2024
LCE Salon – Vies minuscules
Can literary texts facilitate dialogue between the disciplines? In this LCE Salon, we discuss Pierre Michon's Vies minuscules to reflect on disciplinary knowledge structures and methods.
Time: Nov. 19, 2024 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
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
Alexandra Effe, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, UiO
Giulia Frigerio, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, UiO
Jasmin Richter, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Psychology, UiO
Karin Kukkonen, Professor in Comparative Literature and convener of LCE, UiO
Mats Haraldsen, Doctoral Research Fellow in French Literature and Culture, UiO
Matthew Kinloch, Researcher at the Department of Philosphy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, UiO
Silvio Bär, Professor of Classics, UiO
Stefka G. Eriksen, Associate Professor in Medieval Studies, UiO
Ylva Østby Berger, Associate Professor in Neuropsychology, UiO
In this salon, we read
Pierre Michon, Vies minuscules / Das Leben der kleinen Toten / Ørsmå liv / Small Lives
LCE Salon – The Game of the Novel
Can literary texts facilitate dialogue between the disciplines? In this LCE Salon, we collaborate with the ERC-project JEUX and play “the game of the novel”.
Time and place: Aug. 27, 2024 2:15 PM, PAM389
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.
Programme
14.30 Welcome (Karin Kukkonen)
14.30 Initial Discussion and Gameplay 1
16.00 Coffee Break
16.15 Gameplay 2
17.30-17.45 Comments by Terence Cave
17.45-18.30 Concluding Discussion with Andreas Roepstorff, Koen de Temmerman and Marina Warner
This LCE Salon assembles a group of colleagues from LCE and ILOS who have already participated in other pilots for the JEUX project, such as Game of Metamorphoses and the Game of the Messenger.
In this salon we play
- Lafayette, La Princesse de Clèves / The Princess of Cleves (transl. Terence Cave)
LCE Salon – Feline Edition
Can literary texts facilitate dialogue between the disciplines? In this LCE Salon, we discuss short stories with cats as protagonists and narrators to reflect on disciplinary knowledge structures and methods.
Time and place: Apr. 4, 2024 2:15 PM – 6:00 PM, PAM 389
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.
Programme
14.15 - 14.30 Welcome (Silvio Bär and Karin Kukkonen)
14.30 - 15.45 Discussion of Natsume Soseki, I am a Cat; Haruki Murakami “Abandoning a Cat”, and E.A. Poe, “The Black Cat”
Chair: Karin Kukkonen
Speakers: Reiko Abe Auestad, Rebecca Suter, Rolf Reber and Silvio Bär
15.45 - 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 - 17.15 Discussion of Snorre Edda, and Carter, “Puss in Boots”
Chair: Silvio Bär
Speakers: Stefka Eriksen, Karin Kukkonen and Jasmin Richter
17.15 - 18.00 Final Discussion
This LCE Salon assembles
Jasmin Richter, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Psychology, UiO
Karin Kukkonen, Professor in Comparative Literature and convener of LCE, UiO
Rebecca Suter, Associate Professor of Japan Studies, UiO
Reiko Abe Auestad, Professor of Japan Studies, UiO
Rolf Reber, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, UiO
Silvio Bär, Professor of Classics, UiO
Stefka Eriksen, Associate Professor in Medieval Studies, UiO
In this salon, we read
Angela Carter, “Puss in Boots”
Haruki Murakami, “Abandoning a Cat”
Edgar Alan Poe, “The Black Cat”
Natsume Soseki, "I am a Cat" (chapter 1)
Snorre Sturlason, Snorre-Edda
2023
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.
Time and place: Sep. 5, 2023 2:15 PM – 6:00 PM, PAM 389
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 (unibo.it), Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Bologna,
Regina Fabry (researchers.mq.edu.au), 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
Organiser
Literature, Cognition and Emotions
LCE Salon – Chekhov and Ginzburg
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.
Time and place: Feb. 8, 2023 2:15 PM – 6:00 PM, PAM 389
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.
The first LCE salon assembles
Stefka Eriksen, Research Professor in Old Norse literature and cultural history at Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research
Ylva Østby Berger, Associate Professor in Neuropsychology, UiO
Beate Seibt, Professor in Social Psychology, UiO
Stijn Vervaet, Associate Professor in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and Balkan Studies
John Sutton (paris-iea.fr), Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia and Fellow at Paris Institute for Advanced Study
Michael Wheeler (stir.ac.uk), Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling
Moderated by Karin Kukkonen, Professor in Comparative literature and convenor of LCE, UiO.
In this salon, we read
Natalia Ginzburg, "The Little Virtues"
Anton Chekhov, "Gooseberries"
Connected events
The salon is linked to John Sutton and Michael Wheeler’s Double-feature Lecture on 9 February.
Organiser
Literature, Cognition and Emotions