European Literatures on the Move: Transnationality and Transculturality in a Historical Perspective, 2012

European Literatures on the Move: Transnationality and Transculturality in a Historical Perspective
CHLEL workshop
Salzburg, 1-2 June 2012

Organizers

  • ICLA Coordinating Committee for the Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages (CHLEL)
  • Wissenschaft & Kunst: Programmbereich Arts & Humanities
  • Universität Salzburg und Masterstudiengang Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
  • Fachbereich Slawistik, Universität Salzburg
  • Institut für Slavistik, Universität Hamburg

Date
01.06.2012 - 02.06.2012

Venue
Unipark Nonntal Erzabt-Klotz-Strasse 1

PROGRAM

Friday, 01.06.2012

  • 09.30 – 10.00 Opening addresses:
    Peter Kuon (Head Dept. of Romance Literatures and Languages, Head Arts & Humanities),
    Kathrin Ackermann-Pojtinger (Head of M.A. Program Comparative Literature & Culture),
    Imke Mendoza (Head of Dept. of Slavic Studies)
     
  • 10.00 – 12.00 Conceptualizing European Literature
    Organizer: Vivian Liska/Thomas Nolden
    • From the Republic of Letters to National Literatures
      Alexander Beecroft (University of South Carolina)
    • The Interlect of European Literature
      Alfons Knauth (Bochum University)
    • Literary History as a Cultural Challenge
      Svend Erik Larsen (Aarhus University)
    • Reading European Literature(s)
      Thomas Nolden (Brandeis University/Wellesley College)
  • 12.00 – 14.00 lunch break
     
  • 14.00 – 15.30 Comparative Literature and Popular Cultures
    Organizer: Kathrin Ackermann/Anja Tippner
    • Témoignages concentrationnaires et réalisme socialiste
      Peter Kuon (Salzburg University)
    • Mortal Danger and Visions of Death. Rhetorical and Conceptual Transgression in Medieval Love Lyric
      Manfred Kern (Salzburg University)
    • Title to be announced
      Christopher F. Laferl (Salzburg University)
  • 15.30 – 16.00 coffee break
     
  • 16.00 – 18.00 Comparative Realisms
    Organizer: Margaret Higonnet
    • Alternative historical realisms: media and virtuality as comparative tools
      Jennifer Terni (University of Connecticut)
    • Love the people, tame the peasants: Russian Realism and its preferred subject
      Andrea Zink (Innsbruck University)
    • From Experimental Realism to Post-Realism: Transitional Literature in the ECE Region
      Marcel Cornis-Pope (Virginia Commonwealth University)
    • Fictionality and „Realist Irony“
      Peter Deutschmann (Salzburg/Graz University)

Saturday, 02.06.2012

  • 10.00 – 12.30 Trans-Culture. Migration and Literature in Contemporary Europe
    Organizer: Fridrun Rinner/Franca Sinopoli
    • Migrationsliteratur in Österreich. Rezeption und Kritik
      Sandra Vlasta (Viena University)
    • Migration and (collective) memory
      Helga Mitterbauer (Edmonton – Graz University)
    • The dilemma of 'Francophonie': Postcolonial impacts on the reception of migration literature in France
      Myriam Geiser (Grenoble University)
    • Migration Literature as a new World Literature? A Synopsis of the main concepts, questions and tendencies
      Jeanne Glesener (Luxemburg University)
    • Poetics of Migration: Transnational Narratives in Contemporary Russian Literature
      Eva Hausbacher (Salzburg University)