Department of European Cultures & Languages

Staff research symposium

Friday, 19 November 2010 2-6pm

Venue (B04 Malet St Building)

PROGRAMME:

2.00 to 3.30 pm:

Naomi Segal: Six Strays: Marginal Dogs from Gustave Flaubert’s L’Education Sentimentale to Jane Campion’s The Piano

Jean Braybrook: Remy Belleau (1528-1577) and Bathsheba: The Healing Power of Poetry

3.30 to 4.00 pm:  Tea and Coffee Break

4.00 to 5. 30 pm:

Damian Catani: The Dichotomy of Evil: Victims and Perpetrators in Jonathan Littell’s Les Bienveillantes

John Walker: Herder, Humboldt and Habermas: Some Reflections on Multiculturalism, Translation and the Difference of the German Enlightenment