More details, including exact location, to follow soon.
No booking required. All welcome.
This event has been organised by the Centre for French and Francophone Research. The centre provides a showcase for the diversity of French and Francophone studies in a global context across many disciplines at UCL, including literary studies, history, philosophy, art history, anthropology, global health, and the physical sciences. The goal is to create a space for researchers and students from across the university broadly interested in the French-speaking world to share their work and to promote interdisciplinary collaboration.
Photo by Surendran MP on Unsplash
-------------------------
About the Speakers
Tim Beasley-Murray
Associate Professor of European Thought and Culture at UCL Arts and Sciences
I work on literature and ideas across a range of languages including English, Czech, French, German, Russian and Slovak. My latest book, Critical games: on play and seriousness in academic, literature and life, is an exploration of the ludic dimension of something we normally think of as serious—academic activity and criticism—and of the serious dimension of something that we normally think of as playful—literature.
More about Tim Beasley-Murray
Aubrey Gabel
at Columbia University
Aubrey Gabel (PhD, UC Berkeley 2017) is a specialist in 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone literature, culture, and visual media. Her first book, The Politics of Play: Oulipo and the Legacy of French Literary Ludics, is forthcoming with Northwestern University Press (Oct. 2025).
More about Aubrey Gabel
Dennis Duncan
Associate Professor at UCL English Language & Literature
He is the author of Index, A History of the (Penguin, 2021), along with numerous academic books, including Book Parts (co-edited with Adam Smyth, Oxford University Press, 2019) and The Oulipo and Modern Thought (Oxford Universith Press, 2019). His translations include works by Michel Foucault, Boris Vian, and Alfred Jarry, as well as a book-length edition of the Modernist little magazine, Le Grand Jeu (Atlas, 2015).
More about Dennis Duncan
