Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
Dúbravská cesta , Bratislava
12 – 13 February 2020
PROGRAM
12 February 2020 (Wednesday)
8:30 – 9:00 REGISTRATION
9:00 – 9:30 CONFERENCE OPENING
OPENING LECTURE: CÉSAR DOMÍNGUEZ
Zones of Indistinction as Enclaves in the Mediterranean Literary Centrism
Moderator: Róbert Gáfrik
9:30 – 9:50 CHARLES SABATOS
The Danube as a Transnational Framework for European Literature
9:50 – 10:10 MARINA JANJIĆ
National Literature as a Way
of Preserving Identity the Serbian Diaspora in the Global
World
10:10 – 10:30 DISCUSSION
10:30 – 10:50 SHORT BREAK
10:50 – 11:10 DANIJELA KOSTADINOVIĆ
Narrative Discourse of the Breakup
of Yugoslavia, Identity and Globalization Crises in
Contemporary
Macedonian Prose: The
Navel of the World by
Venko Andonovski, The
Roots of Life and the Roots of Death
by Metodi Manev and A Spare
Life by Lidija
Dimkovska
11:10 – 11:30 ADRIANA RADUCANU
Myth, Literature, and History in Ismail Kadareʼs House of Beautiful
11:30 – 11:50 BÜKE SAĞLAM
Symbolic Selves: Understanding the Role of the National Identities in Laurent Binetʼs HHhH
11:50 – 12:10 DISCUSSION
12:10 – 13:30 LUNCH BREAK
Moderator: Miloš Zelenka
13:30 – 13:50 MATEUSZ CHMURSKI
Utopia, Retrotopia (and beyond?): Central Europe as Revisited by Olga Tokarczuk
13:50 – 14:10 ANTON POKRIVČÁK
National Stereotypes in Thomas Bellʼs Out of This Furnace
14:10 – 14:30 DISCUSSION
14:30 – 15:30 ČSAPLV ASSEMBLY MEETING
15:30 SOCIAL EVENT
PROGRAM
13 February 2020 (Thursday)
Moderator: Mária Bátorová
9:00 – 9:20 RÓBERT GÁFRIK
The Trouble with World Literature
9:20 – 9:40 MILOŠ ZELENKA
Theory of Cultural Inheritance and Literary Memory between the National and Postnational
9:40 – 10:00 ALEXEJ MIKULÁŠEK
A few Notes Regarding the Term Jewish Literature
10:00 – 10:20 DISCUSSION
10:20 – 10:40 SHORT BREAK
10:40 – 11:00 IVAN ŠUŠA – PATRIZIA PRANDO
(Trans)national Aspects of the Italian Memoir in the Context of the Holocaust
11:00 – 11:20 ANNA ZELENKOVÁ – SILVIA POKRIVČÁKOVÁ
Some Comparatist Notes on the Categories of “the National” vs. “the World”,
“the Historical” vs. “the Present”, “Oneʼs Own” vs. “Foreign”
11:20 – 11:40 KATARÍNA ZECHELOVÁ
The Ideal Confronts Reality. Multiculturalism versus Patriotism in the Works of the Austrian Writers Stefan Zweig and Ewa Rossmann.
11:40 – 12:00 DISCUSSION
12:00 – 13:30 LUNCH BREAK
Moderator: Alexej Mikulášek
13:30 – 13:50 PETR KUČERA
German Characters in the Prose of Contemporary Female Czech Authors
13:50 – 14:10 ZVONKO TANESKI
The Artistic Translation as Evidence of the Transcultural Turn – Migration versus Integration; The Presence of Southern Slavic Writers in Slovak Culture after 1989
14:10 – 14:30 RENÁTA BOJNIČANOVÁ
Contemporary Forms of the Slovak Historical Novel as Symptoms of an Effort to Build a Postnational Consciousness
14:30 – 14:50 MÁRIA BÁTOROVÁ
National and Transnational Aspects of Slovak Literary Modernism
14:50 – 15:30 DISCUSSION
15:30 CONCLUDING REMARKS