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Host: Institute of Romance Studies
Homepage: http://www.sas.ac.uk/irs
Email: irs@sas.ac.uk
Organizers: Elza Adamowicz at e.adamowicz@qmul.ac.uk and the Institute of Romance Studies at irs@sas.ac.uk
Description:
This one day interdisciplinary conference will focus on crossings in Surrealism.
The idea of frontiers, limits and borders will be explored in topics such as
transgression and desire, frontiers between genres or genders, limits of the
unconscious, borders between poetry and painting. The conference coincides with
the exhibition on Surrealism to be held at the Tate Modern from 20 September
2001-1 January 2002. Surrealism: Desire Unbound is the first major exhibition
of international surrealism to be held in London for over twenty years.
Speakers: Roger Cardinal, University of Kent, The Travels of André Breton; David Lomas, University of Manchester, Double Vertigo: On Some Motifs in Masson; Johanna Malt, King's College London,Recycling, Contamination and Compulsion: Practices of the'objet surréaliste'; Marie-Claire Barnet, University of Durham, Amour flou: Mansour, Deharme and (Fe)male Desire; Mary Ann Caws, City University of New York, Crossing the Poetry/Prose Divide; Jacqueline Rattray, University of Aberdeen,From France to Spain and Beyond: A Journey of Mad Love with José María Hinojosa; David Bate, University of Westminster,The Space of the Other; Michel Remy, University of Nice, British Surrealist Painting and Writing: Re-Marking the Margin.
Mail Address:
Institute of Romance Studies Senate House, Malet Street London WC1E 7HU Tel: (+44) (0)20 7862 8677 Fax: (+44) (0)20 7862 8672
Submitted by: Juliette Kristensen
Date received: November 20, 2001, revised November 23, 2001
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