The third and final day of the International Conference on Kenneth White will take place at the Institut français d’Ecosse. Entitled Franco-Scottish Literary Exchanges: Translation, Diaspora and Nomad Thought and organised in collaboration with the RSE-Funded Research Network in Existential Philosophy and Literature and the University of Glasgow, the day’s proceedings will go as follows:
EXHIBITION/CONFERENCE/ FILM SCREENING
15:00 Welcoming address (Emmanuel Cocher, Consul général de _ France, Directeur de l’Institut français d’Ecosse; Scottish Government Representative Fiona Hyslop MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs)
15:15 Kenneth White Keynote address
Common Sense and Uncommon Sense
16:15 Olivier Salazar-Ferrer (Lecturer in French, University of Glasgow)
Kenneth White et Nicolas Bouvier : géopoetique et littérature de voyage
17:00 Ramona Fotiade (PI Existential Philosophy and Literature Research Network)
Exilic Writing, Nomadology and the Thought from Outside: Reflections on Lev Shestov and Kenneth White
17:45 Discussion
18:00 Introduction to film Nomad (BBC Scotland, dir. Eleanor Aitken, 1983)
18:15 Film screening (25 minutes)
18:40 Discussion/ concluding remarks
Thu 31 May | 15.00
Duration: 4 hours approx.
IN ENGLISH | FREE
Institut français d’Ecosse
West Parliament Square
Edinburgh EH1 1RF
More info and full programme available on existentialnetwork.com or open the poster in PDF form below, here.