Category Archives: Events

Seminar series: Patience Agbabi (Kent) on 31 March 2016

The University of Kent, Paris
in conjunction with its partner institutions
cordially invites students and guests to its

Spring Seminar Series

Patience Agbabi
Poet in Residence
University of Kent

Wordes Newe: A Canterbury Tales for a multicultural Britain

From the grime-inflected ‘Prologue’ to the ‘Backtrack’ retraccioun, Telling Tales (Canongate, 2014) remixes Chaucer’s vernacular to a contemporary idiom. Patience Agbabi will perform from her collection and discuss the art of translating into new registers, poetic forms and subcultures.

Thursday, 31 March 2016
18.30
Grande Salle, Reid Hall

Free and open to the public

Please confirm your presence by writing to
paris@kent.ac.uk

Seminar series: Michael Moriarty (Cambridge) on 17 March 2016

The University of Kent, Paris
in conjunction with its partner institutions
cordially invites students and guests to its

Spring Seminar Series

Michael Moriarty
Drapers Professor of French, University of Cambridge
Fellow of the British Academy
Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes académiques

Religion, politics, and society in seventeenth-century France: the case of Jansenism

This seminar asks why the Flemish bishop’s treatise on St Augustine gave rise to a major ideological and political crisis in seventeenth-century France and considers the ultimate impact of the crisis on the French church and the ancien régime in general.

Thursday, 17 March 2016
18.30
Grande Salle, Reid Hall

Free and open to the public

Please confirm your presence by writing to
paris@kent.ac.uk

Seminar series: Charles Forsdick (Liverpool) on 10 March 2016

The University of Kent, Paris
In conjunction with its partner institutions
Cordially invites students and guests to its

Spring Seminar Series

Charles Forsdick
James Barrow Professor of French
University of Liverpool

Locating world literature: monolinguals, multilingualism, translation

The talk opens with a focus on the manifesto, published in Le Monde in March 2007, advocating a literature-monde en français. It explores the (un)translatability of the concepts of world literature/’world-literature in French’/Weltliteratur, understanding these as a series of interlinked terms that have emerged multiply, in a range of different historical, cultural and linguistic contexts. The presentation seeks to outline the complex translation dynamics of a genuinely polyglossic ‘world’ literature, with this ‘world’ increasingly characterized by translingualism, multilingualism – as well as by a more general recognition of a ‘post-monolingual’ condition. As such, it raises questions about the credibility and sustainability of any exclusively monolingual ‘world-literature’, and investigates the ways in which the ‘world’ in ‘world-literature’ often remains a fundamentally divided one.

Thursday, 10 March 2016
18.30
Grande Salle, Reid Hall

Free and open to the public

Please confirm your presence by writing to
paris@kent.ac.uk

Seminar series: David Herd (Kent) on 11 February 2016

The University of Kent, Paris
In conjunction with its partner institutions
Cordially invites students and guests to its

Spring Seminar Series

David Herd
Professor of Modern Literature
University of Kent

Walking with refugee tales

In June 2015 the Refugee Tales project staged a walk in solidarity with refugees, asylum seekers and immigration detainees. Following the route of the old Pilgrims’ Way, the principal aim of the walk was to counter the silence surrounding indefinite immigration detention and in the process to call for the practice to be stopped. Arguing that a policy such as indefinite detention is only sustainable when its human consequences are kept from view, the project set out to communicate the stories of people who have experienced the asylum system in the UK. This talk will reflect on the lessons learned by Refugee Tales. It considers the implications of communicating stories of refugee journeys in a culturally charged landscape such as southern England, and asks why, as the debate around refugees and asylum seekers appears to be shifting, the practice of indefinite detention is so rarely raised.

Thursday, 11 February 2016
18.30
Grande salle, Reid Hall

Free and open to the public

Please confirm your presence by writing to
paris@kent.ac.uk

Seminar series: Nicholas Harrison (KCL) on 4 February 2016

The University of Kent, Paris
in conjunction with its partner institutions
cordially invites students and guests to its

Spring Seminar Series

Nicholas Harrison
Professor of French and Postcolonial Studies
King’s College London

Reading in the original: world literature, translation and ‘research’.

This seminar will explore the relationship between two influential ideas about literary translation. (1) Translations are a legitimate form of creative writing/scholarship/research. (2) Literary texts should be read in the original. Are these ideas compatible, and if so, how do they fit together?

Thursday, 4 February 2016
18.30
Grande Salle, Reid Hall

Free and open to the public

Please confirm your presence by writing to
paris@kent.ac.uk

Kent Open event at Paris Centre in February 2016

The University of Kent is holding an open house at its Paris Centre for any prospective students interested in our undergraduate or postgraduate programmes offered at our locations in the UK and on the European continent.

Please join us on Wednesday, 17 February from 17.00-19.00 for a chance to meet staff and find out more about our academic programmes and student life. Please let us know you are planning to attend by booking your place here:

http://www.kent.ac.uk/courses/visit/openday/paris-centre.html

If you have any queries regarding postgraduate programmes in Paris, or would like to visit the Centre on another day, please contact Paris Centre staff directly (paris@kent.ac.uk).

 

25th – 27th SEPTEMBER 2015 World Writer’s Festival will take place at our Paris Centre

WORLD WRITERS’ FESTIVAL

SEPTEMBER 25 – 27, 2015

Presented by Columbia University and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France

For the full program: www.festivaldesecrivainsdumonde.fr

Whether you’re a lover of poetry, the short story, the literary novel, non-fiction, or theater, there is something for everyone at the third annual World Writers’ Festival! The writers presenting at the Festival this year come from the four corners of the world: fifteen different countries to be exact. In multiple ways, they will be bearing witness to the global human condition today.

Participating writers include: Suleyman Al Bassam, Christine Angot, Carmen Boullosa, A.S. Byatt, Javier Cercas, Michel Faber, Aleksandar Hemon, Sayed Kashua, Etgar Keret, Yiyun Li, Les Murray, Florence Noiville, Edna O’Brien, Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya, Gary Shteyngart, Binyavanga Wainaina, and Samar Yazbek.

November 2015 – Day trip to Paris for all our Canterbury-Paris students

There will be an orientation day-trip to Paris during the autumn term for all our students who will be spending the Spring term in Paris. The provisional date is Tuesday 24th November 2015.

The trip took place last year and was highly successful, enabling students who will be studying in Paris during the Spring term to look around Reid Hall, our Paris centre, meet the staff, familiarise themselves with the beautiful city of Paris, and make arrangements to view accommodation or meet landlords where possible.

A cultural excursion is also planned for the day, such as a visit to an art gallery or a museum.

The costs of the trip are completely covered by your tuition fees.

Further details to follow when you arrive in the autumn term.

Kent on the Via Francigena

University of Kent postgraduate student Julia Peters left Canterbury on 28 March 2015 for a journey that will take her through four countries (England, France, Switzerland, and Italy) and over 1200 miles (1900 km) to Rome, her final destination–and she’s doing it all on foot.

Julia says that the purpose of her journey is one of personal enrichment, “an initiative to promote The Via Francigena and the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe, to conduct research on mobility in the Roman Empire and to further links between the European Centres of the University of Kent”. A number of University of Kent students, fellow pilgrims, have joined her along the way – Julia is making stops in 78 towns along the famous pilgrimage route.

Julia’s project received support from KIASH (Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, University of Kent), in conjunction with the research of Professor Ray Laurence, in addition to the University of Kent’s European Centres. If you would like to read more about Julia’s project, and be updated on her daily progress, please visit her blog here.

Monday 23 February 2015 – Postgraduate Funding and Information Event

The University of Kent will hold a funding and information open evening for Postgraduate study on Monday 23 February 2015 in Darwin Conference Suite (Canterbury) from 5-7pm.

This will be a great opportunity to gather the information you need if you are thinking of applying for funding, and also to meet with staff from our programmes of study and ask any other questions you may have.