‘Between Two Incommensurable Languages, English and Korean: 
What Can Still Be Conveyed in Translation’.

Hye-Joon Yoon (Department of English and Graduate Programme in Comparative Studies, Yonsei University).

This lecture is given in the context of a joint project between UNIGE and Yonsei University which explores the topic of ‘Poetry, Creativity and Close Reading in the Transnational Digital Age’. 

Work-in-progress papers.

Marianna Riishojgaard (UNIGE). ‘Problematic Performance: Music and Byron’s Verse Drama’.

Caroline Martin (UNIGE). ‘Textual Designs: Narrative Ideology and Predictive Processing’.

‘When Words Meet Music: Notes on Translation, Collaboration, and Diverse Audiences’.

Tsitsi Jaji (Duke University).

This workshop will provide doctoral students in English from across CUSO universities the opportunity to think through their approaches to bridging literary studies and musicology with an internationally recognized expert in the field, Prof. Tsitsi Jaji. The workshop will include short interventions by CUSO doctoral students whose research addresses the intersections of music and literature. Following student presentations, the workshop will move on to a ‘report from the field’ by Prof. Jaji, ranging from her archival research to questions of transdisciplinary rigor to notes on creative collaborations with poets and composers/performers. It will proceed to a shared discussion about the challenges current graduate students are encountering, and a broader vision that will shape our future work as pedagogues, researchers, and members of both scholarly and public collectivities.

More information about this workshop can be found on the CUSO website.

Please note that this session will not place in Phil 204 but in the L’Ancienne École de médecine.

Landscapes of the Mind.

In this session Simon Swift (UNIGE) and Penny Bradshaw (Cumbria University) will speak about their SNSF Agora project ‘Landscapes of the Mind’ which brings refugees and migrants into areas of natural beauty in Switzerland and Britain to help develop mindfulness and creativity, under the tutelage of the Romantic poets, novelists and political theoreticians who wrote about these locations, and in dialogue with contemporary writers, artists and mindfulness practitioners.

The Question of Living.

In this session, Florence Schnebelen (Maîtresse de conférences en littérature comparée, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France) and Patrick Jones (UNIGE) will dialogue around the following questions: What can literature teach us about the activity of leading a life? How does literature shape our conceptions of a good or authentically lived life? They will discuss the existential themes of their recent monographs (Le Réel et l’Absolu and Henry James and the Question of Living) and will also speak about the comparative methods they use to put literature and philosophy in meaningful dialogue with one another.

Demystifying the archive: Lessons from the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne papers.

Sofia Baliño (UNIGE).

Exploring the archive of an author can be an exhilarating, rewarding, and even destabilizing experience. But what is archival research like in practice and how can it open up new possibilities for your work? This session will examine the promises and pitfalls of accessing and using archival materials, looking at different approaches that range from in-person site visits to virtual reading rooms and collaborations with remote researchers. It will include concrete examples from dissertation and post-doctoral research, including from analyzing the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne papers at the New York Public Library and the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, along with analyses of materials by similar authors whose works are housed at the Huntington Library, UCLA, and the University of Toronto.