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Laura Salisbury氏講演会
モダニズム文学および医療人文学が専門の英国エクセター大学教授Laura Salisbury氏をお招きし、モダニズム、ケア、持続可能性に関する講演会を以下の通り開催いたします。ご来聴を歓迎いたします。
2月17日（土）15－17時
タイトル： After the End: Modernism, Care and Sustainability
司会 田尻芳樹
開催場所：東京大学駒場キャンパス １８号館４階コラボレーションルーム２
＊土曜日は１８号館入り口が外側から開かないので１５時までに入り口の前にご参集ください。
事前申し込み不要、無料、通訳なし、対面のみ
主催：科研費「現代ヨーロッパ文学におけるカタストロフィ表象とエコロジーについての総合的研究」(22K00399)
プロフィール
Laura Salisbury is Professor of Modern Literature and Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter, UK. She has published widely in modern and contemporary literature and the medical humanities. Her books include Samuel Beckett: Laughing Matters, Comic Timing and Neurology and Modernity: A Cultural History of Nervous Systems (co-edited with Andrew Shail). With Lisa Baraitser, she was co-Principal Investigator on the Wellcome-funded project Waiting Times (2017-2023), which worked on the relationship between delayed and impeded time and care. She is currently working as part of a team of researchers on a Wellcome-funded Discovery Award called After the End: Lived Experiences and Aftermaths of Diseases, Disasters and Drugs in Global Health.
講演要旨
After the End: Modernism, Care and Sustainability
In a recent article, Caroline Levine has compellingly argued that the modernist tradition’s emphasis on the ‘open-ended pause’ feels radical, but it delivers us from the urgent responsibility of acting in the present. Against this, she writes in praise of novels that end by marking a threshold to sustainability, inviting readers to imagine lives going on beyond the end of the narrative world that are tended by the repetitive and ongoing work of care. For Levine, the urgent task of acting in the present ecological crisis is enabled by the imaginative resources of these realist texts that end in ways that concentrate on human lives being sustained. In this paper, I want to return to literary modernist temporalities of suspended ending and aftermath to read ongoingness not as an attempt to evade the urgency of calls to action, but as a way of asking crucial questions of what endings enable and disable. Understanding endings as a part of the ordering and mediating procedures of narration that render time meaningful and construct ideas of scale, I use the work of Samuel Beckett alongside the modernist strategies in Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s speculative fiction M Archive: After the End of the World, to ask how care and endurance hold up and disarticulate crisis-orientated temporal logics of ‘now’, ‘then’, and ‘to come’, in ways that work to reframe the urgent and ongoing political question: ‘what is to be done?’
モダニズム文学および医療人文学が専門の英国エクセター大学教授Laura Salisbury氏をお招きし、モダニズム、ケア、持続可能性に関する講演会を以下の通り開催いたします。ご来聴を歓迎いたします。
2月17日（土）15－17時
タイトル： After the End: Modernism, Care and Sustainability
司会 田尻芳樹
開催場所：東京大学駒場キャンパス １８号館４階コラボレーションルーム２
＊土曜日は１８号館入り口が外側から開かないので１５時までに入り口の前にご参集ください。
事前申し込み不要、無料、通訳なし、対面のみ
主催：科研費「現代ヨーロッパ文学におけるカタストロフィ表象とエコロジーについての総合的研究」(22K00399)
プロフィール
Laura Salisbury is Professor of Modern Literature and Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter, UK. She has published widely in modern and contemporary literature and the medical humanities. Her books include Samuel Beckett: Laughing Matters, Comic Timing and Neurology and Modernity: A Cultural History of Nervous Systems (co-edited with Andrew Shail). With Lisa Baraitser, she was co-Principal Investigator on the Wellcome-funded project Waiting Times (2017-2023), which worked on the relationship between delayed and impeded time and care. She is currently working as part of a team of researchers on a Wellcome-funded Discovery Award called After the End: Lived Experiences and Aftermaths of Diseases, Disasters and Drugs in Global Health.
講演要旨
After the End: Modernism, Care and Sustainability
In a recent article, Caroline Levine has compellingly argued that the modernist tradition’s emphasis on the ‘open-ended pause’ feels radical, but it delivers us from the urgent responsibility of acting in the present. Against this, she writes in praise of novels that end by marking a threshold to sustainability, inviting readers to imagine lives going on beyond the end of the narrative world that are tended by the repetitive and ongoing work of care. For Levine, the urgent task of acting in the present ecological crisis is enabled by the imaginative resources of these realist texts that end in ways that concentrate on human lives being sustained. In this paper, I want to return to literary modernist temporalities of suspended ending and aftermath to read ongoingness not as an attempt to evade the urgency of calls to action, but as a way of asking crucial questions of what endings enable and disable. Understanding endings as a part of the ordering and mediating procedures of narration that render time meaningful and construct ideas of scale, I use the work of Samuel Beckett alongside the modernist strategies in Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s speculative fiction M Archive: After the End of the World, to ask how care and endurance hold up and disarticulate crisis-orientated temporal logics of ‘now’, ‘then’, and ‘to come’, in ways that work to reframe the urgent and ongoing political question: ‘what is to be done?’