Symposium / Seminar

Lena Magnone : Seminar Bibliothèque Diderot de Lyon "The literary space from Berlin to Vladivostok"

On The April 4, 2025


 

ENS de Lyon - Bibliothèque Diderot de Lyon - 5 parvis René Descartes - 69007 Lyon
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Vassily Kandinsky, 1909 - Murnau train et château
Vassily Kandinsky, 1909 - Murnau train et château

As part of the Bibliothèque Diderot de Lyon's inter-laboratory seminar ‘The literary space from Berlin to Vladivostok’, the 4ᵉ session entitled ‘Avant-gardes and genres in Central Europe through the 20th century’, will welcome Lena Magnone, researcher in residence at the Collegium de Lyon.
She will be presenting her research on : ‘Saputnici by Isidora Sekulić - between the Serbian avant-garde and transnational feminine modernism’.

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Videoconference access codes can be found on the event web page.

Program website of the Bibliothèque Diderot de Lyon

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.