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• 21 mai 2014

  Paris

  Seminar - Asia

  When Books and Art Hurt

  Censorship, Emotions and Cultural Regulation in South Asia

  This workshop aims at exploring issues of literary and artistic censorship in South Asia (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) by focusing on the way anticipated "hurt" often justifies the policing and regulation of the artistic sphere (cinema, visual arts, literature). Our point of departure is, in the words of Arjun Appadurai, the observation that culture is today the field "where fantasies of purity, authenticity, borders and security can be enacted" and that the same censors patrol the boundaries of politics and aesthetics (Coetzee). In the Indian subcontinent "hurt feelings" are often reactivated or cultivated, staged and mass-mediatised to claim recognition and legitimacy in the public sphere, to require compensation or "redressal". Many artists, writers and academics point to a politics of ultra-sensitivity and a thriving "marketplace of outrage". Our objective in this workshop is to question the vocabulary, topicality and tangibility of "hurt" in the public sphere on these issues of artistic regulation in South Asia, and to understand what it means to say that words or images wound.

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• 14 oct 2013	25 nov 2013	05 déc 2013
  20 jan 2014	03 fév 2014	...

  Paris

  Seminar - Representation

  English and French orientalisms: porosities, interferences, and rivalries from the Middle Ages to Romanticism

  "Construction of the East" seminar

  L’orientalisme a pendant longtemps paru commencer avec le XIX^e siècle et la naissance des empires coloniaux. Mais une étude plus fine des textes et de la circulation des idées permet d’établir qu’il n’en fut rien, et que, depuis l’antiquité jusqu’à la fin du XVIII^e siècle, l’Occident fut le lieu d’une réception curieuse – parfois fascinée – d’un Orient plus ou moins fantasmatique, plus ou moins savant, dont les principaux « moments » de réception en Angleterre incluent la Renaissance, l’époque des Lumières et le Romantisme. Notre séminaire a pour objet l’étude tant littéraire qu’historique de cet Orient « pré-orientaliste » et « proto-orientaliste ».

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