>Wish I was in London this time of year.
Phil
>THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
>BAKHTIN CENTRE
>THEORY RESEARCH SEMINAR
>SPRING SEMESTER 2002/2003
>
>CHARLIE GERE
>
>'"Brains in Vats, Giant Brains and World Brains": The Brain as
>Metaphor in Digital Culture'
>
>(a seminar in the Critical Theory and Technology series)
>
>Tuesday 11 February 2003, 5.156.45
>
>Charlie Gere is the course director of the MA Digital Art History at
>the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck
>College. He has recently published Digital Culture (Reaktion, 2002).
>His current research includes directing an AHRB-funded research
>project looking at the history of British Cybernetic and Computer Art
>from the beginnings to 1980. He is also undertaking research into the
>relation between culture and the speed of technological evolution
>from the early nineteenth century up to the present day.
>
>SHIFRA SHARLIN
>
>'Bakhtin in Vitebsk: The Relationship between Art and Life?'
>
>Tuesday 18 February 2003, 5.156.45
>
>Shifra Sharlin holds degrees in Classics and Rhetoric from the
>University of California-Berkeley, and is currently a third-year PhD
>student in the Composition/Rhetoric programme at the University of
>WisconsinMadison. This paper is part of a larger project that looks
>to Bakhtin's early works and his writings on genre as a way of
>theorising the relationship between discourse and life.
>
>CATHERINE BELSEY
>
>'Beyond Literature and Cultural Studies: The Case for Cultural
>Criticism'
>
>(a seminar in the Critical Theory and Technology series)
>
>Tuesday 25 March 2003, 5.156.45
>
>Catherine Belsey is Professor of English at Cardiff University,
>where she chairs the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory. Her
>books include Critical Practice (1980, 2002), Desire: Love Stories in
>Western Culture (1994), Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden: The
>Construction of Family Values in Early Modern Culture (1999) and
>Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction (2002).
>
>MARY ORR
>
>'All the World's an Intertext? Technology and Intertextuality in
>Question'
>
>(a seminar in the Critical Theory and Technology series)
>
>Tuesday 20 May 2003, 5.156.45
>
>Mary Orr is Professor in Modern French Studies at the University of
>Exeter. She has written widely on Claude Simon, Gustave Flaubert,
>intertextuality, gender studies and literary translation. Among her
>most recent publications are 'Madame Bovary': Representations of
>the Masculine (1999); Flaubert: Writing the Masculine (2000); 'The
>Garden of Forking Paths: Intertextuality and Le Jardin des Plantes',
>in Jean Duffy and Alastair Duncan (eds), Claude Simon: A
>Retrospective (2002). Her recently completed major new study,
>Intertextuality: Debates and Contexts will appear in March 2003.
>She is currently working on a new book-length project entitled
>Remapping the History of Ideas of Nineteenth- Century France:
>Flaubert's Temptation.
>
>ALL SEMINARS WILL BE HELD IN ROOM 8.29 (FLOOR 8, ARTS
>TOWER)
>
>ALL WELCOME
>
>Details of these and past seminars at
>
>http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/bakh/theosem.html
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>
>Bakhtin Centre
>Floor 8, Arts Tower
>University of Sheffield
>Sheffield S10 2TN, England
>Tel.: +44 (0)114 222 7415
>Tel.: +44 (0)114 222 7400
>E-mail: Bakhtin.Centre@Sheffield.ac.uk
>URL: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/bakh/bakhtin.html
>
>Director: Professor David Shepherd
>Lecturer: Dr Craig Brandist
>SNF Research Fellow: Dr Karine Zbinden
>Honorary Research Fellows: Dr Colin Gardner, Mr Jonathan Hall
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