Georgia Lummert, Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung
Wednesday, 1 Jun 2022
14.00
Susi K. Frank, Matthias Schwartz, Clemens Günther: Einführung
14.30
Panel 1: After War: Travelogues and Decolonization
Chair: Susi K. Frank (Berlin)
Lyudmila Parts (Montreal): War Veterans’ Travel: Daniil Granin and Viktor Nekrasov
Thuc Linh Nguyen Vu (Wien): The Told and Untold Stories of Decolonization: Polish Socialist Travelogues from Vietnam
16.15
Panel 2: Socialist Internationalism: Appropriating the World
Chair: Zaal Andronikashvili (ZfL)
Olga Nechaeva (Philadelphia): Vasilii Zakharchenko: Introducing the World to the Soviet Youth
Réka Krizmanics (Leipzig): “… these Clever, Educated Girls Are Going to Rebel Against the Old-Slave-Woman Life.”: Depictions of Women’s Lives in the Global South by Hungarian Women 1960s–1980s
18.00
Keynote 1
James Mark (Exeter): Writing Between the Colonial and the Anti-Colonial in Socialist Eastern Europe, 1949–1989
Thursday, 2 Jun 2022
10.00
Panel 3: Writing the Foreign: Road Novels and Travel Prose
Chair: Anna Förster (ZfL/Erfurt)
Kris van Heuckelom (Leuven): Go West: Exploring the Origins of the Polish “Road Novel” (at the Example of some early Travelogues by Waldemar Łysiak)
Dobrota Pucherová (Bratislava): Around the World on a Tatra Car: The Adventures of Miroslav Zikmund and Jiří Hanzelka
12.00
Panel 4: Experiencing the Socialist Self: New Aesthetics of Travel Reportages
Chair: Galin Tihanov (London/Berlin)
Anja Burghardt (München): A Country without Dreams: Julia Hartwig’s Reportages about the United States
Joanna Moszcynska (Regensburg): The Aesthetics of Experience in Ryszard Kapuściński’s Latin American Writings
15.00 Panel 5
Writing Europe: Perspectives on the Continent from the East
Chair: Nina Weller (Berlin)
Danijela Lugarić Vukas (Zagreb): Beyond the Cold War Gaze
Alexander Holt (Evanston): (Dis-)Inheriting/(Dis-)Possessing the West: Zbigniew Herbert’s Descent into the Depths of Europe
Nishant K. Narayanan (Hyderabad): Writing Berlin, Narrating Europe: Travelogue as Reflections
18.00
Keynote 2
Eleonory Gilburd (Chicago): Traveling When Borders are Closed: The Case of the Soviet Union at Mid-20th Century
Friday, 3 Jun 2022
10.00
Panel 6: Conditioning the World for One’s Home: Political Travelogues
Chair: Erik Martin (Frankfurt/Oder)
George Bodie (Cambridge): Makosch’s travelogues from the 1950s–1970s
Milán Pap (Budapest): Constructing the World for the Country: Ország-Vilag Travelogues in Socialist Hungary
12.00
Panel 7: Narrating Globality: Imagined Geographies and Cultural Encounters
Chair: Gianna Zocco (ZfL)
Tatjana Petzer (Halle-Wittenberg): Encountering Africa: Tibor Sekelj’s “Caravan of Friendship”
Maria Galmarini (Williamsburg): Blind People Around the Globe: Disability, Travel Writing, and the Imagined Geographies of the Cold War
14.30
Panel 8: Beyond the Political Lines: Gazes from the Periphery to the Periphery
Chair: Alexandra Ksenofontova (Berlin)
Nataša Kovačević (Ypsilanti): Writers in Arms: Yugoslav Non-Aligned Travelogues
Marla Zubel (Bowling Green): Kapuściński and the Global 50s: Literary Reportage in and beyond the Soviet Model
16.30
Panel 9: Socialists Sailing the Seas: The Ship as a Model for Globality
Chair: Klavdia Smola (Dresden)
Alexey Kotelvas (Moscow/Bremen): War and Peace: The Image of the Second World War in Travelogues of the Early Thaw
Jan Schaldach (Leipzig): “Dear Mummy in Heringsdorf: It's Summer Here!”. Annelie and Andrew Thorndike's Sea Voyage to India
18.00
Concluding Remarks