Conference Schedule
“Glocal Places of Literature: Production – Distribution – Reception”
June 28-30, University of Göttingen
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Thursday, 28 June 2018
| 4:00 | Registration Open |
| 5:15 – 5:30 | Conference Opening
Marleen Knipping and Julia Kroll, Göttingen Barbara Schaff, Göttingen |
| 5:30 – 7:00 | Keynote Lecture
Chair: Barbara Schaff Nicola Watson (The Open University): “Writing on Location; or, why we love to catch an author at their desk“ |
| 7:00 | Reception |
Friday, 29 June 2018
| 9:30 – 11:00 | Keynote Lecture
Chair: Frauke Reitemeier Johan Schimanski and Ulrike Spring (Oslo): “The Glocal in Literary Exhibitions: Towards a Transnational Museum of Literature“ |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 – 1:00 | Panel I: Languages – Circulation – Markets
Chair: Susann Köhler Pedram Maniee (Tehran): “Comparative Study of the Role of Translators vs. Immigrant & Bilingual Writers in Destabilizing the Local/Global Dichotomy“ Thomas Patrick Wisniewski (Harvard): “Karen Blixen, Local Literature, and Global Marketability” (video) Ene-Reet Soovik (Tartu): “A Multilingual City in a Web of Languages: The Local and the European in Meelis Friedenthal’s Novel The Willow King and Its Translations“ |
| 1:00 – 2:30 | Lunch Break |
| 2:30 – 3:30 | Panel II: Institutions – Distribution – Access
Chair: Tina Helbig Jack McMartin (Leuven): “Glocating the Flemish Literature Fund at the 2016 Frankfurt and London Book Fairs“ Marleen Knipping (Göttingen): “Local Money, Global Impact: Funding the Midwestern Literary Ecosystem” |
| 3:30 – 4:00 | Coffee Break & Poster Exhibit
Presenters: Graduate Students English Department Göttingen |
| 4:00 – 5:00 | Panel III: Contexts – Production – Audiences
Chair: Avrina Jos Joslin Thambi Sambuddha Jash (Delhi): “Readership, Social Ethos and the ‘Glocalized’ Indian English Fiction“ Barbara Danti (Göttingen): “Abstract Places of Literary Production“ |
| 5:00 – 5:30 | Coffee Break & Poster Exhibit
Presenters: Graduate Students English Department Göttingen |
| 5:30 – 7:00 | Panel IV: Cities – Materiality – Transformations
Chair: Anna Savitskaya Anja Johannsen (Göttingen): “Praised and Bashed: Literary Events, Houses, and Festivals” (in German) Mart Velsker (Tartu): “The Impact of the Institution of the City Writer in Tartu, Estonia“ Laura McAleese (Frankfurt/Main): “The Cultivation of Local Literary Heritage and Global Networking in the UNESCO City of Literature Network“ |
| 7:30 | Conference Dinner (Villa Cuba) |
Saturday, 30 June 2018
| 9:30 – 11:00 | Panel V: Locations – Networks – Reception
Chair: Barbara Danti Chandrika Kumar (Dehradun): “Role of Literary Festivals in the Distribution and Reception of Literature in India” (video) Sandra Rühr (Erlangen-Nürnberg): “The Literature Festival Munich – Seismographs from Around the World and the Space as Experience” (in German) Lebriz Sönmez (Balikesir): “A Heterotopic and Glocal Place: Masumiyet Müzesi” |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 – 1:00 | Panel VI: Placelessness – Hybridity – Aesthetics
Chair: Vanessa Künnemann Anna Savitskaya (Göttingen): “Towards the Chōric Reception of Global Literature: A Case Study of Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West” MaryAnn Snyder-Körber (Würzburg): “Here, There… Everywhere: Teju Cole and the fait divers” Graciela Susana Boruszko (Fresno): “Glocal Places Turn into Multicultural Spaces Hosting Film and Literature Productions“ |
| 1:00 – 1:30 | Final Discussion and Concluding Remarks |
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