Centre for French and Francophone Cultural Studies
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
University of Leeds
Urban Palimpsests and the Archive, research seminar series organised in association with the Leverhulme Trust
All seminars take place on at 17h in Room 1.19 of the Michael Sadler Building, University of Leeds.,
Semester 1:
4 October 2012: Cara Levey (SPLAS/SMLC) Commemoration in a time of consumerism: Sprite, shopping malls and memory in post-dictatorship Uruguay.,
8 November 2012: Diana Battaglia (SPLAS/SMLC): The “Other” Havana of Leonardo Padura Fuentes: Palimpsests, Heterotopias and Cultural Subversion in La Neblina del Ayer,
22 November 2012: Max Silverman (French/SMLC) The palimpsest and cosmopolitical memory.,
6 December 2012: Shirley Jordan (Queen Mary University of London): Not Yet Fallen: Time, Memory and Trace in Stephane Couturier’s City Photography,
10 January 2013: Michael Sheringham (All Souls College, Oxford): Names in the city: Susan Hiller’s J-Street project,
17 January 2013: Denis Provencher (Baltimore/Nottingham Trent) in assoc. with CIGS: Queer Maghrebi –French men tell their sexual tales,
Semester 2:,
31 January 2013: Dora Osborne (Edinburgh): Between the Private and the Public: The City as Archive in Recent German Memory Culture,
21 February 2013: Matthew John (French/SMLC): The Cinematic Idler and the Politics of the the Film-as-Archive,
28 February 2013: Claire Launchbury (French/SMLC): Beirut and the urban machine de mémoire.,
7 March 2013: Bruno Levasseur (Roehampton): Archive, banlieue et mémoire: vie et mort de Renoir ou les imaginaires culturels d’une barre de la Cité des Quatre Mille,
14 March 2013: Claire Lozier (French/SMLC): Louis Ferdinand Celine’s London: reading the city
Seminar blog: http://urbanpalimpsestsandthearchive.wordpress.com
Convenor: Dr Claire Launchbury (French/SMLC) C.L.Launchbury@leeds.ac.uk
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