All readings are at 6.30pm at Reid Hall
4 rue de Chevreuse, Montparnasse, Paris 75006 (métro: Vavin)
26 January 2017 Fariba Hachtroudi Grande Salle
9 February 2017 Laurent Binet Salle de Conférence
23 February 2017 David Szalay Maison Verte
22 March 2017 Lee Ann Brown Salle de Conférence
— free and open to all —
(Photo credit: @colleensparis and @tremblay_p)
The University of London Institute in Paris and the University of Kent Paris School of Arts and Culture are joining forces to bring the Being Human Festival to Paris with a roundtable event. This evening will be an opportunity to discuss the importance of literature and the Humanities in the wake of the attacks in Paris one year ago. After these events which turned spaces of festivity into targets for acts of terror, people laid copies of Hemingway’s Moveable Feast on the improvised shrines dotted around the areas affected. The title in French – Paris est une fête – stood out as a defiant refusal of the terror that had been unleashed on the city. What does this turn to literature, and to a text written by an American about the expatriate community in the Années Folles of the interwar era, tell us about why literature remains a vital response to violent ideologies? We will address this question and the importance of writing and translation in the heart of Hemingway’s old stamping ground of Montparnasse, bringing French and British perspectives to the question of why the Humanities help us be human better.
Featuring contemporary British writer Joanna Walsh, recently described by Deborah Levy as “fast becoming one of our most important writers,” and Professor Claire Joubert, who leads the “Poétique de l’étranger” programme and is author of numerous studies of English and Anglophone literature at the intersection between poetics and politics.
The event will feature contemporary British writer Joanna Walsh, recently described by Deborah Levy as “fast becoming one of our most important writers,” and Professor Claire Joubert, who leads the “Poétique de l’étranger” programme and is author of numerous studies of English and Anglophone literature at the intersection between poetics and politics.
This panel is organised by Dr Anna-Louise Milne (ULIP) and will be chaired by Professor Peter Brown (Kent).
The event is free but numbers are limited; please register in advance to reserve your place.
As part of the Autumn Term Creative Writing Reading Series
University of Kent Paris School of Arts and Culture
Proudly presents Jon Thompson reading from his new poetry work Strange Country
Fascinated by strangeness that’s made in the U.S.A – its beliefs and organization, its affinity for violence and its elusive relationship with the past – Strange Country (Shearsman 2016) lyrically addresses itself to defining American landscapes/dreamscapes, and to their unaccountable beauty.
“In Strange Country Jon Thompson addresses the voices, amongst others, of ‘the traffic of fear’, and bids their speakers join the living…The accomplishment of Strange Country begins with the exact measure of its line and its discovered idiom in the face of what may well be termed the present contradictions of a strange country…Here we find the places of a shared identity where history is disguised, lost, or made into fun for all the family. This is a discovery conveyed in a poetry which not only discloses new meanings for these American places, but also bears the darker episodes of a history usually processed off the screen and page.” – Kelvin Corcoran
Jon Thompson is a Professor of English at North Carolina State University where he teaches courses in twentieth-century/contemporary American and British literature. He maintains a particular interest in contemporary poetry and poetics. His current work comes out of his career as a poet, critic and editor. He is the founding editor of the international online journal Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics, launched in 2001 and also the editor of the single-author poetry series, Free Verse Editions, launched in 2005.
Thursday 17 November 2016
6.30pm at Reid Hall, Grande Salle
4 rue de Chevreuse, Montparnasse, Paris 75006 (Métro: Vavin)
RSVP to paris@kent.ac.uk or to the Facebook Event
We host regular open events throughout the year for prospective students. If you are interested in, or have applied for, any undergraduate and postgraduate degree that Kent offers at its locations in the UK or Europe, our open events are a great opportunity to find out more information about our programmes and studying at the University of Kent.
The events are held at Reid Hall, University of Kent, 4 rue Chevreuse, 75006 Paris
It’s a great opportunity to find out more about all the undergraduate and postgraduate degrees that Kent offers, entry requirements, admissions procedures and graduate prospects. Current students will be on hand to tell you about life as a Kent student and we can also help with your fees and funding questions.
If you are considering postgraduate study at the University’s Paris Centre, you will be able to talk to specialist academics and current students about the wide range of year-long and split-site programmes available.
If you have any queries regarding our postgraduate programmes in Paris, or would like to visit the Centre before the open event then please contact them directly.
American University of Paris – University of Kent, Paris – University of London Institute in Paris
The terrain and processes of translation are changing faster than ever before. New technologies, greater competition and connection between spaces of editorial decision, shifting interfaces between places of textual production: the range of forces at play in the geopolitics of translation is vast and complex, implicating ever more zones and expressions of culture. This seminar series will explore specific instances of transformation and broader trends across this terrain, inviting speakers and their audiences to consider some of the following questions:
Papers will be delivered in English. They are open to the public, if you have any questions about access, please write to anna-louise.milne@ulip.lon.ac.uk
Emeute/Grève: The Language of Riot
Joshua Clover, University of California, Davis
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Friday 23 September – ULIP, 6.00pm
Under the pavés of Parisian History – ULIP
On his collection of poems “Through”: five extended texts addressing the ways in which contemporary public language has been rendered officially hostile.
David Herd, University of Kent
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Hannah Arendt and refugee rights
Lyndsey Stonebridge, University of East Anglia
More information to come
In association with Being Human, we mark the anniversary of the November 13 2015 Paris attacks, when copies of Hemingway’s Moveable Feast were left at memorials around the city
Sarah Churchwell, University of East Anglia
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As part of the Autumn Term Creative Writing Reading Series
University of Kent Paris School of Arts and Culture
Proudly presents David Herd reading from his new poetry work Through
A new book of poetry by internationally acclaimed poet David Herd addresses the language that surrounds the reception of people seeking asylum in the UK. Considering the risks that such official hostility poses to human intimacy, Through sets out to register broken affections, to re-explore possibilities of solidarity and trust. Countering the enclosures of public discourse, the poems embrace instead ‘a language in transition’, one in which meaning is multiple, ‘echoing into place a genuine and subsisting relationship’. David Herd is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Kent and co-organiser of the Refugee Tales project.
“What are we going through? How do we get through this? How saturated are we, through and through, with feelings and political sensibilities in interior exile from our time and place? All these questions and more are evoked in David Herd’s subtle and resistantly intelligent work – lyrical and critical at once. Refugees and refusals, refuge and Law, conscience and critique, Agencies and agency, politics and poetics all combine in a pensive work of singular poethical force.” Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Thursday 20 October 2016
6.30pm at Reid Hall, Salle de Conférence
4 rue de Chevreuse, Montparnasse, Paris 75006 (Métro: Vavin)
RSVP to paris@kent.ac.uk or to the Facebook Event
As part of the Autumn Term Creative Writing Reading Series
University of Kent Paris School of Arts and Culture
Proudly presents the Paris launch of
Thursday 6 October 2016
6.30pm at Reid Hall, in the Maison Verte
4 rue de Chevreuse, Montparnasse, Paris 75006 (métro: Vavin)
In a writing career that began in the early 1980s, Simon Smith has published a dozen pamphlets and collections of poetry, reviewed and written essays for Poetry Review, PN Review, fragmente, Stand and Blackbox Manifold among other periodicals, and translated the work of Catullus, Martial and Reverdy. This selection of his work covers the period 1989-2012, and is edited by the poet and art critic Barry Schwabsky. There are generous selections from Fifteen Exits, Reverdy Road, Mercury and London Bridge, alongside unavailable early work, and previously unpublished poetry from the sequences, More Ammo and Content. On first receiving Reverdy Road Schwabsky recalls: ‘It was a revelation: resembling nothing I was familiar with in American poetry despite name-checking Jack Spicer and clear affinities with the New York School’s love of speed, wit, and variousness of tone, it had a music I could tune right into, something very much its own though it has also helped me, I think, hear my way into the work of some of Smith’s British contemporaries’.
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To register for the event, either rsvp to our Facebook event or email us: paris@kent.ac.uk
University of Kent Paris School of Arts and Culture is excited to announce our Creative Writing Reading Series for the Autumn Term!
All readings are at 6.30pm at Reid Hall,
4 rue de Chevreuse, Montparnasse, Paris 75006 (métro: Vavin)
Simon Smith Thursday 6 October Maison verte
Simon Smith in the Paris launch of his new work: ‘More Flowers Than You Could Possibly Carry: Selected Poems 1989 – 2012’, edited by poet and art critic Barry Schwabsky.
David Herd Thursday 20 October Salle de conférence
Poet, critic and teacher, David Herd’s works include ‘All Just’ (2012), ‘Outwith’ (2012). He will be reading from his latest work ‘Through’, published by Carcanet in 2016, which addresses the language that surrounds the reception of people seeking asylum in the UK.
Jon Thompson Thursday 17 November Grande salle
Professor of English at North Carolina State University, Jon Thompson is a poet, critic and editor with a particular interest in Twentieth Century and Contemporary American and British Literature. He will be reading from his latest poetry collection ‘Strange Country’ (2016).
Ali Smith Thursday 1 December Salle de conférence
***CANCELLED*** Unfortunately this event has had to be cancelled. We look forward to seeing you at our Spring term series in 2017
Ali Smith is an award-winning Scottish novelist and Man Booker Prize nominee. Her latest works include novels ‘Autumn’ (2016), ‘How to be Both’ (2015), and short story collections ‘Public Library and Other Stories’ (2016) and ‘The Whole Story and Other Stories’ (2015).
Tuesday, 3 May 2016
David Ellis
Professor Emeritus, University of Kent School of English
The Sad Tale of Shakespeare Biography
We know desperately little about Shakespeare’s life and what we do know has been in the public domain for a long time. In this lecture, David Ellis demonstrates some of the methods biographers use for overcoming these disadvantages and explores how academics try to make bricks without straw.
Please reserve your place here.
Wednesday, 11 May 2016
Professor Karen Newman
Owen Walker ’33 Professor of Humanities and
Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Brown University
Shakespeare Celebrated: Souvenirs du Théâtre Anglais à Paris
This lecture is about the visit of English Shakespearean actors to Paris in 1827 where they played, first at Odéon, than at Favart, for ten months, performing Shakespeare in English. The commemorative programme reflected French/English rivalries at the time.
Please reserve your place here.
18.30
Grande Salle, Reid Hall
4, rue de Chevreuse 75006 Paris
Free and open to the public
Kent Paris students have launched a festival and MA conference on the topic of Motion. The conference will run at Reid Hall on Monday 6 June and other festival events will take place in the course of the following week. They include an exhibition of student art, conversation with a Paris artist, book launch at Shakespeare & Co., launch of the new issue of the Paris MA magazine, Le Menteur, and a trek across Paris finishing with a celebration in song and readings. Speakers and readers for the week include Vybarr Cregan-Reid, David Herd, Yelena Moscovich, Dragan Todovoric, Joanna Walsh and Lauren Elkin. The conference is designed to attract MA students working on their dissertations, whether from Paris institutions or from Kent’s other campuses. See the call for papers and for further details go to motioninparis.wordpress.com.
