Terra Critica ReadingRoom

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1 May 2015, 10.30-13.30

Hélène Cixous/Clarice Lispector (with Marcus Coelen & Oliver Precht)

In this session of our series speculation & fabulation – critique in the SF mode, we are reading Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector with French feminist Hélène Cixous to explore (non-)human becomings, writing and feminist speculation. We will discuss the following texts:

  • Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
  • Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
  • Hélène Cixous, ‘The hour of the star’ (in Reading with Clarice Lispector)
  • Hélène Cixous, ‘Clarice Lispector: the Approach’ (in ‘Coming to Writing’ and Other Essays)

Rsvp at info@terracritica.net

This ReadingRoom is the Utrecht dependance of a seminar taught at LMU Munich on Cixous and Lispector by Marcus Coelen, Birgit M. Kaiser and Oliver Precht in June 2015. Anyone interested in participating also in the Munich event, please be welcome and register at info@terracritica.net

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Also please note the session on
26 May 2015, 15.00-18.00

Speculative Feminist Utopias (with Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor)

Readings to be specified

Rsvp at info@terracritica.net

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ReadingRoom is a local Terra Critica practice in Utrecht with the collaboration of Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory. As a series of meetings, it is open to anyone interested in careful and caring close readings. ReadingRoom is meant to create space for content and meaningful conversations in the humanities and beyond. In the current craze of applied science and socio-economic profitability, reading and its crystallizing of critical questions are skills to refine in order to sharpen our understanding of and practicing in this world. We understand reading as an active intervention into our present, a shared practice that sharpens our senses and enables new affective communities. For more information go to http://terracritica.net/readingroom/

ReadingRoom is kindly supported by Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies OSL and Netherlands Research School of Genderstudies NOG