BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news191@english.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191119T164510 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20191205T093000 SUMMARY:Temporality\, Narrativity\, and the Anthropocene DESCRIPTION:The first part of this workshop led by Prof. Gomel serves as a forum to discuss her recent work on the relation of time and narrative in our Anthropocene moment\, with a particular emphasis on what she and her c o-author Vered Karti Shemtov call limbotopia (in distinction to utopia and dystopia). In order to facilitate discussion\, participants will read the ir recently published article on the topic and chapter two of Frank Kermod e’s classic The Sense of an Ending prior to the meeting.The second part of the workshop is dedicated to the participants’ research projects: Par ticipants will have the opportunity briefly to introduce their current res earch project in order to receive feedback from both Prof. Gomel and their peers.The workshop is complemented with two guest lectures by Prof. Elana Gomel and Prof. Marco Caracciolo on the following day (see separate annou ncement).Elana Gomel is Associate Professor at the Department of English a nd American Studies at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of six non-f iction books and numerous articles on subjects such as narrative theory\, posthumanism\, science fiction\, Dickens\, and Victorian culture. Her late st books are Narrative Space and Time: Representing Impossible Topologies in Literature (Routledge 2014) and Science Fiction\, Alien Encounters\, an d the Ethics of Posthumanism: Beyond the Golden Rule (Palgrave Macmillan 2 014). She is also the author of more than 40 fantasy and science fiction s tories.To register for this workshop\, please send an e-mail to ridvan.ask in@unibas.ch [mailto:ridvan.askin@unibas.ch]. Places will be allocated on a first-come\, first-served basis. X-ALT-DESC:

The first part of this workshop led by Prof. Gomel serves as a forum to discuss her recent work on the relation of time and narrative i n our Anthropocene moment\, with a particular emphasis on what she and her co-author Vered Karti Shemtov call limbotopia (in distinction to utopia a nd dystopia). In order to facilitate discussion\, participants will read t heir recently published article on the topic and chapter two of Frank Kerm ode’s classic The Sense of an Ending prior to the meeting.

Th e second part of the workshop is dedicated to the participants’ research projects: Participants will have the opportunity briefly to introduce the ir current research project in order to receive feedback from both Prof. G omel and their peers.

The workshop is complemented with two gue st lectures by Prof. Elana Gomel and Prof. Marco Caracciolo on the followi ng day (see separate announcement).

Elana Gomel is Assoc iate Professor at the Department of English and American Studies at Tel Av iv University. She is the author of six non-fiction books and numerous art icles on subjects such as narrative theory\, posthumanism\, science fictio n\, Dickens\, and Victorian culture. Her latest books are Narrative Spa ce and Time: Representing Impossible Topologies in Literature (Routled ge 2014) and Science Fiction\, Alien Encounters\, and the Ethics of Pos thumanism: Beyond the Golden Rule (Palgrave Macmillan 2014). She is al so the author of more than 40 fantasy and science fiction stories.
To register for this workshop\, please send an e-mail to ridvan.askin@unibas.ch. Places will be allocated on a f irst-come\, first-served basis.

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