[POSTPONED] Amphis Pour Tous – Can literature be political?

May 13, 2025, 5:30 p.m. - May 13, 2025, 7:30 p.m.

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The conference "Can literature be political?  ," presented by Sylvain SANTI, professor and researcher at the Laboratory for Languages, Literatures, Societies, Cross-Border and International Studies (LLSETI), Faculty of Arts, Languages, and Humanities (LLSH), which was scheduled to take place on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, at 5:30 p.m. at the Visitation Cultural Center, 2 Place du Marché, 74200 Thonon-les-Bains has been postponed. Information on the new date will be provided shortly.

It will also be held:   

  • Tuesday, May 20, 2025, at 6 p.m. in Chambéry 
  • 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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