Doctoral Workshop in Modern and Contemporary Literary Studies in English (8/13)

02.10.2024

Dr. Patrick Jones, UNIGE

Pr Simon Swift, UNIGE

The Modern and Contemporary fortnightly workshop (Mod Con) is a well-attended workshop for PhD students and staff from all CUSO universities. The workshop was transferred to an online format in Autumn 2020 and Spring 2021 and remained popular among doctoral students and early career scholars from the CUSO network. We returned to in-person, while offering Zoom attendance, in 2022 and have had a series of successful workshops. In order to facilitate the participation of doctoral students from other universities so that we can maintain this forum, we are hereby applying for funding again for 2024. The workshop is a valuable space for the exchange of ideas between doctoral students working on modern and contemporary literatures of the English-speaking world. The 2024 programme will include talks, workshops and professionalisation seminars. and it will remain an important space for work-in-progress papers from doctoral students.

“Aesthetics of Madness: the Fugitive Art of Marie Lieb”.

Howard Caygill (Kingston University)

The tradition of modern aesthetics since Baumgarten and Kant has understood art in terms of an analogy or harmony between imagination and reason. But where does this leave the work of artists whose reason itself is in question? Can madness produce works? The aesthetics of madness explores this question through the emergence of artwork from mental hospitals between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. The talk will focus on the work of Marie Lieb, a late nineteenth century patient in the Heidelberg psychiatric clinic. Through this art it will explore the possibility of a reorientation of aesthetics away from its enlightenment legacy.

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