Event date: October 2017 – June 2018
Location: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Blandijnberg 2

• Monday 16 October 2017, 12 – 1 p.m., large meeting room English Studies (3rd floor)
  Discussion of François Laruelle’s General Theory of Victims (preface & introduction)
• Monday 4 December 2017, 12 – 1 p.m., large meeting room English Studies (3rd floor)
  Discussion of Vera Knútsdóttir’s doctoral research on spectral memories in contemporary
  Icelandic culture, including an excerpt from her work “Musée Islandique, Das Experiement
  Island and the Colonial Archive”
• Tuesday 6 February 2018, 1 – 2 p.m., large meeting room English Studies (3rd floor)
  Discussion of Anne Rothe’s “Irresponsible Nonsense: An Epistemological and Ethical Critique of Postmodern Trauma Theory”
• Monday 26 February 2018, 1 – 2 p.m., room 100.072 (ground floor)
  Presentation and discussion of Jessy Carton’s “Encountering the Refugee Crisis: A Narrative Study of Interactions with (Forced) Migrants in Contemporary European Literature”
• Monday 5 March 2018, 1 – 2 p.m., Faculty Room (1st floor)
  Presentation and discussion of Sean Matharoo’s “A Fata Morgana at the End of the World, or Towards the Eco-Racial Disaster of J. G. Ballard’s The Drowned World”

All are welcome. For more information, please contact Holly Brown.