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DANGEROUS IDEAS
3RD - 7TH JUNE 2019 | ANNUAL POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE | PARIS SCHOOL OF ARTS & CULTURE
Reid Hall, 4 Rue de Chevreuse, 75006, Paris
CONFERENCE: DANGEROUS IDEAS
This year, you are cordially invited to look back on, reflect and commemorate parts of our history that have left their mark on our collective consciousness, while engaging in a discussion on the influences of the past on the actions of the present. Living in a fast-paced society where citizens are placed between irreconcilable double binds and rhetoric of pathos, we are very rarely asked to challenge our thoughts, doubt, wonder, or even daydream.
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This is your chance to participate in an annual, one of its kind conference where great minds come together to challenge, explore, and discover the different facets of dangerous ideas.
Sarah Churchwell (Behold America: A History of America First and the American Dream) and Lauren Elkin (Flâneuse: Women Walk the City) will be joining in on the conversation on the development of dangerous ideas and concepts, the heritage of language, and many more. Through the conference, our main aim is to be able to access ideas through a range of disciplines and present them in different forms and modes of thinking -- through not only non-fiction, but poetry, fiction, and other art forms.
From Le Siecle des Lumieneres to the Gilets Jaunes protests, Paris' history has been paved on the demolishment of old ideas and the reorganization of new ones. Danger stands for discomfort, uncertainty, disquietude. Danger is to be balancing on the threshold, to have and to have not, danger is disruptive, unsettling. Therefore, this conference will be tackling issues that are closest to home.
First come, first serve basis. Pre-book your tickets here.
You can check a .pdf version of the programme here.
PANELS & DISCUSSIONS
PANEL 1: POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS, CENSORSHIP, SURVEILLANCE, AND RESISTANCE |
Papers presented by:
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Daniel Bourke | University of Liverpool John Moores, "How lessons from Napoleon III’s censorship of egalitarian thought can bring an openness to polarised public discourse."
Alex Hubbard | University College London, "Writing as Resistance: Specificity and Neoliberalism."
Cristina Parapar | Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - Paris 1, "Toward a Reassessment of Mass Music?"
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Elžbieta Tamulionytė | University of Kent, Paris, Film: On the Other Side, "Search for the Self in a Confined World."
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PANEL 2: DISPLACEMENT, MARGINALISATION, SILENCED NARRATIVES|
Papers presented by:
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Katharina Linne | Queen Mary University of London, "Changing Perceptions: Exploring the term Pariah".
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Rozem Cetinkaya | University of Kent, Canterbury, Film: Every Shoe Has A Story, "Did you ever wonder what your shoe is telling people?"
Kelsey Davies | University Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III, "Collateral Damage: Police, Sex Work, and the Spectacle of Raid and Rescue Operations."
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PANEL 3: REASSESSING THE CANONICAL NARRATIVES|
Papers presented by:
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Apolline Weibel | Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, "'My Mother, She Killed Me': Subverting the Angel/Monster Binary and Reclaiming Maternal Ambivalence in Contemporary Fairy-tales."
Jazmine Linklater | University of Manchester, "Dangerous Repetitions: Harnessing Echo’s Transformative Reiteration."
Lina Vale | University of Melbourne & Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, "Leïla Slimani’s Adèle: Dwelling in the shadows of la Ville Lumière."
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PANEL 4: THE MEMORY AND ICONOGRAPHY OF WOMEN THROUGH HISTORY| Papers presented by:
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Marie F. Arguedas | Kent Brussels School of International Studies, "Women’s protests: towards an iconography of social movements.”
Yasmine Haro | London Institute of Paris, "Women of the Panthéon: An Analysis of Gender in France’s Cultural Memory."
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KEY NOTE SPEAKERS
PROFESSOR SARAH CHURCHWELL, writer of Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream (Bloomsbury, 2018) and Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby (Virago, 2014), will be joining us as a Keynote Speaker for the Conference to discuss the dangerous ideas tackled in her books and her research. Find out more here.
DR. LAUREN ELKIN will be joining in on the discussion as one of our Keynote speakers, drawing on her research on Flâneuse: Women walking the city (Chato & Windus, 2016) and Art Monsters (Chatto). Find out more here.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - CLOSED
THE IDEA
From Le Siècle des Lumières to the Gilets Jaunes protests, Paris’ history has been paved on the demolishment of old ideas and the reorganization of new ones. Danger stands for discomfort, uncertainty, disquietude. Danger is to be balancing on the threshold, to have and to have not, danger is disruptive, unsettling.
THE VISION
Welcoming papers from all the disciplines and all forms, the vision of the conference is to engage with a plethora of ideas on society, culture, history, on a conscious and unconscious level. Whether it is dangerous ideas in science or literature, we welcome candidates to submit poetry, prose, art, short films, academic papers.
GUIDELINES
We are now welcoming proposals from postgraduate students of all disciplines for 15 minute papers and presentations. In addition, we encourage creative responses and invite short-stories, poetry, and short films. The conference is open to the public, and we warmly encourage everyone to participate, voice their opinions, and join in on the conversation. Submit your paper at kentmafestival@gmail.com.
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See our Call For Papers Poster Here | [CLOSED]