LITHUANIAN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ASSOCIATION
THE CONGRESS OF THE EUROPEAN NETWORK OF COMPARATIVE STUDIES
(REELC-ENCLS)
TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN LANDSCAPE:
ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN THE SELF AND THE OTHER
September 11–13, 2009Vilnius, Lithuania
SEPTEMBER 11, FRIDAY
8.00–9.00 REGISTRATION OF THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE CONGRESS (floor I, foyer)
9.00–10.00 OPENING CEREMONY
Welcome words of Nijolė Kašelionienė, Chairperson of the Lithuanian Association of Comparative Literature and Lucia Boldrini, General Coordinator of the REELC/ENCLS
10.00–12.00 FIRST PLENARY SESSION (room A7, floor I)
Chairperson: Prof. Liutauras Degėsys
10.00–10.30 Jüri Talvet (University of Tartu, Estonia). Western Humanism and the “Other”.
10.00–10.30Liutauras Degėsys (Vilnius Pedagogical University, Lithuania). The Conflicts of Cultures and the Culture of Conflicts.
10.30–11.00Alain Montandon (CELIS, MSH Clermont-Fd, France). Progrès techniques et metamorphoses des espaces européens au XIXe siècle.
11.00–11.30DISCUSSION
11.30–13.00 LUNCH BREAK
13.00–17.30 WORKING GROUPS
I.PROBLEMS OF METHODOLOGY (room 222 , floor II)
Chairpersons: Dr. Lucia Boldrini, Prof. Aušra Jurgutienė
13.00–13.20 Roumiana L. Stantcheva (Sofia University, Bulgaria). “European Literature” – Use of the Concept and problems of Identity.
13.20–13.40 Aušra Jurgutienė (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Lithuania). The Outlook for Regional Literary History.
13.40–14.00 Lucia Boldrini (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK). Mental Landscapes, Places of Exile: Literary Constructions of the Past and European Comparatism.
14.00–14.20 Sandra Vlasta (University of Vienna, Austria). The Creation of “Global Ethnoscapes” in Literature of Migration.
14.20–14.40 Slavica Srbinovska (Ss Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia). Interpretation, Subject, Culture and Migration.
14.40–15.10 DISCUSSION
15.10–15.30 COFFEE BREAK
II. LITERARY AND VISUAL TRAVELOGUES (room 300, floor II)
Chairpersons: Prof. Isabel Cristina do Valle Lages Trabucho, Assoc. Prof.Kai Mikkonen
15.30–15.50 Maija Burima (Daugavpils University, Latvia). Narratives of Travel in Latvian Literature of the Early 21st Century.
15.50–16.10 Anneli Kõvamees (Tallinn University, Estonia). Border State Traveller in Europe.
16.10–16.30 Kai Mikkonen (University of Helsinki, Finland). The Immediacy of Reading Novels. André Gide’s Travel fact and Fiction.
16.30–16.50 Isabel Cristina do Valle Lages Trabucho (Universidade Aberta, Portugal). Chronicles of the XIXth Century – Paris and London the Big Capitals of the World.
16.50–17.10 Lúcia Maria Pinto Loureiro (University of Minho, Braga, Portugal). Indigenous Otherness: The Depiction of the Irish Traveller Community in Literature.
17.10–17.30 DISCUSSION
III. THE CHANGING CULTURAL MAP OF EUROPE (room 302, floor III)
Chairpersons: Prof. Rennie Yotova, Assoc. Prof. Genovaitė Dručkutė
13.00–13.20Maria Teresa Nascimento (Université de Madère, Portugal). L’Itinéraire de la Terre Sainte de Fr. Pantaleão de Aveiro – un voyage de spiritualité.
13,20–13.40Genovaitė Dručkutė (Vilnius University, Lithuania). La carte de l’Europe d’après Oscar Milosz.
13.40–14.00 Rennie Yotova (University of Sofia, Bulgaria). Les objets du socialisme et leur représentation littéraire.
14.00–14.20Raia Zaimova (Institute for Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria). Rattraper l’Europe dans la recherché de soi-même?
14.20–14.40 Olga Romanova (Institute of Literature, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Ukraine) La perception de l'Ukraine de la première moitié de XX siècle dans les romans de Roman Rijka, Vasyl Barka et Mikhaïl Boulgakov.
14.40–15.10 DISCUSSION
15.10–15.30 COFFEE BREAK
IV. A MUSEUM OF EUROPEAN IMAGES (room 306, floor III)
Chairpersons: Prof. Vytautas Martinkus, Prof. Benedikts Kalnačs
15.30–15.50 Benedikts Kalnačs (Liepaja University; Institute of Literature, Folklore and Arts, University of Latvia, Latvia). National History, Folklore and the Bible as Sources of the Baltic Modernist Drama.
15.50–16.10 FrancescoGiusti (University of Roma, Italy). Encountering the Other in the Middle Ages: from Ibn Fadlan’s account to Michael Crichton’s Fiction.
16.10–16.30 James Patrick Randall (Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK). Re-imagining Europe from the Outside: a reading of two US novels set in the US-European frontier in the late twentieth century.
16.30–16.50 Vytautas Martinkus (Vilnius Pedagogical University, Lithuania). An Axiological Labyrinth in the European Literature of XXI Century.
16.50–17.10 Brigitte Le Juez (Dublin City University, Ireland). De Banville à Banville: le développement littéraire de la représentation picturale du mythe de Cythère.
17.10–17.30 DISCUSSION
V. RHETORIC OF IDENTITY (room 310, floor III)
Chairpersons: Prof. Christina Parnell, PhD Dan Landmark
13.00–13.20 Jola J. Skulj (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia). Mapping Cultural Existence and its Dialogic Identity: The Mediterranean Facets in Slovenian Literature.
13.20–13.40 Dan Landmark (Malardalen University, Sweden). An Extrovert Self: the Concept of “I” in the Autobiographical Prose-Writings of Czeslaw Milosz.
13.40–14.00 Christina Parnell (Erfurt University, Germany). “The world repeats melancholically”. Exchangeable Identities in Marius Ivaškevičius’ Oeuvre.
14.00–14.20 Laura Fernanda Bulger (Universidade De Trás-os-Montes E Alto Douro, Portugal). Out of the Remains of an Old World – the British at War in Novels by Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan.
14.20–14.40 Bernadette Cibulskas (University of Bristol, UK). Beyond These Gates: A Search for Self and Others.
14.40–15.10 DISCUSSION
15.10–15.30 COFFEE BREAK
VI. ASPECTS OF INTERMEDIALITY (room 305, floor III)
Chairpersons: Assoc. Prof. Loreta Mačianskaitė, Prof. Beata Waligorska-Olejniczak
15.30–16.00Beata Waligorska-Olejniczak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland). The Category of Montage as the Tool to Understand the Grammar of the City in Postmodern Cinema. Representation of the Changing World in Pulp Fiction.
16.00–16.30 Marina Grishakova (University of Tartu, Estonia). Boderland Spaces of Contemporary Europe: Cinematographic Representations.
16.30–17.00 Sonja Koroliov (University of Halle, Wittenberg, Germany). Balkan Odysseys: Homecomings, Adventure Trips and Journeys to the Self in Films about former Yugoslavia.
17.00–17.30 DISCUSSION
17.30–18.30 GENERAL MEETING OF THE REELC-ENCLS.
18.30 – WELCOME PARTY
SEPTEMBER 12, SATURDAY
9.00–11.00 SECOND PLENARY SESSION (room A7, floor I)
Chairperson: Assoc. Prof. Nijolė Vaičiulėnaitė-Kašelionienė
9.00–9.30Viktorija Daujotytė-Pakerienė (Vilnius University, Lithuania). The Landscape of Lithuanian Poetry: Strazdas, Baranauskas, Geda (archetypes and universalities).
9.30–10.00 Nijolė Vaičiulėnaitė-Kašelionienė (Vilnius Pedagogical University, Lithuania). La perspective d’imagologie dans les recherches de la géographie littéraire. L’image de Paris dans la littérature lituanienne.
10.00–10.30 Manfred Schmeling (France). De l’humanisme au post-humanisme: Le discours sur l”Europe chez Thomas Mann, André Gide et Hans-Magnus Enzensberger.
10.30–11.00DISCUSSION
11.00–13.00 LUNCH BREAK
13.00–18.30 WORKING GROUPS
I. CENTRE/PERIPHERY AS A CHALLENGE (room 222, floor II)
Chairpersons: Prof. Andrew John Ginger, Prof. Sonja Stojmenska-Elzeser
13.00–13.20 Franck Hofmann (Free Berlin University, Germany). Dynamic landscape as Symbolic Form European Citizenship and the Transformation of Cultural Space.
13.20–13.40 Carme Fernández Pérez-Sanjulián (Universidade da Coruña, Spain). Building Spaces of Identity through Travel Books in Galician Literature.
13.40–14.00 Andrew John Ginger (University of Stirling, UK). Turning Points in Large-Power Conflict and the Experience of ‘Peripheral’ Cultures: the Case of Modern Spain.
14.00–14.20 Sonja Stojmenska-Elzeser (Institute of Macedonia Literature, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Macedonia). The Urban Landscape in Macedonia Literature in the Context of the Centre–Periphery Discussion.
14.20–14.40 Robin Malcolm James MacKenzie (University of St Andrews, Scotland). Avatars of Rome: Centre and Periphery in Norfolk’s The Pope’s Rhinoceros and Ransmayr’s Die letzte Welt.
14.40–15.00 Michael Pyper (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland). The Don Quixote of the Periphery? Mimesis and Madness in Cervantes and Kafka.
15.00–15.30 DISCUSSION
15.30–16.00 COFFEE BREAK
II. LITERARY AND VISUAL TRAVELOGUES (room 300, floor III)
Chairpersons: Assoc. Prof. Sigutė Radzevičienė, Prof. Roland Lysell
16.00–16.20 Roland Lysell (Stockholm University, Sweden). ”Tysk hösk” (German autumn) – The Swedish Author Stig Dagerman’s Journalism on Germany immediately after World war II.
16.20–16.40 Sigutė Radzevičienė (Vilnius Pedagogical University, Lithuania). The Travels of Lithuanians from Scandinavia: in Search of the Stranger.
16.40–17.00 Nana Gaprindashvili, Nino Tsereteli (Tbilisi State University, Georgia). A Few Aspects of Developing Georgian–Lithuanian Literary Relations.
17.00–17.20 Oksana Weretiuk (Rzeszow University, Poland). Between the Center and the Periphery: the Past and the Present of the Literature of Polish-Ukrainian Borderland.
17.20–17.40 Dalia Staponkutė (University of Cyprus, Cyprus). Globalization and Translation of Culture in Travelogues of Alphonso Lingis.
17.40–18.00Călina Nicoleta (University of Craiova, Romania). A Journey in Search of the Self: Alessandro Baricco – Novecento.
18.00–18.30 DISCUSSION
III. A MUSEUM OF EUROPEAN IMAGES (room 302, floor III)
Chairpersons: PhD Laurynas Katkus, Assoc. Prof. David Adams
13.00–13.20 Anneli Mihkelev (Under and Tuglas Literature Centre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Estonia). The Myths in National Epics, the Myths in Society.
13.20–13.40 Alizera Anushiravani (Shiraz University, Iran). European and Persian Images of the Dragon: Comparative Folklore Studies.
13.40–14.00 Nina Bochkareva (Perm State University). Vasilij Kamenskij and Aubrey Beardsley: vulgar Russia versus refined Britain.
14.00–14.20 David Adams (Ohio State University). Modern paranoia and Kafka’s “Der Bau”.
14.20–14.40 Zanda Gutmane (Liepaja University; Institute of Literature, Folklore and Arts, Latvia). The Borderline Situation and the Border crossing in the Baltic Prose at the turn of 90’s.
14.40–15.00 Laurynas Katkus (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania). Grotesque and Utopia in the Literature of Central and Eastern Europe of the Soviet Period.
15.00–15.30 DISCUSSION
15.30–16.00 COFFEE BREAK
IV. RHETORIC OF IDENTITY (room 306, floor III)
Chairpersons: PhD Gintarė Bernotienė, Assoc. Prof. Dainius Vaitiekūnas
16.00–16.20 Dainius Vaitiekūnas (Vilnius Pedagogical University, Lithuania). Identité européenne dans la poésie contemporaine lituanienne.
16.20–16.40Dalia Kuizinienė (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania). Reflection of Identity in Contemporary Lithuanian Prose: between Losses and Discoveries.
16.40–17.00 Laura Laurušaitė (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Lithuania). The Baltic Exodus: Aspects of Intercultural.
17.00–17.20 Livija Mačaitytė (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania). The 21st Century Pastorale: The Displaced Persons in Contemporary Prose.
17.20–17.40 Dagnė Beržaitė (Vilnius University, Lithuania). The OtherDostoyevsky or a Glance from another Space and Time.
17.40–18.00 Gintarė Bernotienė (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Lithuania).Cultural landscapes: L. Gutauskas' „Glowing Bodies“ and S. J. Perce „Anabasis“.
18.00–18.30 DISCUSSION
V. “WOMEN’S PLACES, WOMEN’S SPACES” (room 310, floor III)
Chairpersons: Eglė Kačkutė, PhD Solveiga Daugirdaitė
13.00–13.20 Dearbhla McGrath (Dublin City University, Ireland). Changing Attitudes Towards Gender in Europe – A Comparative Analysis of Fairy Tales Written by Women.
13.20–13.40 Eva Eglāja-Kristsone (Latvia). “Self-made” European Woman in Baltic Literatures.
13.40–14.00 Eglė Kačkutė (Vilnius University, Lithuania). National Identity and Cultural Un/Belonging: M. NDiaye and A.L.Kennedy.
14.00–14.20 Žydronė Kolevinskienė (Vilnius Pedagogical University, Lithuania). Encounters Between the Self and the Other: The Diasporic Identity in Women‘s prose (Monica Ali „Brick Lane“ and Irene Guilford „The Embrace“).
14.20–14.40 Solveiga Daugirdaitė (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Lithuania). “Ours” and “Theirs” in the Texts of Paulina Pukytė.
14.40–15.00 Neringa Mikalauskienė (Vilnius University, Lithuania). The Other Woman in the Creativity of S. Corinna Bille and J. Skablauskaitė.
15.00–15.30 DISCUSSION
15.30–16.00 COFFEE BREAK
VI. ASPECTS OF INTERMEDIALITY (room 305, floor III)
Chairpersons: Assoc. Prof. Natalija Arlauskaitė, Ales Vaupotic
16.00–16.30 Irina Melnikova (Vilnius University, Lithuania). Hypertextual Peregrination: Bruges and Venice.
16.30–17.00 Jean-Philippe Imbert (Dublin City University, Ireland). You Played, You Lost, You’re Dead: Hide and Seek with(in) Europe in Agota Kristof’s Trilogy of the Twins and Rawi Hages’s De Niro’s Game.
17.00–17.30 Ales Vaupotic (REELC/ENCLS). The Cultural Archive and the New Media Literature.
17.30–18.00 Natalija Arlauskaitė (Vilnius University, Lithuania). “Street of Crocodiles“ in the middle of Europe, on the edge of the world: Bruno Schulz and brothers Quay.
18.00–18.30 DISCUSSION
18.30 EXCURSION TO OLD TOWN
SEPTEMBER 13, SUNDAY
9.00 – 10.00 THIRD PLENARY SESSION (room 222, floor II)
Chairperson: Prof. Marko Juvan
9.00–9.30 Žydrūnas Mačiukas(Vilnius Pedagogical University, Lithuania). Landscape of Medieval Lithuania: Information of the Narrative Sources.
9.30–10.00 Marko Juvan (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia). World Literatures and Peripheries.
10.00–10.30 Igor Valentynovych Limborsky (East European University of Economics and Management). Comparative Literature in the Age of Globalization: Death of Discipline or Triumph of Science?
10.30–11.00 DISCUSSION
11.00–12.00 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION (room 222, floor II)
Chairpersons: Prof. Kęstutis Nastopka, Prof. Alain Montandon, Prof. Jüri Talvet
12.00–13.00 LUNCH BREAK
13.00 – THE TOUR FOR OLD CAPITALS OF LITHUANIA (Itinerary: Vilnius–Kernavė–Trakai–Vilnius).CLOSING OF THE CONGRESS.
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