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SUMMARY:Regeneration Talk: Maintaining Life\, Repairing the World: Ethics\, Philosophy\, and Literature
DESCRIPTION:The COVID pandemic appeared as a threat to human life\, both in the vital sense (a risk to biological life) and in the social sense (a risk to social life: disruption from the suspension of activities\, lack of public transport\, closure of schools\, etc.). It has revealed radical vulnerabilities: of institutions\, the species\, and the planet; of fragile populations\, workers “on the front line\,” and each individual. The importance of caring for others and for those who care for “us” has become obvious\, while the broader ignorance of society as to what sustains it has finally become evident. The very grammar of care has imposed itself upon all of us\, because our vulnerabilities are never so visible as when the “normal” form of life has been disrupted. The pandemic\, in its destruction of the space of ordinary life and of “weak links” – places where the daily and anonymous interactions occurred – has also undermined the democratic public space. This talk considers how public life and human interactions can recover. Alexandre Gefen and Sandra Laugier will explore how arts and literature contribute to the expectation of reparation and social transformation\, the (re)creation of relationships\, the formation of social resilience and other narratives\, and the development of an ethic of care. \nAlexandre Gefen is a Research Professor (Directeur de recherche) at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS – Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)\, and Deputy Scientific Director of the Institute of Human and Social Sciences of the CNRS. His research focuses on literary theory and contemporary French literature and culture. As founder of the website Fabula.org\, he has developed parallel research interests in the development of Digital Humanities. His recent books include: Vies imaginaires de la littérature française (2014); Réparer le monde: La littérature française face au XXIe siècle (2017)\, which will appear in English in 2022; and L’idée de littérature. De l’art pour l’art aux écritures d’intervention (2021). \nSandra Laugier is Professor of Philosophy at Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne (Paris\, France)\, a Senior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France\, and the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council (ERC) project DEMOSERIES. She has published extensively on ordinary language philosophy (Wittgenstein\, Austin\, Cavell)\, moral and political philosophy\, gender studies and the ethics of care\, and popular culture (film and TV series). She has translated most of Stanley Cavell’s work and is among the editors of his Nachlass. Her recent publications include: Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy (2013); Politics of the Ordinary. Care\, Ethics\, and Forms of Life (2020); and\, edited with Greg Chase and Juliet Floyd\, Cavell’s Must We Mean What We Say? at Fifty (2022). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Regeneration series\, Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment\, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies\, Graduate Center for Literary Research\, Center for Humanities and Social Change\, and Comparative Literature Program
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/regeneration-talk-alexandre-gefen-and-sandra-laugier/
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SUMMARY:Regeneration Talk: Infrastructures of Collective Life: A Formalist’s Guide to the Climate Crisis
DESCRIPTION:  \nFree to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nJoin us online for a talk by Caroline Levine. Audience Q&A will follow. \nWhat do scholars of literature and the arts have to offer in response to the climate crisis? The aesthetic humanities have long traditions of insisting on open-endedness\, negation\, and inaction. Levine argues that in this moment of rapid and destabilizing change\, this tradition has reached its political limit. She makes a case for the particular value of formalist methods in rebuilding and remaking our social world. Form has never been an exclusively aesthetic term. A vast range of objects\, from sounds to neighborhoods to coral reefs\, can be analyzed for their structures and patterns\, and in this respect\, formalism belongs to all fields\, or to none. But for this reason\, formalism also has the potential to be a useful meta-disciplinary method\, capable of moving between politics and art\, between sonnets and public transportation systems. This talk will analyze sustainability in formal terms and focus specifically on the forms of sustainable infrastructure in contemporary cities\, including Houston\, Barcelona\, and the Brazilian cities of Belo Horizonte and Curitiba. \nCaroline Levine is the David and Kathleen Ryan Professor of Humanities at Cornell University. She has spent her career asking how and why the humanities and the arts matter\, especially in democratic societies. She argues for the understanding of forms and structures as crucial to understanding links between art and society. She is the author of three books\, The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt (2003\, winner of the Perkins Prize for the best book in narrative studies)\, Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts (2007)\, and Forms: Whole\, Rhythm\, Hierarchy\, Network (2015\, winner of the James Russell Lowell Prize from the MLA\, and the Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture\, and named one of Flavorwire’s “10 Must-Read Academic Books of 2015”). She is currently the nineteenth-century editor for the Norton Anthology of World Literature and has written on topics ranging from formalist theory to Victorian poetry and from television serials to academic freedom. \nThis talk is a keynote of the Association for Literary Urban Studies’ 2022 Conference\,  “Cities Under Stress: Urban Discourses of Crisis\, Resilience\, Resistance\, and Renewal.” \nSponsored by the IHC’s Regeneration series \nLive closed-captioning will be provided.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/regeneration-talk-infrastructures-of-collective-life-a-formalists-guide-to-the-climate-crisis/
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