{"id":547,"date":"2016-11-08T16:18:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T16:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/?p=547"},"modified":"2016-11-10T15:46:33","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T15:46:33","slug":"a-moveable-feast-being-human-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/2016\/11\/08\/a-moveable-feast-being-human-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"A Moveable Feast – Being Human in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Sarah Churchwell<\/h2>\n

Director of the Being Human Festival (School of Advanced Studies)<\/h3>\n

6:30pm, Wednesday 23 November<\/h4>\n

Reid Hall<\/h4>\n

4 rue de chevreuse, 75006 Paris, Metro: Vavin
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(Photo credit: @colleensparis and @tremblay_p)<\/p>\n

The\u00a0University of London Institute in Paris and the University of Kent Paris School of Arts and Culture\u00a0are\u00a0joining forces to bring the Being Human Festival to Paris with a\u00a0roundtable event. This evening will be an opportunity to discuss the importance of literature and the Humanities in the\u00a0wake of the attacks in Paris one year ago. After\u00a0these events\u00a0which turned spaces of festivity into targets for acts of terror, people laid copies of Hemingway\u2019s\u00a0Moveable Feast\u00a0on the improvised shrines dotted around the areas affected. The title in French –\u00a0Paris est une f\u00eate\u00a0\u2013 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 Ann\u00e9es 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\u00a0in the heart of Hemingway\u2019s old stamping ground of Montparnasse, bringing French and British perspectives to the question of why the Humanities help us be human better.<\/p>\n

Featuring contemporary British writer Joanna Walsh, recently described by Deborah Levy as \u201cfast becoming one of our most important writers,\u201d and Professor Claire Joubert, who leads the \u201cPo\u00e9tique de l\u2019\u00e9tranger\u201d programme and is author of numerous studies of English and Anglophone literature at the intersection between poetics and politics.<\/p>\n

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Participants<\/h3>\n

The event will feature contemporary British writer Joanna Walsh, recently described by Deborah Levy as \u201cfast becoming one of our most important writers,\u201d and Professor Claire Joubert, who leads the \u201cPo\u00e9tique de l\u2019\u00e9tranger\u201d programme and is author of numerous studies of English and Anglophone literature at the intersection between poetics and politics.<\/p>\n