Thursday 30 November 6.00-7.00
Jacques Derrida, The Gift of Death, chapters 3 and 4
50 George Square 4.11
An online symposium to discuss secrecy in literature and culture.
14 December 2022
14.00-15.30 UK:
- Simon Cooke (Edinburgh) “Forms of Secrecy: Modernism and Espionage”
- Natalie Ferris (Bristol): “‘savage warnings and notations’”: Charting New Sensory Terrains in Christine Brooke-Rose and Prunella Clough”
- Benjamin Bandosz (Toronto): “Identity, Nation, and Agency: The Secret Agent and Edwardian Spy Thrillers”
16.00-17.00 UK:
- Yoon Sun Lee (Wellesley): “Both Sides: The Sympathizer and Bakhtin”
- Kent Puckett (Berkeley): “Plumbing”
17:15-18:00 UK:
- General Discussion
The first meeting of our Theories of Secrecy reading group is 9 November 2022 at 16.00 on campus at the University of Edinburgh.
16:00-17:00 Project Room
50 George Square
We’ll be discussing Frank Kermode’s The Genesis of Secrecy, focussing on Chapter 1.
Access the book on Archive.org
Edinburgh Network for Studies in Secrecy
We’ll soon be adding material on secrecy, spying and lots more.
