Below is the announcement of the international symposium and international seminars organized by Function of Literature and Art as Social Medium (LAC) .

The 8th LAC International Symposium, "Literature and Terror"

Admission Free, No Booking Required (Everyone is welcome)

Session 1 (13:00-15:00)
Terrorism in Twentieth-Century English Literature

Robert Hampson (University of London)
"Conrad, anarchist and the policing of Victorian London"

Asako Nakai (Hitotsubashi University)
"Literature Creates Terrorism? The Rushdie Affair Reconsidered"

Kunio Shin (Tsuda College)
"'Propaganda by the Deed': the Avant-garde and the Explosive Imagination"

Chair: Yoshiki Tajiri (University of Tokyo)

Session 2 (15:30-18:00)
Terror and Aesthetic

Hiroaki Yamada (University of Tokyo)
"L'esthétique anarchiste? ― autour des attentats dits anarchistes des années 18"

Shinichiro Yasuhara (University of Tokyo)
"Les terreurs dans les lettres ― Maurras et Paulhan"

Claude Mouchard (University of Paris 8, in French — with simultaneous interpretation)
"Terreurs: témoignages et œuvres"

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The 7th LAC International Seminar
Robert Hampson (University of London) ”Conrad and post-colonialism”
16:30-18:00, December 17, 2007
Place: Collaboration Room 2, 4F, Building 18, Komaba Campus, University of Tokyo
No Translations, No Booking Required, Everyone is welcome

The 8th LAC International Seminar
Claude Mouchard (Universite Paris 8) ”Sur "L'espace aux ombres" de Henri Michaux”
18:00-19:30, December 18, 2007
Place: Collaboration Room 2, 4F, Building 18, Komaba Campus, University of Tokyo
No Translations, No Booking Required, Everyone is welcome