Detailed information about the course
| Title | Solidarity and Collaboration in Literary Study |
| Dates | 21-22 May 2026 |
| Responsible | Matthew SCULLY |
| Organizer(s) | Dr Patrizia Zanella, UNIL Dr Matthew Scully, UNIL |
| Speakers | Prof. David Chariandy, University of Toronto Prof. Sophie McCall, Simon Fraser University (CA) Dr. Isis Giraldo, University of Lausanne Gaëlle Cogan, Translator |
| Description | This 2-day CUSO workshop and public conference will give doctoral students and others across Switzerland the opportunity to discuss and reflect on modes of solidarity and collaboration within the context of literary studies. We will consider Indigenous Studies and Black Studies as particularly generative foundations for these conversations due to the ethical weight they give to solidarity and collaboration, but such topics appeal to a wide variety of other fields and subfields important to Swiss doctoral students working in Anglophone literary studies, including American Literary Studies, Decolonial Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Translation Studies, to name a few fields for which collaboration is itself an ethos. Our invited speakers, David Chariandy, Sophie McCall, Isis Giraldo, and Gaëlle Cogan combine academic and literary expertise and experience, so they will be an excellent set of interlocutors for these discussions. This event also aims to address practical considerations, such as how to collaborate ethically and effectively in a variety of contexts. We will also include a literary translator to offer further insight on the collaborative nature of translation (for the workshop on translation). The event concludes on Friday with a public film screening of Sugarcane and apéro sponsored by the Embassy of Canada. Throughout the workshop, we will be especially attentive to modes of solidarity with and through differences (following the work of Audre Lorde and others), rather than forms of being and working together that risk erasing difference into sameness. |
| Program | Event Structure: Thursday, 21 May 2026 (Synathlon 2218):
Friday, 22 May 2026 (Villanova):
Film Screening, sponsored by the Embassy of Canada Anthropole 2064:
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| Location |
UNIL |
| Information | |
| Places | 10 |
| Deadline for registration | 17.05.2026 |
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