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Other Europes:Migrations,Translations,Transformations

Düsseldorf

23–25 June 2016


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“Wider die sklavische reue: ValeryLarbauds Plädoyer ür die Freiheit desübersetzerischen Handelns,” Vera ElisabethGerling, Heinrich Heine Universität

Düsseldor “Lawrence Venuti Revisited: How VisibleShould ranslators Be?,” Martina Nicklaus,Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldor

“Zum Verhältnis von Übersetzungsreflexionund Übersetzungspraxis bei YvesBonneoy,” Angela Sanmann, UniversitätLausanne

“Übersetzungstheorie aus der Praxis:Swetlana Geier und Miguel Sáenz im

Vergleich,” Belén Santana, UniversitätSalamanca

“Übersetzungstheorie und -praxis beiWalter Benjamin und Gershom Scholem,”Caroline Sauter, Zentrum ür Literatur- undKulturorschung Berlin

“Hermeneutik der Übersetzung: FranzKaas Kurzegeschichten in ranzösischerÜbersetzung,” Arvi Sepp, Universität Antwerpen/Freie Universität Brüssel

“Der Essay als Diskursivierungsorm vonÜbersetzungstheorie: Esther Kinsky’sFremdsprechen: Gedanken zum Übersetzen,”Beate Sommereld, Instytut FilologiiGermańskiej, Adam Mickiewicz Univ. inPoznań

Discussant: TBD

5. ranslating Teory

9:00–10:30 a.m., Goethezimmer, MalkastenChair: TBD “European Teory as Convergent Media

Culture: Heidegger, Deleuze, Sloterdijk,and the ransormations o Philosophicalextuality,” Katherine Arens, Univ. o exas, Austin

“Sigmund Freud: ‘Good European’,” MartinaKolb, Susquehanna Univ.

“ranslating Walter Benjamin’s ‘Te ask

o the ranslator’,” Vivian Liska, Univ. o Antwerp

Tursday, 23 June

Friday, 24 June

1. Subjects in ranslation (Plenary)

4:00–5:30 p.m., Teatersaal + Appendix, MalkastenChair: Gabriele Schwab, Univ. o Caliornia,Irvine

“Tinking in Film, Dreaming in a ForeignLanguage,” Mieke Bal, Univ. o Amsterdam

“Migrants: Subjects in ranslation: A FewEuropean Examples,” Siri Nergaard,Universities o Bologna and Florence

“ransnationalizing urkish Studies in

Europe,” Kader Konuk, Universität Duisburg “Strangers and Foreigners,” Susan Suleiman,

Harvard Univ.Discussant: TBD

2. Dialogue on Cosmopolitanism (Plenary)6:00–7:30 p.m., Teatersaal + Appendix, MalkastenChair: Roland Greene, Stanord Univ.Participants: K. Anthony Appiah , New YorkUniv.; Susan Neiman , Einstein Forum,Potsdam

3. Reception 18:00–9:30 p.m., Teatersaal + Appendix, Malkasten

4. Literarisches Übersetzen:Wechselwirkungen von Teorie und Praxis

9:00–10:30 a.m., Appendix, MalkastenChair: TBD

“Das Scheitern der ransparenz: MethodischeErwartungen versus Perormanz desÜbersetzens,” Albrecht Buschmann,Universität Rostock

“Die ‘Hilflosigkeit’ von Übersetzungstheorieund-praxis,” Henri Bloemen, KU Leuven


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degli Studi di MessinaDiscussant: TBD

8. Exposing Religion

9:00–10:30 a.m., Room 4b, Haus derUniversität Chair: TBD

“ranslating Blasphemy : Discrepanciesbetween Secular and Orthodox Ways oSeeing Blasphemy in the Work o RussianPolitical Perormance Art,” Darja Filippova,independent scholar

“Mind the Gap: Te Relation between theReligious Cartography o Europe and the

Mental Map(s) o European Religiousness,”Florian Groetsch, Heinrich Heine UniversitätDüsseldor; Annette Schnabel, HeinrichHeine Universität Düsseldor

“Muslim Modernity as a ‘Jewish Question’in Muhammad Asad’s Te Road to Mecca,” Abraham Rubin

“Immigrant Genres and Poetic Conversions:Hebrew Psalms and Italian Sonnets inNineteenth-Century British Teological

Poetics,” Cynthia Scheinberg, Mills Coll.Discussant: TBD

9. Writing Memory (Romania)9:00–10:30 a.m., Room 3, Haus der

Universität Chair: TBD

“Romania’s Children: Te Voices oransatlantic Adoption in Memoir,” Holly

eresa Baker, Univ. o South Dakota“Fictions o rauma and Displacement: TeEastern Homelands o Herta Müller andCatalin Dorian Florescu,” Gabriela Glavan,West Univ. o imişoara

“Remembering Other Europes: Languageand Memory in Lena Constante’s Te SilentEscape, Tree Tousand Days in RomanianPrisons (1995),” Szidonia Haragos, ZayedUniv., United Arab Emirates

Discussant: TBD

“Contemporary Teories on Europe’sCultural Foundations,” Paul MichaelLützeler, Washington Univ. in St. Louis

Discussant: TBD

6. Tinking Precariously 9:00–10:30 a.m., Hörsaal, Haus der


“Memory/Starved: Food and Forgetting in Wou le souvenir d’enance by Georges Perec,”Priya Wadhera, Columbia Univ.

“Falling into Nonexperience: Ida: A Novel ,” Münire Sevgi Sen, Bilkent Univ.

“Humanism and ‘the European ribe’ in‘Liquid imes’: Reading Caryl Philips withZygmunt Bauman and Levinas,” CatalinaBotez, Universität Konstanz

“Te Political Virtue o Agambenian Nudity versus Bare Lie,” Frances L. Restuccia, BostonColl.

“Eine Frage des Rechts: Giorgio AgambensPlädoyer ür ein anderes Europa,” AngelaWeber

Discussant: TBD

7. Figuring ranslation9:00–10:30 a.m., Room 2 (2nd floor), Haus

der Universität Chair: TBD

“ranslation as ‘Distanciacion’ in the MigrantWriter Ornela Vorpsi,” Michela Baldo, Univ.o Leicester

“Te Prophet and Me: Tomas Carlyle inEgypt,” Maya Kesrouany, New York Univ., Abu Dhabi

“Albania mon amour: ales o Female ‘Love’and Duty in the Writings o Bessa Myfiuand Elvira Dones,” Lidia Radi, Univ. oRichmond

“ranslational Border Spaces in Central andEastern Europe,” Irene Sywenky, Univ. o Alberta

“ranslating Other Europes: Te MigrantEmergency,” Steania aviano, Università

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“Solidarity rom the Margins o Europe:Aro-Scandinavian Literary Events,” MonicaPopescu, McGill Univ.

“(West) Germany, South Arica, and

Contested ‘Solidarities’,” Kerry Bystrom,Bard Coll.; Florian Becker, Bard Coll. Berlin“Solidarity Narratives in the Tird-World

Novel,” Rossen Djagalov, New York Univ.“Another West or Another East? Arab

Intellectual Lie in Soviet StudentDormitories,” Margaret Litvin, Boston Univ.

“Indian-Romanian Solidarities duringthe Cold War: Indira Gandhi andNicolae Ceausescu,” Maria-Sabina Draga

Alexandru, Univ. o Bucharest, Romania“From Soviet Solidarity to Post-Soviet

Empathy: Building a Community on theWreckages o an Era,” Odette Casamayor-Cisneros, Univ. o Connecticut, Storrs

Discussant: TBD

13. Mind in Exile: Beckett’s Othering ofEuropean raditions

9:00–10:30 a.m., Bibliothek, Malkasten

Chair: TBD “Is Tere a European Brain? Beckett and the

Invention o Contemporary NeurologicalLanguage,” Catherine Malabou, KingstonUniv., England

“Beckett’s French Exile o the Mind:Displacements, Potentialities, and theEmergence o a ‘New’ French Aesthetics,”Vittoria Borso, Heinrich Heine Universität

Düsseldor “Apocalyptic Endgames o the Mind: Ecology,Body, and Affect in Beckett’s Happy Days,”Gabriele Schwab, Univ. o Caliornia, Irvine

Discussant: TBD

14. (Re)constructions mémorielles dansles fictions postcoloniales algériennes etfrançaises

9:00–10:30 a.m., Shadowzimmer, Malkasten

Chair: TBD “Le cheminement et le resurgissement de la

10. Greece: Genres of Crisis9:00–10:30 a.m., Jacobzimmer, Malkasten

Chair: TBD “Grexit Stage Right: Debt, Antidote, and the

‘ragedy’ o Greece,” Jennier R. Ballengee,owson Univ.“Beware Tose Bearing Metaphors: Classical

ropes and the Greek Debt Crisis,” MatthewGumpert, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi

“Te ranseral o Literariness: How to Readthe Greek Crisis on Social Media,” EleniPapargyriou, King’s Coll. London

“European Identity and the ransormationo Philhellenism in the Unolding o the

Greek Crisis,” Elena Pnevmonidou, Univ. oVictoria, Canada

Discussant: TBD

11. Latin American Women WritersImagining Europe, Judaism, and Identity

9:00–10:30 a.m., Room 4a (3rd floor), Hausder Universität

Chair: TBD “O Fate and Words,” Marjorie Agosín,

Wellesley Coll.“Gabriela Mistral and Her Jewish Circle o

Friends,” Elizabeth Horan, Arizona StateUniv.

“Te Imaginary Jewish Europe o AngelinaMuñiz-Huberman,” Naomi Lindstrom, Univ.o exas, Austin

“Latin American Jewish Writers in Paris:Te exts o Luisa Futoransky and Ingrid

empel,” Renée S. Scott, Univ. o NorthFloridaDiscussant: TBD

12. European Solidarities: East/West/South/North

9:00–10:30 a.m., Teatersaal, MalkastenChair: Kerry Bystrom , Bard Coll.; MonicaPopescu, McGill Univ.

“Eurarican Assemblies: Patterns o Solidarity

and Coloniality across the MediterraneanDivide,” Stean Jonsson, Linköping Univ.

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mémoire de la guerre d’Algérie à partir dela nouvelle L’hôte d’Albert Camus,” DésiréeSchyns, Ghent Univ., Belgium

“Je les avais vus mais ne les avais pas

regardés: Voir, savoir et mémoire harkiedans Retour à Saint-Laurent des Arabesde Daniel Blancou,” Evelyne Ledoux-Beaugrand, Université de Gand

“Passés entrecroisés dans le roman rançaisactuel,” Claudia Jünke, Univ. o Osnabrück

Discussant: TBD

15. Secret Police Files from the Eastern Bloc:Between Surveillance and Life Writing

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Appendix, MalkastenChair: TBD

“Te Stasi Files on Center Stage: Lie Writing,Witnessing, and Memory in RecentPerormance,” Ulrike Garde, MacquarieUniv.

“‘You’ll Never Make a Spy out o Me’: Te FileStory o ‘Fink Susanne’,” Valentina Glajar,exas State Univ.

“Te Secret Lives and Files o Stasi

Collaborators: Reading Secret Police Filesor Identity and Habitus,” Alison Lewis,Univ. o Melbourne

“Witness or the Prosecution: EginaldSchlattner in the Files o the Securitate,”Corina Liliana Petrescu, Univ. o Mississippi

Discussant: TBD

16. ranslating Revolutions

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Jacobzimmer, MalkastenChair: TBD

“American Feminist Literature in the Post-Velvet Czech Republic: A New ranslation,” Miriam Sahatdjian Gogol, Mercy Coll.

“Te Other Europe: Te Revolution o theOther,” Xingbo Li, Norwich Univ.

“Te ‘Arab Spring’ in Art between Europeand North Arica,” Siobhán Shilton, Bristol

Univ.“Bühne des Politischen: Der italienische

Teaterrühling im Kontext dereuropäischen Social Movements,” LauraStrack

Discussant: TBD

17. Spain: “Other” Pasts MigratingMemories

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Room 4a (3rd floor),Haus der Universität

Chair: TBD “Spain’s Migrating Memories,” Daniela

Omlor, Univ. o Lincoln, UK “rajectoire de la mémoire républicaine et

transmission intergénérationnelle dans Pas

pleurer , de Lydie Salvayre,” Julie Samit, Univ.o Miami

“Te Ethical Controversy in theRepresentation o the Campaign againstMoriscos in Guerras Civiles de Granada andthe Reugee Crisis in the ContemporarySpanish Newspapers,” Svetlana V. yutina,Florida International Univ.

“Spain, Immigration, and the Game oMirrors,” Mary S. Vásquez, Davidson Coll.

“La vuelta al viejo caserón: RepatriatingSpain’s Sephardic Jews in Emilia PardoBazán’s El becerro de metal (1906),” MargotVersteeg, Univ. o Kansas

“reasures o the Alhambra: SpanishEncounters with the Muslim Past inNineteenth-Century Short Stories,” NettahYoeli-Rimmer, Ghent Univ., Belgium

Discussant: TBD

18. Performing Other Europes11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Goethezimmer, Malkasten

Chair: TBD “Realizing Migration on Stage: Angelica

Liddell’s Y los peces salieron a combatircontra los hombres and Edgar Chías’sernura Suite,” Bernardo Antonio González,Wesleyan Univ.

“An Eastern European Alternative to aColonial View o India in Postwar Polish


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Reportage,” Agnieszka Sadecka, JawaharlalNehru Univ.

“ranslation and Interpreting across theMediterranean,” Annarita aronna,

Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro“’We Accuse Europe’: Staging Justice orReugees, Migrants, and Asylum Seekers inEurope,” Jamie H. rnka, Univ. o Scranton

“raveling Europe,” Katrin Ullmann, HeinrichHeine Universität Düsseldor

“Perorming Statelessness,” Stephen Wilmer,rinity Coll. Dublin

Discussant: TBD

19. Film: Displacing Stereotypes MigratingImages

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Teatersaal, MalkastenChair: TBD

“Constructing Outsides: Te East inContemporary German,” Nora Gortcheva, Jacobs Univ. Bremen

“Disciplining Migrations,” Dana Samuel,Concordia Univ., Canada

“Isaac Julien’s European Elsewheres,” Louise

Yelin, State Univ. o New York, Purchase“Locating Intimacy in Postcolonial French

Cinema,” Laila Amine, Univ. o North exas“Why Does Every City Have to Be in the

Rain?,” Elena Furlanetto, UniversitätDuisburg-Essen

Discussant: TBD

20. Anachronistic Europe

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Room 4b, Haus derUniversität Chair: TBD

“Toroughly European, Perennially anOutsider: Te Hebrew Writer David Vogel(1891–1994),” Nehama Aschkenasy, Univ. oConnecticut

“Stean Zweig and the Meaning o ‘Europe’in the Early wenty-First Century,” BellaBrodzki, Sarah Lawrence Coll.

“Mirroring Empire’s Decline: Stean Zweig’sTe World o Yesterday and Mikós Bánffy’s

ransylvanian rilogy,” Amanda Cornwall,Univ. o Oregon

“Te Face ranslated: Sight and Affectivityin Concepts,” Mona Körte, Zentrum ür

Literatur- und Kulturorschung Berlin“Exile in ranslation: Legacies o a DisruptedCentury,” Azade Seyhan, Bryn Mawr Coll.

Discussant: TBD

21. Queer rajectories11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Room 2 (2nd floor),

Haus der Universität Chair: TBD

“Other Europes, Other Sexualities: From

Homoerotic Ottoman Poetry to QueerModernism,” Joseph A. Boone, Univ. oSouthern Caliornia

“Rethinking Europe: ranslation, Diaspora,and Queer Politics in Contemporary NorthArican Writing,” William J. Spurlin, BrunelUniv. London

“Cartographies o Otherness: ShifingBorders and the Gay Migrant,” Walter S.emple, Oakland Univ.

Discussant: TBD

22. Greek Crisis Is Europe’s Crisis Is GlobalCrisis (Roundtable)

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Hörsaal , Haus derUniversität

Chair: TBD Participants: Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan,

Univ. o Caliornia, Irvine; David Lloyd,

Univ. o Caliornia, Riverside; MinaKaravanta, National and Kapodistrian Univ.o Athens; Giovanna Covi, Università dirento

Discussant: TBD

23. ransatlantic Europes: Te 1936 PenClub Congress in Buenos Aires

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Shadowzimmer, Malkasten

Chair: TBD “Public and Private Activism: Emil Ludwig


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o oronto“Auerbach in Arica,” D.Vance Smith,

Princeton Univ.Discussant: Yael Almog , Zentrum ür Literatur-

und Kulturorschung Berlin

26. ransl(oc)ating Knowledge2:00–3:30 p.m., Goethezimmer , Malkasten

Chair: TBD “Merging American and French Scholarship

on Eighteenth-Century French Literature,”Laurence Daubercies, Université de Liège

“Narrating the Nation through ranslationin Eighteenth-Century Encyclopedias,”

Clorinda Donato, Caliornia State Univ.,Long Beach

“Killing Off the Enlightenment: TeIntellectual Retreat rom the Public Spherein Eighteenth-Century Germany,” JonathanBlake Fine, Dahlem Humanities Center atFreie Universität Berlin

“Te Social Effects o Postcolonial FrenchInfluence in Moroccan Higher Education,”Sarah Ruth Jacobs, Graduate Center, City

Univ. o New York“Between Philosophical Continents: British

Idealism’s Missed Encounter with theLie Sciences in the Work o John Hunter(1728–93),” ilottama Rajan, Western Univ.,Canada

Discussant: TBD

27. Te Francophone as Polyphonic?

Multidirectional Migrations andranslations2:00–3:30 p.m., Appendix, Malkasten

Chair: TBD“Contesting the Authority o Maps:

Teorizing Migrants without Bordersin ahar Ben Jelloun’s Migrant Writing,”Richard Oko Ajah, Univ. o Uyo, Nigeria

“Genres, Genders, and ranslation in theWorks o Francophone (Despentes, Angot,

and Darrieussecq),” Nadia Louar, Univ. oWisconsin, Oshkosh

and Stean Zweig at the 1936 PEN Clubs inBuenos Aires, Argentina,” Robert Kelz, Univ.o Memphis

“Yiddish Modernism, Minority Writing, and

the Problem o Europe,” Allison Schachter,Vanderbilt Univ.“Tose Bookish Jews: Welcoming the

1936 Pen Club to Buenos Aires,” MónicaSzurmuk, Universidad de Buenos Aires

“Latin Americanism, Cosmopolitism,ransnationalism,” Fernando Degiovanni,Graduate Center, City Univ. o New York

Discussant: Leo Spitzer , Dartmouth Coll.,Columbia Univ.

24. Holocaust Memory in Europe and theExclusion of Racialized Minorities

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Bibliothek, MalkastenChair: TBD

“Philo-Semitism, ‘Us,’ and ‘Tem’: On thePerormance o Holocaust Memory inGermany,” Irit Dekel, Bard Coll. Berlin

“Fear Rather Tan Remorse: EmotionalPerormance o Citizenship and urkish-

and Arab-German Engagements with theHolocaust,” Esra Ozyurek, London School oEconomics

“Monumental Memory, Moral Superiority,and Contemporary Disconnects: Racismsand Noncitizens in Europe, Ten and Now,”Damani Patridge, Univ. o Michigan

“Holocaust Memory and Racial Amnesia,”Fatima El-ayeb, Univ. o Caliornia, San

DiegoDiscussant: TBD

25. Periodizing Europe: Te ime of LiteraryHistory in the Work of Erich Auerbach

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Room 3, Haus derUniversität

Chair: TBD “Racine’s Modernity or, Auerbach’s Untiming

o French Classicism,” Jane Newman, Univ.

o Caliornia, Irvine“Te Coy Critic,” Christopher Warley, Univ.

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“Beyond France: New Destinations in FrenchImmigrant Narratives,” Alexandra Perisic,Univ. o Miami

“When Prizes Make Literature: Immigration,

Institutions, and the Literary,” Oana Sabo,ulane Univ.“ranslation/Interpretation within the

Context o Francophone Arican Literature:An Investigation,” Ramonu Sanusi, Univ. oIbadan, Nigeria

“Imaginary Migration: oward a NewlyImagined France in Works by Fatou Diome,Marie NDiaye, and Yanick Lahens,” HelenWilliams-Ginsberg, Pacific Lutheran Univ.

Discussant: TBD

28. Questions of “Englishness”2:00–3:30 p.m., Bibliothek, Malkasten

Chair: TBD “Legal Others: Law as Imagined Community

in Nineteenth-Century Fiction,” GeoffreyBaker, Yale-NUS Coll., Singapore

“‘A Variety o Menial Tings’: RepresentingLondon Servitude, Undeclared Work, and

the Black Market,” Rebecca Dyer, Rose-Hulman Inst. o ech.

“o Be a ‘Citizen o the World’: Exile and‘Englishness’ in Wilkie Collins’s Te Womanin White,” Chelsea Miya, Univ. o Alberta,Canada

“Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘Accursed Race’: TeCagots, Race, and the Other West,” Daniel A. Novak, Univ. o Mississippi

“‘In the Land o the Free’: England as thePlace o Longing or Eighteenth-CenturyBlack Writers,” Stephanie Siewert, Univ. oStuttgart

Discussant: TBD

29. Migrating Teater2:00–3:30 p.m., Teatersaal, Malkasten

Chair: TBD “Staging ‘New Europe’ in David Edgar’s

Pentecost ,” Avishek Ganguly, Rhode IslandSchool o Design

Friday, 24 June

“Staging Despotism: India Teater andBritish Melodrama in the Age o Empires,”Nida Sajid, Rutgers Univ.

“‘Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are

Here’: Contemporary ranslations and Adaptations o Shakespeare in Ireland andthe Middle East ,” Katherine Hennessey, Univ.o Warwick

“An Italian-Angolian Facebookian Novel:ransorming/ranslating Yesterday’sRomeo and Giulietta,” Araceli Hernández-Laroche, Univ. o South Carolina Upstate

“ransnational Europe in Perormance: AConvergence o Continents in the 1936

‘Voodoo’ Macbeth,” Marguerite Rippy, Marymount Univ.

Discussant: TBD

30. Queering Europe2:00–3:30 p.m., Room 2 (2nd floor), Haus der

UniversitätChair: TBD

“Oscar Wilde, Homonationalism, andContagion,” Mike Frangos, Södertörn Univ.,

Sweden“Te Child and the Homoerotic Subject in

Alberto Nin Frías’s Sordello Andrea,” CarlaGiaudrone, Rutgers Univ.

“Born Foreigners: Queer Cosmopolitanismin the Expatriate Literature o WeimarBerlin,” Benjamin Robbins, Graduate Schoolo North American Studies, Freie UniversitätBerlin

“Tey Went By Locking Doors behind Temand Trowing the Keys Away: Nation,”Darío Sánchez González, Gustavus AdolphusColl.

“Bowie the Berliner: An Immigrant Sel-Fashions a New European Canon, 1976–78,” John McCombe, Univ. o Dayton

Discussant: TBD

31. ranslation and Othering: Te Ethics and

Politics of ranslation in Late-Eighteenth-and Early-Nineteenth-Century Europe


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Müller, ransnationalism in Microcosm2:00–3:30 p.m., Shadowzimmer, Malkasten

Chair: TBD “Te Duplicity o Heimat , Language, and

Silence in Herta Müller’s Narratives,” Michel Mallet, Université de Moncton“Te Mouth o a Shark: Migration and

Displacement in the Work o Herta Müller,”Brigid Haines, Swansea Univ., UK

“Te Pressure o the European Past: Memory,Ethics, and Recognition in Herta Müller’sWriting Lie,” Jenny Watson, Swansea Univ.,UK

“Metaphorical Conceptualization o Voice

in Herta Müller’s exts,” Pavlo Shopin,Cambridge Univ.

Discussant: TBD

34. ranseuropean extures: Productsof Cultural Exchange between Europe,America, and Asia

2:00–3:30 p.m., Jacobzimmer, MalkastenChair: Birgit Capelle, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldor

“ranslation and the Global Reach oContemporary German Culture,”Christopher Lupke, Washington State Univ.

“Language Ideologies in Gao Xingjian’sLiterature: A Linguistic AnthropologicalStudy o Chinese Diaspora Literature inEurope,” Lijing Peng, National Univ. oIreland, Maynooth

“Asian-European Cultural Mediation in the

Works o Galsan schinag,” Richard Hacken,Brigham Young Univ.“Between Emperors and Patriarchs:

Reinterpreting Early Chinese History inerms o Genesis in the Seventeenth andEighteenth Centuries,” Philipp Reisner

“Langston Hughes, Paris, and Shanghai,”Selina Lai-Henderson, Univ. o Hong Kong

Discussant: Carrie Khou , Universität Mannheim

35. Unreconciled Memories: Beyond

2:00–3:30 p.m., Room 4b, Haus derUniversität

Chair: TBD “Political ranslations o Goethe’s Stella

and Die Geschwister to English-SpeakingAudiences,” Susan Gustason, Univ. oRochester

“ranslating the Haitian Revolution orEuropeans: Kleist’s ‘Die Verlobung in SantoDomingo’,” Gail K. Hart, Univ. o Caliornia,Irvine

“ranslating Don Giovanni into German:E. . A. Hoffmann’s Don Juan,” Eleanor terHorst, Univ. o Southern Alabama

Discussant: TBD

32. From Roma Studies to Roma Inclusion:Can Academics Make a Difference?

2:00–3:30 p.m., Room 4a (3rd floor), Haus derUniversität

Chair: TBD “Roma Slavery in Radu Jude’s Aerim!

(2015),” Valentina Glajar, exas State Univ.“Critical Knowledge-Making rom the

Margin: Can Roma Contribute to Academicand Policy Discourses?,” Angéla Kóczé,Wake Forest Univ.

“Bridging the Gap between Romani Studiesand Roma Integration Policies: A CaseStudy,” ina Magazzini, Univ. o Deusto,Basque Country, Spain

“Policies or the Future, Studies o the Past:Te Synergies,” Philip Landon, General

Secretariat o the Council o Ministers o theEuropean Union in Brussels“Poverty ourism and Appropriations o

Roma Cultural Artiacts: Te Case oAndalucía, Spain,” Domnica Radulescu,Washington and Lee Univ.

“Te (Mis)Inclusion o the Bulgarian Roma:Another ‘Decade o Exclusion’,” Stoyan V.chaprazov, Iowa State Univ.

Discussant: TBD

33. Writing Europe, Writing Justice: Herta

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Memory, Counter-Memory, and Consensus2:00–3:30 p.m., Room 3, Haus der Universität

Chair: TBD “Te Politics o Amnesia: Forgetting

Differences afer the French Wars oReligion,” Andrea Frisch, Univ. o Maryland,Coll. Park

“Divided by Shared Memories: Germany’sColonial Legacy,” Aurélia Kalisky, Zentrum ür Literatur- und Kulturorschung Berlin

“Te Reugee Crisis and Holocaust Memoryin Contemporary French Film,” DebaratiSanyal, Univ. o Caliornia, Berkeley

Discussant: Michael Rothberg , Univ. o Illinois

at Urbana-Champaign

36. Literature, Migration, ranslation: Post-1989 Discourse on Europe

2:00–3:30 p.m., Hörsaal, Haus der Universität Chair: David T. Pan , Univ. o Caliornia, Irvine

“Future Affects, Heterolingual Histories, andransormative Narration: E.S. Özdamar’sLiterary Challenges to a ransculturalPoetics o European Migration,” Leslie A.

Adelson, Cornell Univ.“Post-1989 Geographies in erézia Mora’s

Der einzige Mann au dem Kontinent andDas Ungeheuer ,” Katharina Gerstenberger,Univ. o Utah

“rauma afer Teory in ransnationalWriting: Te Anxiety o ‘ProvisionalPermanence’ in érezia Mora’s Alle age,”Lynda K. Nyota, North Carolina State Univ.

“Money, Consumption, and Europe inJulya Rabinowich’s Die Erdresserin,” AnkeBiendarra, Univ. o Caliornia, Irvine

Discussant: TBD

37. Wandering Phantoms (Plenary)4:00–5:30 p.m., Teatersaal , Malkasten

Chair: TBD “Literary Routes: Migration and the Creative

Economy,” Françoise Lionnet, Univ. o

Caliornia, Los Angeles“Te ‘Icy Waters’ o Europe or, Politics as the

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Art o the Impossible,” Athena Athanasiou,Univ. o Athens

“Wandering Phantoms o Europe,” FrançoiseVerges, Collège d’études mondiales

“From Ethnocracy to Democracy:Reinventing Germany’s ‘Demos’ in the Ageo Migration,” Aleida Assmann, UniversitätKonstanz

Discussant: TBD

38. Mayor’s Reception8:00–9:30 p.m., Off site, BD

39. Film: Mediating Experience9:00–10:30 a.m., Seminar 4, Oeconomicum,

Heinrich-Heine-UniversitätChair: TBD

“ransnational Constructivism and theFigure o the Migrant in László Moholy-Nagy’s Films,” Robin Curtis, Heinrich Heine

Universität Düsseldor “Auschwitz Revisited: rauma, Memories,

and Ethical Storytelling,” Friederike B.Emonds, Univ. o oledo

“Where Is Asian Germany? O ModelMinorities, Assige Asiaten, and Wayso Belonging,” Feng-Mei Heberer, Massachusetts Institute o echnology

“Perorming Other Europes: Memory,

rauma, and Migration in ContemporaryDecolonial Dance,” Layla Zami Zuckerman,Columbia Univ.

Discussant: TBD

40. European Polyphonies9:00–10:30 a.m., room 46A, building 23.01,

Heinrich-Heine-Universität Chair: TBD

“Where Does Europe Really Lie? Europe in

urkey, urkey in Europe,” Metin Boşnak,International Univ. o Sarajevo

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Perormance and the Case o KatherineDunham,” Rishona Zimring, Lewis andClark Coll.

Discussant: TBD

43. Across Barriers: Contemporaryranslingual Literature(s) by Migrants fromEastern and Southeastern Europe

9:00–10:30 a.m., Seminar 2, Oeconomicum,Heinrich-Heine-Universität

Chair: TBD “Languages o Europe: A Model Case o

‘rans’: An Interexilic Dialogue betweenIvan Blatný and Jiří Gruša,” Alrun Kliems,

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin“Te Critical Reception o Saša Stanišić’s Wie

der Soldat das Grammoon repariert (Howthe Soldier Repairs the Gramophone) andthe Role o Storytelling in the Novel,” IgaNowicz, King’s Coll. London

“We Are the Sel-Made Slaves o the wenty-First Century: Sel-Proletarianisation inProse by Polish Migrants to Germany,Ireland, and the United Kingdom,” Dirk

Uffelmann, Univ. o Passau“Memory and History Narratives in

Contemporary Russian-German andRussian-French Fiction,” MiriamFinkelstein, Univ. o Passau

Discussant: TBD

44. Political Identity and Bildung 9:00–10:30 a.m., Seminar 5, Oeconomicum,

Heinrich-Heine-Universität Chair: David T. Pan , Univ. o Caliornia,Irvine; John H. Smith, Univ. o Caliornia,Irvine

“Muße und Politik in Schillers ästhetischemErziehungsprojekt,” Manuel Clemens,Leuphana Univ., Germany

“Naturalizing the Capitalist Subject: TeEuropean Denial o the Political in Goethe’sWilhelm Meister ,” David . Pan, Univ. o

Caliornia, Irvine“Engendering Contemporaneity: Dada’s

“European Balkans, Post-Yugoslav Pop-Folk,” Marijana Mitrovic, Humboldt-Universitätzu Berlin

“Maria Stepanova’s Multilingual Songs o

Mourning,” Eva Rottmann, UniversitätKonstanz “Language, Music, and the Experience o

Exile: Ingol Dahl as Mediator, ranslator,and Perormer,” Isabell Woelel, Univ. oCalgary

Discussant: TBD

41. Constructions of Europe in AfricanAmerican Literature and Tought

9:00–10:30 a.m., Seminar 3, Oeconomicum,Heinrich-Heine-Universität

Chair: TBD “Black American Berlin: Te Political Satire

o Ollie Harrington and Paul Beatty,” Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman, Brandeis Univ.

“ransatlantic Connections, Memory,Postmemory, and Memoirs o the BlackGerman Postwar Generation,” MarionKraf, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

“A Raisin in the Midnight Sun: Blackness,Swedish Style,” Monica L. Miller, BarnardColl.

“Someday I Will Go Back to Germany:ransnational Cosmopolitanism andand William Gardner Smith’s Last o theConquerors,” Jiann-Chyng u, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Discussant: TBD

42. Feeling Precarious: Affect, Marginality,and Feminine Performance

9:00–10:30 a.m., room 44B, building 23.01,Heinrich-Heine-Universität

Chair: TBD “Public Feelings: Te Affective Archive o

Jean Rhys,” Erica Johnson, Pace Univ.“Affective Disorder, Narrative Identity, and

Antonia White’s Stories o Sel,” Patricia

Moran, Univ. o Limerick“Affect and Agency on Stage: ransnational

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Aesthetic Education,” Patrizia McBride,Cornell Univ.

“Freedom through Bildung: Rhetoric,‘Second Nature,’ and ‘Ethical Lie’ in Hegel’s

Political Teory,” John H. Smith, Univ. oCaliornia, Irvine“Bildung, Kultur, and the Proletarian

Moment in Nineteenth-Century SocialDemocracy,” Sabine Hake, Univ. o exas, Austin

“Bildungspolitik: Educational Practice andPolitical Identity in Germany since the1960s,” Ulrich Kinzel, Institut ür Neueredeutsche Literatur und Medien, Kiel

Discussant: TBD

45. Wide Space and Deep ime:Reconceptualizing Europe and Its LiteraryHistories

9:00–10:30 a.m., Kleiner Vortragsraum,Library, Heinrich-Heine-Universität

Chair: David Wallace, Univ. o Pennsylvania“Reconceptualizing Medieval Europe:

Te East Slavic Perspective,” David M.

Goldrank, Georgetown Univ.“On the Borders o Europe and Asia: Te

roy Legend in Medieval Britain andIreland,” Helen Fulton, Univ. o Bristol

“Te Case o the Early Middle Ages: Culturewithout Europe?,” Clare A. Lees, King’s Coll.London

Discussant: TBD

46. Yoko awada’s New Maps and NewWorlds: Moving across Place, Identity, andGenre

9:00–10:30 a.m., Grosser Vortragsraum,Library, Heinrich-Heine-Universität

Chair: TBD “Yoko awada’s Works on Paper,” Bettina

Brandt, Penn State Univ.“On the ‘Northpole o Dreams’ in Yoko

awada’s Etüden im Schnee,” Hiltrud Arens,

Univ. o Montana“Subjunctivity and the Synecdoches o

Saturday, 25 June

Sovereignty: Yoko awada, Byron Kim, andCarl Schmitt,” John Namjun Kim, Univ. oCaliornia, Riverside

“Yoko awada: Crossing out o Europe into

a Radiation Nation,” Doug Slaymaker, Univ.o Kentucky “ext Hybridity and ranslational Identity in

Yoko awada’s ‘Überseezungen’,” Madalina Meirosu, Univ. o Massachusetts Amherst

“Yoko awada and Marica Bodrožić asMigrant Writers in Germany,” ŽeljkoUvanović, Josip Juraj Strossmayer Univ. oOsijek

Discussant: TBD

47. Writers’/Artists’ Plenary 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Hörsaal 3A, Heinrich-

Heine-Universität Chair: TBD Participants: Aminatta Forna , GeorgetownUniv./Bath Spa Univ.; Eva Hoffman , KingstonUniv. London; Yoko Tawada

48. ransatlantic Negotiations

2:00–3:30 p.m., Seminar 2, Oeconomicum,Heinrich-Heine-Universität

Chair: TBD “Europe and Latin American Identity: José

Carlos Mariátegui Visits Italy,” Juan E DeCastro, New School

“Globalization and American Ethnic Fiction:Place as Space in a New Geography oEuropean-American Imaginaries,” Josephine

Gattuso Hendin, New York Univ.“F. O. Matthiessen’s Renaissanceranslations,” Jay Grossman, NorthwesternUniv.

“Te Aesthetics o Displacement: HannesMeyer in Mexico (1939–49),” Ryan Long,Univ. o Maryland

“Raúl Ruiz’s Tree Crowns o the Sailor :A ransatlantic Allegory o Exchange,” Andreea Marinescu, Colorado Coll.

“United States Values as an Example andWarning or a Better Europe,” Nadine Milde,


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Chair: TBD “Migration as ranslation,” Doris Bachmann-

Medick, Justus-Liebig-Univ. Giessen“Cityzenship: Rightul Presence andthe Urban Commons,” Smaran Dayal,Humboldt Univ. Berlin; Wanda Vrasti,Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

“Lupe Pérez García’s Diario argentino:Metaphor in the Discourse onransnational Mobility,” Agata Grzelczak,Univ. o Kentucky

“Migration and Immigration in

Contemporary Bulgarian Cinema,”emenuga rionova, York Univ., Canada

“A Hazard Mapping o Globalized Literatureo Catastrophes in the wenty-FirstCentury,” Masami Usui, Donisha Univ.

“estimony by Proxy,” Nicoletta Vallorani,Univ. o Milan

Discussant: TBD

52. Contingencies of Belonging

2:00–3:30 p.m., Kleiner Vortragsraum,Library, Heinrich-Heine-Universität

Chair: TBD “Kurban Said: A Post-World War I Reugee

Reimagining Europe,” H. Esra Almas, HaliçUniv.

“Andrei arkovsky’s Nostalgia andthe Narrative o (Pre)Exile,” AureliaKlimkiewicz, York Univ., Canada

“Images o Europe in Russian ImperialConservative Journalism,” GeorgeProkhorov, Moscow State Regional Instituteo Humanities and Social Studies

“Nazım Hikmet: rans-Bosporus Modernist,”Paul Munn, Saginaw Valley State Univ.

Discussant: TBD

53. error2:00–3:30 p.m., Hörsaal 3A, Heinrich-Heine-


Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldor Discussant: TBD

49. Spaces of Hos(ti)pitality

2:00–3:30 p.m., Seminar 4, Oeconomicum,Heinrich-Heine-Universität Chair: TBD

“An Other Europe / Te Other o Europe:Children o Men and the ‘Infinite ask’o Hospitality,” J. Jesse Ramírez, Goethe-Universität Frankurt

“Te Geospatial Politics o Asylum,” JoshuaSynenko, rent Univ.

“Schuld ist eine persönliche Frage: Call

or European Hospitality and PersonalResponsibility in Senocak’s wo Novels,”Emel astekin, Yaşar Univ.

“Migrations Unbound, Images, and Ethics oHospitality,” Joëlle Vitiello, Macalester Coll.

“Migrations o the Figure o ‘the WanderingJew’ in the Pan-European Imagination,”William E. Engel, Sewanee Univ.

Discussant: TBD

50. Politics of Fairy ale2:00–3:30 p.m., room 46A, building 23.01,


“Postcommunist Nationalism and theRomanian Superhero: Harap Alb continua’sParadoxical Comic Book Aesthetics,”Dragos Manea, Univ. o Bucharest, Romania

“Nationalist exts with International Appeal

or, Te Strange ale o Children’s WorldLiterature at the Extended Fin de Siècle,” Melek Ortabasi, Simon Fraser Univ.

“Perrault Revisited: Te Grimm Brothers,”egan Raleigh, Univ. o Caliornia, SantaBarbara

“Fairy ales and Prison Cells: Te Birth othe Czech Republic,” Marcela Sulak, Bar-Ilan Univ.

Discussant: TBD

51. Images of Migration

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“A European Iconoclast: Poetry as Meta-reality in Russian Nights by VladimirOdoevsky,” atiana V. Barnett

“Northern Ireland: Te Lyric and Society,”

Anthony Bradley, Univ. o Vermont “Passages o error: Literature and errorismollowing the Algerian War,” Cory Browning,Univ. o Oregon

“Graphic Ghosts: Representing Personaland National Memory in Nina Bunjevac’sFatherland ,” Mihaela Precup, Univ. oBucharest

“Europe’s Management o error,” DavidSimpson, Univ. o Caliornia, Davis

Discussant: TBD

54. ranslation and Meaning withinransnational Afro-futures: Memory, SenseMaking, and Collective Re-membering


Chair: TBD “Contested Memories and Claims o

Belonging and Identity: Rethinking

Memory, Covery, and Re-covery in Euro-Arican Futures through ranslation andraducture,” Wangui wa-Goro, London Metropolitan Univ.

“Reflections on the ‘Stranger in the Village’Experience in Gothenburg,” Phoebe Boswell

“Canonizing the Story Will Never Dismantlethe Canon: Te Power o CollectiveNarratives in Writing New Aro-Futures,”

Peggy Piesche, Bayreuth Univ.“Re-imagining Aro-Europeans withinCultural ranslation in France andGermany,” omi Adeaga, Univ. o Vienna

Discussant: TBD

55. Te Global Imaginary in MedievalEuropean Literature (Roundtable)

2:00–3:30 p.m., room 44B, building 23.01,Heinrich-Heine-Universität

Chair: Stephen Nichols, Johns Hopkins Univ.Participants: Joachim Küpper, Freie

Saturday, 25 June

Universität Berlin; Andreas Kablitz, Albertus-Magnus-Universität zu Köln; Jacqueline Cerquiglini-oulet, UniversitéParis-Sorbonne; Howard Bloch, Yale Univ.

Discussant: TBD

56. Alterität in Ost(mittel)europa:Begegnung, Austausch, Abgrenzung


Chair: Annegret Pelz, Univ. o Vienna“Peripherie als Zentrum - Grenze als

Verbindung? Postgalizische Reisen alsKontaktzonen zwischen Gegenwart und

Vergangenheit,” Magdalena Baran-Szoltys,Univ. o Vienna

“Verschieden oder doch ähnlich? Darstellungkonessioneller Konflikte zwischen römischkatholischer und griechisch-katholischerBevölkerung im Schaffen galizischerSchrifsteller,” Lyubomir Borakovskyy

“Soma Morgenstern, ein galizischer Autorim Spannungseld von Judentum undChristentum,” Gerhard Langer, Univ. o

Vienna“Europa und der Erste Weltkrieg: Anskis

agebuchauzeichnungen zu Ereignis,Gerüchten und Schuld,” Ola erpitz,Universität Wien, Institut ür Slawistik / DKGalizien

Discussant: Marianne Windsperger

57. European Intellectuals and Teir Others

(Roundtable)2:00–3:30 p.m., Grosser Vortragsraum,Library, Heinrich-Heine-Universität

Chair: TBD “(De)Bordering the European Intellectual:

Resonances o the Common in the GlobalAge,” Sandro Mezzadra, Univ. o Bologna

“Aki Kaurismäki as European Intellectual:Intertextuality and ransculturalIntervention in Le Havre,” Guido Rings,

Ruskin Univ.“Te Secular, the Subaltern, and the


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Representing Roma,” Habiba Hadziavdic,Univ. o Saint Tomas, Minnesota; HildeHoffmann, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Discussant: TBD

59. ranslating Classics4:00–5:30 p.m., Grosser Vortragsraum,

Library, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Chair: TBD

“ranslating Milton, Milton’s ‘ranslation’:Aeneas and Dido in Paradise Lost (1667),”Hyunyoung Cho, George Mason Univ.

“Cyclopean ranslations: Homer, Virgil,Gavin Douglas,” Antony J. Hasler, Saint

Louis Univ.“Re-imagining Modes o Resistance,” Maria

Schoina, Aristotle Univ. o Tessaloniki“In Knowing the White to Saeguard the

Black: A ranslation Study on Keywordsand Cultures in Heidegger’s First Chaptero Being and ime,” Wendy Sun, Loyola Marymount Univ.

“ranslations o Marco Polo’s Book: FromEurope to Asia,” Gang Zhou, Louisana State

Univ.Discussant: TBD

60. Precarious (Hi)Stories4:00–5:30 p.m., Seminar 5, Oeconomicum,


“Bringing the War Home: Juan Goytisoloand the ranslation o Sarajevo,” Anna

Botta, Smith Coll.; Jim Hicks, Univ. o Massachusetts, Amherst “A Dark Treshold: Marking the

Contemporary in the Narratives o ‘1979’,” Alla Ivanchikova, Hobart and William SmithColleges

“Cartographies o Shifing Strategies: TeWriting o Yadé Kara and Seyran Ateş,” Luz Angélica Kirschner, Universität Bieleeld

“wo Approaches to Narrating Migration in

German Literature,” Stephen P. Naumann,Hillsdale Coll.

Postcolonial: Decolonizing Teory orTeoretical Practice without Guarantees,” Miguel Mellino, Università NapoliL’Orientale

“Aropolitan Intellectuals, NewCosmopolitanism, and Arican Reugees,”Brigit Neumann, Heinrich-Heine-UniversitätDüsseldor

“Juan Villoro: Founding a Civil Movementor Juridical Changes in Mexico,” VerenaDolle, Univ. o Gießen

“A ricky Question: alking about EuropeanIntellectuals,” Dario Azzellini, JohannesKepler Univ.

“Adorno and the European Intellectualradition,” Deepika Bahri, Emory Univ.

“Te Poet and the Reugee: Respondingto the Pain o Others,” Filippo Menozzi,Liverpool John Moores Univ.

Discussant: TBD

58. From Current Media Representations toSpaces of Self-Representation of Roma inEurope

4:00–5:30 p.m., room 46A, building 23.01,Heinrich-Heine-Universität

Chair: Friederike B. Emonds, Univ. o oledo“Sel-Representation—A Challenge: Romani

Literatures and the Exhibition RomaneTana: Orte der Roma und Sinti (Places oRoma and Sinti),” Beate Eder-Jordan, Univ.o Innsbruck

“Te Rise and Fall o ‘Gypsy’ Reality V,”

Annabel remlett, Univ. o Portsmouth“Te Treat o a Roma Migration:Discriminating Patterns in V News andDocumentary Formats,” Markus End,Stifung Universität Hildesheim

“Romani Writings as MultidimensionalSel-Representations,” Lorely French, PacificUniv.

“A Look at Romani Teater as a Model orranscultural Exchange,” Michaela Grobbel,

Sonoma State Univ.“Recent European Film Productions

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“Te Body o Representation and Its Limits,”Galina Rylkova, Univ. o Florida

Discussant: TBD

61. Mediating Flight / PrecariousCosmopolitanisms4:00–5:30 p.m., room 44B, building 23.01,


“Between Supranational Center and Europe’sSouthern Peripheries,” Harry Karahalios,Duke Univ.

“Te Reugee Debate as the ‘Playing Field’or the Construction o Germany as a New

Nation,” Petra Landester, Colorado StateUniv.

“Precarious Archipelago: ConstructingReugee Citizenship through the Visual inEastern Europe,” Asimina Ino Nikolopoulou,Northeastern Univ.

“Regarding the Drowning o Others:Precarious Lives in Elalamy’s Les clandestins and Jones’s Hand Me Down World ,” LiedekePlate, Radboud Universiteit

“Te Representation o Immigrants toItaly in the Media,” Mahmoud N. Zidan,Binghamton Univ., State Univ. o New York

Discussant: TBD

62. Intertextualities4:00–5:30 p.m., Seminar 3, Oeconomicum,


“Vertlib’s Poetics o ‘In-Betweenness’,” NadjaBerkovich, Univ. o Arkansas“From Austerlitz to Open City: racing the

raumatic Past in Urban and IntertextualPalimpsests,” Katherine V. Snyder, Univ. oCaliornia, Berkeley

“Paradigms o Space, ime, and Identity inKurt Schwitters’s Post-World War I Collage,”Susan L. Solomon, Brown Univ.

“Narratives o Fugue’: Abbas Khider’s Der

alsche Inder and eju Cole’s Open City ,”Betiel Wasihun, Univ. o Oxord

Saturday, 25 June

Discussant: TBD

63. Europe by Implication4:00–5:30 p.m., Seminar 1, Oeconomicum,

Heinrich-Heine-Universität Chair: TBD “Ghostly Encounters, Imaginary

Homelands, and ranscultural Identitiesin Contemporary Anglophone Fictions oEurope,” Janine Hauthal, Vrije UniversiteitBrussel

“Rewriting Arica in Europe: Narratives toVanquish Female Genital Mutilation, byAlice Walker, Khady (Koita), Nura Abdi,

and Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko,” obe Levinvon Gleichen, Harvard Univ.

“Te New Arican Diaspora Writer and His/Her Publics,” Lokangaka Losambe, Univ. oVermont

“Black is COOL in Britannia: Te Realitieso Race and Global Capital in NinetiesEngland,” Demetrios V. Kapetanakos,LaGuardia Community Coll., NY

“Postcolonial and Postcommunist Contact

Zones in Mike Phillips’s A Shadow o Mysel ,” Nataša Kovacevic, Eastern MichiganUniv.

Discussant: TBD

64. Memory Matters4:00–5:30 p.m., Seminar 4, Oeconomicum,


“Narrating Bygone Places: Memorial Booksand the Post-World War II Jewish Quest orCollective Identity,” Gali Drucker Bar-Am,Te Hebrew Univ. o Jerusalem

“European raumas and the Arts,” DorotaGolanska, Univ. o Łódź

“Precarious Postmemory and ransatlanticConnections,” Hana Waisserova, Univ. oNebraska, Lincoln

“Home Reminds Me o Pogroms: Migrant

Women Writers race Heritage betweenEastern Europe and Germany,” Yvonne


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Library, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Chair: TBD

“Gwendolyn Brooks’s ‘Te Anniad’ and Pre-Raphaelite Medievalism’s Dream Vision,”

Candace Barrington, Central ConnecticutState Univ.“Wayde Compton’s ‘Aro-Saxon’ Poetics,”

Irina Alexandra Dumitrescu, Univ. o Bonn“Michael Chabon, Yiddish, Old Norse,” Denis

Ferhatović, Connecticut Coll.“Native, Norse, North: Dreams o the

Medieval Atlantic,” Jonathan Hsy, GeorgeWashington Univ.

“Borderlands/La Frontera, Alien Abductions,

Critical Race Teory, and Medieval Studies,”Dorothy Kim, Vassar Coll.

Discussant: TBD

67. “Knocking on Heaven’s Door”: AgonisticCosmopolitanism in Postcolonial Europe


Chair: TBD “Tree Is a Crowd: Identity riangulation

and Cultural rauma in PostcolonialEastern Europe,” Bogdan Şteănescu, Univ. oBucharest, Romania

“New European raumascapes: AgonisticIdentity Formation(s) in Postsecular,Postcommunist Europe,” Cristina Sandru,independent scholar

“Between Being ‘Cool’ and Being ‘Mohair’.Antinomies o Contemporary Polish Public

Discourse as the Lagging Effects o (Post)Colonial Sel-Perception(s),” DariuszSkórczewski, John Paul II Catholic Univ. oLublin

“It’s All about the Silk: Balkan Utopias andDystopias in Postmodern PostcolonialEurope,” Domnica Radulescu, Washingtonand Lee Univ.

“Postcolonial Europe and the Function oAllegory: Narrating/Perorming Exile in

Domnica Radulescu’s Black Sea wilight and Exile Is My Home,” Maria-Sabina Draga

Zivkovic, Columbia Univ.Discussant: TBD

65. Zirkulation und Beweglichkeit

kultureller Formen4:00–5:30 p.m., Hörsaal 3A, Heinrich-Heine-Universität

Chair: TBD “Dichterkrönung: Zur Verknüpung von

Dichtung und Universität in der FrühenNeuzeit,” Tomas Assinger, Univ. o Vienna

“Siegried Kracauers Momentphotographie-Metapher,” Birgit R. Erdle, Hebrew Univ. o Jerusalem

“Do It Yoursel: Ein textuellesBeweglichkeitsmodell abseits derFunktion Autor, mit Beispielen religiöser,medizinischer und pornographischerBücher des 18. Jahrhunderts,” Franz M.Eybl, Univ. o Vienna

“Die Jungrau im Druck,” WolgangFuhrmann, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

“Dinge an der Grenze zur kulturellen Form:ranser- und ransormationsprozesse von

‘Müll’,”Lis Hansen, Universität Münster “Au dem Wege: ransormationen

bürgerlicher Mobilität in deutschsprachigenErzähltexten des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts,”Roman Kabelik, Univ. o Vienna

“Momentaunahmen: Kleine beweglicheForm,” Annegret Pelz, Univ. o Vienna

“Georges-Arthur Goldschmidts deutsch-ranzösische Passagen,” Anne-Kathrin

Reulecke, Zentrum ür Literatur- undKulturorschung Berlin“Brieverkehr,” Ulrike Vedder, Humboldt

Universität zu Berlin“Zeitreisetagebücher und Spurensuchen:

‘Other Europes’ aus dem Familienarchiv,” Marianne Windsperger, Universität Wien

Discussant: TBD

66. Medieval Europe, Elsewhere:

Perspectives from Polyglot North America4:00–5:30 p.m., Kleiner Vortragsraum,

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Alexandru, Univ. o Bucharest, Romania“Interrogating Identity through Otherness:

Literary Representations o the New PolishDiaspora in the British Isles,” omasz

Dobrogoszcz, Univ. o Łódź, Poland “Cosmopolitan Interactions: Te Impacto Polish Migrations on British and IrishFiction,” Joanna Kosmalska, Univ. o Łódź,Poland

“Comparative Displacements: TeCosmopolitics o Eastern EuropeanMigration Writing,” Dorota Kołodziejczyk,Wrocław Univ., Poland

Discussant: TBD

68. Dreams and Nightmares (Plenary)6:00–7:30 p.m., Hörsaal 3A, Heinrich-Heine-

Universität Chair: Marianne Hirsch , Columbia Univ.;Susan Winnett, Heinrich Heine UniversitätDüsseldor

“Magical Historicism: A Russian Response tothe National and Global Crisis,” AlexanderEtkind, European Univ. Inst.

“European Dreams and Magical Tinking,” Andreas Huyssen, Columbia Univ.

“Europe and the Utopian Concept oCommon Property,” Margaret Ferguson,Univ. o Caliornia, Davis

“Othering and Whitening in imes oVanishing Sameness,” Nacira Gu é ni,Columbia Univ.

“Documenting the Undocumented: ransient

Archives o Migration,” Deniz Göktü

rk,Univ. o Caliornia, Berkeley Discussant: TBD

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Addresses of Symposium Venues

Tursday, 23 June, and Friday, 24 June:

Weinkellerei MalkastenJacobistraße 6

40211 Düsseldor, Germany

Haus der Universität Schadowplatz 14 40212 Düsseldor, Germany

Saturday, 25 June:

Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldor Universitaetsstr 1 40225 Düsseldor, Germany

Events will be held in the ollowing campus buildings:Oeconomicum, Library, and building 23.01, and Hörsaal 3A (building 23.01)

* Note: both Weinkellerei Malkasten and Haus der Universität are located in the citycenter, not on the campus o Heinrich-Heine-Universität.

For more detailed inormation on conerence

venues, hotels, and transportation, consult thesymposium map.

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