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Organised by: The Warburg Institute and the University of ÌÇÐÄTV

Specialist research training for doctoral students working on Renaissance and early modern subjects in a range of disciplines. Advance registration and payment of £60.00 fee required.

This conference brings together writers and scholars with the aim of locating Bolaño’s work within the broad context of interest in the problems and possibilities of reading world literature today. Invited speakers include Rubén Gallo, John Kraniauskas and Roberto Tejada.

2013 marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Chilean novelist and poet Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003). The past decade has seen Bolaño’s reputation not only consolidated within the Spanish-speaking world, where he has come to be seen as the leading writer of his generation, but established on a global scale. Translations of his fiction, nonfiction and poetry continue to proliferate, along with articles, critical collections, monographs and documentaries; the international attention to his work, especially his novels The Savage Detectives and the posthumously published 2666, have placed him in the category of ‘the world’s authors’ (Francisco Goldman). At the same time, the category of world literature itself has become subject to renewed scrutiny and academic debate in the years since Bolaño’s death. The question of situating the world in Bolaño’s work, along with his work in the world, offers the opportunity for assessing new methodologies in C21 world-literary studies and new mappings of the continuum between aesthetics and politics.

This conference brings together writers and scholars with the aim of locating Bolaño’s work within the broad context of interest in the problems and possibilities of reading world literature today. Invited speakers include Francisco Goldman and Roberto Tejada.

This two day conference brings together writers and scholars with the aim of locating Bolaño’s work within the broad context of interest in the problems and possibilities of reading world literature today. Invited speakers include Carmen Boullosa, Francisco Goldman and Roberto Tejada.

"Early Modern France in New Contexts" is a bi-lingual (Anglo-French) workshop organised by the Early Modern Forum, to be held in the Ramphal building on 16-17 May 2013. The two main topics of discussion are: 'Nourriture, Boire, et Émotions' and 'Le dessous des cartes: le clandestin et la cachette dans la politique de l'information en l'Europe à l’époque moderne'. Papers will be delivered in both French and English, and at the close of each day there will be a roundtable discussion to which all atendees are welcome to contribute.

Speakers include: Matthew Jackson, Matthieu Lecoutre, Patrick Dandrey, Ingrid De Smet, Mark Greengrass, Johann Petitjean, Stephane Haffemayer, Hans Cools and Penny Roberts.

This two-day international conference in Venice will focus on the development, beginning in the late eighteenth-century, of what may be considered a modern Italian audience: readers and spectators who, as an albeit diverse group, collectively reflected the modernizing effects of the social, historical, economic, and technological transformations taking place in Italy during this period.

A day of practical sessions designed to help improve your presentation and public speaking skills.

LUNCH 1-2

2-2.15 Opening Remarks: Howard Chiang

SESSION 1

2.15-2.45 Katherine Angel (ÌÇÐÄTV), “A glorious revolution, a global DSM? The distorting effects of narratives about American psychiatry”

2.45-3.15 Howard Chiang (ÌÇÐÄTV), "Translating Culture and Psychiatry across the Pacific: The Case of Koro

3.15-4 Comment: Mathew Thomson (ÌÇÐÄTV) & discussion

COFFEE 4-4.15

SESSION 2

4.15-4.45 Mohan Rao (JNU) and Sarah Hodges (ÌÇÐÄTV), “Feminists Fight Back: The Indian Women’s Movement and International Population Control”

4.45-5.15 Aditya Bharadwaj (Geneva), "Local Cells for Global Health? Reimagining the Rise of Stem Cell Biotechnologies in India"

5.15-6PM Comment: Carol Wolkowitz (ÌÇÐÄTV) & discussion

6PM-6.15 Closing remarks: Sarah Hodges “‘The Global Menace’ revisted”

Wine reception

Organised by Howard Chiang and Sarah Hodges (History Department, ÌÇÐÄTV

University),