THE HERMES CONSORTIUM FOR LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES Hermes Summer School 2012: Literature and Intervention The Relevance of Literature in a Changing World Amsterdam, June 10-14 Welcome to Amsterdam This year is Amsterdam the host of the HERMES seminar. We would like to welcome you and wish you a very inspiring seminar and pleasant stay. This map will help you find your way around Amsterdam. Amsterdam is a beautiful, historic and very compact city, making it easy to get around on foot or by bike. The excellent public transport infrastructure also makes it possible to move around the city quickly and easily. 2 Hotel Internet We have made reservations at the Easyjet hotel, van Public transport www.gvb.nl Ostadestraat 97 Amsterdam, for you. Unfortunately Tourist information www.iamsterdam.com the hotel does not serve breakfast. However, near the hotel are several places where they do serve Amsterdam Tourism & Convention Board breakfast (at you own expenses, with discount for Visitors to Amsterdam can contact one of the full- hotel guests). The staff at the hotel can inform you service VVV (tourist office) branches for the following about that. Or grab a croissant and orange juice at a services: supermarket or bakery on the way to university. • I amsterdam Card Public Transport: • excursions and admission tickets Hotel • souvenirs You can take tram 16 or 24 from Central Station to • public transport passes and information tram stop Albert Cuypmarkt. Walk 350 meters • tourist information southbound on the Ferdinand Bolstraat (towards the • souvenirs RAI) and you will find the hotel on the corner of the • cycling and walking routes Ferdinand Bolstraat and the van Ostadestraat. • maps, books and guides Adresses: The VVV branches can be found at the following • Easyjet hotel – van Ostadestraat97 (A) locations: • Oudemanhuispoort - Oudemanhuispoort 4-6 (B) Central Station, Platform 2b • Bushuis - Kloveniersburgwal 48 (C) Leidseplein 26, terrace side / AUB ticket shop • Café de Jaren - Nieuwe Doelenstraat 20 (D) Noord-Zuid Hollandsch Koffiehuis (historic grand café), • Kapitein Zeppos - Gebed Zonder End 5 (E) Stationsplein 10 (Central Station) • De Brakke Grond - Nes 43 (F) Schiphol Airport, Holland Tourist Information, arrivals • Tram stop Spui (G) hall 2 • Rederij Kooij - Jetty for canal tour – opposite Spuistraat 44, specialising in gay tourist information Rokin 125 (I) Stadhouderskade 550, opposite no 78 Take tram 16 or 24 to Central Station, stop at Spui, all For updated information and for making reservations addresses are within walking distance. for accommodation and excursions, please call 020 - 201 8800 or visit www.iamsterdam.com. GVB day-ticket for public transport If you wish to explore Amsterdam using public Restaurants transport, then the GVB (municipal transport You will find as many different restaurants as there authority) day-ticket is a great option. After you check are nationalities in Amsterdam. The best thing to do is in for the first time, you can take as many rides as you go and see for yourself but to give you some tips… wish on any of the GVB trams, buses and metro trains Near the hotel as well as the night buses without worrying about Go to Albert Cuypstraat and around, for instance transfer times. The tickets are available for 1, 2, 3 or 4 Burgermeester, Albert Cuypstraat 48, for the best days (valid for 24 to 96 hours). The staff at GVB gourmet burgers (also veggie!) Tickets & Info would be glad to give you more info Bazar, Albert Cuypstraat 182, for Middle Eastern about day-ticket options and other public transport delicacies options in Amsterdam. Ask them for the free “Public Near the university and other venues Transport Tourist Guide”, with everything you need to Go to the Zeedijk (street behind Nieuw Markt), for all know about public transport facilities in Amsterdam in sorts of oriental restaurant. six different languages as well as attractive discounts Jordaan for various Amsterdam highlights. The GVB Tickets & There are a lot of good restaurants in this picturesque Info desks are located at the following public part of Amsterdam, especially around transport stations: Egelantiersgracht and Westerstraat. • Central Station (railway station) And last but not least, try to avoid the tourist traps • Central Station metro station around de Dam (Dam square) For more information, go to www.gvb.nl. 3 F C E B D A 1 Tram line with stop Boat tour Canal Bus Canal Bike Museum boat, operated by Rederij Lovers P Parking location Parking location 1 Tram line with stop Museum Boat tour Theatre Canal Bus & Concert hall Canal Bike Police station Museum boat, operated Post oce by Rederij Lovers Tourist Information Oce P Parking location Legenda Tourist Information Oce Parking location Limited tourist information A - Eaysejet Hotel ± 300m 1 Tram line with stop Museum Market Boat tour Theatre Diamond B - Oudemanhuispoort & Concert hall polishing centre Canal Bus C - Bushuis/Oost-Indischhuis Police station Place of interest Canal Bike D - Café de Jaren Post oce Hospital Museum boat, operated E - Kapitein Zeppos by Rederij Lovers Tourist Information Oce Metro station P Parking location Tourist Information Oce F - De Brakke Grond Limited tourist information Parking location Market Museum Diamond Literature and Intervention Schedule Sunday, 10 June all day Arrival guests 17.00-19.00 Drinks at Café De Jaren Monday, 11 June Oudemanhuispoort room A0.09 9.00 Registration 9.15 Welcome 9.30 Keynote Sudeep Dasgupta Dissensual Configurations: The Politics of Literarity in a Cross-Medial Landscape 10.30 Coffee break 11.00 Session 1: The Politics and Aesthetics of Literary Intervention 12.30 Lunch Atrium 14.00 Session 2: Literary Intervention: Forms and Genres 16.00 Coffee break 16.30 Session 3: Literary Intervention: Authors and Intellectuals 18.00 End of sessions 19.00 Dinner Tuesday, 12 June Oudemanhuispoort room A0.09 9.30 Keynote Andrew Gibson: Contemporary Misanthropy and/as Ethics: The Provocation of Michel Houellebecq 10.30 Coffee break 11.00 Session 4: Transcultural Literature and Intervention 12.30 Lunch Atrium 16.00–18.00 Excursion Wednesday, 13 June Oudemanhuisp0ort room A0.09 9.30 Keynote Anneleen Masschelein The ”Residual Oeuvre” in the Humanities: Side-Track or Creative Necessity? 10.30 Coffee break 11.00 Session 5: Memories I 12.30 Lunch Atrium 14.00 Session 6: Futures 16.00 Coffee break 16.30 Session 7: Memories II 18.00 Drinks at Kapitein Zeppos Thursday, 14 June Bushuis room F 0.22 9.30 Session 8: Media of Intervention 10.30 Coffee break 11.00 Final Meeting 12.30 Lunch Atrium 14.00 Hermes Business Meeting 6 Programme for the panel sessions: Monday 11 June: The Politics and Aesthetics of Literary Intervention 11.00-12:30 Session 1: The Politics and Aesthetics of Literary Intervention Chair: Karen-Margrethe Simonsen • Elisa Ruiz Velasco Garcia, Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Writer, Activist, Prophet? • Tytti Rantanen, Between poetics and politics: Monique Wittig’s Les Guérillères and Le Corps Lesbien • Tereza Stejskalová, Agamben's Literary Paradigm 14:00-16:00 Session 2: Literary Intervention: Forms and Genres Chair: Beatrice Michaelis • Jennifer Ch. Müller, On the Interdependene of Literature and Society - Social Inequalities in Naturalist Drama • Salla Shhadeh, Literature and Truth: The Relevance of Analysing Plato • Matthias Somers, Rhetoric’s Relevance: The Modernists’ Ambivalent Relation to Rhetorical Expression 16:30-18:00 Session 3: Literary Intervention: Authors and Intellectuals Chair: t.b.a. • Isabel Dominguez, Presentativity against Individual Responsibility: The “Yugoslavian” Writer during the Balkan War • Vicente Lopez, The Response-ability of Intellectuals in the 21st Century • Carmen Van den Bergh, Italian young writers during the 1930s, between realism and experiment Tuesday 12 June: Transcultural Literature and Intervention 11:00-12:30 Session 4: Transcultural Literature and Intervention Chair: Susana Araujo • Agnes Broome, Can translated literature be made to succeed on the British market? • Alexander Matschi, The Persistent Relevance of Contemporary British Asian Fiction for the Renegotiation of Postcolonial Spatiality in Transcultural Contexts • Sara Vaghefian, Creativity and the Collapse of Opposition: Reading Arabic and French Texts Wednesday 13 June: Memories and Futures in Literary Intervention 11:00-12:30 Session 5: Memories I Chair: t.b.a. • Flávia Domingas Mendes Ba, The swords of the Carthaginians’ wives • Mathelinda Nabugodi, From Anarchy to Apathy: Political Satire in 1819, in 1948 and in 2011. • Daniela Silén , The Viking that shaped a nation: When poetry goes political 14:00-16:00 Session 6: Futures Chair: Pirjo Lyytikäinen • Gregers Andersen, Imaginaries about the Future: Global Warming in Literary Fiction • Ruud van den Beuken, Performing the Past, Staging the Future: Memory, Modernity, and (Inter)nationalist Identities at the Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928-1957 • Mikkel Birk Jespersen, Machiavelli’s utopian potentials With John Milton as an example 7 16:30-18:00 Session 7: Memories II Chair: t.b.a. • Sara Polak, Fictional Portrayals of Franklin D. Roosevelt as Public History – A Case Study • Radvan Markus, Connecting the Past and the Present: Literary Reflections of the 1798 Irish Rebellion and the Conflict in Northern Ireland • Tom Vandevelde, Listening Through Literature. Recapturing the Soundscapes of the Past. Thursday: Media of Intervention 11:00-12:30 Session 8: Media of Intervention Chair: Ellen Sapega • Judith Hofmann, How to Read an Animated Film –Animated Films as a Challenge