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Current Committee member Ivana Perica (Berlin) has co-organised a research workshop on “Literary Politics and Geopolitics” to take place in hybrid mode on 29-30 January 2026.

Details at CAPONEU & contact at caponeu@zfl-berlin.org

PROGRAMME

Thursday, 29 Jan 2026

12.00

• Zrinka Božić (University of Zagreb): Literary Cartography and Critical Geopolitics
• Mark Devenney (University of Brighton): Novel (Without) Borders: A Response to Schmitt’s Nomos of the Earth

13.30

• Korbinian Lindel (University of Koblenz): Geopolitics as an Aesthetic Principle – and as a Philological Approach?
• Lisa Katharina Schmitz (Johns Hopkins University): Unlearning Geopolitics: The Language of Global Order and the Potentialities of Literature

15.00

• Charlotte Woodford (University of Cambridge): Mapping German Modernities in Women’s Writings at the Start of the 20th Century
• Benjamin Kohlmann (University of Regensburg): The Novelists’ International vs Geopolitics? A Radical History of the Bildungsroman

16.30

• Natalya Bekhta (Tampere University): The Role of Literature in Absurd Times
• Louis Aubry (New York University): Writing and Unmaking the Geopolitical in Jean Genet’s A Captive In Love (Un captif amoureux)

17.30
Digital Get-together

Friday, 30 Jan 2026

12.00

• Nenad Ivić (University of Zagreb): Globalatinization: A Probe into Contemporary Cultural Style

13.00

• Ekaterina Vassilieva (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Political Fictionality and the Authorship of Power: Vladislav Surkov between Literature and Geopolitics
• Marina Sivak (Freie Universität Berlin): Mapping the Sublime: Travel Writing and the Geopolitics of the Soviet Pamirs

14.30

• Eliza Rose (University of North Carolina): John Berger’s Red Sketchbook: East-West Dialogism in A Painter of Our Time
• Fanny Wehner (ZfL): Mike Phillips’ A Shadow of Myself – Reading a Post-Cold War Thriller through an Afropean Lens

16.00

• Max Roehl (University of Tübingen): The Power of the Weak. Imperialism and Resistance in Anna Seghers’ Der Führer
• Anna Björk Einarsdóttir (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): Alejo Carpentier’s Novels of Revolution

17.00
Closing