Postgraduate "Work In Progress" Seminar
Postgraduate Work-In-Progress SeminarA weekly seminar for Philosophy postgraduates to present their in-progress work, followed by a well-spirited trip to the pub. OverviewThe WIP provides a risk-free and supportive space for postgraduates to present their work and receive feedback from other graduates and faculty.
Attendance optional but highly recommended. All postgraduates are welcome to present or attend -- whether MA, MPhil, PhD, Visitors, etc. Useful InfoThe WIP is a unique opportunity for graduates to develop their presenting and writing skills, take risks, test out ideas, and receive constructive feedback from peers.
Presentations need not be watertight or polished pieces at all. You are encouraged to present work at all stages of the writing process. Should you present?Are you a postgraduate? Then yes, you should present. |
NEXT TALKBen Long (PhD) Scepticism Thursday 04/06/2026 5pm - 6:15pm S1.50 ORGANISERS |
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CRPLA Event - Helmut Schmitz: 鈥楬ow To Have One's Cake And Eat It: Navid Kermani's Gro脽e Liebe, Sufi Mysticism, And Paradoxical Cultural Identities鈥�
Navid Kermani鈥檚 novel Gro脽e Liebe (2014, Love Writ Large) charts the development of a young teenager鈥檚 infatuation with an A-level student in the early 1980s in Germany. The love story is refracted through the adult narrator鈥檚 reflections and through readings from Sufi mysticism and Nizami鈥檚 12th ct. epic poem Lail茂 and Majn没n. This creates a narrative framework in which (Iranian and Muslim) cultural sources and (West German) cultural memory subtly comment on one another, allowing Kermani to ironically undermine both contemporary masculinity and his narrator鈥檚 former self as lover while simultaneously reflecting on the cultural and religious traditions of his own background and their relations to a Western tradition of love. The paper examines Kermani鈥檚 ironic narrative construction in the context of his construction of a paradoxical cultural identity.