19-20.5: "Dislocating Literature. Transnational Literature and the Directions of Literary Studies in the Baltic Sea Region"

[Jenny Willner]

International Symposium:

DISLOCATING LITERATURE. Transnational Literature and the Directions of
Literary Studies in the Baltic Sea Region.

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May 19th-20th 2011, Södertörn University campus (building: Moas båge)
Huddinge (by Stockholm), Sweden
www.sh.se/dislocatingliterature
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In the international debate over the last decades, scholars of postcolonial
literature have most often examined the issue of comparison in relation to
history and context. How does literary criticism in the Baltic Sea Region
relate to these debates? The symposium gathers international scholars to
discuss literature that deals with geographical as well as conceptual border
crossings. Some of the invited speakers work in the Baltic Sea region,
others will arrive from Siberia or from the United States. Transnational and
transregional literary studies are bound to challenge the idea of cultures,
languages and philologies as closed entities. How does this affect the whole
concept of comparative literature? What happens when we focus on the aspect
of trauma and dislocation in the literature of the Baltic Sea region?

While many young literature scholars are already affiliated with, or funded
by broad, interdisciplinary research projects, our aim is to create a
network to reflect and enlarge upon literature studies as a particular
discipline. We are still in need of a specialized theoretical and
methodological debate - against the background of current developments in
academia.
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P  R  O  G  R  A  M

Thursday May 19th, Room MB503
 
17.00–17.30:
Opening. Introduction by the CBEES and the organizers
Markus Huss (Södertörn, Sweden), Kaisa Kaakinen (Cornell, USA) and Jenny
Willner (FU Berlin/LMU München)

17.30–18.00:
Kaisa Kaakinen (Cornell University)
"Comparison and Context in Transnational Literary Studies – Recent Debates,
Baltic Relations"

18.00–19.00:
Keynote: Sven Rücker (Berlin)
"Transgression and the Sea"


19.00:
Reception


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Friday May 20, Room MA 331

MYTH SESSION

09.00–09.30:
Eneken Laanes (Tallinn)
"Walter Scott's protagonists in the Estonian 19th-century historical novelette"

09.30–10.00:
Kenneth Knoespel (Georgia Tech, USA)
"Günter Grass and the Pirates: The Stuff of Myth and the Baltic Sea"

10.00-10.30: Discussion

10.30–10.45: Coffee

 
BORDER SESSION

10.45–11.15:
Jakob Norberg (Duke University, USA)
"The Socialist Shoreline"

11.15–11.45:
Pia Wojciechowski (Greisfwald, Germany)
"Literary (Re-)Constructions of Borderlands in Polish Literature after 1989:
Inga Iwasióws novel Bambino"

11.45–12.15:
Discussion


12.15–13.30:
Lunch Break
 
DISLOCATION AND MINORITY SESSION

13.30–14.00:
Vsevolod Bashkuev (Ulan-Ude, Russia)
"Dislocation Trauma in the Folklore of Lithuanian Deportees in East Siberia,
1940s-1960s"
 
14.00–14.30:
Taisija Laukkonen (Vilnius, Lithuania)
"Poetic Strategies on the Borderland of Literary Fields: The Сase of Russian
Authors in Lithuania"

14.30–15.00:
Discussion

15.00–15.15:
Coffee


SOUND SESSION:

15.15–15.45:
Markus Huss (Södertörn, Sweden)
"The Linguistic Outlaw. On Peter Weiss’ Return to German as Literary
Language in Sweden"

15.45–16.15:
Hannah Lutz (Åbo, Finland)
"Listening for Other Languages. Cia Rinne and the Soundpoetic Event"

16.15–16.45:
Discussion
 

16.45–18.00:
PANEL DISCUSSION - FINAL DISCUSSION
Chaired by Jenny Willner (Berlin/München)

Aris Fioretos (Södertörn, Sweden)
Sheila Ghose (Södertörn, Sweden)
Eneken Laanes (Tallinn, Estonia)
Stefan Jonsson (Södertörn, Sweden)


19.30: Symposium dinner in downtown Stockholm


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The symposium is for free. Please let us know by May 13th if you would like
to attend: dislocatingliterature at sh.se

Organized within the research theme "Cultural Theory", Centre for Baltic and
Eastern European Studies (CBEES) at Södertörn University. Co-funded by
NordForsk, Svenska Institutet, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Organization: Markus Huss, Kaisa Kaakinen, Jenny Willner.

http://www.sh.se/dislocatingliterature

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