Episodes

  • On Marguerite Duras, The Lover
    Dec 20 2025

    A Conversation for RMST 202. With Fernanda Negrete (University at Buffalo) and Jon Beasley-Murray.

    #rmst202 #romancestudies

    http://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca

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    24 mins
  • On Joseph Zobel, Black Shack Alley
    Dec 1 2025

    A Conversation for RMST 202. With Emily Zobel Marshall (Leeds Beckett University) and Jon Beasley-Murray.00:00 Introduction01:10 Racial Politics and Education in Postcolonial Martinique04:25 Story-Telling and Black Consciousness: Call and Response07:32: Two Worlds in Contrast: Schooling and Exile10:23 Pride, Community, and Recognition13:06 Representing Black Consciousness and Experience14:17 Negritude and Black Pride: Challenging the Colonial Regime18:21 Written on the Body: A Sense of the Material20:24 From Book to Film to Monument: Maintaining the Critique24:03 Credits#rmst202 #romancestudieshttp://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca

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    24 mins
  • On Roberto Arlt, Mad Toy
    Nov 29 2025

    A Conversation for RMST 202. With Ben Bollig (St Catherine's College, Oxford) and Jon Beasley-Murray.00:00 Introduction01:11 A Hybrid Text: Many Novels in One04:29: A Journey to Disillusion: Struggling to Make a Name for Oneself09:30: A Fantasy of Enrichment: Invention and Falsification15:02: Crimes of Betrayal: Snitching and Treason18:14 Credits#rmst202 #romancestudieshttp://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca

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    18 mins
  • On Ricardo Piglia, Money to Burn
    Nov 28 2025

    A Conversation for RMST 202. With Fabricio Tocco (Australian National University) and Jon Beasley-Murray.#rmst202 #romancestudies http://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca

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    24 mins
  • On Alberto Moravia, Agostino
    Nov 19 2025

    A Conversation for RMST 202. With Gaoheng Zhang (UBC) and Jon Beasley-Murray.

    00:00 Introduction00:51 Between Freud and Marx03:53 Neorealism and Narrative06:19 Danger and Coming of Age10:26 Temporality and Disruption14:23 What Next? Telling and Showing18:00 Credits

    #rmst202 #romancestudies

    http://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca

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    18 mins
  • On Mercè Rodoreda, The Time of the Doves
    Nov 19 2025

    A Conversation for RMST 202. With Anna Casas and Jon Beasley-Murray.00:00 Introduction01:12 Sadness and Apparent Simplicity03:40 Mental Space and Physical Space09:23 Incarceration, Liberation, and Ornamentation13:08 Birds, Animals, and the Borders of the Self16:46 A Country that Kills its own Children 18:44 The Beauty in Things20:22 Credits#rmst202 #romancestudies

    http://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca

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    21 mins
  • On Georges Perec, W, or the Memory of Childhood
    Nov 19 2025

    A Conversation for RMST 202. With Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire (UBC) and Jon Beasley-Murray.


    #rmst202 #romancestudies

    http://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca

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    20 mins
  • Norman Manea in Conversation
    Nov 19 2025

    A Conversation for RMST 202. With famed Romanian writer Norman Manea, Jon Beasley-Murray, and students of RMST 202.

    We profoundly thank Professor Manea for the privilege of his time and his extraordinary generosity.

    #rmst202 #romancestudies

    http://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca

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    43 mins