[MGSA-L] Harvard, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Cultural Politics Seminar: "On Stigmatology, " Nov. 15, 5:30pm

[Roilos, Panagiotis]

Dear all,


I would like to invite you to the following event.


Sincerely,

Panagiotis Roilos


Panagiotis Roilos
George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies  and Professor of Comparative Literature
Faculty Associate, The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
Harvard University
Member of the Governing Board, European Cultural Center of Delphi


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Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Peter Szendy, David Herlihy Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature, Department of Comparative Literature, Brown University.

"Of Stigmatology: Towards a General Theory of Punctuation"
Wednesday, November 15, 2017, 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Plimpton Room (133)

Chair

Panagiotis Roilos, Faculty Associate. George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies, Department of the Classics; Professor of Comparative Literature, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University.

Abstract:

Punctuation cannot be confined to the strict domain of the written sentence, with its commas, semi-colons, or parentheses: throughout its history, from the rubrica used by the scribes of ancient Egypt to today’s emoticons, punctuation constantly overflows its supposed boundaries. Accordingly, it is also impossible to distinguish rigorously between punctuation proper and its metaphorical transpositions in music or in film. Moreover, punctuation is not a mere rhetorical tool at one’s disposal: as Chekhov’s Exclamation Mark fascinatingly suggests, it is the subject itself—the “I”—that appears as the result of a punctuating effect. Indeed, paying close attention to some crucial pages in Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, this talk will show that punctuation is what makes the erection of a self at once possible and impossible. Hence the need for a general theory of punctuation to confront questions of power: stigmatology is bound to be a political discourse.


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