Conference venue: Lyrik Kabinett| Amalienstrasse 83| 80799 Munich

Thursday, 27th June

15.00–15.30
Introductory Address

15.30–17.30
Panel I: Keywords of Globalization
(Chair: Fabienne Imlinger)

Ivana Perica (LMU Munich).
Revolution or Evolution – Revolution by Evolution: World Literature and Global Change.

Suman Gupta (Open University).
Under the Net:
Policy Keywords in the Global Textual Order.

19.00 Dinner

Friday, 28th June

10.30–12.30
Panel II: Tropes - Globalization
(Chair: Ivana Perica)

Sebastian Schuller (LMU Munich).
“Could Commodities Speak.” Tropes of Globalization and Commodity Language.

Susanne Lüdemann (LMU Munich).
Globalization as a Trope.

12.30–13.30 Lunch

13.30-15.30
Panel III: The Holes in the Whole
(Chair: Philipp Sperner)

Kaisa Kaakinen (University of Helsinki).
How Textual Gaps Travel: Weak Analogies of Relation and Comparison in Twentieth-century Literature.

Chris Reitz (LMU Munich).
“A [...] Play of Absence and Presence.” Of ()holes, Waste and the Impossible Totality.

15.30–16.00 Coffee Break

16.00-18.00
Panel IV: (Un)Natural Tropes
(Chair: Claudine Bollinger)

Oliver Völker (Goethe University Frankfurt).
From a Cloud’s Point of View: Atmosphere and the Instability of Perspective in Percy Shelley’s “The Cloud”.

Paul Gilmore (Rutgers University).
The Sublime, the Problem of Representing Global Climate Change, and Melvilles Moby Dick.

18.30-19.45 Keynote Address

Alexander Beecroft (University of South Carolina).
Can the Global Speak?

Saturday, 29th June

09.30–11.30
Panel V: Pars … totum
(Chair: Vid Stevanovic)

Anselm Haverkamp (New York University/LMU Munich).
Jo: Donne's America. The New World's Poesy.

Divya Dwivedi (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi).
“Local”: the Work of the Antonym.

11.30–12.00 Coffee Break

12.00–13.00 Robert Stockhammer (LMU Munich).
pars pro toto - complexio partium - pars contra totum:
Tropes and A-Tropes of Globalization in Literature.