Connections Redaktion, Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics, Universität Leipzig
Thursday, May 20
14:00 - 14:30 OPENING ADDRESS
Diana Roig-Sanz (IN3-Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, and ICREA) and Neus Rotger (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Global Literary Studies Through Concepts
14:30 - 16:00 WORKSHOP: SCALE
Debjani Ganguly (University of Virginia) The Scale of Realism in the Global Novel
Francesca Orsini (SOAS – University of London) Significant geographies - Location and Agency in World Literature
16:00 - 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 – 17:45 WORKSHOP: CONNECTIVITY
Laura Fólica (IN3-Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, and MapModern ERC StG project) Cosmopolitanism Against the Grain: Literary Translation as a Disrupting Practice in Latin-American Periodicals (1907-1945)
Ondrej Vimr (Czech Academy of Sciences) Geographies and Networks: Spatial Aspects of Global Literary Circulation
17:45 - 18:00 Coffee break
18:00 – 19:30 WORKSHOP: SPACE
Philip Steinberg (Durham University) Deeper than Depth: Oceanic Spacing in Global Literary Studies
Marta Puxan-Oliva (Universitat de les Illes Balears) Global Literary Environments, or the Global Discourse of Space in Contemporary Narratives
Friday, May 21
14:00 - 15:30 WORKSHOP: TIME
Michel Espagne (École Normale Supérieure and Universität Leipzig) The Global Renaissance: Extended Palimpsests and Intercultural Transfers
Aurea Mota (IN3-Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) Displacement in the Making of Modernity and Global Cultural Transformation
15:30 - 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 - 17:15 WORKSHOP: AGENCY
Pablo Suárez-Mansilla and Ventsislav Ikoff (IN3-Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, and MapModern ERC StG project) Re-reading Cinema. International Cultural Flows and the Restlessness of Time
Firat Oruc (Georgetown University, Qatar) Petromodernity and Film: A Transnational History of the Moving Image in the Arabian Peninsula
17:15 - 18:45 WORKSHOP: AGENCY
Malte Hagener (Philipps-Universität Marburg) and Ainamar Clariana Montagut (IN3-Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, and MapModern ERC StG project)
Transnational Networks of the Avant-garde in the Interwar Period
Reine Meylaerts (KU Leuven) and Elisabet Carbó (IN3-Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, and MapModern ERC StG project) Translation Policies in the Longue Durée: From the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation to UNESCO
18:45 - 19:15 CLOSING REMARKS
Neus Rotger (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) and Diana Roig-Sanz (IN3-Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, and ICREA)