Migrations, Translations, Transformations Düsseldorf 23–25 June 2016
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Other Europes: Migrations, Translations, Transformations Düsseldorf 23–25 June 2016 1 2 Other Europes: Migrations, Translations, Transformations 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