BLANCHOT ROMANTIQUE
Maison française, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford, 20-21 April 2009
PROGRAMME
With the participation of Monique Antelme, President of the Association des Amis de Maurice Blanchot
DAY ONE
9.00-9.25 Tea/coffee
INTRODUCTION
9.25-9.30 Luc Borot, Director of the Maison française
9.30-9.45 Hannes Opelz & John McKeane, Opening remarks
ROMANTIC LEGACIES (1): THEORY
Chair: Hannes Opelz
9.45-10.30 Christophe Bident, ‘Le neutre est-il une notion romantique?’*
10.30-11.00 Gisèle Berkman, ‘Blanchot et le Romantisme allemand: poétique, théorie, pratique’
11.00-11.30 Yves Gilonne, ‘The Self-Reflexivity of the Sublime’
11.30-11.45 Discussion
11.45-13.15 Lunch (own arrangements)
ROMANTIC LEGACIES (2): PRAXIS
Chair: Christophe Bident
13.15-14.00 Michael Holland, ‘Blanchot and Jean-Paul’*
14.00-14.30 Sergey Zenkin, ‘Transformations of Romantic Love’
14.30-15.00 Jérémie Majorel, ‘Blanchot narrateur de Mallarmé’
15.00-15.15 Discussion
15.15-15.45 Tea/coffee
ROMANTIC FRAGMENTATIONS
Chair: John McKeane
15.45-16.30 Leslie Hill, ‘“Une belle folie”: Blanchot and Translation’*
16.30-17.00 Patrick ffrench, ‘The Fragment, the Disaster, and Melancholy’
17.00-17.30 Maebh Long, ‘A Step Askew: Ironic Parabasis in Blanchot’
17.30-17.45 Discussion
19.00 Champagne reception and dinner, Merton College (by invitation only)
DAY TWO
9.00-9.30 Tea/coffee
POLITICAL ROMANTICISM
Chair: Michael Holland
9.30-10.00 Ian James, ‘Naming the Nothing: Nancy and Blanchot on Community’
10.00-10.30 Martin Crowley, ‘Even now, now, very now’
10.30-10.45 Discussion
10.45-11.00 Tea/coffee
11.00-11.30 Danielle Cohen-Levinas, ‘Les trois paroles de Marx: injonction politique ou appel romantique?’ (text read by Martin Crowley)
11.30-12.00 Parham Shahrjerdi, ‘Terreur et Révolution’
12.00-12.15 Discussion
12.15-13.15 Lunch (own arrangements)
ROMANTIC CONVERSATIONS IN THE 20TH CENTURY
Chair: Michael Sheringham
13.15-13.45 Jake Wadham, ‘Blanchot, Benjamin, and the Absence of the Work’
13.45-14.15 Hector Kollias, ‘Unworking Irony’s Work: Blanchot and de Man as readers of the Athenaeum’
14.15-14.45 Ian Maclachlan, ‘Blanchot, Derrida, and the Romantic Imagination’
14.45-15.15 Discussion
CONCLUSION
15.15-15.45 Hannes Opelz & John McKeane, Concluding remarks
* Keynote speakers