Literature Symposium to enlighten students
Kelli Kickham, Staff Writer
Anyone with an interest in literature should not miss the upcoming event “Résistance(s).”
On Friday the University of Tulsa is hosting the annual Comparative Literature Symposium, which will feature well-known writers, linguists, psychoanalysts and philosophers.
This year’s topic of discussion will be resistance in the 21st century.
While literature is consistently reduced in the field of humanities to a simple cultural artifact, this conference would like to examine how it constitutes the very place in which an essential resistance is imprinted on language.
This interdisciplinary colloquium will allow writers to address the different modalities by which their work enacts an active and performative form of resistance.
It will also focus on the possibilities of rejuvenating theoretical perspectives in philosophy, psychoanalysis and linguistics.
These perspectives can express people’s resistance to a dominant trend.
The speakers hail from all over the world, including France and here at TU.
One of the speakers this year is TU’s own Lydie Meunier, associate professor of French and Linguistics.
Also speaking this year is Brian Evenson, writer and associate professor of English and chair of the literary arts program at Brown University.
Claire Nouvet, associate professor of French and comparative literature at Emory University and Françoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudillière, psychoanalysts from Paris, will also speak.
Lastly, Christopher Treadwell, a visiting professor of French literature at Miami University in Ohio, and Didier Moulinier, a philosopher and author from France, will be speaking.
The symposium promises to be enlightening and, best of all, free and open to the public.
The lectures will occur from 9 a.m.–6 p.m Friday in the Chouteau Room of the Allen Chapman Activity Center.
The Comparative Literature Symposium is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, University of Tulsa Henry Kendall College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Languages.
For more information about the symposium, please contact Karl Pollin, TU assistant professor of French, at karl-pollin@utulsa.edu.
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