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Noble Lecture 2024 with French writer Marie NDiaye
29 February 2024, 6:00 pm鈥�7:30 pm
In conversation with Profs Nicholas Harrison (KCL) and Clare Finburgh Delijani (Goldsmiths)
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All | 果冻影院 staff | 果冻影院 students
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Institute of Advanced Studies
Location
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Lecture Theatre G6果冻影院 Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon SquareLondonWC1H 0PY
We are delighted to welcome Marie Ndiaye to give the Noble Lecture 2024.
Marie Ndiaye published her first novel,聽Quant au riche avenir, when she was 17. She won the聽聽in 2009. Her play聽Papa doit manger聽is the sole play by a living female writer to be part of the repertoire of the聽. She co-wrote the screenplay for the 2022 legal drama聽聽alongside its director聽, and Amrita David. In September 2022 the film was selected as France's official selection for聽聽at the聽.
The Noble Lecture is made possible through the generous support of 果冻影院 French alumnus, Peter Noble.聽Open to the public. Lecture given聽in French.聽
Followed by a drinks reception.聽Register to attend at聽
Image credit聽漏 Traumrune听/听听/听聽Foire du Livre de Francfort 2017. Marie NDiaye dans l鈥櫭﹎ission Masterclasses de France Culture avec Delphine Chaume /聽Frankfurt Book Fair 2017. Marie NDiaye in the France Culture show Masterclasses with Delphine Chaume
This event has been organised by 果冻影院 French department in collaboration with the 果冻影院 Centre for French and Francophone Research.
The Centre for French and Francophone Research provides a showcase for the diversity of French and Francophone studies in a global context across several disciplines at 果冻影院, including literary studies, history, philosophy, art history, anthropology, global health, and the physical sciences. The goal is to create a space for researchers and students from across the university broadly interested in the French-speaking world to share their work and to promote interdisciplinary collaboration.
About the Speakers
Marie NDiaye
French novelist, playwright and screenwriter
Nicholas Harrison
Professor of French and Postcolonial Studies at Kings College London
My research interests are quite diverse, but a recurring theme has been the sort of political work that literary texts 鈥� and also films 鈥� are imagined to do, by censors, critics, writers and teachers. This entails an interest both in political and historical contexts, and in notions of literary and aesthetic specificity or value. I have worked above all on writing in French from the Maghreb, especially Algeria, including work by Djebar, Dib, Feraoun, Amrouche, Chra茂bi, Camus, Derrida, Cixous, Memmi, and Fanon.
Clare Finburgh Delijani
Professor and Director of Research at Department of Theatre and Performance, Goldsmiths University of London
A specialist in postcolonial and European culture, I strive to broaden and internationalise the curriculum, to reflect performance traditions from around the world, and inspire students from all backgrounds to believe that they/you can shape the future of world theatre and thought.聽I am the recipient of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2023-26) during which I am tracing a history of postcolonial theatre in France from the 1950s to today. My book (Liverpool University Press) looks back at histories of colonialism, better to understand identity, community and the postcolonial nation today.