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Panel 2 - NEW TERRITORIES: T. S. ELIOT SHOT AND CARTOONED

(Zoom) Steve Dixon is President of LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, and an interdisciplinary artist working in film, theatre, interactive media and installation. His film and digital works have screened at festivals including Leeds International Film Festival (UK), Moscow International Film Festival, and the New York Expo, and have won a number of awards including Best Experimental Film and Best Art Video. He is author of an award-winning 800-page history of technology in theatre and dance, Digital Performance (MIT Press 2007) and his latest book Cybernetic-Existentialism (Routledge 2020) fuses ideas from philosophy and systems sciences

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(Zoom) Mohit Abrol is currently pursuing a PhD in Literature from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India. His research interests include the Modernist milieu and aesthetics, the Postmodern Condition, Continental philosophy, Marxist Studies, comics studies, trauma studies, political violence and the idea of justice. He is working on Bergson’s influence on Eliot and to overcome the fundamental divide between Eliot the poet and Eliot the philosopher such that Eliot can primarily be seen as a philosopher-poet.

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Norbert Gacek is presently studying at Université Paris Sorbonne–Paris IV (France) under the Erasmus programme. He graduated from Jagiellonian University in French and comparative literature with a Master dissertation titled "T. S. Eliot as a representative of the symbolist movement". He has published : NiewiÄ™dnÄ…ce kwiaty. Soupir Stéphane’a Mallarmégo – UÅ›miechowi mojej Siostry WacÅ‚awa Rolicza Liedera – powinowactwa, „Ruch Literacki” 2018, no. 6, p. 699-714.

Moderator Olivier Hercend completed his PhD at Sorbonne Université in 2019, under the supervision of Pr. Frédéric Regard, on “The relation to the reader in the works of T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf and James Joyce”, and is working on its publication with Classiques Garnier. He has published several papers including “Le modernisme et les dangers de la lecture” (EBC, 2019) and “The Agonistics of Reading: Playing, Gambling, Committing” (Angles, 2020), organised the conference “The Wanderings of Modernism” at Sorbonne Université (2020), and is also the treasurer for the Société d'Etudes Modernistes. He is working as a postdoctoral lecturer (ATER) at Université Paris Nanterre (France).

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