LCE Salon — Boccaccio and Mansfield

Can literary texts facilitate dialogue between the disciplines? In this LCE Salon, we discuss two short stories to reflect on disciplinary knowledge structures and methods.

An empty 19th-century salon.

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The LCE salon explores methods, knowledge structures and research objects between disciplines in a novel way. Literary texts serve as the basis for this interdisciplinary exchange, provoking reflections on the limits of disciplinary knowledge and facilitating dialogues across these boundaries.

This LCE Salon assembles

  • Douglas Cairns, Professor of Classics at The University of Edinburgh,
  • Pia Campeggiani, Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Bologna,
  • Regina Fabry, Philosopher of Mind and Cognition at Macquarie University,
  • Silvio Bär, Professor of Classics at the University of Oslo,
  • Reiko Abe Auestad, Professor of Japan Studies at the University of Oslo,
  • Stephan Guth, Professor in Middle East Studies at the University of Oslo.
  • The salon is moderated by Karin Kukkonen, Professor in Comparative Literature and convener of LCE at the University of Oslo.

In this salon, we read

  • Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron, Day 5, Story 9 ("Falcon novella"),

  • Katherine Mansfield, "Miss Brill".

Connected events

LCE Guest Lecture: Douglas Cairns, 6 September 2023, 2:15 – 4:00 PM

 

Published June 19, 2023 10:43 AM - Last modified June 11, 2024 1:42 PM