Dear colleagues across the Atlantic,
Those of you attending this conference may be interested in the latest
issue of Seminar, entitled "World Authorship" (link and list of articles
below).
http://www.utpjournals.press/toc/seminar/51/2
John
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John K. Noyes
Professor of German
Odette Hall 304
University of Toronto
50 St. Joseph St.
Toronto, ON M5S1J4
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Introduction: The Rise of the World Author from the Death of World
Literature
Rebecca Braun
Writing the Dialectical Structure of the Modern Subject: Goethe on World
Literature and World Citizenship
John K. Noyes
A Portrait of the Artist as a World Author: Framing Authorship in
Johannes Scherr’s Bildersaal der Weltliteratur
Andrew Patten
Thomas Mann, World Author: Representation and Autonomy in the World
Republic of Letters
Tobias Boes
World Authorship as a Struggle for Consecration: Christa Wolf and Der
geteilte Himmel in the English-Speaking World
Caroline Summers
“Ich bin ein Humanistenkopf”: Feridun Zaimoglu, German Literature, and
Worldness
Frauke Matthes
Epilogue: Three Computational Frameworks for the Study of World Authorship
Andrew Piper
On 5/27/2015 9:38 AM, Emily Spiers wrote:
> *With apologies for cross-posting*
>
>
> *_Registration Closes 2 June 2015_*
>
> World Authors and Translators in the Global Circulation of Capital
>
> 2-3 July 2015
>
> Lancaster University
>
> Full details of the conference at this address:
> www.authorsandtheworld.com/?p=709 <http://www.authorsandtheworld.com/?p=709>
>
> (The programme is also below.)
>
> Or for more information contact: [log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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> *Follow this link *HERE
> <http://online-payments.lancaster-university.co.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=6&catid=596&prodvarid=220>
> *to register for this event*.
>
> Keynote Speakers: Aleida Assman, Susan Bassnett, Anne Barron, Benedict
> Schofield and with special poetry performance by Mazen Maarouf.
>
> What are the economic, political, legal, and technological processes
> underpinning how authors act on the contemporary global stage, and does
> it make sense to talk about such a thing as a ‘world author’? This event
> invites participants to reflect on the social function of authors and
> translators in the circulation of literature in a global economy. Our
> research papers consider how recent developments in the commodification
> of literature have transformed traditional conceptions of the author as
> an autonomous, but primarily textual, agent, as well as questioned the
> relationships between ‘minor’, ‘national’ and ‘world’ literatures that
> individual authors and their translators are still frequently made to
> represent. Three short-paper panels encourage comparative discussion of
> individual case studies in the light of our research papers. A
> round-table with industry specialists concludes the event by presenting
> the very real practical and legal intercultural issues that determine
> how authors and their foreign-language rights circulate in the
> contemporary global publishing industry.
>
> **
>
> *Organised by the Authors and the World hub and Delphine Grass.*
>
> *
> *
>
> *Programme*
>
> Venue: Lancaster House Hotel conference centre, Green Lane, Lancaster,
> LA1 4GJ
>
> *
> *
>
> *Thursday 2 July*
>
> 9:15 - 9:30: Welcome - Rebecca Braun
>
>
> 9:30 - 10:30: Aleida Assmann (Konstanz), ‘Sermons for Peace — The Writer
> as a Public Institution’
>
>
> 10:30-11:30 Panel: Authority, Authorship and the Global Market
>
>
> Anna-Katharina Krüger (Munich), ‘“Because I was not a writer…” —
> Authority and Authorship in Dave Eggers’ /What is the What/
>
>
> Katy Stewart (Sheffield), ‘Ondjaki/Ndalu de Almeida: Negotiating
> Cultural Identity on a Global Stage’
>
>
> Joanna Neilly (Oxford), ‘A German Rousseau? Karl Gutzkow’s Jean Jacques
> in the Capitalist Market’
>
>
> 11:30-12:30 Coffee & discussion
>
>
> 12:30- 13:30: Anne Barron (London)/ '/Credit, Voice and Royalties'
>
>
> 13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
>
>
> 14:30-15:30: Panel: Political Translations of Authorship
>
>
> Nathalie Carré (Paris), ‘Major Writers in Minor Languages: Ngugi wa
> Thiongo’s Case, from Gikuyu to French’
>
>
> Alex Harrington (Durham), ‘Anglophone Life-Writing on Anna Akhmatova and
> the Dynamics of the Myth of the Russian Poet in Russia and the West’
>
>
> Sandra Mayer (Oxford), ‘Continental Reputation Equalling Posthumous
> Fame? Disraeli’s Literary and Political Celebrity in an International
> Context’
>
>
> 15:30-16:30 Tea and discussion
>
> 16:30 - 17:30: Plenary session
>
> 19:00: Dinner
>
>
> 20:30: Poetry reading with Mazen Maarouf
>
>
> Mazen Maarouf is a Palestinian-Icelandic poet and writer, lauded as a
> ‘rising international literary star’. He has published three collections
> of poetry: /The Camera Doesn’t Capture Birds/, /Our Grief Resembles
> Bread/, and most recently /An Angel Suspended On The Clothesline/, which
> has been translated into several languages including into French by
> Samira Negrouche (Amandier Poésie, 2013). His work is currently being
> translated into English by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Nathalie Handal.
>
> *
> *
>
> *Friday 3 July*
>
>
> 9:30-10.30: Benedict Schofield (London), ‘The Global Shakespeare’
>
> 10:00-11:00 Coffee
>
>
> 11:00-13.00: Interactive round table: 'What is a World Author?'
>
>
> With Alessandro Gallenzi (Alma Books), Gesche Ipsen (Pushkin Press),
> Charlotte Ryland (/New Books in German/), Frank Wynne (freelance
> translator from the French and the Spanish), Mazen Maarouf
> (author), Sridhara Aghalaya (literary agent)
>
>
> 13:00-14:00: Lunch
>
>
> 14:00-15:00: Panel: Embodiment, Authenticity and Authorship
>
>
> Caroline Summers (Leeds), ‘Discursive Dismemberment: Fragmenting
> Authorship in the “Body” of the Translated Text’
>
>
> Kate Roy (Leeds/Lugano), ‘Paratextual Politics — Global Images, the
> Visual Plane, and the “Authentic Author” in the Textual History of the
> /Memoiren einer arabischen Prinzessin/’
>
>
> Emily Spiers (Lancaster), '"My body is a storm cloud waiting to burst":
> Authorship, Authenticity, and Cultural Hybridity in Performance Poetry'
>
>
> 15:00-16:00: Susan Bassnett, (Warwick), 'The Power of Rewritings'
>
>
> 16:00-17:00: Small group discussions
>
> Close
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