Postgraduate "Work In Progress" Seminar
Postgraduate Work-In-Progress SeminarA weekly seminar for Philosophy postgraduates to present their in-progress work, followed by a well-spirited trip to the pub for food and drinks. Useful InfoThe WIP provides a risk-free and supportive space for postgraduates to present their work and receive feedback from other graduates and faculty.
Attendance optional but highly recommended. All postgraduates are welcome to present or attend -- whether MA, MPhil, PhD, Visitors, etc. 馃搮 Format
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NEXT TALKIgnacio Pe帽a Caroca (PhD) Consent Thursday 07/05/2026 5pm - 6:15pm S1.50 ORGANISERS |
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PG WiP Seminar
John Hundley will present "No Time As Now: Temporality and Trauma in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz". Everyone welcome!
The current schedule for the WiP for Term 1 can be found on the departmental website . There are still spots available if you would like to present - please email me (Chris.Hall.1@warwick.ac.uk) if you are interested in doing so.
Abstract
The German writer W.G. Sebald published what would be his final novel, Austerlitz, in late 2001, a mere three months before his death. A flurry of scholarship then and since has investigated the novel鈥檚 preoccupation with melancholy, intertextuality, and parataxis. The theme of time, however, has escaped much critical attention. Drawing on the work of T.W. Adorno and Jean Am茅ry, I contend that Austerlitz supplies a critique of linear time through the perspective of survivor experience. Sebald describes a form of temporal experience that is 鈥榖eyond鈥� or 鈥榦utside鈥� [础耻脽别谤-诲别谤-窜别颈迟-厂别颈苍] of linear, flowing time. Sebald presents this as the outcome of a trauma that is both social and historical in origin: the unnameable totality of the Holocaust across Europe. Given the ongoing violence across the globe today, this analysis finally suggests that we have not yet come to terms with the trauma of history.
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