An updated programme of the workshop “European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel”, co-organised by the current Committee member Ivana Perica, is now ONLINE. The workshop, which is part of the Horizon Europe-project “The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe” (CAPONEU), will include a presentation by another Committee member, Natalya Bekhta, and will take place in at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (Berlin), 6-7 June 2024.

Programme:

Thursday, 6 Jun 2024

13.00

• Welcome & Introduction
• Alina Bako (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu/Romania): Spatial representations and circulation of political ideas. The case of the Romanian novel
  Respondent: Paul Stewart (University of Nicosia/Cyprus)
• Charles Sabatos (Yeditepe University/Turkey): Reimagining Political Peripheries in Pišťanek’s and Boldizar’s Siberian Slovakia
  Respondent: Nina Weller (ZfL)

15.15

• Mónika Dánél (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest/Hungary): Multilingual Minority: Poetical Decomposition of the Embodied Dictatorial Legacy (Andrea Tompa’s The Hangman’s House, 2010)
  Respondent: Philipp Wegmann (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Germany)
• Alexandra Irimia (University of Bonn/Germany): Bureaucracies of Memory. Institutionalized History in Four Contemporary European Novels
  Respondent: Stephen Shapiro (University of Warwick/United Kingdom)

17.15

• Discussion of text excerpts
  (Closed session for workshop participants only)

Friday, 7 Jun 2024

9.00

• Brînduşa Nicolaescu (Bucharest University/Romania): A Political Novel between the Periphery and the Center: The Black Envelope by Norman Manea (1986/1995)
  Respondent: Natalya Bekhta (Tampere Institute for Advanced Study/Finland) [Online]
• Stefan Segi (Czech Academy of Sciences Prague/Czech Republic): A Kidnapped East. The Tragedy of Western Europe from the perspective of a Czech populist novelist
  Respondent: Błażej Warkocki (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań/Poland)

11.00

• Discussion of text excerpts
  (Closed session for workshop participants only)

12.30

• Final discussion