Centrul de Excelenţă pentru
Studiul Identităţii Culturale
LITERATURE AND THE LONG MODERNITY
International Interdisciplinary Conference
Central University Library
Bucharest, 10-12 November, 2011
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
THURSDAY, 10 November, 2011
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UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
Senate Hall
Doctor honoris causa Ceremony in honour of
9:30-11:00
Prof. LINDA HUTCHEON
(University of Toronto)
CENTRAL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
12:00-13:00
BUFFET LUNCH
Aula
Opening Ceremony
13:00-13:15
Ioan Pânzaru, Rector, Universitatea din Bucureşti
Horia-Roman Patapievici, President, Institutul Cultural Român
Mireille Carmen Rădoi, General Director, Biblioteca Centrală Universitară
Plenary 1
13:15-14:15
Chair: Mihaela Irimia
(Universitatea din Bucureşti)
Keynote Address
PAT ROGERS
(University of South Florida)
Modernity Then and Now
Aula
Council Hall
Session 1
Session 2
14:15-15:00
Chair: Mădălina Nicolaescu
(Universitatea din Bucureşti)
Chair: Sorana Corneanu
(Universitatea din Bucureşti)
Keynote
Charles Moseley
Keynote
Francis O’Gorman
(Cambridge)
Forging the Key of Remembrance
15:00-15:30
15:30 -16:00
16:00-16:30
( University of Manchester)
An Alternative to Whig Modernity: An Analysis of Britain in the
Long Eighteenth Century
COFFEE BREAK
1
4
Stefan Herbrechter
Petruţa Năiduţ
(Coventry University)
(Universitatea din Bucureşti)
Shakespeare - Early, Late and Posthumanist
Spectres of the Old World in the New
2
5
Mădălina Nicolaescu
Flavio Gregori
(Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia)
Modern Crises: Stability & Instability in the Long Modernity - the
Exemplary Case of the South Sea Bubble
(Universitatea din Bucureşti)
Multilingual Shakespeare in 19th-Century Transylvania
3
16:30-17:00
6
Małgorzata Grzegorzewska
(Uniwersytet Warszawski)
Pictures Like a Summer Cloud: The Phenomenology of the Visual in
Shakespeare’s Plays and on the Stages of Contemporary Theatre
17:00-17:30
Shobhana Bhattacharji
(Jesus and Mary College, New Delhi)
Modernity during the Long Romanticism: The Case of Byron
COFFEE BREAK
Aula
Plenary 2
Chair: Eve Patten
(Trinity College, Dublin)
17:30-18:15
Andrew Sanders
(Durham University)
What Was and Is Modernity in Literature?
18:15-19:00
Jürgen Pieters
(Universiteit Gent)
Hopeful Fictions: Literature and the Long Search for Modernity
19:00-19:30
Debates
FRIDAY, 11 November, 2011
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TIME
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UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
Senate Hall
Doctor honoris causa Ceremony in honour of
9:30-11:00
Prof. PAT ROGERS
(University of South Florida)
CENTRAL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
12:00-13:00
BUFFET LUNCH
Aula
Plenary 3
13:00-14:00
Chair: Flavio Gregori
(Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia)
Keynote Address
LINDA HUTCHEON
(University of Toronto)
Literature in the Long Modernity: Its Reception in the Digital Age
Aula
Council Hall
Session 3
Session 4
Chair: Małgorzata Grzegorzewska
(Uniwersytet Warszawski)
Chair: Christoph Ehland
(Universität Paderborn )
14:00-14:45
Keynote
Thomas Docherty
(Warwick University)
'Now; or, To tell the truth, the Contemporary'
Keynote
Herbert Grabes
(Universität Giessen)
The Four Radical Modernizations in the Long Modernity
14:45-15:15
15:15 -15:45
COFFEE BREAK
7
11
Sorana Corneanu
Ivan Callus
(L-Università ta’ Malta)
Towards a Posthumanist Politics: Blanchot and Long Modernity
(Universitatea din Bucureşti)
Francis Bacon and the Epistemology of the Imagination
15:45-16:15
8
12
Christoph Ehland
(Universität Paderborn )
Pirates and Mariners as Agents of Modernity: Movement and Mobility
on the Early Modern Stage
Ludmila Volná
(Univerzita Karlova Praha
IMAGER Université Paris XII)
Towards Indian Modernity and the Birth of Indian Writing in English:
The Case of Ram Mohan Roy
9
16:15-16:45
16:45-17:15
17:15-17:45
13
Isabel Oliveira Martins
Arleen Ionescu
(Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
(Universitatea Petrol şi Gaze, Ploieşti)
Marianne Baillie’s view of Portugal or Female Britishness Abroad
Hauntologies of Post-Joycean Modernity in Ro literature
10
14
Michael Hutcheon
Adrian Oţoiu
(University of Toronto)
(Universitatea de Nord, Baia Mare)
The Untimely Modernism of Olivier Messiaen
In the Wake of Finnegan? Wordplay, Puncepts and Spectral Sightings
in Flann O'Brien and Malcom Lowry
COFFEE BREAK
Aula
Plenary 4
Chair: Hans-Peter Söder
17:45-18:15
Alan Riach
( University of Glasgow)
Scottish Literature and Anglo-American Modernity: What Makes It New?
18:15-19:00
Eve Patten
(Trinity College, Dublin)
Reading Culture and Irish Literary History: Challenging the National Paradigm
19:00-19:30
Debates
SATURDAY, 12 November, 2011
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CENTRAL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
Aula
Plenary 5
Chair: Ivan Callus
(L-Università ta’ Malta)
10:00-10:45
Michael McKeon
(Rutgers)
Virtuality: the 17th- and 18th-Century Origins of a Modern Phenomenon
10:45-11:30
Clifford Siskin
(NYU)
The Business of Literary Studies: Clubs, Culture, and the Case for Mediation
11:30-12:00
COFFEE BREAK
Aula
Plenary 6
Chair: Thomas Docherty
(Warwick University)
12:00-12:45
Laurent Milesi
(Cardiff University)
Speeds of Modernity
12:45-13:15
Hans-Peter Söder
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
The Globe is not Enough: In Defense of National Literatures
13:15-13:45
Aula
Debates
14:45-15:00
Mihaela Irimia
Director
Centre of Excellence for the Study of Cultural Identity
Closing Note