Thresholds of Knowledge Upcoming Events

Posted 31 March 2021

Spring 2021

15-16 April 2021
International workshop:  ‘Mediating Otherness: Encounters across Time and Space’

Co-organised by (opens in a new window)Giacomo Savani with Nolwenn Corriou, Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne. 

You can sign up (opens in a new window)here. 

The synthesis and selection of narratives and traditions made by writers will also be addressed, raising broader questions concerning both the role of travel books in constructing and disseminating knowledge and the audience these works were targeting. The didactic dimension of the travelogues will be considered alongside the various frameworks (scientific, religious, antiquarian) that shaped both the depiction and the interpretation of Otherness.

Thursday 29th April, 1.30-2.30 pm
‘On the threshold of memoir and fiction’ 

Join acclaimed writers Sarah Moss and (opens in a new window)Emilie Pine in conversation. 
(opens in a new window)Register here.

3-4 June 2021
Conference: ‘The Architectural Humanities: Reading Race, Class, Gender’

Keynote speaker: Victoria Rosner, Columbia.

Sponsored by the Humanities Institute Research Project: Architecture and Narrative, The Built Environment in Modern Culture

Organiser: (opens in a new window)Katherine Fama

March-April
MA workshops: Medieval Manuscript Fragments Project

MA workshops as part of the MA in Archive and Record Management, organised by Niamh Pattwell, with (opens in a new window)Elizabeth Mullins. 

Dr Chantal Kobel (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), 23rd March 
Dr Margaret Connoly (St. Andrews), 30th March
Prof Christop Flüeler (Fragmentarium project and University of Fribourg) April, date TBC

Autumn 2021

Conferences / workshops

September: Thresholds in Times of Crisis: Liminality in the Face of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Organiser: (opens in a new window)Jeanne Riou 

October: The peritext as threshold: critical concerns and case-studies

Speakers include: (opens in a new window)Derval Conroy, (opens in a new window)Ursula Fanning, (opens in a new window)Francesco Lucioli. 

November: Translation as threshold

Organiser: (opens in a new window)Jane Grogan