{"id":151,"date":"2026-02-04T09:41:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T08:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/matthewscully\/?page_id=151"},"modified":"2026-05-20T22:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:13:22","slug":"solidarity-and-collaboration-in-literary-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/matthewscully\/solidarity-and-collaboration-in-literary-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Solidarity and Collaboration in Literary Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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An event organized by Dr. Patrizia Zanella and Dr. Matthew Scully in collaboration with CUSO (Conf\u00e9rence universitaire de Suisse occidentale), the Department of English at the University of Lausanne, the Centre de traduction litt\u00e9raire de Lausanne (UNIL), Plateforme interfacultaire en \u00e9tudes genre (PlaGe), and the Embassy of Canada in Switzerland.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Description:<\/strong> This 2-day CUSO workshop and public conference will give doctoral students and others across Switzerland the opportunity to discuss and reflect on modes of solidarity and collaboration within the context of literary studies. We will consider Indigenous Studies and Black Studies as particularly generative foundations for these conversations due to the ethical weight they give to solidarity and collaboration, but such topics appeal to a wide variety of other fields and subfields important to Swiss doctoral students working in Anglophone literary studies, including American Literary Studies, Decolonial Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Translation Studies, to name a few fields for which collaboration is itself an ethos. Our invited speakers, David Chariandy, Sophie McCall, Isis Giraldo, and Ga\u00eblle Cogan combine academic and literary expertise and experience, so they will be an excellent set of interlocutors for these discussions. This event also aims to address practical considerations, such as how to collaborate ethically and effectively in a variety of contexts. We will also include a literary translator to offer further insight on the collaborative nature of translation (for the workshop on translation). The event concludes on Friday with a public film screening of Sugarcane<\/em> and ap\u00e9ro organized in collaboration with the Embassy of Canada in Switzerland. The trailer of the documentary Sugarcane<\/em> can be viewed here<\/a>. Throughout the workshop, we will be especially attentive to modes of solidarity with and through differences (following the work of Audre Lorde and others), rather than forms of being and working together that risk erasing difference into sameness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’d like to participate in the conference, you can register with CUSO<\/a> or email matthew.scully@unil.ch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film screening is free and open to the public, but please register here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those unfamiliar with UNIL, the campus map can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, 21 May 2026 (Synathlon 2218):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n