Herzlich willkommen auf der Webseite des 37. Romanistentags in Augsburg „Europa zwischen Regionalismus und Globalisierung“ (4. – 7. Oktober 2021) Da die aktuellen Bedingungen es uns nicht ermöglichen, den Kongress als Präsenzveranstaltung zu organisieren, wurde beschlossen, ihn zu dezentralisieren. Den Sektionenleitungen wurde die Wahl überlassen, ihr Programm als Online-Sitzungen oder in hybrider Form zwischen Präsenz- und Onlinesektion zu organisieren. Wer Interesse hat, an der Sektionsarbeit teilzunehmen, wird daher gebeten, sich direkt mit der betreffenden Sektiongsleitung in Verbindung setzen. Bei allgemeinen Informationen über den Kongress kontaktieren Sie uns bitte unter: sekr.kulessa@philhist.uni-augsburg.de Das allgemeine Programm für den 37. Romanistentag in Augsburg: Programm in Augsburg . Die einzelnen Sektionsprogramme finden Sie in dem dafür vorgesehenen Bereich.

Hosted by the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, the International Congress on Medieval Studies is an annual gathering of thousands of scholars interested in medieval studies. The Congress embraces the study of all aspects of Middle Ages, extending to into late antiquity and the early modern periods, including—but not limited to—history, language, literature, linguistics, art, archaeology, religion, science, medicine, music, drama, philosophy, gender, sexuality mysticism, and technology, as well as medievalism. 57th Congress The 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies takes place online Monday, May 9, through Saturday, May 14, 2022. Special Events The special events of the 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University (Monday, May 9, through Saturday, May 14, 2022) include two plenary lectures, the annual Lecture on the Reception of the Classics in the Middle Ages, a performance of "Le Roman de Fauvel" with performer roundtable, and a virtual talent show. International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University Kalamazoo MI 49008-5432 USA (269) 387-8745

Date: 30 September 2021, 8.00am – 2 October 2021, 12.30pm Institute of Modern Languages Research Type: Conference / Symposium Venue: Online Description Keynote speakers: Shirley Jordan (Newcastle), Natalie Edwards (Adelaide), Christopher Hogarth (South Australia) Organisers: Françoise Campbell (IMLR) and Beth Kearney (Queensland) Day One: Thursday 30 September 2021 London (UK): 8:00 am-11:20 am ― programme below is in BST Sydney/Melbourne/Canberra/Brisbane (Aust.): 5:00 pm-8:20 pm Welcome 08:00 Françoise Campbell (IMLR) and Beth Kearney (Queensland) 08:05 Panel 1 Queer Identity and Ambivalent Bodies Chair: TBC Ana Bessa Carvalho (Minho): ‘2011: the Summer of Our Changing Bodies’: Transitioning in Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts Gracija Atanasovska (Potsdam): Producing Queer Agency: Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House as an Autofiction Narrative Pariwat Sukwichai (Paris Nanterre): The Literary Resistance of Bisexual Body in Saccage (2006) by Éric Jourdan and Call me by your name (2007) by André Aciman 09:10 Break 09:20 Panel 2 Ambivalence in Coming-of-Age and Trauma Narratives Chair: TBC James Cleverly (Melbourne): Feeling the Way in Cate Shortland’s Lore (2012) Kate Mackenzie (St Andrews): The adolescent narrator and the fractured self in two (post-)conflict novels from Central Africa Clíona Hensey (Ireland): Ambivalent returns in Zahia Rahmani’s France: Récit d’une enfance (2006) and Alice Zeniter’s L’art de perdre (2017) 10:25 Keynote 1: Shirley Jordan (Newcastle) Selfhood and Ambivalence in Camille Reynaud’s Et par endroits ça fait des noeuds 10:50 Q&A 11:20 End Day Two: Friday 1 October 2021London (UK): 8:00 am-12:50 pm ― programme below is in BST Sydney/Melbourne/Canberra/Brisbane (Aust.): 5:00 pm.-9:50 pmWelcome 8:00 Beth Kearney (Queensland)8:05 Keynote 2: Christopher Hogarth (South Australia) Writing for Others in Spite of the Self?: Ambivalent Boundaries Between Fiction and Women’s (Life) Writing in Francophone and Italophone Afropean Contexts 8:30 Q&A09:00 Panel 3 Postcolonial Exile and MigrationChair: TBC Antonia Wimbush (Liverpool): Autofiction: A Female Francophone Aesthetic of ExileShweta Deshpande (CUNY): Displaced Identities in Sumona Sinha’s Assommons les pauvres! (Let Us Strike Down the Poor!)Joseph Ford (London): Narrativizing the self and the ambivalent relation to world literature in the work of Kaouther Adimi 10:05 B reak 10:15 Panel 4 Racial Identity and Ambivalence Chair: TBC Isabell Sluka (Connecticut): ‘Looking at one’s self through the eyes of others’: Double Consciousness and its Potentiation in Olivia Wenzel’s 1000 Serpentinen Angst Kata Gyuris (Eötvös Loránd): The Ambivalence of Post-Apartheid Whiteness: Corporeality and the Body Politic in Henrietta Rose-Innes’s Nineveh Madeline Muravchik (Maryland): Comedy Noir: Racial Identity and Ambiguity among French Comedians Jorien van Beukering (Queensland) : Using Ambivalence to Understand Illegitimate Mixed-Race Indo-European Identity 11:35 B reak 11:45 Panel 5 Fragmented Female Selves: Gender in Post- or De-colonial ContextChair: TBCDaisy Savage (Birmingham): Mixed métissage: split subjectivity and fragments of self in Nina Bouraoui’s Nos baisers sont des adieuxLucile Richard (UCL): Writing the postcolonial self: fragmentation, fluidity and women’s memory in Assia Djebar’s Vaste est la PrisonShreya Bera (Szeged): Oleander Girl and the Otherness: Fashioning the Sublime Identity through Body, Home and Nostalgia Day Three: Saturday 2 October 2021London (UK): 8:00 am-12:20 pm ― programme below is in BSTSydney/Melbourne/Canberra/Brisbane (Aust.): 5:00 pm-9:20 pmWelcome 8:00 Françoise Campbell (IMLR) 8:05 Keynote 3: Natalie Edwards (Adelaide)Title: TBC 8:30 Q&A 9:00 Panel 6 Trouble Every Way: Ambivalent Selves in Contemporary French Women’s WritingChair: TBCDominique Carlini Versini (Durham): Reclaiming Agency in Vanessa Springora’s Le Consentement (2019) Rebecca Rosenberg (King’s College London): Chahdortt Djavann’s Ambivalences of Autofiction, Psychoanalysis and ExileAdina Stroia (Newcastle): Féminin/féminin: Lesbian Elusiveness in Contemporary French Women’s Writing 10:05 Break10:15 Panel 7 Mediated SelvesChair: TBCAshley Harris (QUB): Beigbeder, Despentes, Houellebecq and Transmedial Ambivalence Jemima Rose Jobling (Newcastle): Un exercice d’éclatement: the multimedia universe of Virginie DespentesFelicity Chaplin (Monash): Transmedia stardom: Charlotte Gainsbourg’s self-representation through hybrid media Eric Wistrom (Wisconsin-Madison): Intermediality and the Collective Narration of the Self: Facebook’s Chronique de Aliyah: L’Amour à la Ghetto Youth 11:35 Closing discussion Serious by association: Reading, theorising and teaching men’s writing as women in literary studiesWith Dr Frances Egan (Monash) and Dr Ruth McHugh-Dillon (Monash)12:05 Q&A All are welcome to attend this free conference. 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2-day Conference: 16-17 September 2021 Academia Belgica, Rome In collaboration with Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia Working languages: English, French, Italian When visiting the Etruscan necropolis of Cerveteri, near Rome, in the spring of 1957, the protagonist of “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis” by Jewish writer Giorgio Bassani (Shoah survivor, 1916-2000) is suddenly and violently inspired to tell the story of his friends, the Finzi-Contini family, who were deported and assassinated at Auschwitz. The painful memory of the Shoah, and the impulse to tell about it, are inspired by the space of the necropolis as a place dedicated to loss, mourning, and silenced communities. Arguably, the fact that this is an Etruscan necropolis adds further shades of meaning to the archaeological site: it is in fact a place which remembers the extinction of a minority, apparently “wiped away” by the stronger (colonial) power of Rome. The fact that modern archaeology has rejected this violent version of the end of the Etruscans does not seem to impact on the symbolic and mythological value of the necropolis. This powerful page by Bassani raises questions about the connection between the faculty of memory, archaeology, material culture, and the sphere of (literary) representation. How do archaeological sites function on the literary page and how do their meanings change over time? How is the “evocative” and “suggestive” nature of an archaeological site used in literary contexts (i. e. Gabriele d’Annunzio portrayal of Mykenes in La città morta , inspired by Nietzsche and Schliemann)? Is literature capable of highlighting the problematic and ever-changing meanings of archaeological spaces, and/or to change them (i. e. D. H. Lawrence uncovering the hidden meanings of Tarquinia in Etruscan places )? How does the historical, material information available on significant spaces interact with the symbolic nature attributed to them by fiction? How does this change over time, in connection with meaningful discoveries about ancient times, and with political and social change? Whose perspectives are evoked by fiction on places of ruins, destruction, colonization (i. e. in the problematic case of the “archaeological dream” of pro-imperialist writings by Louis Bertrand)? How can literary representations contribute to building a “memory map” at national, regional, and local level? These questions have been addressed in the past by scholars dealing with the representation of ruins in modern literature, such as Francesco Orlando ( Obsolete objects in Literary Imagination , 1993). This project, however, aims to reverse the traditional approach on archaeology as represented in literature, by focusing on how literature changes (or tries to change) the meaning or adds to the meaning of archeological spaces. Sometimes, authors take up the responsibility of reclaiming, changing or challenging the space of an archeological site through the medium of literature, and which arise from contested spaces, post-colonial contexts, and sites and times of political turmoil. The “The Tales of Archaeology. Towards a Literary ‘Memory Map’ of the Mediterranean Space” conference will bring together scholars interested in the representations of archaeological spaces (sites, museums) in literature, from the fields of Modern Languages, World Literature, Comparative Literature, Memory Studies, Heritage Studies, Archaeology, Spatial Humanities, Geography, Cultural Studies, History. In line with other experiments about literature, memory, and archaeology (such as Basch’s La metamorphose des ruines. L’influence Des Découvertes Archéologiques Sur Les Arts Et Lettres 1870-1914 , 2001, and Bachvarova, Dutsch, and Suter’s The Fall of Cities in the Mediterranean Commemoration in Literature, Folk-Song, and Liturgy , 2016), the conference will keep a pan-Mediterranean perspective (Southern Europe, North Africa, Middle East), welcoming contributions across the disciplines and from any geographical context within the proposed area. It will focus on case studies from the late-XIX to the XXI centuries. This project focuses on the stories of ancient and modern, migrations, material and cultural exchanges in the sites of memory on the shores across the Mediterranean and on the ways these are preserved by modern literature. Our goal is to dig into the interconnectedness which characterised the Mediterranean space since the dawn of civilization, and which is currently menaced by national and continental policies aiming to constrain migratory movements. INVITED SPEAKERS Nicoletta Momigliano (Bristol) Christina Riggs (Durham) Marie-Laurence Haack (Picardie) ORGANIZERS Martina Piperno (KU Leuven) Bart Van Den Bossche (KU Leuven) Chiara Zampieri (KU Leuven) Teodoro Katinis (Gent) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Marcello Barbanera (Sapienza) Sascha Bru (Ku Leuven) Leanne Darnbrough (KU Leuven) Franco D’Intino (Sapienza) Gianmarco Mancosu (Cagliari) David Martens (KU Leuven)

Day 1 (15 September): Genre and gender Day 2 (16 September): Genealogies and precursors Day 3 (17 September): Truth and representation Day 4 (18 September): Politics, oppression, negotiation WEDNESDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER (DAY 1 – GENRE AND GENDER) 12:15 – 12:30 Welcome words ( Laura Cernat and Ortwin de Grae f ) 12:30 – 13:30 Keynote 1 – Lucia Boldrini (Goldsmiths, University of London) : Lives, Places, Worlds Session chair: Hedwig Schwall, KU Leuven 13:30 – 14:00 Break 14:00 – 15:30 Plenary Panel 1: Gendering Biofiction as World Literature Panel convener: Julia Lajta-Novak, University of Vienna Silvia Salino (University of Vienna) : Anchee Min’s Signature: Gendered Diaspora in Becoming Madame Mao (2000) and T he Last Empress (2007) Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir (University of Iceland): Re-Imagined ‘Hersagas’: The Portrayal of Auður the Deepminded and Guðríður the Far Traveller in Novels by Vilborg Davíðsdóttir and Margaret Elphinstone Kim-Nicola Hofschröer (University of Bremen) : Narrating White Masculinity in David Leavitt’s The Indian Clerk (2007) 15:30 – 16:00 Break 16:00 – 17:30 Plenary Panel 2: Biofictions, entre frontières génériques et genrées Session chair: Beatrijs Vanacker, KU Leuven Hélène Barthelmebs-Raguin (University of Luxembourg): Écriture de vie(s) : pour une approche des biofictions féminines postcoloniales Laurence Perron (Université du Québec à Montréal): Performer la biofiction d’enquête : lecture croisée de Schaeffer et Butler Charline Pluvinet (Université Rennes 2): L’intimité apocryphe des autrices dans le roman contemporain 17:30 – 18:00 Break 18:00 – 19:30 Plenary Panel 3: Virginia Woolf in Contemporary Biofiction – Transnational Perspectives Session chair: Todd Avery, University of Massachusets Lowell Monica Latham (Université de Lorraine): Virginia Woolf in the French Imagination Elisabetta Varalda (Sapienza University of Rome): I Possess My Soul: Virginia Woolf in Italy Nicole Xuan Chen (University of Endinburgh): “The Insane View of Life Has Much to Be Said for It”: Biofictional Illness Narratives Featuring “the Mad Genius” Virginia Woolf THURSDAY, 16 SEPTEMBER (DAY 2 – GENEALOGIES AND PRECURSORS) 12:00 – 13:30 Plenary Panel 4: Modernist Echoes and Connections Session chair: Elke D’hoker, KU Leuven Elles Rees (University of Oslo): Embodying Ibsen: Biofiction on Stage Ronan Crowley (Aarhus University): Gonne Girl: Representing Maud in the 1930s roman á clef Alexandre Bies (Independent Scholar): Le motif biographique dans l’oeuvre de Walter Pater 13:30 – 14:00 Break 14:00 – 15:00 Keynote 2 – Alexandre Gefen (Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne nouvelle): La biofiction occidentale : une généalogie Session chair: Nidesh Lawtoo, KU Leuven 15:00 – 15:30 Break 15:30 – 17:00 Plenary Panel 5: Authorizing Early Modern European Women Panel convener: James Fitzmaurice, Northern Arizona University Sheila Cavanagh (Emory University): Taking Back Her Time: Artemisia Gentileschi on Stage and Page Naomi J. Miller (Smith College): Imagining Shakespeare’s Sisters: Fictionalizing Mary Sidney and Mary Wroth Sara Read (Loughborough University): Drawing on Jane Sharp and Sarah Stone to Create The Gossips’ Choice 17:00 – 17:30 Break 17:30 – 19:00 Plenary Panel 6: The World of the Visual Artist in Biofiction Panel convener: Julia Dabbs, University of Minnesota, Morris Catherine Padmore (La Trobe University): Rendering the Stranger: Biofictional Representations of Border-Crossing Artists in Tudor England Sofie Behluli (University of Bern): Framing a Life as a Painting: Sackville’s Painter to the King (2018) and Cumming’s The Vanishing Man (2016) Kiera Lindsey (University of Technology Sydney): Ancient and Coterminous: Fact, Fiction and Wildflowers: The Lost Paintings and Forgotten Mediumship of Adelaide Ironside FRIDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER (DAY 3 – TRUTH AND REPRESENTATION) 12:00 – 13:00 Keynote 3 – Ann Jefferson (University of Oxford): Fiction’s Biographers Session chair: Anneleen Masschelein, KU Leuven 13:00 – 13:30 Break 13:30 – 15:00 Parallel sessions (Panels 7 and 8) Panel 7: The Question of Limits: Biofiction Between Hagiography and Self-mythologization Session chair: Pieter Vermeulen, KU Leuven Karen Ferreira-Meyers (University of Eswatini): Biofictions of Jesus-Christ Hicham Adiouani (Université Paris VIII): J.M. Coetzee from Biofiction to Autobiofiction Jan Ceuppens (KU Leuven): Identity Theft. Appropriation, expropriation, and restitution in W.G. Sebald Panel 8: Thinking Alternatively: Biofiction as History’s Witness Session chair: Brecht de Groote, Ghent University Laura Cernat (KU Leuven): Biofiction’s Melancholic Agency: Deep Time and the Return of History in the Works of Amin Maalouf and Colum McCann Rana Elbowety (KU Leuven and Cairo University): Alternate Lives and Reconfiguring History: Lessing’s Alfred and Emily Tom Kellner (MLU Halle-Wittenberg): Yoram Kaniuk’s 1948 : An Israeli Auto-Biofiction as world literature? 15:00 –15:30 Break 15:30 –16:30 Keynote 4 – Robert Dion (Université du Québec à Montréal): Le biographique, la littérature et la présence au monde Session chair: Ella Mingazova, KU Leuven & Liège University 16:30 –17:00 Break 17:00 –18:30 Plenary Panel 9: Who Killed Truth, and Can Biofiction Do Anything To Resuscitate It? Panel Convener: Virginia Rademacher, Babson College Virginia Rademacher (Babson College): Biofiction’s Antidotes to Post-Truth Contagions Alison Gibbons (Sheffield Hallam University): Fictionality and Perceptions of Subjective Truth at the Intersections of Autofiction and Biofiction Todd Avery (University of Massachussets Lowell): Between the “strident streets of science” and the “open fields of fiction”: Lytton Strachey, Harold Nicolson, and the Art of the Case 18:30 –19:00 Break 19:00 –20:00 Keynote 5 – Michael Lackey (University of Minnesota, Morris): Postmodern Truth and the Rise of Biofiction Session chair: Tom Toremans, KU Leuven SATURDAY, 18 SEPTEMBER (DAY 4 – POLITICS, OPPRESSION, NEGOTIATION) 12:00 – 13:00 Parallel sessions (Panels 10 and 11) Panel 10: Reclaiming Censored Histories Session chair: Pieter Boulogne, KU Leuven Ksenia Shmydkaya (Tallinn University): Biofiction as Soviet literature? On The Crazy Ship and its passengers Andrada Fătu-Tutoveanu (Babeș-Bolyai University): Becoming Carol I. Discovering Biofiction in Romanian Contemporary Literature Panel 11: Biofiction as Collective Reflection Session chair: Beatrijs Vanacker, KU Leuven Ligia Tudurachi (Institut « Sextil Puscariu » de l’Académie Roumaine): Les vies des écrivains comme objet contemporain d’une biofiction en formule improvisée Gleya Maatallah (Université de Manouba): Annie Ernaux et l’auto-socio-biographie 13:00 – 13:30 Break 13:30 – 15:00 Parallel sessions (Panels 12 and 13) Panel 12: Weighing the Colonial Shadow: Introducing Nuance in Postcolonial Biofiction Session chair: Núria Codina, KU Leuven Daria Tunca (University of Liège): Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Modernist” Biofiction: Postcolonial or World Literature? Rebecca Romdhani (University of Liège): Anticolonial Resistance Reverberating across Time and Space in Kei Miller’s Augustown Elaine Hudson (Independent Scholar): Storytelling Borders in Stevenson Under the Palm Trees Panel 13: Resilient Fictions: Remembering Europe at the Crossroads Session chair: Carole Guesse, KU Leuven Marleen Rensen (University of Amsterdam): Messages for Europe and the world: Re-imagining the legacies of George Orwell and Stefan Zweig Marjolein Corjanus (Independent Scholar): Entre témoignage et fiction: récits biofictionnels et le passage de témoin de l’Holocauste dans les romans de Tournier, Binet, Haenel et Guez Camélia Paquette (Université de Sherbrooke): Le personnage historique nazi sous la plume contemporaine française 15:00 –15:30 Break 15:30 –17:00 Plenary Panel 14: Unsettling the Colonial Frontier of Knowledge Panel convener: Vilashini Cooppan, University of California at Santa Cruz Vilashini Cooppan (University of California at Santa Cruz): Biofiction’s Biofabulative Edges Marie-Christine Leps & Lesley Higgins (York University): Those “flash existences, those poem-lives”: the biofictions of Foucault and Ondaatje Kelly Gardiner & Catherine Padmore (La Trobe University): The voyage out: Exploring wives in Australian biographical fictions 17:00 –17:30 Break 17:30 –18:30 Closing keynote event with Colum McCann Session chair: Ortwin de Graef, KU Leuven 18:30 –19:00 Final remarks Registration Registration is now open. Please click on this link to access the form: icts.kuleuven.be/apps/onebutton/registrations/9894 Please note that, unless you are a KU Leuven member, you will need to make a payment to complete your registration. Registration fee: € 60. Reduced rate for junior researchers: € 30. Rate for non-presenters: € 15. Registration will stay open until August 15th, 23:30 CEST. Please register at your earliest convenience. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Laura Cernat (KU Leuven) Núria Codina (KU Leuven) Ronan Crowley (University of Antwerp) Ortwin de Graef (KU Leuven) Brecht de Groote (University of Ghent) Ilaria de Seta (KU Leuven) Elke D’hoker (KU Leuven, MDRN) David Martens (KU Leuven, MDRN) Anneleen Masschelein (KU Leuven) Ella Mingazova (KU Leuven) Beatrijs Vanacker (KU Leuven) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Gert Buelens (University of Ghent) Laura Cernat (KU Leuven) Núria Codina Solà (KU Leuven) Ronan Crowley (University of Antwerp) Ortwin de Graef (KU Leuven) Brecht de Groote (University of Ghent) Elke D’hoker (KU Leuven, MDRN) David Martens (KU Leuven, MDRN) Anneleen Masschelein (KU Leuven) Beatrijs Vanacker (KU Leuven) Dirk van Hulle (University of Antwerp)

Liebe Kolleginnen, liebe Kollegen, wir laden Sie herzlich zum Freiburger Colloquium 2021 "Paradigmen und Perspektiven einer Mediävistischen Komparatistik" ein, welches vom 08. bis zum 10. September an der Universität Freiburg (Schweiz) stattfinden wird. Eine Online-Teilnahme ist ebenfalls möglich. Weitere Informationen zum Colloquium und zur Anmeldung finden Sie unter: www.unifr.ch/mediaevum/de/veranstaltungen/freiburger-kolloquien/ Programm : Mittwoch, 8. September 2021 : 08.30–08.45 Begrüssung durch Astrid Epiney, Rektorin der Universität Freiburg, u. die Organisator*innen 08.45–09.05 Einführung durch Cornelia Herberichs 09.05–09.15 SEKTION 1 – Codices comparés: les cultures manuscrites dans une perspective comparative Einführung in Sektion 1 : Marion Uhlig 09.15–10.05 Fabio Zinelli ( Philologie romane, École pratique des hautes études Paris): Langue et littérature ou ›scripta et littérature‹: un paradigme nouveau pour l’histoire littéraire 10.35 –11.25 Stefan Abel (Germanistische Mediävistik, Universität Bern): Paläographische Zugänge zu den altfranzösischen Vorlagen von Wolframs Parzival 11.25–12.15 Darwin Smith (Littérature et histoire médiévale, LAMOP – Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): Le théâtre ›médiéval‹ en ›France‹: ce que disent les manuscrits 14.00–14.50 Jessica Brantley (Medieval English, Yale University): Books of Hours in Comparative Perspective 14.50–15.40 William Duba (Philosophie, Universität Freiburg): The First Word: Inaugural Speeches in Universities and Mendicant Studia 16.10–17.00 Guillemette Bolens (Medieval English Literature and Comparative Literature, Université de Genève): Embodied Cognition, Kinesic Intelligence, and Comparative Literary Analysis in Medieval Studies 19.00 Abendvortrag im Museum für Kunst und Geschichte, Freiburg: Michael Borgolte (Geschichtswissenschaft, Humboldt Universität Berlin): ›Das Mittelalter‹ in neuen europäischen und globalen Herausforderungen. Der Vergleich in der Historiographie Donnerstag, 9. September 2021 : 08.50–09.00 SEKTION 2 – Comparative approaches at the intersection of Latin and Vernacular languages Einführung in Sektion 2: Paolo Borsa, Hugo Bizzarri 09.00–09.50 Johannes Bartuschat (Italienische Sprache und Literatur, Universität Zürich): Lire, traduire et réécrire les historiens romains entre le XIIIe siècle et le XIVe siècle: Li Fet des Romains en France et en Italie 10.20–11.10 Elizabeth Tyler (Medieval English Literature, University of York): Entanglements: Vernacular Literary Cultures in the Latin West (c.350–c.1150) 11.10–12.00 Rossana Guglielmetti (Letteratura latina medievale e umanistica, Università degli Studi di Milano): La Navigatio Brendani et ses versions vernaculaires: les frontières nébuleuses entre tradition et remaniement 14.00–14.50 Julia Verkholantsev (Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania): Epistemology of Origines Gentium in Historical Narratives of Medieval Europe 14.50–15.40 Christian Høgel (Byzantine Literature, Syddansk Universitet): The Rise and Reappearance of Greek as an Imperial Language – and as Model for Latin 16.10–17.10 Roundtable: Alfonso d’Agostino (Filologia romanza, Università degli studi di Milano), Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann (Lateinische Philologie des Mittelalters, Universität Zürich), Cédric Giraud (Langue et littérature latines médiévales, Université de Genève), Noëlle-Laetitia Perret (Geschichte des Mittelalters, Universität Freiburg), Karin Schlapbach (Klassische Philologie, Universität Freiburg) Freitag, 10. September 2021 : 08.30–08.40 SEKTION 3 – Komparatistische Mediävistik im 21. Jahrhundert– Aufgaben und Visionen Einführung in Sektion 3: Elisabeth Dutton, Cornelia Herberichs 08.40–09.30 Andreas Kablitz (Romanistik/Komparatistik, Universität zu Köln) und Maximilian Benz (Germanistische Mediävistik, Universität Bielefeld): Der fremde Text. Zur kulturgenerierenden Leistung der Rezeption biblischer Texte als Grundlegung mittelalterlicher Kultur 09.30–10.20 Jan-Dirk Müller (Germanistische Mediävistik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): Der fehlende Urtext 10.50–11.40 Victor Millet (Filología Alemana, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela): Chrétien de Troyes and Hartmann von Aue. A special relation revisited 11.40–12.30 Michele Bacci (Kunstgeschichte des Mittelalters, Universität Freiburg): Comparative Perspectives on Medieval Arts: Limits and Advantages 14.00–14.50 Rüdiger Zymner (Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft, Bergische Universität Wuppertal): Mediävale Weltliteratur 14.50–15.40 Sabine Haupt (Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Freiburg): Kanon und Kanonen. Vom Politischen (in) der Komparatistik. Oder: Warum die moderne Komparatistik lieber aus- als vergleicht 16.10–17.10 Roundtable: Jens Herlth (Slavistik, Universität Freiburg), Lars Boje Mortensen (Ancient and Medieval Cultural History, University of Southern Denmark), Michael Stolz (Germanistische Mediävistik, Universität Bern)

Hybrid conference (online and in person in Turku, Finland) Fire, if uncontrolled, can rapidly cause massive destruction and devastation. On the other hand, even disastrous wildfires can leave behind better conditions for new life and, when carefully harnessed, fire provides warmth, power, and a useful instrument for numerous purposes. The control of fire radically changed the course of human evolution hundreds of thousands of years ago, but to this day we have not been able to master it completely. Fire has a dual nature in a figurative sense as well. In terms of personality traits and emotions, it can be equated with inspiration, zeal, and fervor, but also rage and fanaticism. ABOAGORA 2021 will bring together viewpoints from social sciences, cultural studies, natural sciences, literature, music, and visual and performance arts to explore fire as both a literal and a metaphorical element. PROGRAMME – WEDNESDAY, 18 AUGUST 10:30–11:15 Coffee and Registration – 11:15–11:30 Opening Remarks: Vesa Taatila (Rector and President, Turku University of Applied Sciences) – 11:30–12:30 AGORA | Homo Sapiens on the Earth, Rosa Liksom – 12:30–14:00 Lunch break – 14:00–15:00 “Sun, the Electric Fire of all Life” – The Sun and Fire in the Culture of Esotericism Introduction: Maarit Leskelä-Kärki Panel: Marja Lahelma (chair), Nina Kokkinen, Tiina Mahlamäki, Susanna Välimäki & Jasmine Westerlund Guitar: Patrik Kleemola Eurythmy: Pirkko Tolmunen – 15:15–16:15 Sparking Trams, Silenced Rails: A Journey through European Tramscapes Introduction: Silja Laine Speakers: Jason Finch, Aleksandra Ianchenko, Silja Laine & Tonio Weicker – 19:00–21:00 AGORA | D/other Astrid Swan & Hanna Meretoja Organised together with SELMA: Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory THURSDAY, 19 AUGUST – 10:00–11:00 The Use of Fire Cornelius Colliander, Kristina Mediucha & Johan Werkelin – 11:00–12:30 Lunch break – 12:30–13:45 Burning Questions Taru Elfving (chair), Riikka Armanto, Sachin Kochrekar, Ulla Kommonen, Kirsikka Paakkinen, Camila Rosa Ribeiro, Laura M. Saari, Jenni Vauhkonen & Yoshimasa Yamada – 14:00–15:00 A Burning Heart – A Broken Heart Antonia Ringbom & Cecilia Sahlgren – 15:00–15:30 Coffee – 15:30–16:30 AGORA | Finding Fire: A Radical Pedagogy that Combines Legal Education, Design and Law Jules Rochielle Sievert – 18:00–20:30 Copenhagen – A play by Michael Frayn Staged reading performed by Richard McElvain, M. Lynda Robinson & Kimi Kärki FRIDAY, 20 AUGUST – 10:00–11:00 AGORA | Fire Thinking, Fire Beings, and the End of the World as We Know It David Bowman – 11:00–12:30 Lunch break – 12:30–13:45 Photo Exhibition: Love Crossing Boundaries & Panel Discussion: The Fire of Love and Hate Artists: Rewan Kakil & Saara Aina Panel: Nana Blomqvist (chair), Hannaneh Mahmoudian & Tuija Saresma Organised in collaboration with Hub Turku. The session takes place outdoors on Luostarin välikatu (see map) – [13:45–14:00 Walking back to the Sibelius Museum] – 14:00–15:00 The Conflagration of Turku, 1827: Histories of Emotion and Destruction Hannu Salmi & Panu Savolainen Organised in collaboration with the City of Turku – 15:15–16:00 On Fire Alessa Brossmer – 16:00–16:45 Coffee – 16:45–17:15 Feuer E-Musikgruppe Lux Ohr – 17:30–19:00 Closing Reception Fire Performance by Pino Kollektiivi Closing Remarks: Joanna Kurth (Project Director at The Museum Center of Turku) The Closing Reception is held outdoors in the Pehr Kalm Revival behind the Sibelius Museum – 19:00–19:45 Prologi – An independent preface to the production The Romantic Mind Multiarts Group Third Space (Kolmas Tila) The performance takes place at the Turku Cathedral. Please note that tickets are sold separately at the door. REGISTRATION – The symposium will be organized as a hybrid event, taking place both at the Sibelius Museum (Piispankatu 17, Turku, Finland) and online via livestream. By paying the registration fee, you will have access to all of the sessions and performances, and you may choose freely, whether to attend in person or online. • The registration fee is 20 € / for students and doctoral candidates 10 €. • Registration is open until August 11 at konsta.utu.fi/Default.aspx • As you register, you will be asked whether you plan to attend online or on-site. We will contact you to confirm/update your plans in August. The four AGORA sessions are free of charge and open to all, but they also require signing up in advance. See aboagora.fi/programme/agoras/ for details. Please note that depending on the COVID-19 situation, we may need to limit the number of on-site participants at the Sibelius Museum in accordance with the restrictions in place at the time. We will adhere to the orders and guidelines of the Government and health authorities regarding physical distance, masks, hygiene, and other relevant matters. We are monitoring the situation closely and reserve the right to any changes. The event will be livestreamed and parts of the programme will be recorded and published online. The event will also be photographed and the photos will be used in ABOAGORA’s promotion and communication. With any questions, please contact us at aboagora[at]utu.fi. ABOAGORA 2021 continues the five-year thematic plan (2019–2023) The Five Rings . The title refers to the book The Book of Five Rings, written in 1645, by Miyamoto Musashi (宮本 武蔵, c. 1584–June 13, 1645). He was a Japanese swordsman, philosopher, writer and rōnin – a samurai without a master. Musashi became renowned through stories of his masterful double-bladed swordsmanship and undefeated record in his 61 duels. Many consider him the greatest swordsman that ever lived. Near the end of his life, Musashi retreated to live as a hermit in a cave, to meditate and write a manual of kenjutsu, Japanese swordmanship, and martial arts. This practical book extends towards a philosophy of life, aiming at simplicity and no-nonsense. Throughout the years, it has also been read by people rethinking ways to lead or do business. The Book of Five Rings (五輪書, Go Rin no Sho ) is divided into five books, each examining a different element of battle, just as there are different physical elements in life in Eastern religions. The five Aboagora symposia of 2019–2023 delve into these elements: Earth (2019), Water (2020), Fire (2021), Wind (2022), and Void (2023). ABOAGORA is supported by the Kone Foundation , The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland and the William Thuring Foundation . In 2021, Turku celebrates the tenth anniversary of the city’s year as the European Capital of Culture. ABOAGORA: “Fire” is part of the anniversary programme .

International Symposium Online via Zoom, August 25–27, 2021. Convenors: Carlos Spoerhase, Jørgen Sneis, Jacob Habinek, Mats Malm, Sandra Richter. A cooperation of Bielefeld University, Linköping University, the Swedish Academy, and the German Literature Archive. Funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Swedish Academy. In 1895, Alfred Nobel famously signed his last will and testament, establishing that most of his fortune should be used to fund a series of prizes, including the Nobel Prize in Literature. Since 1901 the Literature Prize has been awarded to a total of 117 individuals writing in 25 languages. “The Nobel Prizes for science and literature are all-powerful”, Ludwig Marcuse once observed. He goes on to elaborate: The person who gets one “is no longer a physicist or a novelist” but a “Nobel Prize Winner”. Marcuse certainly has a point. Given the massive amount of attention that the Nobel Prize and Nobel laureates receive in the press all over the world each year, the cultural reach of this award seems to be beyond dispute. Yet the actual workings and various functions of the Nobel Prize remain little known and poorly understood. In what sense and in whose case can a literary award be seen as “all-powerful”? In what ways has the Nobel Prize enabled, informed, or changed the reception of certain authors and their works or even the ways in which we think about or engage with literature altogether? To what extent does the worldwide public awareness of the Nobel Prize coincide with its actual impact on the global literary field in the 20th and 21st centuries, with its ability to shape global discourses and influence the behaviour of authors, publishers, printers, booksellers, agents, translators, journalists, the media, academia, archives, and the reading public? The study of the Nobel Prize raises a number of methodological questions. How does one approach a subject of such complexity? How does one account for its international scope? The impact of the Nobel Prize seems ultimately to hinge on the significance of certain authors and their works. To what degree does the Nobel Prize mark a turning point in the careers of its laureates or even just such authors who have been publicly associated with it? And vice versa, how does this group of Nobel authors retroactively shape the image of the award? The question of authorship in the Nobel era seems to be a natural starting point in determining the impact of the award. Yet at the same time, it seems fair to assume that “Nobel Prize effects” may take various forms and also involve the very conditions under which literature is written, published, translated, traded with, and read. For this reason, we have opted for an interdisciplinary, comparative, and theoretically founded approach to the Nobel Prize in Literature. Taking the collections of the German Literature Archive and the Swedish Academy as a starting point, we also wish to explore how an archival perspective can enrich the historical, critical, and theoretical inquiry into this award. Our international symposium will bring together scholars in the fields of comparative literature and cultural studies, translation studies, sociology, book history and economic history, as well as other areas relevant to the study of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The main goal is to combine critical and archival research with theoretical and methodological reflection, to inaugurate a global network of Nobel Prize scholarship, and to spark innovative collaboration across disciplines. Program Wednesday, 25 August 2021 14.30 Mats Malm, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy / Sandra Richter, Director of the German Literature Archive: Welcome 14.45 Carlos Spoerhase, Jørgen Sneis, Bielefeld: Introduction: Literature in the Nobel Era 15.15 Break 15.30 Gisèle Sapiro, Paris (keynote lecture): The symbolic economy of the Nobel Prize and its role in the making of World Literature Moderation: Carlos Spoerhase, Bielefeld 16.30 Break 16.45 Fabien Accominotti, Madison, Wisconsin: Consecration as a Population-level Phenomenon Phillipa K. Chong, Hamilton, Ontario / Vaughn Schmutz, Charlotte, USA: (Nobel) Winner takes all? The Nobel Effect on Literary Reputation and Reviews Jacob Habinek, Linköping: Disembedded Autonomy: The Social Structure of the Nobel Prize in Literature Moderation: Jørgen Sneis, Bielefeld 17.45 Break 18.00 Public Evening Program (in German) with Nobel laureate Herta Müller Thursday, 26 August 2021 10.00 Alexander Bareis, Lund: Most ideal – the Aesthetic Standards of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives Rebecca Braun, Galway: Celebrating Literature? What Modes of Authorship Do to Literary Prizes Tim Sommer, Heidelberg: Archival Economies: Valuing the Papers of Twenty-First-Century Nobel Laureates Moderation: Günter Leypoldt, Heidelberg 11.00 Break 11.15 Nils Hansson, Düsseldorf: The Enactment of Physician-Authors in Nobel Nominations Stevie Marsden, Derby: If they gave the Oscar to Books: Understanding Literary Prize Hierarchies John Raimo, New York: Anti-Nobels: The Prix International des éditeurs and the Prix Formentor, 1960–1968 Moderation: Jacob Habinek, Linköping 12.15 Break 14.00 Clara Lévy, Paris: Patrick Modiano and the Nobel Prize in Literature Jiřina Šmejkalová, Prag: Nobel Prize as a Cold War Product (?): The Case of Jaroslav Seifert Stefanie Leuenberger, Bern: Awarding the Nobel Prize in 1919: The Case of Carl Spitteler Moderation: Madeleine Brook, Marbach 15.00 Break 15.15 Alexander Nebrig, Urs Büttner, Düsseldorf: Nobel Prizes for Literature and the International Book Market Nadine Rahner, Freiburg: Analogies and Differences: Analysis of the Publishing Peritext in German Editions of Selected Works by Pasternak, Sholokov, and Solzhenitsyn Jana Rüegg, Uppsala: Prestigious Publishing: The Swedish Publishing of Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature 1970–2016 Moderation: Jørgen Sneis, Bielefeld 16.15 Break 18.00 James English, Philadelphia (keynote lecture): The Nobel and the Economics of Literary Prestige in the 21st Century Moderation: Günter Leypoldt, Heidelberg Friday, 27 August 2021 10.00 Michael Ka-Chi Cheuk, Hong Kong: The Nobel Prize as Censorship Takashi Inoue, Tokyo: Japan and the Nobel Prize in Literature Afrida Aainun Murshida, Gangtok, Sikkim: Metaphor of Nationalism in Indian Nobel Laureates’ works: Comparing Tagore and Naipaul Moderation: Carlos Spoerhase, Bielefeld 11.00 Break 11.15 Pablo Faúndez Morán, Valparaiso: Transformations surrounding the Nobel Prize: The case of Gabriela Mistral Coletta Kandemiri, Windhoek: Of “greatest benefit on humankind”: The Pragmatic Autopsy of African Nobel Prize Winners in Literature Hülya Yildiz, Ankara: The Road To Nobel: A Comparative Study of Two Nobel Contenders Moderation: Madeleine Brook, Marbach 12.15 Break 14.00 Kerstin Bohne, Oldenburg: The Relevance of Translations in the Awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature Sandra Richter, Astghik Antonyan, Dîlan Çakir, Giovanna Carlesso, Jie Han, Maria Kraxenberger, Katharina Reeb, Achim Schmid, Merisa Taranis, Xiaocui Qiu, Stuttgart: Is there a Nobel Effect? Translations after the Nobel Prize Kathrin Yacavone, Köln: Photographic Author Portraits: A Visual Pantheon of Literary Nobel Prize Laureates 15.00 Break 15.15 Pieter Vermeulen, Leuven (closing lecture): The Indie Nobel? Stockholm, New York, and the Geography of Value Moderation: Mats Malm, Gothenburg 16.15 Carlos Spoerhase, Jørgen Sneis, Bielefeld: Outlook: Nobel Prize Scholarship 18.00 Public evening program with Michael Krüger, Anders Olsson and Jan Bürger Moderation: Jan Bürger, Marbach

ASECS 2022 52nd Annual Meeting Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor March 31–April 2, 2022 The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, established in 1969, is the foremost learned society in the United States for the study of all aspects of the period from the later seventeenth through the early nineteenth century. Our members are literary scholars and writers, historians, theorists of gender, race, sexuality, disability, nation and empire; philosophers and political theorists; art historians and artists; musicologists and musicians; theater historians and practitioners; biographers and bibliographers; and specialists in other humanistic, artistic, and social scientific fields with a range of broad and more particular interests. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and welcoming environment in which all members participate fully in the exchange of knowledge and ideas. Session Program Guidelines Abstracts or proposals should be sent directly to session organizers no later than September 17, 2021 . Session organizers are reminded that all submissions received up to that deadline MUST be considered. Completed panels will be submitted using an online form; a link to this form will be sent to session organizers in mid-September. In the meantime, contact the ASECS Business Office with any questions – asecsoffice@gmail.com . All breakout rooms at the Annual Meeting will be equipped with a screen, projector, and wifi. Additional room configuration or technology requests must be submitted by the session organizer on the online form. Session organizers will be required to confirm that all equipment requests are essential to the purpose of the session. Equipment requests or changes made after September 30, 2021 may not be accommodated. It may not be possible to fulfill all special requests. The Society’s rules permit members to present only one paper at the meeting. Members may, in addition to presenting a paper, serve as a session chair, a respondent, a workshop facilitator, or a roundtable, seminar, or workshop participant, but they may not present a paper at sessions they chair. No member may appear more than twice in the program (excluding sessions sponsored by ASECS). No individual may submit paper proposals to more than two panels. Since you can present only one paper at the meeting itself, you must notify both panel chairs if you are submitting two proposals for papers, whether or not the proposals concern the same topic. You must also notify both panel chairs if you are proposing both a paper and a roundtable version of the same material, since paper and roundtable versions of the same presentation may not be given at the conference. All participants must be members in good standing of ASECS or of a constituent society of ISECS. Membership must be current as of December 1, 2021 for inclusion in the program. Join or renew your ASECS membership at asecs.press.jhu.edu/membership/join.

Vortrag: 26. Oktober 2021, 20:00 Uhr Was ist ein Held, eine Heldin? Eine Figur, die bestimmte menschliche Eigenschaften, verkörpert, die wir für exemplarisch halten und Dinge tut, die vorbildlich sind?Ein normatives Beispiel also, das an unser Handeln appelliert und zur Identifikation, Nachahmung und Wertschätzung einlädt und vielen ein Vorbild ist. In der westlichen Kultur des späten 20. Jahrhundert ist diese Figur etwas aus der Mode gekommen. Das hängt wohl damit zusammen, dass im Zuge der Pluralisierung und Individualisierung der Lebensformen ein Konsens über verbindliche gemeinsame Normen im Schwinden begriffen ist. Das hat Folgen für die Art von Vorbild, die der Held oder die Heldin heute noch sein kann. Die ordnungsstiftende und handlungsorientierende Wirkungsmacht von Held*innen setzt in ihrer klassischen Form ein intaktes normatives Bezugssystem voraus. Doch was, wenn eine solche allgemeine Norm fehlt? Wenn mit der exponierten Stellung eines singulären Menschen keine Garantie auf einen starken Sinn verbunden wäre? Wäre dann das post-exemplarische Zeitalter zugleich ein post-heroisches? Organized by Eine Kooperation des BIPP (Berliner Institut für Psychotherapie und Psychoanalyse), des kulturwissenschaflichen Instituts der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, der International Psychoanalytic University Berlin (IPU) und des ICI Berlin, organisiert von Wilhelm Brüggen (BIPP), Monika Englisch (BIPP) und Andreas Gehrlach (HU Berlin) Ungeachtet dieser Entwicklung hat sich in der Populärkultur des 20. Jahrhunderts ein neues Genre, das Genre der Superhelden, etabliert, welches sich zur Zeit einer großen Beliebtheit erfreut. Am Beispiel des kinematographischen Bildungsromans Iron Man , wird Cremonini der Frage nachgehen, ob und wann der Superheld auch unter postmodernen Bedingungen als beispielhaft verstanden werden kann. Andreas Cremonini ist Philosoph und freier Wissenschaftler; er publiziert in den Bereichen Psychoanalyse, Phänomenologie und Theorien der Alterität. Zuletzt ist erschienen: Andreas Cremonini, Markus Klammer (Hg.): Bild-Beispiele. Zu einer pikturalen Logik des Exemplarischen , München 2020.