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This innovative and interdisciplinary event is open to all ÌÇÐÄTV staff and students and explores the life and the discoveries of Rosalind Franklin - chemist, biologist and x-ray crystallographer - whose photograph 51 was the key to unlocking the mystery of the structure of DNA. This journey will happen with the help of both 'academic' and 'creative' speakers and through an innovative pedagogical approach that combines science, music and performance.

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Registration is free. Lunch and refreshments will be provided throughout the day.

Co-sponsored by Hispanic Studies/the School of Modern Languages and Cultures

Lunch: 12 - 1 pm (H.503): Free and open to all

Seminar: 1 - 3 pm (H.545)

This paper proposes the notions of displacement and decentering, in order to explore the possibilities presented by understanding the novel as a transnational genre, that is, a genre which, despite being rooted in specific contexts, has traversed or surpassed national frontiers, blurring territorial limits since its emergence in the early eighteenth century up until the first decades of the twentieth century. With the aim of problematizing the concept of world literature, it argues the ongoing need to mobilize the categories of centre and periphery to examine the nineteenth-century Brazilian novel, in which the tension between local matters and the European model forms an integral element, lying at the heart of its most relevant creations.

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Professor Sandra Vasconcelos of the University of São Paulo - visiting IAS fellow.

(Dis)placing and (De)centring the Novel: Some Notes on World Literature.

Abstract:

This paper proposes the notions of displacement and decentering, in order to explore the possibilities presented by understanding the novel as a transnational genre, that is, a genre which, despite being rooted in specific contexts, has traversed or surpassed national frontiers, blurring territorial limits since its emergence in the early eighteenth century up until the first decades of the twentieth century. With the aim of problematizing the concept of world literature, it argues the ongoing need to mobilize the categories of centre and periphery to examine the nineteenth-century Brazilian novel, in which the tension between local matters and the European model forms an integral element, lying at the heart of its most relevant creations.

With IAS Residential Fellow, Professor Grant Farred, Cornell University

In his essays, especially in the collections "Nobody Knows My Name" and "Notes of a Native Son," James Baldwin -- in strategic moments -- offers a provocation: the only true American is not those who trace their heritage to the early colonists, but the Negro. The Negro, descended of slaves, subjected to Jim Crow laws under Reconstruction and well beyond, denied equality, is the only American subject who properly incarnates what it means to be an American. Through this term, Baldwin proposes an entirely novel way to conceive of the American experience -- one that begins in subjugation.

please contact Pierre-Philippe Fraiture at: P-P.Fraiture@warwick .ac.uk for more information.