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Space, Affect, Memory: Performances and Representations

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Jun 24, 2021 09:00 to Jun 25, 2021 05:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)

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Hermes Consortium for Literary & Cultural Studies

Research Group – Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature, PhD Programme in Literary and Cultural Studies. University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

Organising Committee: Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza, César P. Domínguez Prieto, Tomás Espino Barrera

“Space, Affect, Memory: Performances and Representations”

Virtual Seminar

24‐25 June 2021


In order to attend one or more events of the Summer School, a registration is required via the following address: Hermes.2020.compostela@gmail.com.

The information required is a) name, 2) position and affiliation. It will be helpful if REGISTRATION is mentioned in the mail's subject line.

A link will be sent to you some days before the seminar.


PROGRAMME


JUNE 24th


Welcome (9:15): Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza


Keynote lecture 1 (9:30h)
Ben Anderson (Durham University): “Capitalism and Affective Change: A Geohistory of Boredom”. Introduction by Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza.


Panel 1 (11:30h‐13h) 

Chair: Jennifer Rushworth.

Tim Gupwell (Montpellier) “Space, affect, Memory: D. H. Lawrence's Mornings in Mexico (1927)”. Kateřina Kovářová (Prague): “The Landscape of Memory: Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West”.
Anne‐Sophie Bogetoft Mortensen (Roskilde): “Writing and Reclaiming the Shore in Anglocreole Caribbean Literature”.


Panel 2 (14:30h‐16h)
Chair: Catarina Nunes de Almeida.

Flavio Paredes Cruz (Montpellier): “Nostalgia for the defeated: images of pre‐Columbian America in French‐Belgian comics”.
Richard Vargas (Giessen): “The Representation of Spaces of Conflict in Contemporary Graphic Novels. Case‐study of La Palizúa, Sin Mascar Palabra, and Caminos Condenados”.

Joanne Britland (OSL): “Comedic Performance: Cinematic Responses to the 2008 Social and Financial Crisis in Spain”.


Panel 3 (16:30h‐18h) 

Chair: Christine Reynier.

Sarah Moxham (UCL): “Excavating the Sky, Ulassai 1981: Community Remapping through Poetic‐ Performative Pedagogy”.
Jonas Prinzleve (Lisbon): “The Coloniality of Urban Narrative Space: City Branding, Cultural Memory and ‘Affective Mis‐Interpellation’ in Lisbon and Hamburg”.

Angela Princiotto (USC): “Performing Space, Affect and Memory in the diaspora”.


Keynote Lecture 2 (18:30h)
Helena Míguélez‐Carballeira (Bangor University): “Galicia on Netflix: rural spaces and queer temporalities”. Introduction by César Domínguez.


JUNE 25th


Panel 4 (10h‐11:30h)

Chair: Florian Mussgnug.

Asmaa Hassaneen (Aarhus): “Homeland, One Journey, Two Paths. Space and Affect in the Travelling Memory of Palestine in Two Sagas”.
Miriam Miscoli (Siena): “The vanished motherland. Mnestic topographies in the poetry of Paul Celan”. Katia Marcellin (Montpellier): “Wandering Traumatised Spaces: Performing Spatial and Temporal Vulnerabilities in Jon McGregor’s Even the Dogs”.


Panel 5 (12h‐13:30h)
Chair: Karen‐Margrethe Simonsen.

Rebecca Marie Murray (Prague): “Gambling, Capital and Self‐Regulation: Adventure‐Making as Risk‐ Taking in Godwin’s St. Leon (1799)”.
Laura Camino (USC): “Affectivity in History: An Exploration through Medieval Texts”.
Eva Zimmermann (Giessen): “The Influence of Affect on the Positioning of Dramaturgical Work within Discursive Spaces”.


Panel 6 (15h‐16:30h)

Chair: Pablo Valdivia.

Ana Romão Alves (Lisbon): “Performing Warfare from Afar: The Gendered Implications of Spatial Displacement in Good Kill (2014) and Eye in the Sky (2015)”.
Eric Wistrom (Wisconsin‐Madison): “Affect and the Limits of Cultural Performativity in Y.B.’s Allah superstar”.

Lyu Guangzhao (UCL): “The Heterotopic Enclaves and Capitalist Monster in China Miéville’s ‘New Weird’ Story ‘Perdido Street Station’”.


Keynote Lecture 3 (17h)
Germán Labrador (Princeton University): “Colombuscopies. Migrant geographies of the Hispanic Atlantic and national memory sites, from 1898 to 2020”. Introduction by Tomás Espino.