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One-Day Symposium with Simon Critchley

Date: 29 May 2013 Time: 9.00 am-6.00 pm

Venue: Cavendish Colloquium Room

The Tragic:

A Symposium with Simon Critchley

Programme:

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9.30am - Opening Plenary

'Jesus and Tragedy'

Terry Eagleton (Distinguished Professor of English, Lancaster University)

10.45am - Tea and Coffee Break

11.15am - Panel 1

'Unbearable Life: Tragedy, Sovereignty, Biopolitics'

Arthur Bradley (Reader in Comparative Literature, Lancaster University)

'After Tragedy: Bush, Blair and the Baroque'

Michael Dillon (Professor Emeritus of Politics, Lancaster University)

'Critchley versus Cavanaugh'

Charlie Gere (Professor of Media Theory and History, Lancaster University)

12.30pm - Lunch

2pm - Panel 2

'Touching the Tragic in Elizabethan England'

Liz Oakley-Brown (Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Studies, Lancaster University)

'Wallace Stevens: Reinventing the Real'

Tony Sharpe (Senior Lecturer in English, Lancaster University)

'Orpheus/Transmitting: The International Necronautical Society's Death Trip'

Brian Baker (Lecturer in English, Lancaster University)

3.15pm - Tea and Coffee Break

3.45 - Keynote Lecture

'The Hamlet Doctrine'

Simon Critchley (Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy, The New School of Social Research, New York).

5pm - Round Table Discussion on Tragedy

Simon Critchley

Michael Dillon

Terry Eagleton

Alison Findlay

Chaired by John Schad (Professor of Modern Literature, Lancaster University)

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Who can attend: Anyone

Further information

Organising departments and research centres: English and Creative Writing