Conference

Lena Magnone : "Central European modernism: a matter of men (1890-1914)"

On The May 12, 2025


 

Maison de la Recherche, (room D323), 28 rue Serpente, 75006 Paris 
6 - 8 pm

Dans le Café Griensteidl'à Vienne (1896) -  Reinhold Völkel
Dans le Café Griensteidl'à Vienne (1896) - Reinhold Völkel
 
Lena Magnone, researcher in residence at the Collegium, will give a lecture entitled ‘Central European modernism: a matter of men (1890-1914)’. This event is organised by Sorbonne Université's UFR de Littérature française et comparée.
 
Registration by email
Contact: nicolas.aude@sorbonne-universite.fr before noon on Monday 12 May
 

Lena Magnone is a literary scholar with a particular interest in Central European modernism, psychoanalysis and women's writing. She defended her Ph.D. (2007) and habilitated (2017) at the University of Warsaw in Poland, where she is a lecturer until 2020. After a Fulbright fellowship at New York University, she moved to Germany, first as a Humboldt Scholar and then as a Research Associate at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the University of Oldenburg. She has recently published a two-volume monograph, Freud's Emissaries. The Transfer of Psychoanalysis by the Polish Intelligentsia to Europe 1900-1939.