{"id":660,"date":"2025-02-17T09:13:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T09:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engagementlit2025.web.ua.pt\/?page_id=660"},"modified":"2025-11-05T20:51:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:51:59","slug":"keynote-speakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/engagementlit2025.web.ua.pt\/?page_id=660&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Keynote Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sylvie Servoise<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Le Mans Universit\u00e9<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sylvie Servoise <\/strong>is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Le Mans-Universit\u00e9 and Director of the 3L. AM laboratory (Languages, Literatures, Linguistics at the Universities of Angers and Le Mans). Her research focuses on the notion of literary engagement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the relationship between literature and politics, writing history, memory and fiction in French, Italian and American literature. Her most recent works on these themes are Le Roman face \u00e0 l’histoire. La Litt\u00e9rature engag\u00e9e en France et en Italie dans la seconde moiti\u00e9 du XXe si\u00e8cle<\/em> (PUR, 2011); Politiques du temps : Le Gu\u00e9pard de Lampedusa dans l’histoire<\/em> (PUR, 2018); D\u00e9mocratie et roman. Explorations litt\u00e9raires de la crise de la repr\u00e9sentation au XXIe si\u00e8cle<\/em> (Hermann, 2022); La Litt\u00e9rature engag\u00e9e<\/em> (Que Sais-je?, 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lecture<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Old and New Regimes of Literary Engagement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contrary to a reductive conception of literary commitment\u2014often associated, particularly in the French context, with the Sartrian model\u2014this lecture will propose to define engaged literature as a historically situated form-meaning. Rather than a fixed category, literary engagement will be approached as a dynamic configuration that evolves in response to the literary and intellectual fields, as well as to the political, cultural, and social contexts in which it is embedded. Engaged literature mobilises a particular vision of the role of literature in society, drawing upon both the concrete and symbolic conditions that legitimise the writer\u2019s voice. It participates in a broader history\u2014one that encompasses not only literary forms but also reading practices. Situated at the intersection of multiple forces, literary engagement cannot be dissociated from the evolving relationship between literature and its publics. Attending to the historicity of the notion, to the tensions it harbours, and to the plurality of forms it may assume, offers the most productive way of understanding what characterises literary engagement in the early twenty-first century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To view the English version of the plenary conference, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sylvie Servoise Le Mans Universit\u00e9 Sylvie Servoise is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Le Mans-Universit\u00e9 and Director of the 3L. AM laboratory (Languages, Literatures, Linguistics at the Universities of Angers and Le Mans). Her research focuses on the notion of literary engagement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the relationship between literature and politics, writing history, memory and fiction in French, Italian and American literature. Her most recent works on these themes are Le Roman face \u00e0 l’histoire. La Litt\u00e9rature engag\u00e9e en France et en Italie dans la seconde moiti\u00e9 du XXe si\u00e8cle (PUR, 2011); Politiques du temps : Le Gu\u00e9pard de Lampedusa dans l’histoire (PUR, 2018); D\u00e9mocratie et roman. Explorations litt\u00e9raires de la crise de la repr\u00e9sentation au XXIe si\u00e8cle (Hermann, 2022); La Litt\u00e9rature engag\u00e9e (Que Sais-je?, 2023). Lecture Old and New Regimes of Literary Engagement Contrary to a reductive conception of literary commitment\u2014often associated, particularly in the French context, with the Sartrian model\u2014this lecture will propose to define engaged literature as a historically situated form-meaning. Rather than a fixed category, literary engagement will be approached as a dynamic configuration that evolves in response to the literary and intellectual fields, as well as to the political, cultural, and social contexts in which it is embedded. Engaged literature mobilises a particular vision of the role of literature in society, drawing upon both the concrete and symbolic conditions that legitimise the writer\u2019s voice. It participates in a broader history\u2014one that encompasses not only literary forms but also reading practices. Situated at the intersection of multiple forces, literary engagement cannot be dissociated from the evolving relationship between literature and its publics. Attending to the historicity of the notion, to the tensions it harbours, and to the plurality of forms it may assume, offers the most productive way of understanding what characterises literary engagement in the early twenty-first century. To view the English version of the plenary conference, click here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-660","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engagementlit2025.web.ua.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engagementlit2025.web.ua.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engagementlit2025.web.ua.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engagementlit2025.web.ua.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engagementlit2025.web.ua.pt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/engagementlit2025.web.ua.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1139,"href":"https:\/\/engagementlit2025.web.ua.pt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/660\/revisions\/1139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engagementlit2025.web.ua.pt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}