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University of Montreal Professor to Give Talk on Friendship<\/strong><\/p>\n

On\u00a0March 6, from\u00a04 to 5:30PM\u00a0the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, as part of the Life of Ideas series, curated by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Rondeau, will host scholar \u00c9ric M\u00e9choulan. M\u00e9choulan will give a talk titled \u201cOn Friendship: A Brief History of the Concept from Aristotle to Facebook.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00c9ric M\u00e9choulan is an early modernist and cultural historian with significant interests in critical theory and digital humanities. His early interest in the history of the book (first as a librarian and then as a cultural historian), as well as in collective memories have led him to work intermedially: from the very institutions that authorize communication to the materialities of communication (images as well as texts), M\u00e9choulan argues that attending to the transmission of texts and images allows for a sharper understanding of aesthetic works.<\/p>\n

His most recent book,\u00a0Lire avec soin<\/em>\u00a0(Careful Reading) focuses on the idea that reading is not a simple decoding of signs. Rather, it must be integrated into a history of media and a theory of justice. M\u00e9choulan uses the concept of an \u201cethics of care\u201d to make visible relations which previously went unnoticed, or the importance of which have been undervalued. M\u00e9choulan focuses on the relationships in which individuals find themselves, considering that subjects are the temporary products of intertwined flows stabilized by media, cultural habits, institutions, in short, by life. His work is attentive to the \u201cpolitics of transmission\u201d in the sense that before thinking about\u00a0what<\/em>\u00a0we say, we should think about\u00a0how<\/em>\u00a0we say it:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cLearning to read carefully is not simply a matter of learning to see the latent content of discourses and situations, it consists, rather, of building a relationship of trust with events, things, and living beings in order to better understand and comprehend their multiple temporalities. Intelligence in this case is not vexed by questions of domination or mastery: as language suggests, it is, in fact, a question of being intelligent in the company of others\u2014both past and present\u2014that is to say, of creating a microsociety of readers. One is never intelligent alone.\u00a0\u201d (Lire avec soin\u00a0<\/em>146).<\/p>\n

\u00c9ric M\u00e9choulan is a professor of French Literature at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, and also director of the Research Centre Virtuoso on digital uses, cultures, and documents. He is also the head of the committee of the Fondation Paul-Zumthor. From 2004 to 2010, he served as a\u00a0directeur de programme<\/em>\u00a0at the\u00a0Coll\u00e8ge international de philosophie<\/em>\u00a0in Paris.<\/p>\n

M\u00e9choulan\u2019s\u00a0March 6\u00a0talk \u201cOn Friendship. A Brief History of the Concept from Aristotle to Facebook\u201d will take place at the\u00a0Allen and Sally Fernald APPE space<\/a>,\u00a0Stewart Commons IMRC.<\/em>Refreshments will be served.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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The talk is part of the yearlong talk series \u201cLife of Ideas, Notions, and Concepts\u201d curated by MHC faculty board member Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Rondeau which included fall<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0spring\u00a0panels<\/a>\u00a0of 91¸£Àû faculty, as well as upcoming guest speaker\u00a0Enzo Traverso<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"MHC<\/p>\n

Part of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center’s 2017-2018 symposium is Juvenescence\/Obsolescence: Humanities Approaches to Aging across the Ages<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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