Reading Conrad with Beckett: Modernist Commonplaces in Critical Reception

Period Shapers in Literary History

Coordinating Committee for the Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages Series (CHLEL)

24 May 2018,

University of Antwerp

Hof van Liere – Prentenkabinet Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerpen

Program

Reading Conrad with Beckett: The Role of Modernist Commonplaces in Critical Reception

Yael Levin (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Chair: Vivian Liska

Beyond the Continuous and the Discrete. Metamorphosis as a Critical Pattern

Massimo Fusillo (University of L’Aquila) Chair: Vivian Liska

Coffeebreak

Keynote lecture

Towards a Research Agenda for Data-driven Approaches to Literary Periods

Christof Schöch (University of Trier) Chair: Dirk Van Hulle

Lunch

The Posthuman Moment in Modernism

Ruben Borg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Chair: Vivian Liska

Slavery as a Period Shaper: On the Way a Topic and a Book can change Periodization or the Understanding of Historicity
Karen-Margrethe Simonsen (Aarhus University)
Chair: Vivian Liska

Coffeebreak

Post-Romanticism, Or is There a Period in This (Hi)Story?

Galin Tihanov (Queen Mary University of London) Chair: Karen-Margrethe Simonsen

(Post)Modernism with Kafka

Vivian Liska (University of Antwerp) Chair: Karen-Margrethe Simonsen Dinner

ICLA-CHLEL Conference 2018