{"id":2110,"date":"2014-02-04T11:55:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T11:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2015-11-04T18:14:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T18:14:25","slug":"ben-hutchinson-to-give-inaugural-professorial-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/02\/04\/ben-hutchinson-to-give-inaugural-professorial-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Hutchinson to give Inaugural Professorial Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/german\/staff\/hutchinson.html\">Professor Ben Hutchinson<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/german\/index.html\">Department of German<\/a> will be giving his Inaugural Professorial Lecture on Friday 21 February at 6pm.<\/p>\n<p>Entitled <em>&#8216;Creatures Facing Backwards&#8217;: Modernity, Literature and Lateness<\/em>, Ben&#8217;s lecture will consider the consequences of viewing modern European literature not as that which is new, but as that which is &#8216;late&#8217;. Inverting the usual teleological perspective of literary history, it will explore the extent to which the adjectives &#8216;modern&#8217; and &#8216;European&#8217; can be taken to imply what one might term, with Paul Val\u00e9ry, the &#8217;embarrassment&#8217; of lateness. If the various theories of lateness, Sp\u00e4theit, or tardivet\u00e9 have changing inflections at different times and in different languages, they can all be understood as an expression of the modern&#8217;s continuing quest for legitimacy. Using examples drawn from major figures of 19th- and 20th-century literature, the lecture will explore both the implications of coming after a past perceived as more meaningful and the sense that it is this very lateness that constitutes the particularity of the &#8216;modern&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture is organised by the Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (KIASH).<\/p>\n<p>For more details, please see:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/events\/index.html?eid=0330EA43-5D2F-4840-9063-411578EC9801&amp;view_by=month&amp;date=20140205&amp;category=&amp;tag=\">www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/events<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Ben Hutchinson from the Department of German will be giving his Inaugural Professorial Lecture on Friday 21 February at 6pm. Entitled &#8216;Creatures Facing Backwards&#8217;: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/02\/04\/ben-hutchinson-to-give-inaugural-professorial-lecture\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36176,"featured_media":2112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5166,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions\/5166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}