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