{"id":2340,"date":"2014-03-18T09:56:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T09:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=2340"},"modified":"2014-07-24T09:51:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T09:51:36","slug":"kent-alumnus-lectures-at-paris-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/03\/18\/kent-alumnus-lectures-at-paris-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent alumnus lectures at Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.all-souls.ox.ac.uk\/people.php?personid=64\">Professor Michael Sheringham<\/a>, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.all-souls.ox.ac.uk\/\">All Souls College, University of Oxford<\/a>, will be giving an open lecture at Kent&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/paris\/\">Paris<\/a>\u00a0centre\u00a0on Friday 28 March, entitled &#8216;Archival Lives: Legacies of &#8220;La vie des homes inf\u00e2mes&#8221; in Michel Foucault, Arlette Farge and the Collectif Maurice Florence&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Foucault\u2019s 1977 essay \u2018La vie des hommes inf\u00e2mes\u2019 is both an evocation of the power and beauty of archival traces of lost lives, and a compelling argument about a historical shift that made the everyday present in discourse, with repercussions for literary writing, especially the novel.<\/p>\n<p>In this talk,\u00a0Professor Sheringham\u00a0will look at some of the fortunes of this essay, initially in a collaborative work by Foucault and the historian Arlette Farge, <em>Le D\u00e9sordre des familles<\/em> (1982), a compilation of extracts from the eighteenth-century Archives de la Bastille.\u00a0 He will then assess Farge\u2019s role as a standard-bearer for a Foucaldian view of the archive in a range of works, notably <em>Le Go\u00fbt de l\u2019archive<\/em> (1989), before focusing in detail on her remarkable photo-textual opus, <em>La Chambre \u00e0 deux lits et le cordonnier de Tel-Aviv<\/em> (2000).\u00a0He will end with some remarks on a recent resurfacing of Foucault\u2019s essay, also combining texts and visual material: <em>Archives de l\u2019infamie<\/em> (2009) compiled by the Collectif Maurice Florence. At stake throughout will be the status of lives briefly glimpsed in the archive, however remote, and how they can be seen to illuminate our own everyday world, and different ways of capturing it in writing and photography.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Sheringham is an alumnus of the University of Kent, and also a former member of staff in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/french\/index.html\">Department of French<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the lecture, please see the SECL events calendar here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/events\/index.html?eid=CC6A197F-1070-48AF-8063-C90547EA9895&amp;view_by=month&amp;date=20140318&amp;category=&amp;tag=\">www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/events<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyone wishing to attend the lecture should email <a href=\"mailto:paris@kent.ac.uk\">paris@kent.ac.uk<\/a> by Wednesday 26 March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Michael Sheringham, from All Souls College, University of Oxford, will be giving an open lecture at Kent&#8217;s Paris\u00a0centre\u00a0on Friday 28 March, entitled &#8216;Archival Lives: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/03\/18\/kent-alumnus-lectures-at-paris-campus\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36176,"featured_media":0,"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\/2340"}],"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=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2995,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions\/2995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}