Distinguished Lectures Series – Ethics and/of Contingency

The Meanings of 'Ambivalence': Its Origins and Ends

Monday, 2016/04/11, 18:30

Prof. Laura Marcus, University of Oxford

Copyright

Public lecture offering insights into cutting-edge thought within the Humanities and Social Sciences. Prof. Marcus's talk and workshop have been co-organized and generously co-funded by the Department of English's Chair of Literatures in English/ North American Literature and Culture.

Event organizer: Walter Benjamin Kolleg
Speaker: Prof. Laura Marcus, University of Oxford
Date: 2016/04/11
Time: 18:30 - 20:00
Venue: Room 201
Main Building
Hochschulstrasse 4
3012 Berne
Characteristics: open to the public
free of charge

Laura Marcus

Laura Marcus is the Goldsmiths‘ Professor of English Literature and Fellow of New College, University of Oxford. As the co-editor of The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature (2004), her research and teaching expertise is not limited to the past century, but extends to early film, literature and culture of the nineteenth century, and contemporary fiction. She currently works on scholarly editions of the work of modernist writers Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf and conducts a study of the concept of ‘rhythm’ in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in a range of disciplinary contexts. Prominent publications include The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period (2007) and Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema (2014).

Workshop with Professor Marcus

Prof. Laura Marcus, University of Oxford
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: April 12th, 2016
Time: 9:30 – 12:15
Place: University of Bern, UniS, Schanzeneckstrasse 1, Room B-105

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