Thursday:
9.00 Registration
10.00-10.30 Opening Remarks
Winfried Rudolf (Head of the English Department)
Susanne Bayerlipp, Ralf Haekel & Johannes Schlegel
10.30-12.30 Panel 1: Reconsidering Kittler
1. Stephen Sale (London): The Scene of Writing in the Media Histories of Friedrich Kittler
2. Robert Smid (Budapest): Mapping the Narrative’s Territory. Cartographic Techniques in Literature
3. Gill Partington (London): Cutting up Books: John Latham, Friedrich Kittler and Media Theory
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Parallel Panel 2: Literature as Medium – Genealogies
1. Balázs Keresztes (Budapest / Cologne): Literaute – Crafted and Designed. Decorative Practices and the Materiality of Literature
2. Christine Mitchell (New York): Weaver through the Looking Glass: Machine Translation’s literary genealogy
Parallel Panel 3: Mediality in Literature
1. Stefanie Heine (Zürich): Breathing and Mediality in Virginia Woolf’s Writing
2. Felicitas Meifert (München): Print and/as Possibility: Counterfactuality and Forking Paths in Contemporary Fiction
3. Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen (Aarhus): To read, to touch, to listen. Reconfiguring reading as a multisensory activity
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-18.30 Panel 4: Literature Between Media (Preformed panel: Aarhus)
1. Tore Rye Andersen (Aarhus): Locating the Literary Work between Media
2. Sara Tanderup (Aarhus): ‘A Scrapbook of you + me’: S. and the Printed Novel in the Digital Age
3. Anne Myrup Munk (Aarhus): ‘I am Someone. Look at me’. The Life and Literature of Today’s Mediatized Author
4. Thomas Bjørnsten (Aarhus): Literature in a Post-Medium Situation?
18:45 Wine Reception
Friday:
09.00-10.00 Keynote I:
Christoph Reinfandt (Tübingen): From Work to Text Revisited. ‘Reading’ and the Trajectory from Literature to Media Theory
10.00-10.30 Coffee break
10.30-12.30 Panel 5: Investigating Literature as Cultural Technique
1. Nicola Glaubitz (Darmstadt): Technomodernism as a genre of cultural techniques: Tom McCarthy’s Remainder
2. Thomas Götselius (Stockholm): Literature without writing. Bartleby, literature and writing as cultural technique
3. Wolfgang Funk (Hannover): ‘The Core is the Core is the Core’ – Metareference as Cultural Technique
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Parallel Panel 6: Cycles and Circulation. Literary History as the Historiography of Cultural Techniques (Preformed panel: Paderborn)
1. Matthias Koch (Paderborn): Cyclical Operations: Historicizing Cultural Techniques
2. Christian Köhler (Paderborn): Between Cycles and Circulation: Cultural Techniques as a Heuristic of Transitions, Shifts, and Couplings
3. Mirna Zeman (Paderborn): Cyclography of Literature
Parallel Panel 7: Inter- and Transmedial Perspectives
1. Maraike M. Marxsen (Hamburg): Autobiotechné: Exploring the Cultural Technique of Self Narration in Video Art
2. Jordis Lau (Hamburg): Literature into Video Art: Adaptation as Cultural Technique
3. Hans-Ulrich Mohr (Dresden): Is there a Transgeneric and Transmedial Plot Syntagm?
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-18.30 Panel 8: Transcending traditional literary media
1. Ingo Berensmeyer (Gießen): Man-Machine Interfaces and Interferences in Postwar British Literature
2. Heike Schäfer (Konstanz): Literature and its Media in the Digital Age: Rethinking the Mediality of Literature from an Intermedial Perspective
3. Rüdiger Singer (Göttingen): Poems seen through Comics
19.30 Conference Dinner
Saturday:
09.00-10.00 Keynote II:
Laurence Rickels (Saas-Fee/Karlsruhe): The Ghost is Clear
10.00-10.30 Coffee break
10.30-12.30 Parallel Panel 9: Literature in the Digital Age
1. Piotre Marecki and Aleksandra Malecka (Warsaw / Lodz): Between Page and Screen. The Intersection of Print and Digital in writing, reading, and translation
2. Farkas, Zita (Umeå): Transformations of classical literary texts into digital narratives: Consuming literature in the digital space
3. Sanae Tokizane (Tokio): Epistolarity of Email
Parallel Panel 10: The Materiality of the Medium
1. Martina Wernli (Würzburg): From geese to steel. Stories about the goose quill and the nib pen
2. Sabine Zubarik (Erfurt): On leaves: Flipping, Flicking, Turning
3. Bill Bell (Cardiff): Paratext Revisited
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.00: Panel 11: Media Theory and/in Contemporary Fiction
1. Alexander Starre (Berlin): Media Theory as Book Theory. The Metamedial Moment in Contemporary American Literature
2. Sebastian Domsch (Greifswald) Framing Absence: A Poetics of the Empty Page
3. Christina Lupton (Warwick): The Novel as the Future Anterior of the Book
16.00-16.30 Closing remarks