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The September symposium will take place at Université Paris Est Marne-La-Vallée, from 10am to 6pm on Sept. 29 & 30.
How to get there : here.
Room 4 of the UFR de Langues, 3rd floor of Bâtiment Copernic. Map here.
Program:
Thurs. Sept. 29, 10am-12:30pm: preparatory session & discussion with all colleagues involved.
Thurs. Sept. 29, 2:30pm-6pm: introductory talk by Vanessa Place & subsequent conversation about her work.
Fri. Sept. 30, 10am-12:30pm : "thinkership" & "writership" (1). Discussion with Vanessa Place about the theory and practice of writing; bridging the crit./lit. divide?
Fri. Sept. 30, 2:30pm-5pm : "thinkership" & "writership" (2) and conclusion of the 2 day symposium.
On Friday September 30th, 7pm, Vanessa Place and Emilie Notéris will give a reading for the Double Change reading series at the Point Ephémère, in Paris.
Bibliography (an extensive bibliography can be found here):
Statement of Facts can be read here (www.ubu.com).
Tragodia 1: Statement of Facts (Blanc Press, 2010). Available here.
Tragodia 2: Statement of the Case (Blanc Press, 2011). Available here.
Essays by Vanessa Place :
- "The Discourse of the Slave"
- "A Poetics of Radical Evil," Based on a talk given at the conference “Re-Imagining the Poetic-Critic” at the University of California, Santa Cruz, March 13, 2010
- "Conceptual poetics <> Gender"
More info about Vanessa Place:
See www.lesfigues.com, where there is ample info about Vanessa Place's work.
Also on ubu.web: http://www.ubu.com
And at Pennsound (including her former reading for Double Change): http://writing.upenn.