Malcolm Bowie was Professor of French at Queen Mary College / Queen Mary and Westfield College, from 1977 to 1992. The French Department is organising a one-day conference to celebrate the continuing presence in our academic community of Professor Bowie’s influential work as a researcher and teacher. We have invited scholars who studied with him as doctoral students, or who worked closely with him, to give papers. The event is planned as a celebration of intellectual dialogue and exchanges between the disciplines, in the spirit of Malcolm Bowie's activities within the scholarly community over many years.
Programme
Coffee from 10.30
11.00 Introduction
11.15 Leslie Hill (University of Warwick) "Between" [keynote paper]
12.15 Stephen Forcer (University of Birmingham) "Poetry for life"
Discussion
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Peter Dayan (University of Edinburgh) "Satie, Braque and the Rejection of Science"
Margaret Rigaud-Drayton (University of Cambridge) “Henri Michaux’s self-portraits: ‘Passages’ between word and image”
Discussion
15.30 Tea
16.00 Lisa Downing (University of Exeter) "Between Psychoanalysis and the Screen: Some Thoughts on Lacan, Ethics and Film"
James Williams (Royal Holloway London) “Interdisciplinary Godard”
Discussion
Concluding remarks
Reception
Venue: Arts Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, Queen Mary Campus, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS. Mile End underground.
Registration: contact k.e.vaclavik@qmul.ac.uk or e.adamowicz@qmul.ac.uk.
Go/Return to: BCLA home page;
Go/return to: Malcolm Bowie page