Organisé par l’université de Rennes 2 Haute Bretagne

En collaboration avec l’université de Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne

À Rennes, les 18, 19 et 20 mars 2010

Sous la responsabilité scientifique de Leszek Brogowski, professeur d’esthétique à l’université de Rennes 2 Haute Bretagne, et d’Anne Mœglin-Delcroix, professeur de philosophie de l’art à l’université de Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne

Colloque organisé dans le cadre du séminaire interuniversitaire « Papier en action » (équipe d’accueil « Arts : pratiques et poétiques » [EA 3208], laboratoire « L’œuvre et l’image », université de Rennes 2 Haute Bretagne et Centre de philosophie de l’art [EA 3562] de l’université de Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne). 

Abstract submission dead line: 2 April 2010

Keynote speakers of the conference include: *Kevin Hart* (Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies, University of Virginia) and *Shira Wolosky* (Professor of American Studies and English Literature, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The conference Literary Transcendences welcomes contributions on the contemporary notions and significance of transcendence, be they reinterpretations of literary, philosophical or theological texts and traditions, or novel theoretical openings.

Lørdag 6. februar 2010 kl. kl. 16:00 

Aalborg Kloster, Klosterjordet 1, 9000 Aalborg 

På festivalen FEBRUAR DAGE spiller Bolette Roed, Michael Norman og Per Dybro Sørensen musik Gunnar Bergs TRIEDRA for blokfløjte solo og AR-GOAT III for guitarduo samt værker af Vagn Holmboe, Axel Borup-Jørgensen, Niels Chr. Rasmussen – og Johann Sebastian Bach. Koncerten er arrangeret af Foreningen Ny Musik 

Lørdag 6. februar 2010 kl. 15 

Børnekulturhuset Fyrtøjet, Hans Jensens Stræde 21, 5000 Odense C 

PRINSESSEN PÅ ÆRTEN. Gunnar Bergs musikalske eventyr for fortæller, fløjte og cello fremføres af Pia Sigmund, Kirsten og Niels Poulsen i anledning af støttearrangementet Plankeværk i Peru. 

Taking as its point of departure the notion of community in mid-twentieth century French literature and thought, this ambitious study seeks to uncover the ways in which Breton, Bataille, Sartre and Barthes used literature and art to engage with the question of reconceptualizing society. The authors studied put to work the concepts of Thanatos, sado-masochism and (self-)sacrifice; they also write more poetically about man's attraction to Silence, the Night and the Neutral. Many sociological discourses on the question of community tend to marginalize the drives inherent within these concepts; Lubecker argues it is essential to take these drives into account when theorising the question of community, otherwise they may return in the atavistic form of myths. Moreover if handled with care and attention they can prove to be a resource.

More information at http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=133791&SubjectId=997&Subject2Id=1580

We are pleased to announce that a week-long writers' retreat will be held at Hald Hovedgaard's lakeside estate in northern Denmark from May 8 to May 16, 2010. The retreat will bring together five American writers and five Danish writers in a beautiful location where they will be able to work without interruption in a supportive environment. The American writers chosen to participate in the retreat will receive roundtrip airfare from New York to Denmark, room and board throughout their stay, and a travel stipend. The available spots are open to writers who have published, or who are under contract to publish, at least one book of fiction or poetry.

 årtiets sidste poetiske debut, men ikke mindste 

INDEFRARØD

af

Frank Kjørup 

”Ernst har en ært.” Med disse ord begynder INDEFRARØD – en strøm af billeder, en bevægelse af stemmer gennem tekst af forskellig art, skiftende register: Klange og genklange – fra prosaisk til lyrisk og midt imellem – bærer den umulige fortælling, den om mysteriet, livet, som bliver til sang, en nynnen måske kun, udsprungen som den er af eventyrligt grundstemt drøm. 

Frank Kjørup er født 31. marts 1969 i København. INDEFRARØD er hans skønlitterære debut. 

INDEFRARØD udkommer 29. december 2009. 

omslag Lasse Krog Møller 

isbn 978-87-87489-50-8 

1. udgave, 1. oplag 

48 sider, 100 kr. 

Bogen kan bestilles via forlagets hjemmeside www.afterhand.blogspot.com og hos landets boghandlere.

Founded at Ghent University (Belgium) in 2008, the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM) devotes itself to the study of the avant-garde and modernism in Europe within a global setting, throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The network promotes interdisciplinary and intermedial research on experimental aesthetics and poetics, and aims to encourage an interest in the cultural dimensions and contexts of the avant-garde and modernism. EAM aspires to embrace the wide variety within avant-garde and modernism studies, and welcomes all scholars engaged in these areas of research to participate in its bi-annual conferences and to contribute to its open-source bibliography.

All EAM initiatives, including its book series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, are trilingual (English, French and German).

The next EAM conference High and Low will be held at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan in Poland from 9-11 September 2010. Visit the conference website

The EAM conference in 2012 will be hosted by the University of Kent in the UK.

Membership

EAM membership is to be renewed every two years. The membership fee is € 50. To facilitate the exchange of expertise, members’ current research interests and two of their representative publications will also be mentioned on the EAM website. Members will receive free access to a digital copy of subsequent volumes in the EAM book series. The second volume will appear in mid-2011. 

The registration form can be found here

IVårt brokigas ochellericke! diskuterar Per Bäckström olika strategier för att förstå och tolka experimentell poesi, med utgångspunkt i avantgardets sönderbrutna språk, så som det kom till uttryck i exempelvis konkret poesi under sextiotalet. Undersökningens huvudfrågeställning är: fi nns det traditionella poesiteorier som är användbara för tolkningen av experimentell poesi, eller krävs det helt nya teorier och metoder för att möta detta slags dikter? Analysen rör sig från dansk poetik och Gunnar Ekelöf, Erik Lindegren och Henri Michaux, via det groteska och psykosens språk till dansk och svensk experimentell poesi.

ISBN: 978 91 7247 219 8

258 sidor

F-pris 120 kr

Inbunden

Utkommer i januari på ellerströms

förlag 

Download flyer here 

Tressernes kunst er i livlig dialog med samtiden. Gennem den mest eksperimenterende del af kunsten får man et billede af de voldsomme skift, der indtraf i perioden, og som grundlæggende ændrede den traditionelle hierarkiske samfundsorden, de herskende smagsnormer, hverdagslivet og de personlige relationer. Det er den eksperimenterende tilgang til verden - lysten til at krydse grænserne mellem kunstarter og mellem kunst, liv og politik - der har givet tresserne deres særlige stråleglans.

De eksperimenterende tressere er den første samlede fremstilling af perioden, som går på tværs af kunstarterne og trækker forbindelsen til samtidsfænomener som massemedier, kulturkamp, tegneserier og ungdomsoprør.

Anmälan kan göras från och med 26 oktober 2009 och senast 15/1 2010 via en särskild registreringsblankett på vår hemsida:

  http://conference.sol.lu.se/iass-2010

Förslag till 20 minuters föredrag och preliminära abstracts (cirka 150 - 200 ord) sänds till samma hemsida, senast 15/1 2010.

På hemsidan ges också  information om de tankar som ligger bakom konferensens tema och som kan ge uppslag till föredrag och papers. Konferensspråket är i första hand något av de skandinaviska språken, i andra hand engelska.

Uppgifter om konferensavgift, utflykter och den avslutande banketten kommer att återfinnas på hemsidan, liksom information om hotell och inkvartering i olika prislägen. Den 1/3 2010 är dead-line för den slutgiltiga utformningen av de abstracts, som kommer att tryckas i programmet inför konferensen.

Fram till 26/10, då anmälan kan göras på hemsidan - och naturligtvis även senare - kan frågor kring tänkta föredrag och praktiska omständigheter ställas till organisationskommittén, som tills vidare består av

Per Erik Ljung  (Per_Erik@Ljung@litt.lu.se)

Claes-Göran Holmberg (Claes-Goran.Holmberg@litt.lu.se)

9-11 September 2010, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

Call for Participation – Due November 30, 2009

EAM and session chairs invite your participation in one of the selected thematic sessions. The session list can be found below. To find out more about the accepted sessions visit the conference’s website (www.eam2010.amu.edu.pl). 

Proposals for participation in sessions should be sent directly to the appropriate session chair(s), and not to EAM.

Each proposal should include:

1. The paper’s title and a 500-word abstract of the paper

2. The speaker’s name, institutional affiliation, position or title and contact information.

3. The speaker’s CV (one page)

Proposals for participation in sessions must be received by November 30, 2009.

Chairs determine the speakers for their sessions and reply to all applicants by February 1, 2010.

No one may participate in more than one session. Session chairs must be informed if one or more proposals are being submitted to other sessions for consideration. Acceptance in a session implies a commitment to attend that session and participate in person. 

For all queries, please contact the principal organiser: Agata Jakubowska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) at: eam2010@amu.edu.pl

www.eam2010.amu.edu.pl

German and French versions below 

The conference Historizing the Avant-Garde in Copenhagen on November 20-22 2009 marks the completion of the five years of research activity in the Nordic Network for Avant-Garde Studies sponsored by the Nordic Council for Research (NordForsk). It will also be the occasion for the publication of the first of four volumes on The Cultural History of the Nordic Avant-Garde, edited by members of the research network. Volume 1 covers the period 1900-1925,  the three following volumes (1925-50, 1950-75 and 1975-today) will appear during the next three years. 

The concluding conference of the research network will focus on historiographical questions: What are the adequate ways of writing the history of the avant-garde? From the vantage point of the 21st century we can map the cultural geography of the avant-garde movements and traditions of the 20th century. Historical connections severed by war and iron curtain can be reconstructed. And changing global and postcolonial developments throw new light on the question of centres and peripheries, as well as on the relation between nationalism and international exchange. Intensified archival work, republication of historical documents and much recent research present new perspectives on the concepts of the historical avant-garde and the neo-avant-garde. To what extent are these concepts still useful to-day? And what is the significance of the rediscovery and appropriation of figures, concepts and strategies of the historical avant-garde after World War 2? In what ways has the relation between the avant-garde and the art institution changed? And do concrete institutions, for instance within a welfare state, support or subsume avant-garde art? Does avant-garde art still have a critical role to play? Which groups and individual artists should be included as part of the avant-garde? In what ways have the small avant-garde groups contributed to the cultural renewal in the Nordic countries during the 20th century? Do the heterogenous groups and movements of the 20th century form a coherent current which may be termed the avant-garde? And is there an avant-garde to-day? What would be the marks of such an avant-garde? And what is the relation between avant-garde and technology? The Cultural History of the Nordic Avant-Garde is written from the perspective of the avant-garde movements as networks of heterogenous groups, persons and isms – what are the merits and disadvantages of this approach? 

Keynotes include Professor Vojtech Lahoda ( University of Prague), Professor Wolfgang Asholt (Universität Osnabrück) and Dr. Malte Hagener (Universität Lüneburg).

We welcome papers which discuss such problems and concepts of the historiography of the avant-garde. Please indicate whether your paper belongs under the heading of - cultural geography - technology - institution and institutions or – general historiography.

Please send 200 word abstracts to Marianne Ping Huang mphuang@hum.ku.dk or Tania Ørum tania@hum.ku.dk by September 1st 2009.