CONFERENCE 'Michel Serres: Thinking beyond boundaries'
Please note that the event will take place at the Maison Française d'Oxford and be livestreamed on Zoom. Follow the links below to register for the in-person or the online event. To attend the conference in person, please register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/michel-serres-thinking-beyond-boundaries-tickets-287827308227 To join the conference online, please register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TiXb_HotTCeiBIORqJy5Og
Michel Serres was a polymath and interdisciplinarian avant la lettre, a poet-philosopher and académicien. Language for him was not simply a means of communication for his ideas; they originated in it, and figures of speech were his figure of thought. Hermes, the angels and the translators that pervade his works are all messengers that build bridges not only between disciplines but also between cultural time periods. This conference brings into dialogue a variety of perspectives from French, British and international scholars who will showcase the relevance of Michel Serres’s thought across a wide range of academic disciplines. It will explore how Michel Serres’s own brand of interdisciplinarity has renewed fields of enquiry as diverse as French studies and English Literature, Philosophy and the History of Science, Geography and Ecocriticism, Translation and Migration Studies.

Conveners:
Prof. Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Dr. Henriette Korthals Altes (MFO)
Dr. Mogens Laerke (CNRS/MFO)
Dr. Marie Thébaud-Sorger (CNRS)
Date: 16 June 2022, 13:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Trinity 2022)
Venue: Maison Française d'Oxford & Zoom
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organising department: Maison Française d'Oxford
Organiser contact email address: communications@mfo.ac.uk
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.mfo.ac.uk/event/conference-michel-serres-thinking-beyond-boundaries
Audience: Public
Editor: Anne-Sophie Gabillas