Walter Benjamin Kolleg

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Distinguished Lectures Series – Ethics and/of Contingency

Hybrid Train to Contingency: Pascal Mercier’s Transnational Stories

Monday, 2013/10/21, 18:30

Prof. Mireille Rosello

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Public lecture offering insights into cutting-edge thought within the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Event organizer: Walter Benjamin Kolleg
Speaker: Prof. Mireille Rosello
Date: 2013/10/21
Time: 18:30 - 20:00
Venue: Room 220
University Main Building
Hochschulstrasse 4
3012 Berne
Characteristics: open to the public
free of charge

Mireille Rosello

Mireille Rosello is Professor in the Department of Literary Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her main research interests are gender studies (queer theories and performativity) and diasporic, (post)colonial and globalization studies (especially Europe, the Maghreb and the Caribbean). Her publications include Infiltrating Culture: Power and Identity in Contemporary Women’s Writing (1996), Declining the Stereotype: Ethnicity and Representation in French Cultures (1998), Postcolonial Hospitality: The Immigrant as Guest (2001) and The Reparative in Narratives: Works of Mourning in Progress (2010). Prof. Rosello is currently working on a collection of essays on European Multilingualism and on “What’s Queer About Europe” (with S. Dasgupta).

Workshop with Professor Rosello

Prof. Mireille Rosello
Prof. Dr. Thomas Claviez, University of Bern, Moderator

Registration is required for the Distinguished Lectures Series Workshop featuring the invited speaker (for contact details, please see below). After a short introduction round of the participants, the workshop is structured in three parts. Part 1 allows participants to ask questions related to the speaker’s lecture. Part 2 serves discussing a text by the invited speaker that participants receive as preparatory reading to the workshop. Part 3 offers the opportunity to bring up topics of discussion related to one’s own research or interest.

Date: October 22nd, 2013
Time: 9:30 – 12:15
Place: University of Bern, UniS, Schanzeneckstrasse 1, Room A-119

Organization:

Prof. Dr. Thomas Claviez, thomas.claviez@ens.unibe.ch
For all organizational details, please contact dls@wbkolleg.unibe.ch

Registration Workshop:                       

dls@wbkolleg.unibe.ch