Amphis Pour Tous – Can literature be political?

May 20, 2025, 6:00 p.m. - May 20, 2025, 7:30 p.m.

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The lecture “Can Literature Be Political?  ,” presented by Sylvain SANTI, lecturer and researcher at the Laboratory of Languages, Literatures, Societies, Transborder and International Studies (LLSETI), Faculty of Letters, Languages, and Humanities (LLSH), will take place onTuesday , May20 , 2025, at 6:00 p.m. at the Office of the President of the University of Savoie Mont Blanc, 27 rue Marcoz, 73000 Chambéry.

It will also be held:   

  • Saturday, June 24, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. in Albertville 

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE 

Given the long and rich history linking these two terms, this question is obviously rhetorical. rhetorical. Its merit, however, is to draw attention to the meaning of an association that has become commonplace: what does the term "political" mean when used as an adjective to describe literary? More precisely: what do we mean today by political when we say that a literary text literary? Answering these questions requires examining contemporary literary works in order to identify the meanings that can be attributed to this qualification and to understand what it says about our time and the place that literature occupies or hopes to occupy in it. 

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