TIMING BLANCHOT
Friday, Nov. 2nd, La Maison Francaise
*Co-organized by Profs. Denis Hollier and Zakir Paul
9:40-9:45 Introductory Remarks, Denis Hollier
9:45-10:30 Zakir Paul, NYU, “Preoccupied: Blanchot in the Thirties.”
10:30-11:15 Denis Hollier, NYU, "Literature and the Right to Err."
11:15-12:00 Jean-François Hamel, Université du Québec à Montréal: “À la vérité, depuis Mai. Maurice Blanchot et le Comité d’action étudiants-écrivains (1968-1969).”
Lunch break
1:45-2:30 Michael Krimper, NYU: “Blanchot's Experience: Jewish Diaspora, Exile, and Désœuvrement in Literary Space."
2:30-3:15 Nasrin Qader, Northwestern: “When Curfews Sound: Deviation, Error and the Times of Survival.”
3:15-3:45 Anne-Gaëlle Saliot, Duke University, "Politics of the Image: Godard's Debt to Blanchot"
3:45-4:20 Coffee Break
4:30-5:30 Christophe Bident (Université de Picardie-Jules Verne) “Staging a Life” (Keynote).
