[Antiquitas] Stephen Halliwellin vierailuluento Helsingissä 25.8.

[Sari Kivistö]

Tervehdys,
    tiedoksenne, että prof. Stephen Halliwell (University of St  
Andrews) pitää 25.8.2010 vierailuluennon Helsingissä Mimesis, Ethics  
and Style -konferenssin yhteydessä. Halliwellin ja muiden plenaristien  
luennot ovat avoimia ja maksuttomia kaikille. Lisätietoja luennoista  
ja konferenssista alla.
      kesäterv. sari kivistö

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Mimesis, Ethics and Style
International Conference on Literary Representation
University of Helsinki
25.–27.8.2010
Venue: Tieteiden Talo (Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki, Hall 104)


This interdisciplinary conference focuses on issues of representation,  
on how literature negotiates its relationship to the world of everyday  
experience. The plenary speakers for the conference are Robert Doran  
(University of Rochester), Stephen Halliwell (University of St  
Andrews), Jonathan Hart (University of Alberta) and Patricia Waugh  
(University of Durham). The plenary lectures are open to all, or you  
can take part in the entire conference by paying the registration fee.

Welcome!


Timetable for the plenary lectures (open to all):

Wednesday, 25th August
15.15–16.15
Stephen Halliwell: “Aristotelian Mimesis between Theory and Practice”

Thursday, 26th August
10.00–12.00
Robert Doran: “Mimesis and Aesthetic Redemption”
Patricia Waugh: “World-building in Fiction: Solid Geometries of the Word”

Friday, 27th August
15.30–16.30
Jonathan Hart: “Aristotle, Recognition and Cultural Encounters”

Detailed programme for the conference and the list of participants can  
be found at our website at  
http://www.eng.helsinki.fi/mimesis/konferenssi_eng.html

In order to take part in the conference beyond the plenary lectures,  
please fill in the registration form by 16th August at:
https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/21960/lomake.html. Conference  
fee is 30 euros (undergraduate students 15 euros). Further information  
on registration and payment can be found by opening the registration  
form.

“Mimesis, Ethics and Style” is hosted by the Department of Finnish,  
Finno-Ugrian, and Scandinavian Studies, in cooperation with the  
Finnish Graduate School of Literary Studies, Finnish Literary Research  
Society, and the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.

On behalf of the organising committee,

Sari Kivistö
Helsinki Collegium for Advances Studies
sari.kivisto at helsinki.fi
+358 9 191 23458


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Robert Doran is Assistant Professor of French and Comparative  
Literature at the University of Rochester, and the author of a number  
of recent articles on Auerbach, mimesis and literary history. He is  
currently working towards a volume titled The Sublime: Cultural  
Aesthetics from Longinus to Nietzsche. He is also the editor of  
Mimesis and Theory: Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953-2005  
(2008), a collection which brings together twenty of René Girard's  
uncollected essays on literature and literary theory.

Stephen Halliwell is Professor of Greek at the University of St  
Andrews. His research interests cover a wide area of the history and  
criticism of ancient Greek literature and the Classical Tradition,  
including attitudes to laughter, the theory of tragedy and Greek  
theatre practice. In 2002 he published The Aesthetics of Mimesis:  
Ancient Texts and Modern Problems, and his current project is a book  
entitled Between Ecstasy and Truth: Values and Problems in Greek  
Conceptions of Poetry.

Professor Jonathan Hart is the Director of the Comparative Literature  
Program at the University of Alberta. His research interests include  
cultural history and comparative Canadian and American studies, as  
well as the visual representations of the New World. Professor Hart is  
the editor of The Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, and his  
most recent publications are Interpreting Cultures: Literature,  
Religion and the Human Sciences (2006) and Comparing Empires: European  
Colonialism from Portuguese Expansion to the Spanish-American War  
(2008).

Professor Patricia Waugh from the Department of English Studies at the  
University of Durham has published widely on the relationship between  
literature, philosophy and science, and is the co-organiser of the  
2008-2009 Institute of Advanced Study workshop series on ‘Thinking  
with Feeling’ on literature, philosophy and the cognitive sciences.  
The third edition of her seminal Metafiction: The Theory and Practice  
of Self-Conscious Fiction will be published by Routledge in 2009, and  
her new volume The Two Cultures: Literature, Science and the Good  
Society is forthcoming in 2010.