9:30-10:30 The Misplaced Don Juan
“Living Stones, Dying Statues in El Burlador de Sevilla and The Winter’s Tale”
Kathryn Swanton, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago.
The Geography of Imperial Deceit: Misplacing Goa and Lisboa in El Burlador de Sevilla
Frederick de Armas, Comparative Literature, Romance Languages (Spanish), University of Chicago.
11:00-12:30 Chivalric, visionary, and epistemological misplacement
“The Incongruous White Stag of Li Contes del Graal: Chrétien de Troyes’s Ludic Approach to a Traditional Motif"
Emmanuelle Bonnafoux, Romance Languages (French), University of Chicago.
“Chatty Paintings and Other Oddities in Boccaccio”
Juan Pablo Gil-Oslé, Romance Languages (Spanish), University of Chicago.
"Writing from a De-Centered World: New World Prologues and the Birth of Modern Historiography"
Kimberly C. Borchard, Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago.
1:30-3:00 Modern Details
“The Detail and the Transmission of Memories: Roland Barthes’ Notion of Biographeme”
Julio Jensen, University of Copenhaguen.
"Misplaced Reality and Un-revealed Information in the Unknowable Worlds of Balthus, Alberto Giacometti and Giorgio Morandi: A Painter's Appreciation"
Susan Kraut, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Topic
In literature, there often exist details that disrupt aesthetic or logical order: an extra syllable in a line of verse, a statue that comes to life , a non sequitur in an argument
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Participants
The participants are faculty and graduate students from the University of Copenhaguen and the University of Chicago (Departments of Romance Languages and Literatures, Philosophy, Comparative Literature, English and the Divinity School).
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