Reading Practices: A Symposium

Tuesday 16 October 2007

Time: 3.00-7.00pm

Venue: Modern Languages Building, 16 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QL

Speakers/Participants:

Roger Chartier (Collège de France)
Wilda Anderson (University of Johns Hopkins)
Milad Doueihi (University of Glasgow)

This interdisciplinary symposium, organised by the Faculty of Arts in collaboration with the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, will inaugurate a series of collaborative ventures, bringing together scholars, not merely from different disciplines across the Faculty of Arts, but also from other UK and international institutions (as part of the AHRC-funded Modern Languages Training Network). This session will bring together a group of internationally noted scholars from France and the US, examining reading practices in a number of historical, cultural and discursive contexts from an interdisciplinary perspective. Key themes will include the following:

Reading practices in cultural and production contexts
Print culture
Practices of reading: theology, hermeneutics
Reading practices and the non-literary text

Reading Practices: A Symposium - Programme

Quebec Cinema Conference at the University of Glasgow

22-24 March 2007
An international bilingual conference

Three days of debates on the current success of Quebec Cinema, its history, and its international connections

Keynote Speakers:
Robert Schwartzwald
Sherry Simon
Thomas Waugh

Film directors introducing and discussing their work:
Louis Bélanger (Gaz Bar Blues)
Denis Chouinard (Clandestins)
Mireille Dansereau (La Vie rêvée)

Final Programme