Ivana Perica, current Committee member, is co-organising a workshop on “European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel”, to take place on April 25-26, 2024 in Berlin (Germany). This workshop is part of the European Union-sponsored Horizon Europe-project “The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe”. It will focus on the question of how center-periphery-dynamics are articulated in explicitly political terms by the political novel. The workshop aims to put special emphasis on examining Europe as a combined and uneven formation characterized by economic, social, cultural, and literary asymmetries. It invites investigations of the question of what formal and textual features are common, if not typical, of literary capitals (centers) on the one hand and margins and peripheries on the other, as well as the question of how literary centers and peripheries respond to political novels – and how these literary texts, their authors, publishers, and reading publics anticipate, react to, and interact with these responses.

Deadline for abstracts: 10 December 2023. Further details HERE.