CEFRES warmly welcomes you all to its first SAMSON seminar: Nature(s) & Norms
About SAMSON seminars:
The project “Nature(s) and Norms“, implemented by the Institute of Polish Culture (Warsaw University), the Institute of EUR’ORBEM (Sorbonne University Paris), in partnership with the French Centre for Research in Social Sciences in Prague, is embeded into the Research Program SAMSON (Sciences, Arts, Medicine and Social Norms).
This series of seminars and workshops aims to analyse the process of formation of social norms, and to examine the normative order of modernity, the representations and concepts of which will be explored at the intersection of art, literature, social and natural sciences, and medical discourse.
| Friday 21/10, 4:30 pm CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 or Online https://uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/j/94911375494?pwd=bXZnRnVYT29uRS9UQWFXeTFCKzVlZz09 Meeting id: 949 1137 5494 Meeting code: 883839 |
This session will bring together two presentations in english:
Astrid Greve KRISTENSEN (PhD candidate Sorbonne University – CEFRES)
E(co)schatological Entrypoints: The Abject and the Anthropocene in Bianca Bellová’s novel Jezero [The Lake]
| Astrid Greve KRISTENSEN will focus on the abject and the anthropocene in Bianca Bellová’s novel Jezero [The Lake]. This 2016 Czech novel combines the drying up of a life-giving lake with an obscene amount of bodily fluids gushing from its teenage protagonist. This ecocritical subject, combined with a rather literal interpretation of the abject, forms a basis for the interpretation of this orphan story. |
Matylda SZEWCZYK (University of Warsaw)
On Darkness and Light: Images of Nuclear Power and Reproduction
| Matylda SZEWCZYK will focus on „Images of Nuclear Power and Reproduction.“ The aim is to understand and analyse the seemingly counter-intuitive juxtaposition of images of nuclear energy – power plants, atomic testing, nuclear apocalypses – and visions of reproduction (biological fertilisation, parenthood, symbolic figures of parents and children) that recur in the history of culture with disconcerting frequency. It raises questions about social attitudes towards technology, science and the basic ‚facts of life‘ and has already been the subject of academic discussion, from the feminist analysis of Evelyn Fox Keller to the historical reconstructions of Spencer R. Weart. The contemporary and historical functioning of these motifs in visual culture will be the focus of this presentation, which will concentrate on the images of nuclear apocalypse and parenthood/reproduction in Eduard Verkin’s novels Sakhalin Island (2018) and Maja Wolny’s Brightness (2019). |
See the complete program of the SAMSON Nature(s) & Norms seminar here: NANO seminar: Nature(s) & norms | CEFRES