The Transnational and Transmedial Circulation of Literature
Conference Programme
January 22, 2018. EHESS, 105BdRaspail. 75006 Paris.Amphitheater François Furet.
17:00Introduction:GisèleSapiro and Tristan Leperlier
17:10-17:40 - David Damrosch (Harvard), “Véritécinématique: Reality effects in transnational and global literature and film”.Chair: Jean-Marie Schaeffer
17:40-19:00- Round-table: EllekeBoehmer, Stefano-Maria Evangelista, Laura Marcus, Tiphaine Samoyault. Moderators: Gisèle Sapiro and Jean-Marie Schaeffer
Dinnerat Le Charivari, 143 Boulevard Raspail.
January 23, 2018. Institute of Advanced Studies of Paris, 17 Quai d'Anjou, 75004 Paris
Morning session
The circulation of literature in (post)colonial and/or authoritarian contexts.
Chair and discussant:EllekeBoehmer (Oxford)
9:30-11:00
Claire Ducournau (Univ. Montpellier),“African literary festivals and world literature: from the map to the territory”
Madeline Bedecarré (EHESS), “Fake Internationality? Prizes and the Circulation of Francophone African Authors”
Laura Pennacchietti (University of Manchester), “Postcolonial writers in the global literary marketplace: the case of Italy”
Coffee break
11:15-12:45
LaetitiaZecchini (CNRS), “What Filters through the Curtain»:Reconsidering ‘Indian’ modernism, travelling literatures, and little magazines in a Cold War context”
AnaliaGerbaudo (UNL), “The import of theories in the field of literary studies (Argentina, 1976-1986): between clandestine and institutional practices”.
SadiaAgsous (EHESS), “Palestinian Translators of Hebrew Literature: Translation as a Social Practice and a vehicle for cultural exchange”.
Lunch at L’Orangerie, 28 rue Saint-Louis en L’ile.
Afternoon session
Translatio: from text to images.
Chair and discussant: Laura Marcus (Oxford)
14:00-15:30
Delia Ungureanu (University of Bucarest),“The Surreal Real: Proust, Woolf, and World Cinema”.
Clara Royer (CEFRES, Prague), “Novels are written to God, scripts are sent to a director..." ImreKertész as the scriptwriter of Fatelessness”.
Alexis Brown (Oxford): “Constructing National Film through Literature: Contemporary British Adaptation”.
Coffee break
15:45-17:15
Dominic Davies (Oxford), “Comic, City, Archive: Public Space, Private Lives and Post-War Reconstruction in Recent Lebanese Graphic Memoirs”.
Diana Roig (Open University of Catalonia), “Transnational Translation Policies in the Interwar Period (1925-1946):The International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation and Its Agents.”
Lilas Bass, Delia ArribasGuijarro, Tristan Leperlier, GisèleSapiro (EHESS), “Literary agents as cardinal intermediaries of World Literature”.
17:15-17:45:Discussion introduced by VeredShemtov (Stanford), and concluding remarks by Stefano-Maria-Evangelista and GisèleSapiro.
Organisers: Tristan Leperlier, Gisèle Sapiro
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