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Ivan Jablonka (Associate Professor, Universit茅 Paris XIII Nord)

Date
Mon October 21st 2013, 12:00 - 1:30pm
Location
Building 360, CCSRE Conference Room

Speakers): Ivan Jablonka

"History- 'iStory': when a Historian uses the 'I'"

Abstract: How history, as a science and an academic discipline, can also be a literary activity.  An introduction to creative writing into history, through the use of the 鈥淚鈥, the intertwining between past and present, the resort to fiction 鈥渦nder control鈥, the betterment of emplotment, the renovation of footnotes, and how those devices can help to reconcile the demand for method and what Roland Barthes referred to as the 鈥減leasure of the text.鈥