Inceptions : exploring the common ground of modern European tradition

Online seminar

This seminar questions the foundations and articulations that determine the salient features of European culture. The seminar includes contributions on the analysis of texts and authors that have marked the thought and the history of modern and contemporary culture, as well as on the genesis and metamorphosis of cultural images and ideas, on the symbols and myths that have oriented and still orient the European intellectual and cultural horizon.
The Buildings of the Asiatic Company, seen from St. Annæ Street, Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1902
The Buildings of the Asiatic Company, seen from St. Annæ Street, Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1902

The Institut for Engelsk, Germansk og Romansk (Engerom) of the University of Copenhagen in collaboration with the Laboratoire Pays Germaniques - Transferts Culturels (UMR 8547) of the Ecole normale superieure -PSL (Paris), is organising a joint seminar dedicated to PhD students. The aim of the seminar is to encourage exchange and mutual debate between Phd Students of the two institutions by expanding the network of scientific collaborations, but also and above all by providing a platform for discussion and development of individual research projects. By exploiting the multidisciplinary expertise represented in the sceintific curricula of the two institutes, we will question the foundations and articulations that determine the salient features of European culture.

PROGRAM

Thursday, 25th February 2021
16h
Building art theory in the "pale of history" : American criticism and French philosophy in the end of the 20th century.
Speaker : Léa Jusseau (Université de Lausanne)
Respondent : Katia Schneller (Ecole supérieure d’art et design - Grenoble-Valence)

Thursday, 11th March 2021
16h
Re-making Norse myths in the 19th century : the case of the Valkyries.
Speaker : Susan Filoche-Rommé (PSL / ENS, UMR 8547)
Respondent : Knut Ljøgodt (Nordic Institute of Art, Oslo)

Where:https://ucph-ku.zoom.us/j/66968597284?pwd=K2FoK1NRaFhyQ2tDSzFESHhPODY0dz09
Meeting ID: 669 6859 7284
Meeting code: 909184

Thursday, 25th March 2021
16h
A manuscript out of place. Luigi Settembrini and the pseudotranslation “I Neoplatonici”.
Speaker : Silvia Amarante (UCPH, Engerom)
Respondent : Tom Toremans (KU Leuven)

Wednesday, 7th April 2021
16h
On Translatables. Polysemy and Dissemination in Jacques Derrida.
Speaker : Kristian Olesen Toft (UCPH, Engerom)
Respondent : Geoffrey Bennington (Emory College, Atlanta)

Thursday, 22nd April 2021
16h
Verbs of volition and mood (alternation).
Speaker : Anders Andersen (UCPH, Engerom)
Respondent : Kees Hengeveld (University of Amsterdam)

Thursday, 6th May 2021
16h
A Technological Genealogy of Battery Cages used for Laying Hens.
Speaker : Samuel Ducourant (ENS / PSL)
Respondent : Peter Sandøe (UCPH, IFRO / IVH)

Thursday, 20th May 2021
16h
To act intellectually and critically : Voltaire’s fight for Newton.
Speaker : Jytte Lyngvig (UCPH, Engerom)
Respondent : Glenn Roe (Sorbonne Université)

Mis à jour le 23/2/2023