Film screening, discussion of the readings of antigone by sophocles in philosophy and psychoanalysis.

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Moderator: Nguyễn Thị Minh
Language: Film in English with Vietnamese subtitles, discussion in both languages

“Antigone” is one of outstanding tragedies by Sophocles. By the 21st century, it is still acknowledged that “No one can stop talking about Antigone”. Throughout history, Antigone has been interpreted by many theorists and literary critics from many different perspectives. During this session, participants will have a chance to watch an adaptation of Antigone and discuss two of the most influential readings of this work in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the one by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in “The Phenomenology of Spirit”, “Philosophy of Right”, “Lectures on Aesthetics”, and the other by Jacques Lacan in Seminar VII “The Ethics of Psychoanalysis”.

Nguyen Thi Minh is a lecturer in the Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Ho Chi Minh City, University of Education. Her main research interests are comparative literature and film adaptation based on subjectivity, gender theory and semiotics. In addition to publications on teaching and researching literature and cinema, she is also a translator and co-translator of some books in philosophy, cultural studies, and social sciences. Minh is a translator of the first book by Hannah Arendt, Between Past and Future, into Vietnamese, and the first one to translate and introduce Judith Butler in Vietnam.