Thursday, 28 March 2019
9:15 Registration
9:45 Welcome & Introduction
10:00 Keynote I
Prof Dr Frank Schulze-Engler (UNIVERSITY OF FRANKFURT, D):
“Multipolar Imaginations: Fictions of Europe in a New World Order”
11:30 – 12:30 Panel I: “Postcolonial Europe”
Prof Dr Lars Jensen (U ROSKILDE, DK):
“Deconstructing Nationhood for a Contemporary Postcolonial Europe”
Dr Anna-Leena Toivanen (U LIÈGE, BE):
“Afroeuropean Itineraries and Representations of Europe in Francophone African Literatures”
13:30-15:00 Panel II: “Imagining Europe ‘from Without’”
Dr Maggie Ann Bowers (U PORTSMOUTH, UK):
“European/Alternative/Indigenous Modernity”
Prof Dr David Callahan (U AVEIRO, P):
“Europe as Damage in the Work of Janette Turner Hospital”
Dr Janine Hauthal (VUB BRUSSEL, BE):
“Countering the Eurocentric Gaze? Europe in Contemporary Australasian Films”
15:30 – 17:00 Panel III: “Mapping Central and Eastern European Spaces”
Lucy Gasser (U POTSDAM, D):
“Mapping a Prague Text: Views from Czechoslovakia, India and South Africa”
Dr Dorota Kołodziejczyk (U WROCŁAW, PL):
“The Other Europe Heading: Mobility and/as European Identity in Central and Eastern European Post-1989 Fiction”
Dr Martyna Bryla (U MÁLAGA, ES):
“Mapping Transnational Spaces of Contemporary Europe: A Look at the Post-2004 Fiction by Polish Migrant Authors”
17:15 – 18:15 Panel IV: “Imagining Europe in German-Language Literatures”
Dr Lesley Penné (VUB Brussel, BE):
“Images of Europe in East Belgian Literature: The Case of Leo Wintgens”
Dr Lena Wetenkamp (U MAINZ, D):
“Palimpsestic Topographies of Europe in Contemporary German-Language Literature”
Friday, 29 March 2019
9:30 – 10:30 Panel V: “Fictions of EUrope”
Reto Rössler (U FLENSBURG, D):
“The Making of ‘Europe’ and the ‘Institutional Novel’: Robert Menasse’s The Capital”
Dr Lilla Balint (U CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, US):
“Rue Edel, Strasburg: Europe, Interactional”
10:45 – 11:45 Keynote II
Prof Dr Jopi Nyman (UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND, FIN):
“Revisiting Britain’s Europes: Emerging Narratives of Borders and Borderscapes in Contemporary Writing”
11:45 Poster Session with Bojana Janković (ROYAL CENTRAL SCHOOL OF SPEECH AND DRAMA, UK), Zhuyun Song (VUB BRUSSEL, BE), Alex Watson (ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UK)
13:30 – 14:30 Panel VI: “Remaking Europe from Subaltern Perspectives”
Dr Maria Ridda (U KENT, UK):
“Remaking Europe from the Backstreets of Naples”
Prof Dr Margriet Van der Waal (U GRONINGEN, NL):
“‘Eminently Forgettable Persons’: Literary Narratives about Europe's ‘Losers’”
14:45 – 15:45 Panel VII: “Migration and/in Europe”
Dr Christine Berberich (U PORTSMOUTH, UK):
“The Migrant Experience in Europe: God’s Own Country, or Site of Nightmares?”
Dr Liesbeth Minnaard (U LEIDEN, NL):
“Lampedusa in Europe; or Touching Tales of Vulnerability”
16:00 – 17:00 Panel VIII: “Europe in the Cinematic Imagination”
Prof Dr Kris Van Heuckelom (KU LEUVEN, BE):
“Camp/Theatre – House – Hotel: Chronotopes of Europeanisation in European Film (1950-2010)”
Dr Stella Lange (U INNSBRUCK, AT):
“Hyperreal Europe? Jonas Carpignano’s, Moussa Touré’s and Ai Weiwei’s Migration Cinema”
17:00 – 17:45 New Zealand novelist and short-story writer Paula Morris (U AUCKLAND, NZ) reads from her work (www.paula-morris.com)
17:45 Closing Remarks
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