Houellebecq's cultural transgressions is a bilingual symposium investigating the ways in which French author Michel Houellebecq problematises the representation of contemporary society through the antagonistic use of both constraint and transgression as aesthetic and critical devices in his works. Bringing together a selection of Houellebecq specialists from Australia, France and the United Kingdom, the programme offers a range of perspectives on the topic of cultural transgressions, including transmediality, stylistic hybridity, political provocation, socio-economic consumption and religious conversion.

Keynote Speaker: Agathe Novak-Lechevalier, Université Paris X Nanterre