Sunday, May 13:
Session 1: Literature & Cultural Value Systems
Chair: Helena Buescu, Comparative Studies, University of Lisbon, PT
Françoise Meltzer, University of Chicago, US: What’s wrong with National Literature Departments
Peter Rietbergen, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL: Knowing one’s other(s), knowing oneself: Literature and the formation of a European identity, ca 1700 – ca 2000
Sigrid Weigel, Berlin Technical University, DE: Pluralising the origins – Europe reconceptualised from the East
Session 2: Literature & Cultural Memory
Chair: Ansgar Nünning, Giessen University, DE
Antoine Compagnon, Sorbonne Nouvelle, FR & Columbia University, US: Memory versus History
Mihaily Szegedy-Maszak, Eötvös Lörand University, Budapest, HR & Indiana University, Bloomington, US: National Traditions in a Globalizing World
José M. Gonzalez, Instituto de Filosofía, Madrid University, ES: Spanish literature and the rediscovering of historical memory
Monica Spiridon, University of Bucharest, RO: Europe and the symbolic engineering of the national self
Monday, May 14
Session 3: Literature, Other Media & The Information Age
Chair: Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Institute for Aesthetic Studies, Aarhus University, DK
Vladimir Biti, University of Zagreb, HR: Toward a literary community?
Ginette Verstraete, University of Amsterdam, NL: Mediated identities in a Global Europe
Christopher Prendergast, Cambridge University, UK: The Classic of all Europe?
Session 4: Translating Cultures
Chair: Timothy Mathews, University College London, UK
Susan Bassnett, Warwick University, UK: Whom can we trust? Translation, Responsibility and the World Today
Lawrence Venuti, Temple University, Philadelphia, US: Noir in translation: Exoticism and the popular aesthetic
Stephanos Stephanides, University of Cyprus, CY: From West to East
Mánek Bohuslav, University of Hradec Králové, CZ: Translation in the development of a "small" literature: a Czech case study
Tuesday, May 15
Session 5: Europe and its “Others”?
Chair: Anders Pettersson, Institutionen för litteraturvetenskap och nordiska sprak, Umeå Univ., SE
Robert Young, New York University, US: The language of “the other”
Satu Gröndahl, Uppsala University, SE: Multicultural or multilingual literature - a Swedish dilemma?
Otmar Ette, Potsdam University, DE: European Literature(s) / Literatures with no Fixed Abode
Session 6: Literary History
Chair: Harald Hendrix, Utrecht University, NL
David Damrosch, Columbia University, US: That’s not my department: Europe in the university
John Neubauer, University of Amsterdam, NL: Transgressive vs. Ingressive Histories
Wiljan van den Akker, Utrecht University, NL: The State of Poetry; a Happy Research Agenda for Cultural Pessimists
Pascale Casanova, CRAL, Paris, FR: European Literature : just a higher degree of universality?
Session 7: Forward Look
Chair: Theo L. D’haen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE
Forward Look Plenary Discussion