Conference: Literature & Cultural Change
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- Conference: Literature & Cultural Change
- 2015-05-21T09:00:00+02:00
- 2015-05-23T14:00:00+02:00
May 21, 2015 09:00 to May 23, 2015 02:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)
Rauischholzhausen
International Conference
Literature and Cultural Change
JLU Giessen/ GCSC (Rauischholzhausen Castle), May 20 – 23, 2015
Conference organizers: Prof. Dr. Ingo Berensmeyer
Prof. Dr. Herbert Grabes
Prof. Dr. Ansgar Nünning
Funded by the GCSC and the Giessen University Association
Conference programme
Wed., May 20, 2015
(c. 16:15:) Arrival at Rauischholzhausen; coffee, informal opening
17-18 chair: Ingo Berensmeyer
17-18: Herbert Grabes (Giessen), The Role of Literature in Major Cultural Turns
18 Dinne
19:30-20:15 chair: Herbert Grabes
19:30-20:15 Ingo Berensmeyer (Giessen), Literature in the Jet Age: Technological Change and Literary Inertia in Postwar Britain
Thurs., May 21, 2015
10 Arrival of GCSC participants and guests; coffee
[10:30-12 Chair: Michael Basseler
10:30-11:15 Winfried Fluck (Berlin): Narratives about Change in Literary and Cultural Theory
11:15-12:00 Sonja Schillings (Giessen): Hulga, the Punished Philosopher: The Issue of Political Interpretation in Literary Criticism
Lunch
[2-4 chair : Catharina Löffler
14:00-14:45 Ann Lecercle (Paris): The Sixteenth Century, "Turning Point of European Eroticism" (J. Lacan) and Elizabethan Theatre
14:45-15:30 Martin Spies (Giessen): Who Do You Think You Are, or: Jacobean Genealogical Literature and the Dream of a United Britain
15:30 Coffee
[16:00-18:15 chair : Martin Spies
16:00-16:45 Christine Schwanecke (Giessen): Dramatic (Pre-)Figurations of Changing Power Structures? Richard Brome's A Jovial Crew (1641/2) at the Dawn of the English Civil War
16:45-17:30 Elaine Hobby (Loughborough): 'I make a challenge to any person of common sense and reason': Aphra Behn (1640-89) and Cultural Change.
17:30-18:15 Jean-Jacques Lecercle (Paris): Structures of Feeling, Literature and Cultural Change
18:15 Dinner
[19:45-20:30 chair: Gero Guttzeit
19:45-20:30 Daniel Hartley (Giessen): A Historicist Defence of Transhistoricism: Literature between Raymond Williams and Alain Badiou
Fri., May 22, 2015
[9-10:30 chair: Ansgar Nünning
9:00-9:45 Roy Sommer (Wuppertal): New Things, Old Words: Dave Eggers's The Circle and the Semantics of iCulture
9:45-10:30 Tom Clucas (Giessen): "The Spirit of Literature and the Spirit of Society": Isaac D'Israeli, Benjamin Disraeli, and the Literary Character
Coffee break
[10:45-12:15 chair: Sonja Schillings
10:45-11:30 Vera Nünning (Heidelberg): Human Character Changed: Virginia Woolf's Conceptualisation of Literary Change
11:30-12:15 Jed Esty (Philadelphia): Occidentalism 2.0: Cultural Change and the West from Conrad to Nabokov
Lunch
[2-4 chair: Daniel Hartley
14:00-14:45 Kate Macdonald (Ghent) and Cornelia Wächter (Paderborn): Middlebrow Fiction, Cultural Capital and Social Change
14:45-15:30 Gero Guttzeit (Ghent): The Detection and Instigation of Cultural Change in Popular Narratives of Detection
15:30 Coffee [16:00-18:15 chair: Alexander Scherr
16:00-16:45 Hubert Zapf (Augsburg): Ecological Transformations of Critical Theory
16:45-17:30 Maria Löschnigg (Graz): "Crumble crumble oil and bumble": The Merits and Limits of Ecopoetry
17:30-18:15 Jens Kugele (Giessen): Writing Sacred Space
18:15 Dinner
[20-20:45 chair : Ingo Berensmeyer
20:00-20:45 Michael Basseler (Giessen): "We Take Care of Our Own:" Fictions of Resilience in Contemporary US-American Literature and Popular Culture.
Sat., May 23, 2015
[9-12 chair: Jens Kugele
9:00-9:45 Alexander Scherr (Giessen): Contemporary Fictions of the 'Book of Life': Epistemological Perspectives on the (Non-)Readability of the Human Genome in Richard Powers' Novel Generosity: An Enhancement (2009)
9:45-10:30 Nora Berning (Giessen): Novelistic Aesthetics of Alterity as an Agent of Literary and Cultural Change: An Interpretation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Novel Americanah (2013)
10:30 Coffee
10:45-11:30 Snežana Vuletič (Giessen): Restoration, Transformation, and the Centrality of Stories: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958) and Arrow of God (1964)
11:30-12:00 Closing discussion
12:00-13:00 Lunch
Departure