mois de La Francophonie 2023.
