Lena Magnone: "Modernity, modernism(s), modernist movements in literary periodisation "

The theoretical aim of this seminar is to problematise the polemical category of 'French philosophy' on the basis of nineteenth-century philosophical debates. Particular attention will be paid to the diversity of protagonists (philosophers, publicists, doctors, historians, politicians, etc.) and media (from scholarly editions of lectures to pamphlets, contributions to journals, memoirs read in academies, etc.).

By bringing together French and foreign colleagues with undergraduate and postgraduate students, the seminar aims to encourage a collective discussion of the problems, questions and methodologies raised in each session.

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.

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