Back to the PRE-FACES event

The PRE-FACES study day took place on Friday February 17^th 2017 at Saint Charles (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3).

The event included 5 round tables in English on the topic of crisis and crises focused on under different aspects, starting from Shakespeare’s World.

PRE-FACES was the first scientific event of NEW FACES project.

This event brought together professors, researchers, and NGO experts from several European countries to deal about topics such as crisis in the past and in the present, language crisis, or crisis and authority. This day was also the occasion to present NEW FACES programme and its perspectives.

See the PRE-FACES final programme HERE

The twitter feeds of the day are still available here: #NewFacesErasmus

Watch again the videos of the event:

Opening: Why New Faces?

Introduction to the New Faces programme

- Opening by the officials
- Opening by the New Faces Programme representatives: Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, IRCL), Rui Carvalho-Homem (Universidade do Porto), Andreas Mahler (Freie Universität Berlin), Paola Spinozzi (Università degli Studi di Ferrara), Martin Procházka (Charles University, Prague)
- Presentation of the Moodle platform and of the New Faces website

Panel 1: What is Crisis? Definitions and Theoretical Aspects

- Andreas Mahler (Freie Universität Berlin): “What is a crisis? Aspects and criteria”
- Anastasios Brenner (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, CRISES): “What is a crisis in science?”
- William Genieys (Faculty of Law & Political Sciences, CNRS, CEPEL, Université de Montpellier): “Political science and Political Crises: an Overview”

Panel 2: Crisis: Then and Now

- Paola Spinozzi (Università degli Studi di Ferrara): “Prismatic Views of Crisis in Thomas More’s Utopia”
- Luc Borot (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, IRCL): “Political Crises in the Mid-1650s: Balance of Property in James Harrington’s Oceana”
- Andrew Hiscock (Bangor University/ IRCL, Marie Curie Grant): “The Crises of Faith and Allegiance: Early Modern and Modern”

Panel 3: Theatre and/in crisis

- Florence March (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, IRCL)
- Janice Valls-Russell (CNRS, IRCL)
- Recorded interview of Irina Brook (Théâtre National de Nice)

Panel 4: Language Crisis: The War of Tongues

- Rui Carvalho-Homem (Universidade do Porto): “Clashing Voices: invective, derision, laughter”
- Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, IRCL): Insult, trauma and linguistic vulnerability: a few Shakespearean examples”
- Claire Cornillon (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Praxiling and Association Auxilia) “Language and distance learning for inmates: the example of the Association Auxilia”

Panel 5: Crisis and Authority

- Martin Procházka (Charles University, Prague): “Crisis of divine kingship and its consequences for modern nationalism”
- Nathalie Rivère de Carles (Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès, CAS): “Colliding authorities: Shakespearean views on the contemporary crisis of the diplomatic voice”
- Marc Smyrl (Université de Montpellier, CEPEL): “‘Sad stories of the death of kings’: the loss of authority and its consequences from Richard II to David Cameron”