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Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
BEYOND POSITIVIST HISTORY, “STRUCTURE OF DEVELOPMENT”
AND “HORIZON OF EXPECTATION”
Meeting of the European Network for Reception Studies,
Department of English and American Studies, Charles University in Prague
7 October 2006
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- Focusing on philosophical, aesthetic, historical and other aspects
of the concept of period and the methods of periodization in literary
and cultural studies the meeting will reinterpret their traditional
uses, such as the assimilation of otherness and construction of
continuity, and the more recent ones, for instance, the Prague School’s
(Vodička’s) notion of “concretization” or Konstanz school’s (Jauss’s)
“intersections of synchrony and diachrony” in the process of aesthetic
experience. Confronting them with selected themes in the late
twentieth-century philosophy (e.g., Foucault’s “episteme”, “discursive
formation”, “archive”; Deleuze’s “event”, “repetition of difference”,
“complication”, “fold”) and cultural history (e.g., Greenblatt’s
“self-fashioning”, “negotiation”, “circulation”; Pratt’s “contact
zones”), the meeting will consider the possibilities of periodization
in contemporary theoretical and historical discourses and its functions
in the process of shaping of individual and cultural memories.
- The European Network for Reception Studies is funded by The British Academy and coordinated by
- Dr. Elinor Shaffer, Director, Research Project
Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe; Senior Research
Fellow, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of
London, and
- Professor Annick Duperray, Universtité de Provence, Aix-en-Provence and Marseille.
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Programme
The keynote public lecture
“History without Periods: Dilemma or Deliverance?”
will be delivered by
Professor Randolph Starn
Department of History, University of California at Berkeley
- on Saturday, 7 October 2006, from 11 am,
ATTENTION! CHANGE OF THE VENUE!
Due to the construction works in the Main
Building of the Faculty of Arts, the Meeting will take place in Room 138
(first floor), Celetna 20, Prague 1 (close to the Old Town Square -
Staromestske namesti). There will be signs pointing to that room. The
starting time remains the same.
Discussion after the lecture
will be opened by the responses of
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Professor Thomas Glick (Department of History, Boston University)
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Professor Robert Weninger (Department of German, King’s College, University of London)
- Professor Martin Procházka (Department of English and American Studies,
- Charles University, Prague).
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The meeting will continue after lunch by a closed seminar session.
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