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22 Mar 2012

The making and breaking of limits

The making and breaking of limits is a research workshop in the humanities that will take place in University College Cork on 23 March 2012 in the Meeting Room, College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, from 11.30 to 4.

The making and breaking of limits

The making and breaking of limits is a research workshop in the humanities that will take place in University College Cork on 23 March 2012 in the Meeting Room, College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, from 11.30 to 4.

The workshop will consist of two papers, given by Geneviève Guétemme, with a response by Jill Murphy, and by Patrick O'Donovan, with a response by Paul Hegarty. The workshop will close with a round table discussion.

The workshop forms part of an ongoing project on the idea of limits. This one day event will be followed by a number of seminar sessions where we will explore the extent to which limits can be said to pinpoint a cross-disciplinary research problem in the humanities today, on the basis that the tasks of thought are characterized through the conceptualization of limits, albeit in ways which are open to sharp shifts in direction. The intellectual object is, first, to clarify what is at stake in appeals, however diverse, to limits so as to characterize problems of thought, and, second, to engage in a critical examination of ways in which such explorations can have impacts in specific disciplinary contexts.

For more information, please visit the project webpage: http://www.ucc.ie/french/limit/

The programme can also be downloaded: http://www.ucc.ie/french/limit/limit.pdf

The workshop is supported by the ‘New Ideas’ Scheme of the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (principal investigator: Patrick O’Donovan)

School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures

Teangacha, Litríochtaí agus Cultúir

College Road, Cork

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