Session led by Jordan K. Skinner In 1958 a group of British philosophers held a colloquium at Royaumont, France. One of these philosophers, J.L. Austin, presented a paper that soon caught the eye of the linguist Émile Benveniste who glimpsed a shared affinity between their respective projects: both thought about how “language put into action”…

Presented by Gabriela Iturriza (Université de Montréal) To date, two important Venezuelan historians have maintained that the revolutions in the Spanish colonies occurred without access to printing presses and without communication among the colonies.Keeping in mind the identification of foreign newspapers as sources of information for the Venezuelan newspaper Gaceta de Caracas, we will examine…

Session led by Jordan K. Skinner (Princeton University) Not only is the essay one that has drawn interdisciplinary attention—from the film criticism of Christian Metz to the narratology of Gérard Genette—but it also presents two problems of translation that would make for an interesting discussion. The first translation problem can be found with the term…

Presented by Nadia Sherbini. L’académicien français Pierre Loti, dont l’œuvre d’inspiration autobiographique est connue pour être nourrie de ses voyages, s’est lié d’amitié avec l’écrivain, orateur et personnage politique égyptien, Mustafa Kamel, avec lequel il partage un intérêt pour la défense des causes justes. Cette conférence explore ce lien d’amitié et analyse leur traitement (forme…

Presented by Rachel Friedman. Discourse about language figures prominently in the classical Arabo-Islamic tradition. Scholars in the 9th and 10th centuries CE developed a robust body of thought on a set of interrelated topics that include the properties of language, the means by which it signifies, and its origins. One of the principal foci of…