On Diderot's 'D'Alembert's Dream'. Led by Dr Caroline Warman (Oxford) and Dr Phoebe von Held (IGRS/KCL)
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18 November 2010 - Dr Caroline Warman is Fellow and Tutor in French and University Lecturer, at Jesus College Oxford. She is a specialist on Sade, Diderot and the Encyclopédie, and materialism in the thought, literature, medicine and the emerging sciences from 1700-1900. She has published numerous articles in these areas, as well as the following books, Sade: From Materialism to Pornography (Voltaire Foundation,2002) and The Discursive Culture: Reaction and Interaction, Text and Context, ed. and introduction by Mark Darlow and Caroline Warman, SVEC 2007. Caroline collaborated with Phoebe von Held and Finn Fordham to translate and adapt Diderot's La Religieuse for stage, and recently completed a further translation, also with Phoebe, of Le Rêve de d'Alembert, which will be made into an experimental film.
Dr. Phoebe von Held is a freelance director/adaptor, visiting fellow at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, School of Advanced Studies, London, and artist-resident at KCL. She has recently completed a book entitled Alienation and Theatricality: Diderot after Brecht, due to be published this year by Legenda, Oxford. She adapted and co-translated Diderot’s Rameau’s Nephew and The Nun, which she directed and designed for the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow. Her current work is on developing a stage-adaptation of Gracian’s Manual Oracle and an animation feature for the screen of Diderot’s D’Alembert’s Dream, for which she received two Wellcome Trust R&D grants.
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