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Languages, Linguistics and Film

Professor Elza Adamowicz

Elza

Professor Emerita of French Literature and Visual Culture

Email: e.adamowicz@qmul.ac.uk

Research

Research Interests:

Dada and Surrealist art, literature and film; text-image relations in 20th century French art and literature; European modernism

Recent seminar / conference papers

  • “From Tzara to Burroughs: the cut-up poem”. Lecture, Photographers’ Gallery London, February 2014. https://vimeo.com/88051786
  • “ ‘Fin et suite’. Temporalites of the surrealist collage novel’, conference paper, Time and Temporality in Literary Modernism, Leuven 2013. http://www.mdrn.be/studio/elza-adamowicz-surrealist-collage-novel-17092013
  • “Art at War: the European Avant-Garde and World War I”, Keynote lecture, Perspectives on the Great War, International Conference, Queen Mary University of London, August 2014
  • “Surrealism’s utopian cartographies: off the map?”. Keynote lecture, European Avant-Garde and Modernism Conference, Helsinki, September 2014.
  • “Joan Miro: the artist, the poet and the book”. conference paper, NACS Conference, Barcelona, June 2015.
  • "Parler seul: Tristan Tzara et le livre d'artiste", conference paper, Journée d'etudes Tristan Tzara, Strasbourg Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, December 2015.
  • "Leiris and Breton: unmasking a dialogue", conference paper, What forms can do, All Souls Oxford, January 2016.
  • "Dada representations of the body: between battlefield and fairground", public lecture, Kunsthaus Zurich, She Dada Conference, Zurich, March 2016.
  • "Venus in a ditch: appropriations in Dada and after", conference paper, Die Wiederkehr von Dada, Zurich Cabaret Voltaire, April 2016.
  • "Relire les collages d'Andre Breton: entre les ciseaux et la vie", conference paper, André Breton : l’or du temps, Cerisy, August 2016
  • "Le livre surréaliste : poètes et peintres dialoguent", conference paper, Le Paris de l’entre-deux-guerres : surréalisme, art nègre, culture populaire, University of Tokyo and Maison Franco-Japonaise, Tokyo 2016
  • "Le collage surréaliste", Sophia University, Tokyo 2016.
  • "Aragon et le collage ou la contradiction dans le réel", conference paper, Aragon vivant, Cerisy 2018
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