Conference Program
East-Central European Literature in/as World Literature
27-28 June 2019
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
hosts:
The Department of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies and the Centre for Digital Humanities at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)
Association for the Study of General Literature (ÁITK)
Research Group for Digital Literacy and the Teaching of Literature (MTA-ELTE DIIO)
Institute of Literary Studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb.
Goethe-Institut Ungarn
venue:
ELTE, Faculty of Humanities, Trefort Gardens Campus, Building „A”
Múzeum körút 4/a Budapest
Day 1 (27 June):
Main Conference Hall (039)
10: Greetings: Gábor Sonkoly, Dean, School of Humanities; Michael Müller-Verweyen, Goethe-Institut
Introduction: Danijela Lugaric (University of Zagreb) – Gábor Tamás Molnár (ELTE)
10:30-12:30 Keynote Lectures
Chair: Zoltán Kulcsár-Szabó (ELTE)
Galin Tihanov (Queen Mary University of London), Exilic Writing and the Making of World Literature
Erhard Schüttpelz (Universität Siegen), Die Entgrenzung und Begrenzung des Literaturbegriffs
Lunch
14:00-15:45: Session 1
| Panel A (330)
Chair: Erhard Schüttpelz |
Panel B (039)
Chair: Galin Tihanov |
| István Fried (University of Szeged), Ostmitteleuropa als literarischer Raum (East-Central Europe as Literary Space) | Tomislav Brlek (University of Zagreb), Literature — the Very Notion |
| Marijan Bobinac (University of Zagreb), Goethes Idee der Weltliteratur im Kontext der romantischen Kultur | Levente T. Szabó Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj/Kolozsvár), Hybrid Identities, Hybrid Texts, Hybrid Phenomena. Foundational Hybridity and the Emergence of the Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum |
| Hajnalka Halász (Humboldt Universität), Die Forderung des noch nicht vorhandenen Ganzen“. Das Kommende und Künftige im Begriff der Weltliteratur | Benedek Péri– Mehmet Büyüktuncay (ELTE), Ottoman-Turkish Literary System as World Literature: Imitation, Innovation and Paradigm Shift |
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-18: Session 2
| Panel A (330)
Chair: Marijan Bobinac |
Panel B (039)
Chair: Danijela Lugarić |
| Ágnes Hansági (University of Szeged), Einsprachigkeit (Monolingualität) oder Sprachlosigkeit der Weltliteratur: die Feuilletonroman-epidemie in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts | Zrinka Božić Blanuša (University of Zagreb), Decentered Geographies: Poetics and Politics of the Avant-Garde |
| Csongor Lőrincz (Humboldt Universität), Poetik der Höflichkeit und die “Weltliteratur” | Marina Protrka Štimec (University of Zagreb), Poetry Goes Along With the Gun. What Does It Mean to Be Modern in Young Literary Movements? |
| Ernő Kulcsár Szabó (ELTE), Die Unverfügbarkeit der Kanonbildung | Gábor Bednanics (Eszterházy Károly University, Eger), Craving for Modernity. Some Central-European attempts at renewing literature |
Day 2 (28 June)
10-11 Keynote Lecture
Chair: Ernő Kulcsár Szabó
Sandra Richter (Universität Stuttgart/Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach), Der wiederentdeckte Humanismus und die Weltliteratur-Debatte
Coffee break
11:30-13:15 Session 3
| Panel A (330)
Chair: Levente T. Szabó |
Panel B (039)
Chair: Gábor Palkó (ELTE) |
| Anera Ryznar (University of Zagreb), Deadly Sins of Croatian Capitalist Realism | Danijela Lugarić, The Making of a World Literature: Slavno je za otadžbinu mreti by Danilo Kiš and Mily dicső a hazáért halni by Peter Esterházy |
| Attila Simon (ELTE), Exhaustion and Recycling: The Myth of the Danaids in Nietzsche, Freud, Babits, and Proust | Tatjana Jukić (University of Zagreb), World Literature as the Encylopedia of the Dead |
| Jelena Spreicer (University of Zagreb), Time as the Structuring Dimension of World Literature: The Case of Christoph Ransmayr | Gábor Tamás Molnár, Eastern Europe, Multilingualism and Literature in Primo Levi |
13:15-15:00 Lunch
15-17 Session 4
| Panel A (330)
Chair: Hajnalka Halász |
Panel B (039)
Chair: Gábor Tamás Molnár |
| Tamás Lénárt (ELTE), Zur Poetik der Migrantenliteratur. Fremdheitseffekte bei Herta Müller und György Dragomán | Thorsten Ries (University of Sussex) |
| Milka Car (University of Zagreb), Die Welthaftigkeit der Dokumentarliteratur. Zum dokumentarischen Verfahren im Roman wir schlafen nicht von Katrin Röggla | Stefan Baghiu (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu), Shaping the Postwar Translationscape of the Novel in Romania: The Soviet, The French, The American |
| Zoltán Kulcsár-Szabó, Kafkas Sohn. Szilárd Borbély in der Weltliteratur. | Gábor Palkó, Distant Reading and Literary History |
