{"id":6098,"date":"2016-06-03T14:48:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T13:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=6098"},"modified":"2016-06-03T15:02:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T14:02:13","slug":"academic-perspectives-on-europe-in-the-tls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/06\/03\/academic-perspectives-on-europe-in-the-tls\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic perspectives on Europe in the TLS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two academics from\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/index.html\">School of European Culture and Languages<\/a> (SECL) have contributed to a symposium in <em>The Times Literary Supplement<\/em> (<em>TLS<\/em>) on the UK\u2019s membership of the European Union entitled \u2018Please Don\u2019t Leave Us Alone\u2019, published on 1 June 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium includes contributions from leading figures in academia, literature and the humanities, asking \u2018What in your view have been the main implications of the UK\u2019s membership of the EU for its cultural life and\/or your own work?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In the symposium, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/staff\/hutchinson.html\">Professor Ben Hutchinson<\/a>, Professor of European Literature in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/index.html\">Department of Modern Languages<\/a>, argues: \u2018Beyond the specifics of cost-benefit analyses &#8211;\u00a0always open to selective quotation &#8211;\u00a0the main implication of the UK\u2019s membership of the EU for its cultural life is quite simply the sense that the EU matters, that British culture is part of European culture.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018In the age of world literature, \u201cEuropean\u201d is increasingly becoming a pejorative term, taken to suggest the elitism of Western, canonical power structures. Yet European world literature is surely possible &#8211;\u00a0and so is British European culture.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/staff\/schaffner.html\">Dr Anna Katharina Schaffner<\/a>, Reader in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/index.html\">Comparative Literature<\/a>, also states: \u2018A Brexit would be detrimental to many sectors of British society, including academia, making it much harder to recruit and retain academic talent, and impairing cross-border collaborations \u2013 a prerequisite of all significant research ventures.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The most surprising aspect of the Brexit debate, however, is the resounding silence regarding the original post-war vision of a Europe that would finally transcend nationalist agendas in the interests of a shared set of political, cultural, and ethical values, and in which the European nations would learn from each other through the free exchange of ideas and expertise.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>To read the full symposium, please see the <em>TLS<\/em> webpage here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/articles\/public\/european-symposium\/\">www.the-tls.co.uk\/articles\/public\/european-symposium\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two academics from\u00a0the School of European Culture and Languages (SECL) have contributed to a symposium in The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) on the UK\u2019s membership &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/06\/03\/academic-perspectives-on-europe-in-the-tls\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":6099,"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\/6098"}],"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\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6098"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6117,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6098\/revisions\/6117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}