22nd – 27th August 2016
THE GAZE
The gaze is not simply the eye. The gaze ob-viously intersects with the organ of sight and the field of vision, yet is not exhausted by them. Jean-Paul Sartre famously observed that the gaze transcends the convergence of two ocular globes in our direction. It may also be mate- rialised by the sound of a hesitant footstep or the light movement of a curtain. Jacques Lacan insisted on a fundamental asymmetry between seeing and being-seen. As he once put it: “You never look at me from the place at which I see you”. In psychoanalysis, the gaze stands first and foremost for a libidinal object, one with which we fall in love. Why are we fascinated and seduced by the way in which the other looks at us? How does the inscrutable gaze of the other manage to break our narcissistic infatuation with the mirror image? Film studies have taken up these motifs and developed them to under- stand the conscious and unconscious relation between the spectator and the image on the screen. Given such a context, can we addition- ally speak of the gaze of the filmmaker? If so, what role does it have in the cinematographic experience?
The gaze is also more generally embedded in the differential structure of language, while lan- guage cannot do without a “scopic” component. At its basics, narration itself – whether fictional or critical, subjective or objective – relies on the adoption of a certain “point of view”. Literature and poetry may decide to openly privilege their visual element, for instance in ekphrasis, where the description of a scene or a work of art take centre stage. Does this rhetorical device not point at the synesthetic presupposition inherent to the very possibility and act of writing? And, following Giorgio Agamben, could we suggest that poetry, with its suspension and deactiva- tion of the apparent immediacy of meaning, provides us with nothing else than language’s exhibition, admiration, and contemplation of it- self?
The GSH proposes itself as a venue where young scholars have a real possibility to deepen their knowledge, not only by attending seminars, but also by actively discussing in an informal context their own research projects with highly qualified teachers and among themselves. One of the basic ideas of the GSH is that learning is enhanced by the suspension of formalisms, hierarchies, and the principle of authority that usually define traditional academic contexts. Each day revolves around one or two presen- tations by an invited speaker and is enriched by roundtables, small study groups, and de- bates that are always attended by one or more seminar leaders. The exchange of knowledge and ideas is facilitated by the limited number of students (max 15), and by the interdisciplinary nature of the seminars.
Speakers/seminar leaders at the GSH are lead- ing international figures in their academic and extra-academic fields. They are based both in Italy and abroad. Participants are thus exposed to different cultures, teaching methods, and disciplinary perspectives. They are also ena- bled to establish new research networks and acquire practical information on how to access PhD and post-doctoral programmes.
HOW TO REACH US
Seminars are held in Genoa, Via Parini 10, in a nineteenth century villa. From Genova Brig- nole railway station take bus number 43 toward Nervi. Get off in Via Albaro; cross Piazza Leop- ardi and you reach Via Parini.
REGISTRATION FEES
6 days of seminars: €300 5 days of seminars: €250 4 days of seminars: €200 3 days of seminars: €150 2 days of seminars: €100
Please, pay by bank transfer to:
Spazio Musica (reason for payment: GSH) Bank: CA.RI.GE. IBAN: IT72 M061 7501 44800000 0260 880
Payments should be received no later than 1 August 2016.
Please, send a copy of the payment receipt to registration@gsh-education.com
PROGRAMME OF SEMINARS:
Monday 22 August:
10:00 Welcome and introduction to the Summer 2016 seminar series (Raffaello Palumbo Mo- sca & Lorenzo Chiesa)
10:30 “Seeing, Dying: The Ekphrastic Gaze in Postmodern Culture” (Stefano Ercolino)
12:00 Q&A / Discussion
15:00 Roundtable on Stefano Ercolino’s seminar (chair: Raffaello Palumbo Mosca)
17:00 Drinks and nibbles
Tuesday 23 August:
10:30 “Amelia Rosselli: Variation, Document, Gaze” (Maria Borio)
12:00 Q&A / Discussion
15:00 Roundtable on Maria Borio’s seminar (chair: Chiara Fenoglio)
Wednesday 24 August:
10:30 “The Writer’s Gaze on Reality: Novels and Reportages” (Raffaello Palumbo Mosca)
12:00 Q&A /Discussion
15:00 Roundtable on Raffaello Palumbo Mosca’s seminar (chair: Chiara Fenoglio)
Thursday 25 August:
10:30 “Lacan and Cinema: Gaze, Imaginary, Formal- ization” (Pietro Bianchi)
12:00 Q&A / Discussion
15:00 Roundtable on Pietro Bianchi’s seminar (chair: Giorgio Cesarale)
Friday 26 August:
10:30 “The Gaze and the Drive” (Lorenzo Chiesa)
12:00 Q&A / Discussion
15:00 Roundtable on Lorenzo Chiesa’s seminar (chair: Giorgio Cesarale)
Saturday 27 August:
10:30 “The Gaze and the Baroque: Psychoanalysis, Painting, Architecture” (Lorenzo Chiesa)
12:00 Q&A / Discussion
14:30 Roundtable on Lorenzo Chiesa’s seminar (chair: Luisa Lorenza Corna)
16:30 Roundtable: “Look at me! / Why are you look- ing at me?”
17:30 Drinks and nibbles
Seminars are held in English, unless all partici- pants speak Italian
MORE INFORMATION
info@gsh-education.com
Lorenzo Chiesa lc@gsh-education.com
Raffaello Palumbo Mosca rpm@gsh-education.com