Hermes Consortium for Literary & Cultural Studies
International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen
Travelling Concepts, Metaphors, and Narratives: Literary and Cultural Studies in an
Age of Interdisciplinary Research
Rauischholzhausen Castle, University of Giessen (Germany)
June 13-19, 2010
SUNDAY, 13 JUNE 2010 (RAUISCHHOLZHAUSEN CASTLE)
17.00
Shuttle leaves Giessen main station
17.45
18.30
Arrival at Rauischholzhausen Castle
Reception & dinner
MONDAY, 14 JUNE 2010 (RAUISCHHOLZHAUSEN CASTLE)
from 7:30 Breakfast
9.00
Welcome
9.15
Keynote: Travelling Concepts, Metaphors and Narratives. On the Complexity,
Risks and Chances of Conceptual Transfers (Wolfgang Hallet & Ansgar
Nünning)
10.00
10.30
11.00
12.30
Discussion
Coffee break
Session 1: Aesthetic Stability and Literary Unreliability (chair: Karen M.
Simonsen)
1. Poul Bjergegaard (Aarhus): “Authority, Knowledge, Fiction, and the
Question of Aesthetic Stability”
2. Robert Vogt (GCSC): “What is True After All? The Concept of Narrative
Unreliability in Literary Studies and Film Studies”
Lunch
14.00
16.00
16.30
18.00
18.30
20.00
Session 2: Space and Time as Travelling Concepts (chair: Jan Baetens)
3. Astrid Bryder Steffensen (Aarhus): “Space as Intermedium: A
Transhistorical Perspective on the Concept of Space”
4. Jessica R. Boll (Wisconsin-Madison): “A Tale of Two Cities: The Image of
Urban Space in Early Modern Spain and the Ottoman Empire”
5. Nina Lange (GCSC): “Time as Travelling Concept”
Coffee break
Session 3: Monstrous Metaphors and Mobility (chair: Ansgar Nünning)
6. Tanja Poulsen (Aarhus): “The Monster as Metaphor”
7. Lisa Villarreal (Stanford): “Dead Man Walking: Bram Stoker’s Dracula and
the Monstrous Form of Nineteenth-Century Mobility”
End of sessions
Dinner
Screening of Hans Christian Schmid’s Lichter
TUESDAY, 15 JUNE 2010 (RAUISCHHOLZHAUSEN CASTLE)
from 7:30 Breakfast
9.00
Session 4: Narratological Concepts (chair: tba)
8. Jonas Ivo Meyer (GCSC): “Export and Reimport: The ‘Travels’ of
Narratological Concepts”
10.30
11.00
12.30
14.00
16.00
16.30
9. Greice Schneider (Leuven): “The Dynamics of Boredom in the Narrative
Tissue”
Coffee break
Session 5: Hearing Voices & Speaking Silence: Travelling Senses (chair: Ellen
Sapega)
10. Thomas Bjørnsten Kristensen (Aarhus): “Intermedial Silences and
Pervasive Noises“
11. Steven Surdiacourt (Leuven): “Can You Hear Me Drawing? ‘Voice’ and
the Graphic Novel”
Lunch
Session 6: Concepts of Self and Identity (chair: Sibylle Baumbach )
12. Georgia Panteli (UCL): “Travelling Archetype”
13. Netta Nakari (Finnish Grad School): “‘Writing about the Self Through
Time and Discipline”
14. Karolina May-Chu (Wisconsin-Madison): “Identity at the Border:
Imagining the East in Hans Christian Schmid’s Film Lichter”
Coffee break
Session 7: Morality, Historiography and Literature (chair: Pirjo Lyytikäinen)
15. Nuno Gomes Ferreira (Lisbon): “Narrative as Moral Commitment: from
Theory of History to Literature”
18.00
18.30
16. Lynn Wolff (Wisconsin-Madison): “Historiography and Literary
Discourse: The Diachronic Journey of a Co-Dependence”
End of sessions
Dinner
WEDNESDAY, 16 JUNE 2010 – SYMPOSIUM DAY (HUMBOLDT-GUESTHOUSE, JLU)
from 7:30 Breakfast
9.00
Shuttle-bus leaves Rauischholzhausen
10.00
10.30
11.30
12.30
14.00
Symposium starts (Alexander von Humboldt Guesthouse, JLU)
B. Venkat Mani (Wisconsin-Madison): “Travelling Books: World Literatures
and Bibliomigrancy”
Herbert Grabes (JLU): “Emergence as Travelling Concept”
16.00
Lunch
Anneleen Masschelein (Leuven): Conceptualization and Heterogeneity: The
Uncanny Encounter of Humanities, Robotics and the Return of Animism
Peter Haslinger (Herder Institute/JLU): “Shifting spaces – Hanging Concepts
of Territory in Historiography and Critical Geography”
Guided tour Giessen (Vera Stadelmann)
18.00
19.00
Shuttle to Rauischholzhausen Castle
Dinner
15.00
THURSDAY, 17 JUNE 2010 (RAUISCHHOLZHAUSEN CASTLE)
from 7:30 Breakfast
9.00
Session 8: Concepts of Liberalism and Experientiality (chair: César
Dominguez)
17. Frederick Van Dam (Leuven): “The Concept of Liberalism in Victorian
Studies: Anthony Trollope and the Casualties of Aesthetic Ideology”
10.30
11.00
12.30
18. Christina Mohr (GCSC): “The Feeling of What It’s Like – Experientiality
as a Travelling Concept”
Coffee break
Session 9: Intersectionality (chair: Beatrice Michaelis)
19. Duarte Drumond Braga (Lisbon): “Fernando Pessoa’s Orientalism and the
‘mystic East’ of Theosophical Literature”
20. Thibaut Raboin (UCL): “LGBT Asylum Seekers in French and British
Public Spheres: Studying the Emergence of a ‘Social Problem’”
Lunch
14.00
Master Classes (parallel sessions)
14.00
18.30
1. “Travelling Concepts as a Model for the Study of Culture” (Birgit Neumann)
2. “Travelling Concepts of Authorship in Literature, Culture, and the Digital
Humanities” (Ingo Berensmeyer)
In-between (16.00-16.30): coffee break
Hermes-Consortium: Business Meeting
Dinner
FRIDAY, 18 JUNE 2010 (RAUISCHHOLZHAUSEN CASTLE)
from 7:30 Breakfast
9.00
Session 10: Lost in Translation? (chair: Sibylle Baumbach)
21. Tuomas Juntunen (Finnish Grad School): “Manifestations of the Tragic in
Juha Seppälä’s Fiction“
11.00
11.30
12.30
15.00
16.00
22. Djurdja Trajkovic (Wisconsin-Madison): “Lost in Translation: Cartonera
Publishers in Latin America”
Coffee break
Final discussion
Bus leaves for Heidelberg
Arrival & check-in
Heidelberg & Heidelberg University guided tour (Vera Stadelmann)
19.30
Final conference dinner, Kulturbrauerei Heidelberg
SATURDAY, 19 JUNE 2010 (HEIDELBERG)
Individual departure of participants