CCÉAE

Lancement de la réédition du livre "Saturn and Melancholy" de Klibansky, Panofsky et Saxl
2020-02-05 17:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Québec
Venez assister au lancement de la nouvelle édition du livre « Saturn and Melancholy: Studies in the history of Natural Philosophy, Religion, and Art » de R. Klibansky, E. Panofsky and F. Saxl. Lors de cet événement, il y aura un panel de discussion avec les éditeurs Philippe Despoix, Georges Leroux ansi que les invités Jillian Tomm et Alberto Manguel.
Pour plus d’informations, veuillez consultez ceci :
https://www.mcgill.ca/library/channels/event/book-launch-saturn-and-melancholy-studies-history-natural-philosophy-religion-and-art-new-edition-304033
L’événement aura lieu au McLennan Library Building Rare Books and Special Collections, 4th floor, Colgate Room, 3459 rue McTavish, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C9, CA
N’oubliez pas de réserver votre place rapidement !

O. Ashkenazi: Still Lives - Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany
2020-02-07 13:00 - 15:00 | Salle Lothar-Baier, Pavillon 3744, rue Jean-Brillant, suite 525 – 6, 3744 rue Jean Brillant, Montréal, Québec, H3T 1P1, Canada
Notre série « diversité et civilité » continue, avec des conférences en format atelier.
Ouvert à tou(te)s.
Our lecture series on « Diversity and Civility » continues with a selection of seminar presentations.
All are welcome.
Le CCEAE, le IRTG “Diversity” et le microprogramme en études juives, Université de Montréal, ont le plaisir de vous inviter chaleureusement à la conférence suivante :
Prof. Ofer Ashkenazi se propose d’explorer les photographies prises par des photographes juifs amateurs sous le régime national-socialiste. Prof. Ashkenazi est professeur associé en histoire à l’université hébraïque de Jérusalem et directeur du centre Koebner-Minerva pour l’histoire allemande.
La conférence aura lieu à la salle Lothar-Baier, située au 5e étage du 3744, rue Jean-Brillant.
Résumé de la conférence (en anglais):
« The talk considers photographs taken by non-professional Jewish photographers under the National Socialist regime. By the early 1930s, most German-Jewish families had used pocket-sized cameras to document their experiences, from domestic routines and family vacations to political gatherings, youth movement ceremonies, sports and religious events. I argue that, gazing at a rapidly changing environment after January 1933, amateur Jewish photographers utilized their cameras to reflect on the new reality, to make sense of it, and to reclaim agency in it. My analysis of the photographs underscores their dialogue with the visual imagery of the time, in particular the photographers’ efforts to restage familiar iconography outside of its original context. The photographs, however, were normally embedded in a larger collection, an album, which narrated the documented experiences, negotiated their meanings, and sought to construct their place in the shared memory of the historical moment they recorded. My analysis therefore places individual photographs within the context in which they were displayed and by acknowledging their role in the narrative of the album. As such, these photographs provide us with a unique case of “ego documents,” which reflect on experiences close to the time of their occurrences. In contrastto other ego documents of Jews under Nazism, photographs are abundant and represent a broader variety of perspectives, including those of children, young women, orphans, or working-class families. An analysis of tens of thousands of such photographs provides us with an exceptionally rich source for the study of Jewish experiences in Nazi Germany: of the various ways Jews perceived the new reality, sought to understand it and to confront its implications ».

Conférence de J. Riquet : Trains, Interrupted: Railway Fiction and the Accidents of Modernity
2020-02-26 16:00 - 18:00 | Salle Lothar-Baier, Pavillon 3744, rue Jean-Brillant, suite 525 – 6, 3744 rue Jean Brillant, Montréal, Québec, H3T 1P1, Canada
Nous aurons la chance de recevoir Johannes Riquet, professeur de littérature anglaise à l’Université de Tempere (Finlande). Voici un résumé de sa conférence :
In this talk, I will present my current book project, a comprehensive study of the complex intersections of aesthetic experience and the project of modernity in British and American representations of the railroad from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. The book offers a cultural history of the railway journey in literature, cinema, and the visual arts as a multisensory and specifically modern experience of multiple accidents, interruptions, and interferences. Starting with a discussion of the poetics of contingency in early railroad fiction, it goes on to examine the figure of the train at the intersection of modern physics and modernist aesthetics. The second part of the book turns to narrative, poetic, and perceptual interruptions and interferences in railway crime fiction and cinema, Cold War cinema, and terrorist fiction, ending with a discussion of the changed significance of trains in the postindustrial present. In my talk, I will begin by outlining the project as a whole with various brief examples before zooming in on Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer (2013). In my discussion of the film, i will examine how the film imagines the (im)possibility of a global train to explore the limitations of dystopia in thinking about planetary crisis.
Johannes Riquet is Associate Professor of English Literature at Tampere University (Finland). He is the author of The Aesthetics of Island Space: Perception, Ideology, Geopoetics (Oxford University Press, 2019) and the co-editor of Spatial Modernities: Geography, Narrative, Imaginaries (Routledge, 2018) as well as Imaging Identity: Text, Mediality and Contemporary Visual Culture (Palgrave, 2019). He is currently working on a new book on railway journeys in British and American fiction and the PI of the collaborative project “Mediated Arctic Geographies: Geopolitics, Climate Change and Arctic Imaginaries, 1997-Present” (funded by the Academy of Finland, 2019-2023). He is a founding member of the international research group Island Poetics and the head of the research group “Spatial Studies and Environmental Humanities” at Tampere University. His research interests include the Arctic, islands, spatiality, travel writing, phenomenology, and railway journeys in literature and cinema.
