Le séminaire se tiendra de 13h à 15h en visio. Nous aurons le plaisir d’entendre Carrol Clarkso. Sa présentation s’intitule: « Sensory Fields and Linguistic Commitments: Willem Boshoff and the Art of the Dictionary ».
Voici les éléments de présentation de sa conférence et de son itinéraire qu’elle nous a fournis :
Talk
The talk begins by looking at a recent retrospective exhibition of South African word artist, Willem Boshoff. The title of the exhibition itself, Word Woes, raises questions about the effects of monolingual paradigms of thinking. My paper uses Boshoff’s life-long interest in dictionaries as a point of departure, and opens onto an exploration of the ways in which the genre of the dictionary (even a « monolingual » dictionary) can, and has been, mobilized as an instrument for radical thinking.
Biography
Professor Carrol Clarkson has interdisciplinary teaching and research interests in literature, philosophy, linguistics, and the visual arts. She has published widely in these fields; her books include J.M. Coetzee: Countervoices (2009; second edition, 2013) and Drawing the Line: Toward an Aesthetics of Transitional Justice (2014).
Before coming to UWC, she was Professor and Chair of Modern English Literature at the University of Amsterdam, and she retains a research affiliation with the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis. Her current research extends her work on the language and aesthetics of transitional justice and her most recent publication is an introduction for an artist’s book by Willem Boshoff: the Oh No! Dictionary.
Voici les éléments de présentation de sa conférence et de son itinéraire qu’elle nous a fournis :
Talk
The talk begins by looking at a recent retrospective exhibition of South African word artist, Willem Boshoff. The title of the exhibition itself, Word Woes, raises questions about the effects of monolingual paradigms of thinking. My paper uses Boshoff’s life-long interest in dictionaries as a point of departure, and opens onto an exploration of the ways in which the genre of the dictionary (even a « monolingual » dictionary) can, and has been, mobilized as an instrument for radical thinking.
Biography
Professor Carrol Clarkson has interdisciplinary teaching and research interests in literature, philosophy, linguistics, and the visual arts. She has published widely in these fields; her books include J.M. Coetzee: Countervoices (2009; second edition, 2013) and Drawing the Line: Toward an Aesthetics of Transitional Justice (2014).
Before coming to UWC, she was Professor and Chair of Modern English Literature at the University of Amsterdam, and she retains a research affiliation with the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis. Her current research extends her work on the language and aesthetics of transitional justice and her most recent publication is an introduction for an artist’s book by Willem Boshoff: the Oh No! Dictionary.
Selected Publication
- Drawing the Line: Toward an Aesthetics of Transitional Justice: New York: Fordham University Press, 2014.
