Professor Christopher Fynsk will be keynote speaker at the 25th annual conference of the Centre for Comparative Literature being held at University of Toronto, 12-15 March 2015
The event is titled Survival, and aims to respond to the need to rethink what survival means today. Exploring topics such as:
- Freudian death drive; the undead; the uncanny
- Survivor’s guilt; mourning; surviving the death of others
- The survival of the name
- Suicide and sacrifice
- Apocalyptic economies
- Aesthetics of eschatology
- Erotic foreclosure
- Afterlife of artworks
- Survival of/in capitalism
- Intersection of survival and obsolescence
- Apparitions; hauntology; revenants
- Survival of philosophy and the humanities
- The death of god
- Class struggle; the nation-state; warfare
- Surviving gender- and sexuality-based violence
- Survivalist movements
- Ecology; ecopoetics; anti-evolutionism
- Consumer goods that have outlived their use (antiques; collectors)
- Guilt and debt
- Gentrification; architectural history; ruins
- ‘Livability’