Online Conference
This event is organised by OCCT: https://www.occt.ox.ac.uk/
TORCH/Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Programme in conjunction with the John Fell Fund project “I & We: Literary Texts and the Constitution of Shared Identities at Four Moments of Historical Transition,” and The Centre for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen present
I and We: Literary Texts and the Constitution of Shared Identities
This mini conference will be held online 10-11 June. All talks are open to the public.
If you wish to participate, please register for this conference by 3 June on the website: https://cfs.ku.dk/calendar-main/2020/i-and-we-literary-texts-and-the-constitution-of-shared-identities/
Programme: (please note that times are Copenhagen/EU time, not GMT)
10 June
10:00-10:15 Welcome by Felix Budelmann (Oxford) and Dan Zahavi (Copenhagen/Oxford)
10:15-11:00 Jonathan Cole (Southampton) "Beginnings of Morality; exploring the unimaginable
in neurology and beyond."
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:00 Ben Morgan (Oxford) "Literature and Plurality in Hannah Arendt.”
12:00-12:15 Coffee break
12:15-13:00 Meindert Peters (Oxford) "One Must Know How to Dance’: Someplace Between
Me and Us in Vicki Baum’s Menschen im Hotel (1929)."
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-14:45 Mike Wheeler (Stirling) "'Everyman’s an Angel’: Literature, Authenticity and Social
Cognition"
11 June
10:00-10:45 Christian Benne (Copenhagen) "The fifth wall. The philosophical problem of I and
We in Beckett’s Fin de Parti/Endgame."
10:45-11:00 Coffee break
11.00-11:45 Jennifer McWeeny (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) "Solipsism and Solidarity in
Beauvoir’s World War II Fiction: From Invitation to Encroachment."
11:45-12:00 Coffee break
12:00-12:45 Naomi Rokotnitz (Oxford) “Testimony, Fiction and Bodily Experience: I & We in
Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace."
12:45-13:45 Lunch break
13:45-14:30 Vittorio Gallese (Parma) "The text as a body. Embodied simulation and the relation
with fiction."
About The Seminar in General: the “Fiction and Other Minds” seminar series, convened by Ben Morgan and Naomi Rokotnitz, has been running since 2013, hosting a range of speakers working at the interface between literary studies, cognitive science and phenomenology. The seminar explores the field that opens when features investigated by the cognitive sciences are tested and expanded across different cultural contexts. In particular, we are interested in the ways by which literary texts often challenge and differentiate theoretical insights, especially through their attention to the culturally situated aspects of cognition, and how cognitively informed approaches to literature can deepen our understanding of the embodied and affective processes that underpin meaning-making, including literary reading.
