A Corpus in Fever: Archival Impulses in Theory, Literature, and the Arts

About NKUA and HASE Founded in 1837, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens is the oldest and largest university in Greece. The Department of English Language and Literature , founded in 1956, is part of the School of Philosophy , which has a vibrant teaching and research culture spanning a variety of fields and interdisciplinary perspectives.   Founded in 1990, the Hellenic Association for the Study of English is a constituent member of the European Association of the Study of English (ESSE). The HASE bi-annual conferences are organised alternately by the Departments of English Language and Literature of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki . They attract a number of scholars from the wide area of English Studies and bring together a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. NKUA website: https://en.uoa.gr/ Department of English Language and Literature website: http://en.enl.uoa.gr/ HASE webs...

Conference programme A Corpus in Fever: Archival Impulses in Theory, Literature, and the Arts Athens, 14 December 2018 Programme 9:00-9:15 Opening and Welcome 9:15-11:00                  The Archive in Literature Chair: Chryssa Marinou ( National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) Alexandre Ferrere ( Paris Nanterre University) A Derridian Exploration into Allen Ginsberg’s Archive(s) . Athina Markopoulou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) Memory Packed and Unpacked: Instances of Resistance to the Cultural Practices of Archiving in Greek Literature of the nineteenth-century . Gizem Kızmaz ( Boğ azi ç i University, Turkey) Database Novel as the New Archival Fiction.                                ...

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The venue The conference will be held at the Kostis Palamas building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens on 14 December 2018. Address:  48, Akadimias str. & Sina str., 105 62 Athens