Toril Moi will speak about the value of the humanities at a seminar about research funding organized by Forskerforbundet (the Norwegian Association for Researchers) in Oslo on Tuesday 22 November. For more information about this seminar, which will begin with a talk by Tora Aasland, the current Minister for Knowledge, click here.
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Toril Moi will give a talk (in Norwegian) on Emperor and Galilean at the Ibsen Museum in Oslo on Sunday 20 November at 2:00 p.m. The talk will be called “Tro uten kjærlighet” (“Faith without love”). She will focus on the relevance of Ibsen’s great 1873 play for our own time, not least in the aftermath of the terror attacks in Norway on 22 July 2011.
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I am embarking on the Ibsen Ark! Off the east coast of Newfoundland, a group of committed theatre artists, actors and theatre students are spending three weeks immersing themselves in Ibsen. I am privileged to be able to go there to join forces with Juni Dahr, the great Norwegian Ibsen actress and her Visjoner Teater company, from September 9 to September 12. The event is organized by the English Theater at The National Arts Center in Ottawa, Canada, in collaboration with Fogo Island Arts Corporation. I am also looking forward to seeing the land where the Vikings landed back in the 11th century!
From June 27 to July 1, Toril Moi will teach one of the Summer Institutes in Literary Study at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. The Institute will focus on Doris Lessing’s novel The Golden Notebook.
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On June 13 and 14, Toril Moi will give a lecture and a seminar for the Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research at Harvard University’s Summer School on “Theater and the Other Arts”. The title of her lecture will be “Ibsen between theater and painting.” It will build on the investigation of painting in Toril Moi, Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism (2006), and trace the interaction between painting and theater in Ibsen’s oeuvre, and in 19th century theater in general. Why does the advent of modernism break the traditional connection between the two “sister arts”?
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On Wednesday June 8 at 7 p.m. Toril Moi will participate in a conversation with the British writer A. S. Byatt, to mark the publication of the Norwegian translation of The Children’s Book, at Litteraturhuset.
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On Tuesday June 7 at 7:00 p.m. Toril Moi will give a lecture (in Norwegian) called “Filosofi og hjertesorg” (Philosophy and broken hearts) at Litteraturhuset in Oslo, Norway.
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On April 27, Toril Moi will give one of three brief talks (in French) on the work of Julia Kristeva at Université Paris 7 – Denis Diderot. The panel has been convened by the University to celebrate the career of Julia Kristeva on the occasion of her retirement. You can download the program for the event as a pdf. file by clicking Prog_A5.
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On April 14, Toril Moi will participate in a colloquium at the Oakley Center at Williams College, Williamstown. The discussion will focus on her (still unpublished) paper “Something that might resemble a kind of love”: Fantasy and Realism in Henrik Ibsen’s Little Eyolf.” For more information, contact The Oakley Center.
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