Migrations, Translations, Transformations Düsseldorf 23–25 June 2016

Other Europes: Migrations, Translations, Transformations Düsseldorf 23–25 June 2016

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Düsseldorf, Germany, 23–25 June 2016

Symposium Program

3 Larbauds Plädoyer für die Freiheit des Thursday, 23 June übersetzerischen Handelns,” Vera Elisabeth Gerling, Heinrich Heine Universität 1. Subjects in Translation (Plenary) Düsseldorf 4:00–5:30 p.m., Theatersaal + Appendix, “Lawrence Venuti Revisited: How Visible Malkasten Should Translators Be?,” Martina Nicklaus, Chair: Gabriele Schwab, Univ. of California, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf Irvine “Zum Verhältnis von Übersetzungsreflexion “Thinking in Film, Dreaming in a Foreign und Übersetzungspraxis bei Yves Language,” Mieke Bal, Univ. of Amsterdam Bonnefoy,” Angela Sanmann, Universität “Migrants: Subjects in Translation: A Few Lausanne European Examples,” Siri Nergaard, “Übersetzungstheorie aus der Praxis: Universities of Bologna and Florence Swetlana Geier und Miguel Sáenz im “Transnationalizing Turkish Studies in Vergleich,” Belén Santana, Universität Europe,” Kader Konuk, Universität Duisburg Salamanca “Strangers and Foreigners,” Susan Suleiman, “Übersetzungstheorie und -praxis bei Harvard Univ. Walter Benjamin und Gershom Scholem,” Caroline Sauter, Zentrum für Literatur- und 2. Dialogue on Cosmopolitanism (Plenary) Kulturforschung Berlin 6:00–7:30 p.m., Theatersaal + Appendix, “Hermeneutik der Übersetzung: Franz Malkasten Kafkas Kurzegeschichten in französischer Chair: Roland Greene, Stanford Univ. Übersetzung,” Arvi Sepp, Universität Participants: K. Anthony Appiah, New York Antwerpen/Freie Universität Brüssel Univ.; Susan Neiman, Einstein Forum, “Der Essay als Diskursivierungsform von Potsdam Übersetzungstheorie: Esther Kinsky’s Fremdsprechen: Gedanken zum Übersetzen,” 3. Reception 1 Beate Sommerfeld, Instytut Filologii 8:00–9:30 p.m., Theatersaal + Appendix, Germańskiej, Adam Mickiewicz Univ. in Malkasten Poznań

5. Translating Theory 9:00–10:30 a.m., Goethezimmer, Malkasten Friday, 24 June Chair: TBD “European Theory as Convergent Media 4. Literarisches Übersetzen: Culture: Heidegger, Deleuze, Sloterdijk, Wechselwirkungen von Theorie und Praxis and the Transformations of Philosophical 9:00–10:30 a.m., Appendix, Malkasten Textuality,” Katherine Arens, Univ. of Texas, Chair: TBD Austin “Das Scheitern der Transparenz: Methodische “Sigmund Freud: ‘Good European’,” Martina Erwartungen versus Performanz des Kolb, Susquehanna Univ. Übersetzens,” Albrecht Buschmann, “Translating Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Task Universität Rostock of the Translator’,” Vivian Liska, Univ. of “Die ‘Hilflosigkeit’ von Übersetzungstheorie Antwerp und –praxis” Henri Bloemen, KU Leuven “Contemporary Theories on Europe’s “Wider die sklavische Treue: Valery Cultural Foundations,” Paul Michael

4 Friday, 24 June

Lützeler, Washington Univ. in St. Louis Universität Chair: TBD 6. Thinking Precariously “Translating Blasphemy: Discrepancies 9:00–10:30 a.m., Hörsaal, Haus der between Secular and Orthodox Ways of Universität Seeing Blasphemy in the Work of Russian Chair: TBD Political Performance Art,” Darja Filippova, “Memory/Starved: Food and Forgetting in W independent scholar ou le souvenir d’enfance by Georges Perec,” “Mind the Gap: The Relation between the Priya Wadhera, Columbia Univ. Religious Cartography of Europe and the “Falling into Nonexperience: Ida: A Novel,” Mental Map(s) of European Religiousness,” Münire Sevgi Sen, Bilkent Univ. Florian Groetsch, Heinrich Heine Universität “Humanism and ‘the European Tribe’ in Düsseldorf; Annette Schnabel, Heinrich ‘Liquid Times’: Reading Caryl Philips with Heine Universität Düsseldorf Zygmunt Bauman and Levinas,” Catalina “Muslim Modernity as a ‘Jewish Question’ Botez, Universität Konstanz in Muhammad Asad’s The Road to Mecca,” “The Political Virtue of Agambenian Nudity Abraham Rubin versus Bare Life,” Frances L. Restuccia, Boston “Immigrant Genres and Poetic Conversions: Coll. Hebrew Psalms and Italian Sonnets in “Eine Frage des Rechts: Giorgio Agambens Nineteenth-Century British Theological Plädoyer für ein anderes Europa,” Angela Poetics,” Cynthia Scheinberg, Mills Coll. Weber 9. Writing Memory (Romania) 7. Figuring Translation 9:00–10:30 a.m., Room 3, Haus der 9:00–10:30 a.m., Room 2 (2nd floor), Haus Universität der Universität Chair: TBD Chair: TBD “Romania’s Children: The Voices of “Translation as ‘Distanciacion’ in the Migrant Transatlantic Adoption in Memoir,” Holly Writer Ornela Vorpsi,” Michela Baldo, Univ. Teresa Baker, Univ. of South Dakota of Leicester “Fictions of Trauma and Displacement: The “The Prophet and Me: Thomas Carlyle in Eastern Homelands of Herta Müller and Egypt,” Maya Kesrouany, New York Univ., Catalin Dorian Florescu,” Gabriela Glavan, Abu Dhabi West Univ. of Timişoara “Albania mon amour: Tales of Female ‘Love’ “Remembering Other Europes: Language and Duty in the Writings of Bessa Myftiu and Memory in Lena Constante’s The Silent and Elvira Dones,” Lidia Radi, Univ. of Escape, Three Thousand Days in Romanian Richmond Prisons (1995),” Szidonia Haragos, Zayed “Translational Border Spaces in Central and Univ., United Arab Emirates Eastern Europe,” Irene Sywenky, Univ. of Alberta 10. Greece: Genres of Crisis “Translating Other Europes: The Migrant 9:00–10:30 a.m., Jacobzimmer, Malkasten Emergency,” Stefania Taviano, Università Chair: TBD degli Studi di Messina “Grexit Stage Right: Debt, Antidote, and the ‘Tragedy’ of Greece,” Jennifer R. Ballengee, 8. Exposing Religion Towson Univ. 9:00–10:30 a.m., Room 4b, Haus der “Beware Those Bearing Metaphors: Classical

5 Friday, 24 June

Tropes and the Greek Debt Crisis,” Matthew Intellectual Life in Soviet Student Gumpert, Boğaziçi Univ. Dormitories,” Margaret Litvin, Boston Univ. “The Transferal of Literariness: How to Read “Indian-Romanian Solidarities during the Greek Crisis on Social Media,” Eleni the Cold War: Indira Gandhi and Papargyriou, King’s Coll. London Nicolae Ceausescu,” Maria-Sabina Draga “European Identity and the Transformation Alexandru, Univ. of Bucharest, Romania of Philhellenism in the Unfolding of the “From Soviet Solidarity to Post-Soviet Greek Crisis,” Elena Pnevmonidou, Univ. of Empathy: Building a Community on the Victoria, Canada Wreckages of an Era,” Odette Casamayor- Cisneros, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs 11. Latin American Women Writers Imagining Europe, Judaism, and Identity 13. Mind in Exile: Beckett’s Othering of 9:00–10:30 a.m., Room 4a (3rd floor), Haus European Traditions der Universität 9:00–10:30 a.m., Bibliothek, Malkasten Chair: TBD Chair: TBD “Of Fate and Words,” Marjorie Agosín, “Is There a European Brain? Beckett and the Wellesley Coll. Invention of Contemporary Neurological “Gabriela Mistral and Her Jewish Circle of Language,” Catherine Malabou, Kingston Friends,” Elizabeth Horan, Arizona State Univ., England Univ. “Beckett’s French Exile of the Mind: “The Imaginary Jewish Europe of Angelina Displacements, Potentialities, and the Muñiz-Huberman,” Naomi Lindstrom, Univ. Emergence of a ‘New’ French Aesthetics,” of Texas, Austin Vittoria Borso, Heinrich Heine Universität “Latin American Jewish Writers in Paris: Düsseldorf The Texts of Luisa Futoransky and Ingrid “Apocalyptic Endgames of the Mind: Ecology, Tempel,” Renée S. Scott, Univ. of North Body, and Affect in Beckett’s Happy Days,” Florida Gabriele Schwab, Univ. of California, Irvine

12. European Solidarities: East/West/South/ 14. (Re)constructions mémorielles dans North les fictions postcoloniales algériennes et 9:00–10:30 a.m., Theatersaal, Malkasten françaises Chair: Kerry Bystrom, Bard Coll.; Monica 9:00–10:30 a.m., Shadowzimmer, Malkasten Popescu, McGill Univ. Chair: TBD “Eurafrican Assemblies: Patterns of Solidarity “Le cheminement et le resurgissement de la and Coloniality across the Mediterranean mémoire de la guerre d’Algérie à partir de Divide,” Stefan Jonsson, Linköping Univ. la nouvelle L’ h ô t e d’Albert Camus,” Désirée “Solidarity from the Margins of Europe: Schyns, Ghent Univ., Belgium Afro-Scandinavian Literary Events,” Monica “Je les avais vus mais ne les avais pas Popescu, McGill Univ. regardés: Voir, savoir et mémoire harkie “(West) Germany, South Africa, and dans Retour à Saint-Laurent des Arabes Contested ‘Solidarities’,” Kerry Bystrom, de Daniel Blancou,” Evelyne Ledoux- Bard Coll.; Florian Becker, Bard Coll. Berlin Beaugrand, Université de Gand “Solidarity Narratives in the Third-World “Passés entrecroisés dans le roman français Nov e l ,” Rossen Djagalov, New York Univ. actuel,” Claudia Jünke, Univ. of Osnabrück “Another West or Another East? Arab

6 Friday, 24 June

15. Secret Police Files from the Eastern Bloc: pleurer, de Lydie Salvayre,” Julie Samit, Univ. Between Surveillance and Life Writing of Miami 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Appendix, Malkasten “The Ethical Controversy in the Chair: TBD Representation of the Campaign against “The Stasi Files on Center Stage: Life Writing, Moriscos in Guerras Civiles de Granada and Witnessing, and Memory in Recent the Refugee Crisis in the Contemporary Performance,” Ulrike Garde, Macquarie Spanish Newspapers,” Svetlana V. Tyutina, Univ. Florida International Univ. “‘You’ll Never Make a Spy out of Me’: The File “Spain, Immigration, and the Game of Story of ‘Fink Susanne’,” Valentina Glajar, Mirrors,” Mary S. Vásquez, Davidson Coll. Texas State Univ. “La vuelta al viejo caserón: Repatriating “The Secret Lives and Files of Stasi Spain’s Sephardic Jews in Emilia Pardo Collaborators: Reading Secret Police Files Bazán’s El becerro de metal (1906),” Margot for Identity and Habitus,” Alison Lewis, Versteeg, Univ. of Kansas Univ. of Melbourne “Treasures of the Alhambra: Spanish “Witness for the Prosecution: Eginald Encounters with the Muslim Past in Schlattner in the Files of the Securitate,” Nineteenth-Century Short Stories,” Nettah Corina Liliana Petrescu, Univ. of Mississippi Yoeli-Rimmer, Ghent Univ., Belgium

16. Translating Revolutions 18. Performing Other Europes 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Jacobzimmer, 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Goethezimmer, Malkasten Malkasten Chair: TBD Chair: TBD “American Feminist Literature in the Post- “Realizing Migration on Stage: Angelica Velvet Czech Republic: A New Translation,” Liddell’s Y los peces salieron a combatir Miriam Sahatdjian Gogol, Mercy Coll. contra los hombres and Edgar Chías’s “The Other Europe: The Revolution of the Ternura Suite,” Bernardo Antonio González, Other,” Xingbo Li, Norwich Univ. Wesleyan Univ. “The ‘Arab Spring’ in Art between Europe “An Eastern European Alternative to a and North Africa,” Siobhán Shilton, Bristol Colonial View of India in Postwar Polish Univ. Reportage,” Agnieszka Sadecka, Jawaharlal “Bühne des Politischen: Der italienische Nehru Univ. Theaterfrühling im Kontext der “Translation and Interpreting across the europäischen Social Movements,” Laura Mediterranean,” Annarita Taronna, Strack Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro “’We Accuse Europe’: Staging Justice for 17. Spain: “Other” Pasts Migrating Refugees, Migrants, and Asylum Seekers in Memories Europe,” Jamie H. Trnka, Univ. of Scranton 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Room 4a (3rd floor), “Traveling Europe,” Katrin Ullmann, Heinrich Haus der Universität Heine Universität Düsseldorf Chair: TBD “Performing Statelessness,” Stephen Wilmer, “Spain’s Migrating Memories,” Daniela Trinity Coll. Dublin Omlor, Univ. of Lincoln, UK “Trajectoire de la mémoire républicaine et 19. Film: Displacing Stereotypes Migrating transmission intergénérationnelle dans Pas Images

7 Friday, 24 June

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Theatersaal, Malkasten and Queer Politics in Contemporary North Chair: TBD African Writing,” William J. Spurlin, Brunel “Constructing Outsides: The East in Univ. London Contemporary German,” Nora Gortcheva, “Cartographies of Otherness: Shifting Jacobs Univ. Bremen Borders and the Gay Migrant,” Walter S. “Disciplining Migrations,” Dana Samuel, Temple, Oakland Univ. Concordia Univ., Canada “Isaac Julien’s European Elsewheres,” Louise 22. Greek Crisis Is Europe’s Crisis Is Global Yelin, State Univ. of New York, Purchase Crisis (Roundtable) “Locating Intimacy in Postcolonial French 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Hörsaal, Haus der Cinema,” Laila Amine, Univ. of North Texas Universität “Why Does Every City Have to Be in the Chair: TBD Rain?,” Elena Furlanetto, Universität Participants: Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan, Duisburg-Essen Univ. of California, Irvine; David Lloyd, Univ. of California, Riverside; Mina 20. Anachronistic Europe Karavanta, National and Kapodistrian Univ. 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Room 4b, Haus der of Athens; Giovanna Covi, Università di Universität Trento Chair: TBD “Thoroughly European, Perennially an 23. Transatlantic Europes: The 1936 Pen Outsider: The Hebrew Writer David Vogel Club Congress in Buenos Aires (1891–1994),” Nehama Aschkenasy, Univ. of 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Shadowzimmer, Connecticut Malkasten “Stefan Zweig and the Meaning of ‘Europe’ Chair: TBD in the Early Twenty-First Century,” Bella “Public and Private Activism: Emil Ludwig Brodzki, Sarah Lawrence Coll. and Stefan Zweig at the 1936 PEN Clubs in “Mirroring Empire’s Decline: Stefan Zweig’s Buenos Aires, Argentina,” Robert Kelz, Univ. The World of Yesterday and Mikós Bánffy’s of Memphis Transylvanian Trilogy,” Amanda Cornwall, “Yiddish Modernism, Minority Writing, and Univ. of Oregon the Problem of Europe,” Allison Schachter, “The Face Translated: Sight and Affectivity Vanderbilt Univ. in Concepts,” Mona Körte, Zentrum für “Those Bookish Jews: Welcoming the Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin 1936 Pen Club to Buenos Aires,” Mónica “Exile in Translation: Legacies of a Disrupted Szurmuk, Universidad de Buenos Aires Century,” Azade Seyhan, Bryn Mawr Coll. “Latin Americanism, Cosmopolitism, Transnationalism,” Fernando Degiovanni, 21. Queer Trajectories Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Room 2 (2nd floor), Discussant: Leo Spitzer, Dartmouth Coll., Haus der Universität Columbia Univ. Chair: TBD “Other Europes, Other Sexualities: From 24. Holocaust Memory in Europe and the Homoerotic Ottoman Poetry to Queer Exclusion of Racialized Minorities Modernism,” Joseph A. Boone, Univ. of 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Bibliothek, Malkasten Southern California Chair: TBD “Rethinking Europe: Translation, Diaspora, “Philo-Semitism, ‘Us,’ and ‘Them’: On the

8 Friday, 24 June

Performance of Holocaust Memory in “The Social Effects of Postcolonial French Germany,” Irit Dekel, Bard Coll. Berlin Influence in Moroccan Higher Education,” “Fear Rather Than Remorse: Emotional Sarah Ruth Jacobs, Graduate Center, City Performance of Citizenship and Turkish- Univ. of New York and Arab-German Engagements with the “Between Philosophical Continents: British Holocaust,” Esra Ozyurek, London School of Idealism’s Missed Encounter with the Economics Life Sciences in the Work of John Hunter “Monumental Memory, Moral Superiority, (1728–93),” Tilottama Rajan, Western Univ., and Contemporary Disconnects: Racisms Canada and Noncitizens in Europe, Then and Now,” Damani Patridge, Univ. of Michigan 27. The Francophone as Polyphonic? “Holocaust Memory and Racial Amnesia,” Multidirectional Migrations and Fatima El-Tayeb, Univ. of California, San Translations Diego 2:00–3:30 p.m., Appendix, Malkasten Chair: TBD 25. Periodizing Europe: The Time of Literary “Contesting the Authority of Maps: History in the Work of Erich Auerbach Theorizing Migrants without Borders 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Room 3, Haus der in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Migrant Writing,” Universität Richard Oko Ajah, Univ. of Uyo, Nigeria Chair: TBD “Genres, Genders, and Translation in the “Racine’s Modernity or, Auerbach’s Untiming Works of Francophone (Despentes, Angot, of French Classicism,” Jane O. Newman, and Darrieussecq),” Nadia Louar, Univ. of Univ. of California, Irvine Wisconsin, Oshkosh “The Coy Critic,” Christopher Warley, Univ. “Beyond France: New Destinations in French of Toronto Immigrant Narratives,” Alexandra Perisic, “Auerbach in Africa,” D.Vance Smith, Univ. of Miami Princeton Univ. “When Prizes Make Literature: Immigration, Discussant: Yael Almog, Zentrum für Literatur- Institutions, and the Literary,” Oana Sabo, und Kulturforschung Berlin Tulane Univ. “Translation/Interpretation within the 26. Transl(oc)ating Knowledge Context of Francophone African Literature: 2:00–3:30 p.m., Goethezimmer, Malkasten An Investigation,” Ramonu Sanusi, Univ. of Chair: TBD Ibadan, Nigeria “Merging American and French Scholarship “Imaginary Migration: Toward a Newly on Eighteenth-Century French Literature,” Imagined France in Works by Fatou Diome, Laurence Daubercies, Université de Liège Marie NDiaye, and Yanick Lahens,” Helen “Narrating the Nation through Translation Williams-Ginsberg, Pacific Lutheran Univ. in Eighteenth-Century Encyclopedias,” Clorinda Donato, California State Univ., 28. Questions of “Englishness” Long Beach 2:00–3:30 p.m., Bibliothek, Malkasten “Killing Off the Enlightenment: The Chair: TBD Intellectual Retreat from the Public Sphere “Legal Others: Law as Imagined Community in Eighteenth-Century Germany,” Jonathan in Nineteenth-Century Fiction,” Geoffrey Blake Fine, Dahlem Humanities Center at Baker, Yale-NUS Coll., Singapore Freie Universität Berlin “‘A Variety of Menial Things’: Representing

9 Friday, 24 June

London Servitude, Undeclared Work, and “The Child and the Homoerotic Subject in the Black Market,” Rebecca Dyer, Rose- Alberto Nin Frías’s Sordello Andrea,” Carla Hulman Inst. of Tech. Giaudrone, Rutgers Univ. “To Be a ‘Citizen of the World’: Exile and “Born Foreigners: Queer Cosmopolitanism ‘Englishness’ in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in the Expatriate Literature of Weimar in White,” Chelsea Miya, Univ. of Alberta, Berlin,” Benjamin Robbins, Graduate School Canada of North American Studies, Freie Universität “Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘Accursed Race’: The Berlin Cagots, Race, and the Other West,” Daniel “They Went By Locking Doors behind Them A. Novak, Univ. of Mississippi and Throwing the Keys Away: Nation,” “‘In the Land of the Free’: England as the Darío Sánchez González, Gustavus Adolphus Place of Longing for Eighteenth-Century Coll. Black Writers,” Stephanie Siewert, Univ. of “Bowie the Berliner: An Immigrant Self- Stuttgart Fashions a New European Canon, 1976–78,” John McCombe, Univ. of Dayton 29. Migrating Theater 2:00–3:30 p.m., Theatersaal, Malkasten 31. Translation and Othering: The Ethics and Chair: TBD Politics of Translation in Late-Eighteenth- “Staging ‘New Europe’ in David Edgar’s and Early-Nineteenth-Century Europe Pentecost,” Avishek Ganguly, Rhode Island 2:00–3:30 p.m., Room 4b, Haus der School of Design Universität “Staging Despotism: India Theater and Chair: TBD British Melodrama in the Age of Empires,” “Political Translations of Goethe’s Stella Nida Sajid, Rutgers Univ. and Die Geschwister to English-Speaking “‘Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Audiences,” Susan Gustafson, Univ. of Here’: Contemporary Translations and Rochester Adaptations of Shakespeare in Ireland and “Translating the Haitian Revolution for the Middle East,” Katherine Hennessey, Univ. Europeans: Kleist’s ‘Die Verlobung in Santo of Warwick Domingo’,” Gail K. Hart, Univ. of California, “An Italian-Angolian Facebookian Novel: Irvine Transforming/Translating Yesterday’s “Translating Don Giovanni into German: Romeo and Giulietta,” Araceli Hernández- E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Don Juan,” Eleanor ter Laroche, Univ. of South Carolina Upstate Horst, Univ. of Southern Alabama “Transnational Europe in Performance: A Convergence of Continents in the 1936 32. From Roma Studies to Roma Inclusion: ‘Voodoo’ Macbeth,” Marguerite Rippy, Can Academics Make a Difference? Marymount Univ. 2:00–3:30 p.m., Room 4a (3rd floor), Haus der Universität 30. Queering Europe Chair: TBD 2:00–3:30 p.m., Room 2 (2nd floor), Haus der “Roma Slavery in Radu Jude’s Aferim! Universität (2015),” Valentina Glajar, Texas State Univ. Chair: TBD “Critical Knowledge-Making from the “Oscar Wilde, Homonationalism, and Margin: Can Roma Contribute to Academic Contagion,” Mike Frangos, Södertörn Univ., and Policy Discourses?,” Angéla Kóczé, Sweden Wake Forest Univ.

10 Friday, 24 June

“Bridging the Gap between Romani Studies Study of Chinese Diaspora Literature in and Roma Integration Policies: A Case Europe,” Lijing Peng, National Univ. of Study,” Tina Magazzini, Univ. of Deusto, Ireland, Maynooth Basque Country, Spain “Asian-European Cultural Mediation in the “Policies for the Future, Studies of the Past: Works of Galsan Tschinag,” Richard Hacken, The Synergies,” Philip Landon, General Brigham Young Univ. Secretariat of the Council of Ministers of the “Between Emperors and Patriarchs: European Union in Brussels Reinterpreting Early Chinese History in “Poverty Tourism and Appropriations of Terms of Genesis in the Seventeenth and Roma Cultural Artifacts: The Case of Eighteenth Centuries,” Philipp Reisner Andalucía, Spain,” Domnica Radulescu, “Langston Hughes, Paris, and Shanghai,” Washington and Lee Univ. Selina Lai-Henderson, Univ. of Hong Kong “The (Mis)Inclusion of the Bulgarian Roma: Discussant: Carrie Khou, Universität Another ‘Decade of Exclusion’,” Stoyan V. Mannheim Tchaprazov, Iowa State Univ. 35. Unreconciled Memories: Beyond 33. Writing Europe, Writing Justice: Herta Memory, Counter-Memory, and Consensus Müller, Transnationalism in Microcosm 2:00–3:30 p.m., Room 3, Haus der Universität 2:00–3:30 p.m., Shadowzimmer, Malkasten Chair: TBD Chair: TBD “The Politics of Amnesia: Forgetting “The Duplicity of Heimat, Language, and Differences after the French Wars of Silence in Herta Müller’s Narratives,” Michel Religion,” Andrea Frisch, Univ. of Maryland, Mallet, Université de Moncton Coll. Park “The Mouth of a Shark: Migration and “Divided by Shared Memories: Germany’s Displacement in the Work of Herta Müller,” Colonial Legacy,” Aurélia Kalisky, Zentrum Brigid Haines, Swansea Univ., UK für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin “The Pressure of the European Past: Memory, “The Refugee Crisis and Holocaust Memory Ethics, and Recognition in Herta Müller’s in Contemporary French Film,” Debarati Writing Life,” Jenny Watson, Swansea Univ., Sanyal, Univ. of California, Berkeley UK Discussant: Michael Rothberg, Univ. of Illinois “Metaphorical Conceptualization of Voice at Urbana-Champaign in Herta Müller’s Texts,” Pavlo Shopin, Cambridge Univ. 36. Literature, Migration, Translation: Post- 1989 Discourse on Europe 34. Transeuropean Textures: Products 2:00–3:30 p.m., Hörsaal, Haus der Universität of Cultural Exchange between Europe, Chair: David T. Pan, Univ. of California, Irvine America, and Asia “Future Affects, Heterolingual Histories, and 2:00–3:30 p.m., Jacobzimmer, Malkasten Transformative Narration: E.S. Özdamar’s Chair: Birgit Capelle, Heinrich Heine Literary Challenges to a Transcultural Universität Düsseldorf Poetics of European Migration,” Leslie A. “Translation and the Global Reach of Adelson, Cornell Univ. Contemporary German Culture,” “Post-1989 Geographies in Terézia Mora’s Christopher Lupke, Washington State Univ. Der einzige Mann auf dem Kontinent and “Language Ideologies in Gao Xingjian’s Das Ungeheuer,” Katharina Gerstenberger, Literature: A Linguistic Anthropological Univ. of Utah

11 Saturday, 25 June

“Trauma after Theory in Transnational Massachusetts Institute of Technology Writing: The Anxiety of ‘Provisional “Performing Other Europes: Memory, Permanence’ in Térezia Mora’s Alle Tage,” Trauma, and Migration in Contemporary Lynda K. Nyota, North Carolina State Univ. Decolonial Dance,” Layla Zami Zuckerman, “Money, Consumption, and Europe in Columbia Univ. Julya Rabinowich’s Die Erdfresserin,” Anke Biendarra, Univ. of California, Irvine 40. European Polyphonies 9:00–10:30 a.m., room 46A, building 23.01, 37. Wandering Phantoms (Plenary) Heinrich-Heine-Universität 4:00–5:30 p.m., Theatersaal, Malkasten Chair: TBD Chair: TBD “Where Does Europe Really Lie? Europe in “Literary Routes: Migration and the Creative Turkey, Turkey in Europe,” Metin Boşnak, Economy,” Françoise Lionnet, Univ. of International Univ. of Sarajevo California, Los Angeles “European Balkans, Post-Yugoslav Pop-Folk,” “The ‘Icy Waters’ of Europe or, Politics as the Marijana Mitrovic, Humboldt-Universität Art of the Impossible,” Athena Athanasiou, zu Berlin Univ. of Athens “Maria Stepanova’s Multilingual Songs of “Wandering Phantoms of Europe,” Françoise Mourning,” Eva Rottmann, Universität Vergès, Collège d’études mondiales Konstanz “From Ethnocracy to Democracy: “Language, Music, and the Experience of Reinventing Germany’s ‘Demos’ in the Age Exile: Ingolf Dahl as Mediator, Translator, of Migration,” Aleida Assmann, Universität and Performer,” Isabell Woelfel, Univ. of Konstanz Calgary

38. Mayor’s Reception 41. Constructions of Europe in African 8:00–9:30 p.m., Off site, TBD American Literature and Thought 9:00–10:30 a.m., Seminar 3, Oeconomicum, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Chair: TBD Saturday, 25 June “Black American Berlin: The Political Satire of Ollie Harrington and Paul Beatty,” 39. Film: Mediating Experience Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman, Brandeis Univ. 9:00–10:30 a.m., Seminar 4, Oeconomicum, “Transatlantic Connections, Memory, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Postmemory, and Memoirs of the Black Chair: TBD German Postwar Generation,” Marion Kraft “Transnational Constructivism and the “A Raisin in the Midnight Sun: Blackness, Figure of the Migrant in László Moholy- Swedish Style,” Monica L. Miller, Barnard Nagy’s Films,” Robin Curtis, Heinrich Heine Coll. Universität Düsseldorf “Someday I Will Go Back to Germany: “Auschwitz Revisited: Trauma, Memories, Transnational Cosmopolitanism and and Ethical Storytelling,” Friederike B. and William Gardner Smith’s Last of the Emonds, Univ. of Toledo Conquerors,” Jiann-Chyng Tu, Humboldt- “Where Is Asian Germany? Of Model Universität zu Berlin Minorities, Assige Asiaten, and Ways of Belonging,” Feng-Mei Heberer, 42. Feeling Precarious: Affect, Marginality,

12 Saturday, 25 June and Feminine Performance “Muße und Politik in Schillers ästhetischem 9:00–10:30 a.m., room 44B, building 23.01, Erziehungsprojekt,” Manuel Clemens, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Leuphana Univ., Germany Chair: TBD “Naturalizing the Capitalist Subject: The “Public Feelings: The Affective Archive of European Denial of the Political in Goethe’s Jean Rhys,” Erica Johnson, Pace Univ. Wilhelm Meister,” David T. Pan, Univ. of “Affective Disorder, Narrative Identity, and California, Irvine Antonia White’s Stories of Self,” Patricia “Engendering Contemporaneity: Dada’s Moran, Univ. of Limerick Aesthetic Education,” Patrizia McBride, “Affect and Agency on Stage: Transnational Cornell Univ. Performance and the Case of Katherine “Freedom through Bildung: Rhetoric, Dunham,” Rishona Zimring, Lewis and ‘Second Nature,’ and ‘Ethical Life’ in Hegel’s Clark Coll. Political Theory,” John H. Smith, Univ. of California, Irvine 43. Across Barriers: Contemporary “Bildung, Kultur, and the Proletarian Translingual Literature(s) by Migrants from Moment in Nineteenth-Century Social Eastern and Southeastern Europe Democracy,” Sabine Hake, Univ. of Texas, 9:00–10:30 a.m., Seminar 2, Oeconomicum, Austin Heinrich-Heine-Universität “Bildungspolitik: Educational Practice and Chair: TBD Political Identity in Germany since the “Languages of Europe: A Model Case of 1960s,” Ulrich Kinzel, Institut für Neuere ‘Trans’: An Interexilic Dialogue between deutsche Literatur und Medien, Kiel Ivan Blatný and Jiří Gruša,” Alfrun Kliems, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 45. Wide Space and Deep Time: “The Critical Reception of Saša Stanišić’s Wie Reconceptualizing Europe and Its Literary der Soldat das Grammofon repariert (How Histories the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone) and 9:00–10:30 a.m., Kleiner Vortragsraum, the Role of Storytelling in the Novel,” Iga Library, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Nowicz, King’s Coll. London Chair: David Wallace, Univ. of Pennsylvania “We Are the Self-Made Slaves of the Twenty- “Reconceptualizing Medieval Europe: First Century: Self-Proletarianisation in The East Slavic Perspective,” David M. Prose by Polish Migrants to Germany, Goldfrank, Georgetown Univ. Ireland, and the United Kingdom,” Dirk “On the Borders of Europe and Asia: The Uffelmann, Univ. of Passau Troy Legend in Medieval Britain and “Memory and History Narratives in Ireland,” Helen Fulton, Univ. of Bristol Contemporary Russian-German and “The Case of the Early Middle Ages: Culture Russian-French Fiction,” Miriam without Europe?,” Clare A. Lees, King’s Coll. Finkelstein, Univ. of Passau London

44. Political Identity and Bildung 46. Yoko Tawada’s New Maps and New 9:00–10:30 a.m., Seminar 5, Oeconomicum, Worlds: Moving across Place, Identity, and Heinrich-Heine-Universität Genre Chair: David T. Pan, Univ. of California, 9:00–10:30 a.m., Grosser Vortragsraum, Irvine; John H. Smith, Univ. of California, Library, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Irvine Chair: TBD

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“Yoko Tawada’s Works on Paper,” Bettina Meyer in Mexico (1939–49),” Ryan Long, Brandt, Penn State Univ. Univ. of Maryland “On the ‘Northpole of Dreams’ in Yoko “Raúl Ruiz’s Three Crowns of the Sailor: Tawada’s Etüden im Schnee,” Hiltrud Arens, A Transatlantic Allegory of Exchange,” Univ. of Montana Andreea Marinescu, Colorado Coll. “Subjunctivity and the Synecdoches of “United States Values as an Example and Sovereignty: Yoko Tawada, Byron Kim, and Warning for a Better Europe,” Nadine Milde, Carl Schmitt,” John Namjun Kim, Univ. of Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf California, Riverside “Yoko Tawada: Crossing out of Europe into 49. Spaces of Hos(ti)pitality a Radiation Nation,” Doug Slaymaker, Univ. 2:00–3:30 p.m., Seminar 4, Oeconomicum, of Kentucky Heinrich-Heine-Universität “Text Hybridity and Translational Identity in Chair: TBD Yoko Tawada’s ‘Überseezungen’,” Madalina “An Other Europe / The Other of Europe: Meirosu, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst Children of Men and the ‘Infinite Task’ “Yoko Tawada and Marica Bodrožić as of Hospitality,” J. Jesse Ramírez, Goethe- Migrant Writers in Germany,” Željko Universität Frankfurt Uvanović, Josip Juraj Strossmayer Univ. of “The Geospatial Politics of Asylum,” Joshua Osijek Synenko, Trent Univ. “Schuld ist eine persönliche Frage: Call 47. Other Europes: A Conversation for European Hospitality and Personal (Plenary) Responsibility in Senocak’s Two Novels,” 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Hörsaal 3A, Heinrich- Emel Tastekin, Yaşar Univ. Heine-Universität “Migrations Unbound, Images, and Ethics of Chair: Marianne Hirsch, Columbia Univ.; Hospitality,” Joëlle Vitiello, Macalester Coll. Louise Yelin, State Univ. of New York, Purchase “Migrations of the Figure of ‘the Wandering Participants: Eva Hoffman, Writer, London; Jew’ in the Pan-European Imagination,” Isaac Julien, Artist and Filmmaker, London; William E. Engel, Sewanee Univ. Yoko Tawada, Writer, Berlin 50. Politics of Fairy Tale 48. Transatlantic Negotiations 2:00–3:30 p.m., room 46A, building 23.01, 2:00–3:30 p.m., Seminar 2, Oeconomicum, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Heinrich-Heine-Universität Chair: TBD Chair: TBD “Postcommunist Nationalism and the “Europe and Latin American Identity: José Romanian Superhero: Harap Alb continua’s Carlos Mariátegui Visits Italy,” Juan E De Paradoxical Comic Book Aesthetics,” Castro, New School Dragos Manea, Univ. of Bucharest, Romania “Globalization and American Ethnic Fiction: “Nationalist Texts with International Appeal Place as Space in a New Geography of or, The Strange Tale of Children’s World European-American Imaginaries,” Josephine Literature at the Extended Fin de Siècle,” Gattuso Hendin, New York Univ. Melek Ortabasi, Simon Fraser Univ. “F. O. Matthiessen’s Renaissance “Perrault Revisited: The Grimm Brothers,” Translations,” Jay Grossman, Northwestern Tegan Raleigh, Univ. of California, Santa Univ. Barbara “The Aesthetics of Displacement: Hannes “Fairy Tales and Prison Cells: The Birth of

14 Saturday, 25 June

the Czech Republic,” Marcela Sulak, Bar- Universität Ilan Univ. Chair: TBD “A European Iconoclast: Poetry as Meta- 51. Images of Migration reality in Russian Nights by Vladimir 2:00–3:30 p.m., Seminar 1, Oeconomicum, Odoevsky,” Tatiana V. Barnett Heinrich-Heine-Universität “Northern Ireland: The Lyric and Society,” Chair: TBD Anthony Bradley, Univ. of Vermont “Migration as Translation,” Doris Bachmann- “Passages of Terror: Literature and Terrorism Medick, Justus-Liebig-Univ. Giessen following the Algerian War,” Cory Browning, “Cityzenship: Rightful Presence and Univ. of Oregon the Urban Commons,” Smaran Dayal, “Graphic Ghosts: Representing Personal Humboldt Univ. Berlin; Wanda Vrasti, and National Memory in Nina Bunjevac’s Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Fatherland,” Mihaela Precup, Univ. of “Lupe Pérez García’s Diario argentino: Bucharest Metaphor in the Discourse on “Europe’s Management of Terror,” David Transnational Mobility,” Agata Grzelczak, Simpson, Univ. of California, Davis Univ. of Kentucky “Migration and Immigration in 54. Translation and Meaning within Contemporary Bulgarian Cinema,” Transnational Afro-futures: Memory, Sense Temenuga Trifonova, York Univ., Canada Making, and Collective Re-membering “A Hazard Mapping of Globalized Literature 2:00–3:30 p.m., Seminar 3, Oeconomicum, of Catastrophes in the Twenty-First Heinrich-Heine-Universität Century,” Masami Usui, Donisha Univ. Chair: TBD “Testimony by Proxy,” Nicoletta Vallorani, “Contested Memories and Claims of Univ. of Milan Belonging and Identity: Rethinking Memory, Covery, and Re-covery in Euro- 52. Contingencies of Belonging African Futures through Translation and 2:00–3:30 p.m., Kleiner Vortragsraum, Traducture,” Wangui wa-Goro, London Library, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Metropolitan Univ. Chair: TBD “Reflections on the ‘Stranger in the Village’ “Kurban Said: A Post-World War I Refugee Experience in Gothenburg,” Phoebe Boswell Reimagining Europe,” H. Esra Almas, Haliç “Canonizing the Story Will Never Dismantle Univ. the Canon: The Power of Collective “Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalgia and Narratives in Writing New Afro-Futures,” the Narrative of (Pre)Exile,” Aurelia Peggy Piesche, Bayreuth Univ. Klimkiewicz, York Univ., Canada “Re-imagining Afro-Europeans within “Images of Europe in Russian Imperial Cultural Translation in France and Conservative Journalism,” George Germany,” Tomi Adeaga, Univ. of Vienna Prokhorov, Moscow State Regional Institute of Humanities and Social Studies 55. The Global Imaginary in Medieval “Nazım Hikmet: Trans-Bosporus Modernist,” European Literature (Roundtable) Paul Munn, Saginaw Valley State Univ. 2:00–3:30 p.m., room 44B, building 23.01, Heinrich-Heine-Universität 53. Terror Chair: Stephen Nichols, Johns Hopkins Univ. 2:00–3:30 p.m., Hörsaal 3A, Heinrich-Heine- Participants: Joachim Küpper, Freie

15 Saturday, 25 June

Universität Berlin; Andreas Kablitz, Theoretical Practice without Guarantees,” Albertus-Magnus-Universität zu Köln; Miguel Mellino, Università Napoli Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Université L’Orientale Paris-Sorbonne; Howard Bloch, Yale Univ. “Afropolitan Intellectuals, New Cosmopolitanism, and African Refugees,” 56. Alterität in Ost(mittel)europa: Brigit Neumann, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Begegnung, Austausch, Abgrenzung Düsseldorf 2:00–3:30 p.m., Seminar 5, Oeconomicum, “Juan Villoro: Founding a Civil Movement Heinrich-Heine-Universität for Juridical Changes in Mexico,” Verena Chair: Annegret Pelz, Univ. of Vienna Dolle, Univ. of Gießen “Peripherie als Zentrum - Grenze als “A Tricky Question: Talking about European Verbindung? Postgalizische Reisen als Intellectuals,” Dario Azzellini, Johannes Kontaktzonen zwischen Gegenwart und Kepler Univ. Vergangenheit,” Magdalena Baran-Szoltys, “Adorno and the European Intellectual Univ. of Vienna Tradition,” Deepika Bahri, Emory Univ. “Verschieden oder doch ähnlich? Darstellung “The Poet and the Refugee: Responding konfessioneller Konflikte zwischen römisch to the Pain of Others,” Filippo Menozzi, katholischer und griechisch-katholischer Liverpool John Moores Univ. Bevölkerung im Schaffen galizischer Schriftsteller,” Lyubomir Borakovskyy 58. From Current Media Representations to “Soma Morgenstern, ein galizischer Autor Spaces of Self-Representation of Roma in im Spannungsfeld von Judentum und Europe Christentum,” Gerhard Langer, Univ. of 4:00–5:30 p.m., room 46A, building 23.01, Vienna Heinrich-Heine-Universität “Europa und der Erste Weltkrieg: Anskis Chair: Friederike B. Emonds, Univ. of Toledo Tagebuchaufzeichnungen zu Ereignis, “Self-Representation—A Challenge: Romani Gerüchten und Schuld,” Olaf Terpitz, Literatures and the Exhibition Romane Universität Wien, Institut für Slawistik / DK Thana: Orte der Roma und Sinti (Places of Galizien Roma and Sinti),” Beate Eder-Jordan, Univ. Discussant: Marianne Windsperger of Innsbruck “The Rise and Fall of ‘Gypsy’ Reality TV,” 57. European Intellectuals and Their Others Annabel Tremlett, Univ. of Portsmouth (Roundtable) “The Threat of a Roma Migration: 2:00–3:30 p.m., Grosser Vortragsraum, Discriminating Patterns in TV News and Library, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Documentary Formats,” Markus End, Chair: TBD Stiftung Universität Hildesheim “(De)Bordering the European Intellectual: “Romani Writings as Multidimensional Resonances of the Common in the Global Self-Representations,” Lorely French, Pacific Ag e ,” Sandro Mezzadra, Univ. of Bologna Univ. “Aki Kaurismäki as European Intellectual: “A Look at Romani Theater as a Model for Intertextuality and Transcultural Transcultural Exchange,” Michaela Grobbel, Intervention in Le Havre,” Guido Rings, Sonoma State Univ. Ruskin Univ. “Recent European Film Productions “The Secular, the Subaltern, and the Representing Roma,” Habiba Hadziavdic, Postcolonial: Decolonizing Theory or Univ. of Saint Thomas, Minnesota; Hilde

16 Saturday, 25 June

Hoffmann, Ruhr-Universität Bochum Cosmopolitanisms 4:00–5:30 p.m., room 44B, building 23.01, 59. Translating Classics Heinrich-Heine-Universität 4:00–5:30 p.m., Grosser Vortragsraum, Chair: TBD Library, Heinrich-Heine-Universität “Between Supranational Center and Europe’s Chair: TBD Southern Peripheries,” Harry Karahalios, “Translating Milton, Milton’s ‘Translation’: Duke Univ. Aeneas and Dido in Paradise Lost (1667),” “The Refugee Debate as the ‘Playing Field’ Hyunyoung Cho, George Mason Univ. for the Construction of Germany as a New “Cyclopean Translations: Homer, Virgil, Nation,” Petra Landfester, Colorado State Gavin Douglas,” Antony J. Hasler, Saint Univ. Louis Univ. “Precarious Archipelago: Constructing “Re-imagining Modes of Resistance,” Maria Refugee Citizenship through the Visual in Schoina, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki Eastern Europe,” Asimina Ino Nikolopoulou, “In Knowing the White to Safeguard the Northeastern Univ. Black: A Translation Study on Keywords “Regarding the Drowning of Others: and Cultures in Heidegger’s First Chapter Precarious Lives in Elalamy’s Les clandestins of Being and Time,” Wendy Sun, Loyola and Jones’s Hand Me Down World,” Liedeke Marymount Univ. Plate, Radboud Universiteit “Translations of Marco Polo’s Book: From “The Representation of Immigrants to Europe to Asia,” Gang Zhou, Louisana State Italy in the Media,” Mahmoud N. Zidan, Univ. Binghamton Univ., State Univ. of New York

60. Precarious (Hi)Stories 62. Intertextualities 4:00–5:30 p.m., Seminar 5, Oeconomicum, 4:00–5:30 p.m., Seminar 3, Oeconomicum, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Heinrich-Heine-Universität Chair: TBD Chair: TBD “Bringing the War Home: Juan Goytisolo “Vertlib’s Poetics of ‘In-Betweenness’,” Nadja and the Translation of Sarajevo,” Anna Berkovich, Univ. of Arkansas Botta, Smith Coll.; Jim Hicks, Univ. of “From Austerlitz to Open City: Tracing the Massachusetts, Amherst Traumatic Past in Urban and Intertextual “A Dark Threshold: Marking the Palimpsests,” Katherine V. Snyder, Univ. of Contemporary in the Narratives of ‘1979’,” California, Berkeley Alla Ivanchikova, Hobart and William Smith “Paradigms of Space, Time, and Identity in Colleges Kurt Schwitters’s Post-World War I Collage,” “Cartographies of Shifting Strategies: The Susan L. Solomon, Brown Univ. Writing of Yadé Kara and Seyran Ateş,” Luz “Narratives of Fugue’: Abbas Khider’s Der Angélica Kirschner, Universität Bielefeld falsche Inder and Teju Cole’s Open City,” “Two Approaches to Narrating Migration in Betiel Wasihun, Univ. of Oxford German Literature,” Stephen P. Naumann, Hillsdale Coll. 63. Europe by Implication “The Body of Representation and Its Limits,” 4:00–5:30 p.m., Seminar 1, Oeconomicum, Galina Rylkova, Univ. of Florida Heinrich-Heine-Universität Chair: TBD 61. Mediating Flight / Precarious “Ghostly Encounters, Imaginary

17 Saturday, 25 June

Homelands, and Transcultural Identities Dichtung und Universität in der Frühen in Contemporary Anglophone Fictions of Neuzeit,” Thomas Assinger, Univ. of Vienna Europe,” Janine Hauthal, Vrije Universiteit “Siegfried Kracauers Momentphotographie- Brussel Metapher,” Birgit R. Erdle, Hebrew Univ. of “Rewriting Africa in Europe: Narratives to Jerusalem Vanquish Female Genital Mutilation, by “Do It Yourself: Ein textuelles Alice Walker, Khady (Koita), Nura Abdi, Beweglichkeitsmodell abseits der and Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko,” Tobe Levin Funktion Autor, mit Beispielen religiöser, von Gleichen, Harvard Univ. medizinischer und pornographischer “The New African Diaspora Writer and His/ Bücher des 18. Jahrhunderts,” Franz M. Her Publics,” Lokangaka Losambe, Univ. of Eybl, Univ. of Vienna Vermont “Die Jungfrau im Druck,” Wolfgang “Black is COOL in Britannia: The Realities Fuhrmann, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin of Race and Global Capital in Nineties “Dinge an der Grenze zur kulturellen Form: England,” Demetrios V. Kapetanakos, Transfer- und Transformationsprozesse von LaGuardia Community Coll., NY ‘Müll’,”Lis Hansen, Universität Münster “Postcolonial and Postcommunist Contact “Auf dem Wege: Transformationen Zones in Mike Phillips’s A Shadow of bürgerlicher Mobilität in deutschsprachigen Myself,” Nataša Kovacevic, Eastern Michigan Erzähltexten des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts,” Univ. Roman Kabelik, Univ. of Vienna “Momentaufnahmen: Kleine bewegliche 64. Memory Matters Form,” Annegret Pelz, Univ. of Vienna 4:00–5:30 p.m., Seminar 4, Oeconomicum, “Georges-Arthur Goldschmidts deutsch- Heinrich-Heine-Universität französische Passagen,” Anne-Kathrin Chair: TBD Reulecke, Zentrum für Literatur- und “Narrating Bygone Places: Memorial Books Kulturforschung Berlin and the Post-World War II Jewish Quest for “Briefverkehr,” Ulrike Vedder, Humboldt Collective Identity,” Gali Drucker Bar-Am, Universität zu Berlin The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem “Zeitreisetagebücher und Spurensuchen: “European Traumas and the Arts,” Dorota ‘Other Europes’ aus dem Familienarchiv,” Golanska, Univ. of Łódź Marianne Windsperger, Universität Wien “Precarious Postmemory and Transatlantic Connections,” Hana Waisserova, Univ. of 66. Medieval Europe, Elsewhere: Nebraska, Lincoln Perspectives from Polyglot North America “Home Reminds Me of Pogroms: Migrant 4:00–5:30 p.m., Kleiner Vortragsraum, Women Writers Trace Heritage between Library, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Eastern Europe and Germany,” Yvonne Chair: TBD Zivkovic, Columbia Univ. “Gwendolyn Brooks’s ‘The Anniad’ and Pre- Raphaelite Medievalism’s Dream Vision,” 65. Zirkulation und Beweglichkeit Candace Barrington, Central Connecticut kultureller Formen State Univ. 4:00–5:30 p.m., Hörsaal 3A, Heinrich-Heine- “Wayde Compton’s ‘Afro-Saxon’ Poetics,” Universität Irina Alexandra Dumitrescu, Univ. of Bonn Chair: TBD “Michael Chabon, Yiddish, Old Norse,” Denis “Dichterkrönung: Zur Verknüpfung von Ferhatović, Connecticut Coll.

18 Saturday, 25 June

“Native, Norse, North: Dreams of the Migration Writing,” Dorota Kołodziejczyk, Medieval Atlantic,” Jonathan Hsy, George Wrocław Univ., Poland Washington Univ. “Borderlands/La Frontera, Alien Abductions, 68. Dreams and Nightmares (Plenary) Critical Race Theory, and Medieval Studies,” 6:00–7:30 p.m., Hörsaal 3A, Heinrich-Heine- Dorothy Kim, Vassar Coll. Universität Chair: Marianne Hirsch, Columbia Univ.; 67. “Knocking on Heaven’s Door”: Agonistic Susan Winnett, Heinrich Heine Universität Cosmopolitanism in Postcolonial Europe Düsseldorf 4:00–5:30 p.m., Seminar 2, Oeconomicum, “Magical Historicism: A Russian Response to Heinrich-Heine-Universität the National and Global Crisis,” Alexander Chair: TBD Etkind, European Univ. Inst. “Three Is a Crowd: Identity Triangulation “European Dreams and Magical Thinking,” and Cultural Trauma in Postcolonial Andreas Huyssen, Columbia Univ. Eastern Europe,” Bogdan Ştefănescu, Univ. of “Europe and the Utopian Concept of Bucharest, Romania Common Property,” Margaret Ferguson, “New European Traumascapes: Agonistic Univ. of California, Davis Identity Formation(s) in Postsecular, “Othering and Whitening in Times of Postcommunist Europe,” Cristina Sandru, Vanishing Sameness,” Nacira Gué nif, independent scholar Columbia Univ. “Between Being ‘Cool’ and Being ‘Mohair’. “Documenting the Undocumented: Transient Antinomies of Contemporary Polish Public Archives of Migration,” Deniz Göktürk, Discourse as the Lagging Effects of (Post) Univ. of California, Berkeley Colonial Self-Perception(s),” Dariusz Skórczewski, John Paul II Catholic Univ. of Lublin “It’s All about the Silk: Balkan Utopias and Dystopias in Postmodern Postcolonial Europe,” Domnica Radulescu, Washington and Lee Univ. “Postcolonial Europe and the Function of Allegory: Narrating/Performing Exile in Domnica Radulescu’s Black Sea Twilight and Exile Is My Home,” Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, Univ. of Bucharest, Romania “Interrogating Identity through Otherness: Literary Representations of the New Polish Diaspora in the British Isles,” Tomasz Dobrogoszcz, Univ. of Łódź, Poland “Cosmopolitan Interactions: The Impact of Polish Migrations on British and Irish Fiction,” Joanna Kosmalska, Univ. of Łódź, Poland “Comparative Displacements: The Cosmopolitics of Eastern European

19 Addresses of Symposium Venues

Thursday, 23 June, and Friday, 24 June:

Weinkellerei Malkasten Jacobistraße 6 40211 Düsseldorf, Germany

Haus der Universität Schadowplatz 14 40212 Düsseldorf, Germany

Saturday, 25 June:

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

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

Symposium Map

For more detailed information on conference venues, hotels, and transportation, consult the symposium map.

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

20 Cover image by Carschten, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16047076