Symposium discussion papers

'What is the use of literary study now, in this new university [that has lost the guiding mission that has sustained it since the early nineteenth century]? Should, ought, or must we still study literature? What is the source now of the obligation to study literature? Who or what addresses to us a call to do so? Why should we do it? To what purpose? Can literary study still be defended as a socially useful part of university research and teaching or is it just a vestigial remnant that will vanish as other media become more dominant in the new global society that is rapidly taking shape?'

(J. Hillis Miller, "Governing the Ungovernable: Literary Study in the Transnational University", 1995)

Hospitalities of Literature | (teaching after ...) is a one-day symposium. It immediately follows the Mourning and its Hospitalities conference, and continues its themes into the pragmatic, professional, institutional and cultural contexts of teaching. This symposium will involve the participation of the conference's plenary speakers. There will be separate bookings for this event, with a limited number of places available. Discussion will be initiated by a small number of commissioned ten-minute papers, which will be circulated in advance rather than read live.