Re-Thinking Europe. Literatures and Literary Histories as Media of (Trans)National Identities and Collective Memories

Re-Thinking Europe. Literatures and Literary Histories as Media of (Trans)National Identities and Collective Memories

Veranstalter
HERMES network
Veranstaltungsort
Leuven/ACW Complex, Ensemblezaal STUK
Ort
Leuven/Belgium
Land
Belgium
Vom - Bis
18.06.2006 - 23.06.2006
Von
Truwant, Mirjam

The University of Leuven K.U.Leuven, in cooperation with European partners from the HERMES network, is planning an International Seminar, to be held from June 17-23, 2006 on the topic
Re-Thinking Europe – Literatures and Literary Histories as Media of (Trans-)National Identities and Collective Memories.

The International Seminar is designed for highly qualified doctoral candidates in any field of literary studies. It will offer students the opportunity to give papers in a relaxed and productive atmosphere and the chance for intensive discussion of their research projects.

Participants will also be invited to attend a symposium on the seminar topic which will feature internationally renowned speakers.

The registration fee for the seminar is 200 euros. We are currently
trying to get funding to cover accommodation, meals, etc. As soon as
more information is available, we will post it here.

Programm

SUNDAY 18 June

13.45-15.30
Introductory lecture
Iwona Maria Maczka
“But shall I tell you what really happened?"- Memory of the Past in Literary Texts
Liesbeth Minnaard Intervening Imaginations of Dutch and Germanness: Dutch and German Literature of Migration beyond Trans- and Re-nationalisation

15.30-16.00 coffee

16.00-17.15
Mary Stevens
Re-thinking national identities in the post-museum: memories of the future at the Palais de Tokyo
Merel Leeman
America as Discourse of the Self – German Identity according to Martin Walser and Hans Magnus Enzensberger

MONDAY 19 JUNE

09.30-10.45
Mimi Vasilaki
Surrealism in the margin? Re-reading Greek Yperrealismós
Ewoud Kieft
Conversion in avant-garde circles: in search of European identity

10.45-11.15 coffee

11.15-12.30
Matthijs de Ridder Europeanism in One Country. To a Flemish identity and beyond in the years of flourishing literary idealism (1915-1926)
Jeppe Ilkjær
The late, the real Europe

LUNCH (12.30-14.00)

14.00-15.15
Ramune Krikstanaityte– Claassen
Remembering and Resembling Identity in Vladimir Nabokov‘s Fiction
Ana Filipa Prata
José Cardoso Pires’ chronicles and the construction of a collective memory

15.15-15.45 coffee

15.45-17.00
Iulius Armand Hondrila
Prague in Victorian Fiction. An Imagological Approach
Britta Freitag Multicultural fictions of Europe from Heart of Darkness to L’auberge espagnole: Challenges and opportunities for intercultural foreign language teaching in a European framework

TUESDAY 20 JUNE

09.30-10.45
Bart Keunen
Europe’s Modernities
Frits Andersen
On the track – 18th Century Travelogues as Models for “Rethinking Europe”

10.45-11.15 coffee

11.15-12.30
Ortwin de Graef
European Recessional (Let Us Forget)
Herbert Grabes
Prodesse et delectare: The World of National Literatures and the Worlds of Literature

LUNCH (12.30-13.30)

13.30-14.45
Lieven D’hulst
Comparative Literature vs. Translation Studies: Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
Antoine Compagnon

14.45-15.15 coffee

15.15-16.30
Vita Fortunati
The Literary Text as a Complex System in a Planetary Perspective
David Damrosch
Global Regionalism

WEDNESDAY 21 JUNE

09.30-10.45
Beatrijs Vanacker
Re-thinking English identity in 18th century French literature. The Histoire anglaise – towards an illuminating view on the other?
Nina McDonagh
The Blending of National Cultural Memory – The French Revolution and English Romanticism in French Histories of English Literature

10.45-11.15 coffee

11.15-12.30
Michael Boyden
Language and Translation in Histories of American and European Literature
Iannis Goerlandt
(Supra-)National Concepts of Literature in Arno Schmidt's Prose: Two Case Studies

LUNCH (12.30-14.00)

14.00-15.15
Joël Giskes
The German Political Sonnet of the 19th Century
Goncalo Cordeiro Civilization as a Problem

15.15-15.45 coffee

15.45-17.00
Jan Rupp
‘There ain’t no black in the European flag’ – or: Writing ‘Black Europe’ in Mike Phillips’s A Shadow of Myself (2000)
Sara Ramos Pinto
Theatre between Page and Stage: two forms of encounter?

DINNER

THURSDAY 22 JUNE

09.30-10.45
Silvana Mandolessi
Cultural Hierarchies, Secondary Nations: Witold Gombrowicz’s Diaries
Nagihan Haliloglu
Rethinking Ottoman Empire: East-West Collaboration in Orhan Pamuk’s White Castle

10.45-11.15 coffee

11.15-12.30
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
Correlative Developments in African and European Self Understanding
Patricia Regina Esteves do Couto
How Fernão Mendes Pinto Became an Enlightened Traveler

LUNCH (12.30-14.00)

14.00-15.15
Kari van Dijk
Searching for a voice in/for Europe: Yoko Tawada and Peter Sloterdijk
Reindert Dhondt
The Old World through a baroque mirror: Europe in the work of Alejo Carpentier

15.15-15.45 coffee

15.45-17.00
Ben van Humbeeck
Nation-building and literary history - the case of Flanders (1980-1995)
Zacharoula Christopoulou
Literature and Memory of World War I: Europe in Conflict with Identity

RECEPTION

Kontakt

hermes2006@arts.kuleuven.be

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