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Time in Literary Studies

Workshop with Sanja Bahun, Executive Dean of Arts and Humanities and Professor in the Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex

GLOBAL HUMANITIES LECTURE SERIES

In this workshop, we will discuss Sanja Bahun’s article “On Transience, Presence and Anticipation: Notes Towards a Palimpsestic Approach to Temporal Literary Study, with Reference to 1915.” This article concentrates on issues arising from our engagement with synchrony and diachrony in global literary and art scholarship, and on the use of anniversaries as purported ‘points of puncture’ that may bridge these two modes of scholarly enquiry. 

Recommended reading: “On Transience, Presence and Anticipation: Notes Towards a Palimpsestic Approach to Temporal Literary Study, with Reference to 1915.”  

About the speaker

Sanja Bahun is Professor of Literature and Film, the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Essex, United Kingdom, and, from July 2026, the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation at the Royal College of Art. She is the author or editor of Modernism and Melancholia: Writing as Countermourning (2014), The Avant-garde and the Margin: New Territories of Modernism (2006), Violence and Gender in the Globalized World: The Intimate and the Extimate (2008, 2015), From Word to Canvas: Appropriations of Myth in Women's Aesthetic Production (2009), Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text: New Cassandras (2011), Language, Ideology, and the Human: New Interventions (2012), Myth, Literature, and the Unconscious (2013), Cinema, State Socialism and Society in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1917-1989: Re-Visions (2014) and Thinking Home: Interdisciplinary Dialogues (2018, 2020), alongside numerous articles and essays in the area of international modernism, intellectual history, literature, cinema, visual art and avant-garde. She is a concept author and chief curator of the project and exhibition Aktivitet: 100 Years of Surrealism (2024-25), at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, which won the International Council of Museums’ award for the Best Project in 2025. She is completing a monograph on modernism and home.

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