Dear List Members,
a quick reminder that registrations for the international
symposium, 'Writing Under Socialism Past and Present: a comparative
approach’, to be held at the University of Nottingham on 11-12 July 2008,
close on *30 May 2008*.
Using a comparative approach that crosses disciplines and continents, this
conference asks for a re-evaluation of the position of writing under
socialist states past and present using new material, theories and
methodologies that have come to light since 1989. With contributions on
literary production in 11 different states, including China, Cuba,
Nicaragua, the GDR, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, this symposium
promises to initiate a dialogue between researchers working in very
different fields.
Further details and registration form can be downloaded from the
conference website. Please follow the link to ‘New Conferences’ on the
School of Modern Languages and Cultures homepage:
www.nottingham.ac.uk/modern-languages
The deadline for registration is the 30 May 2008.
For further information please contact the organisers: Sara Jones
([log in to unmask]) and Meesha Nehru ([log in to unmask])
Preliminary Programme: Writing under Socialism Past and Present: A
Comparative Approach
Friday 11 July 2008
12.30-13.30 Arrival and registration
13.30-14.00 Welcome and Introduction
Roger Woods, University of Nottingham
14.00-15.00 Panel 1: Taboos and Criticism
Breaking the Taboos in Socialist Yugoslavia
David Norris, University of Nottingham
Ismail Kadare’s Critique of Albanian Socialism
Peter Morgan, University of Western Australia
15.00-15.30 Coffee/Tea
15.30-17.00 Panel 2: Negotiating Space: Writers and Functionaries
The Limits of Artistic Dissent and Accommodation under Dictatorship:
Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Maetzig, and the Cultural Politics of the Early GDR
Mark W. Clark, University of Virgina’s College at Wise
Dramatists and the campaign for theatre reform in the late GDR
Laura Bradley, University of Edinburgh
“Islands of Goodness, Realm of Grey”: Writing and Publishing in
Czechoslovak Academia during Normalization (1969-1989)
Libora Oates-Indruchová, University of Masaryk/Institute for Advanced
Study, Budapest
17.30-18.30 Print Culture and the New Media in Post-Socialist China
Michel Hockx, School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London)
19.00-20.30 Conference Dinner
20.30-21.30 Round Table Discussion: Experiences of Writing
under Socialism
Writing in Cuba
Pedro Perez-Sarduy, London Metropolitan University
Writing in Bulgaria
Judith Wermuth-Atkinson, University of Columbia
Saturday 12 July 2008
9.30-10.30 Panel 3: Writers and Revolution
The Workshop of Poetry; Culture and the Sandinista Revolution
Mike Gonzalez, University of Glasgow
Ay Dios, Ampárame: Race, Poetry and Music in Revolutionary Cuba
Conrad James, University of Birmingham
10.30-11.00 Coffee/Tea
11.00-12.30 Panel 4: Ideology, the Past and Re-examining the Socialist
Writer
Hu Feng and the Politics of Modern Literary Criticism in China: The Hu
Feng Incident Revisited
Ruth Y.Y.Hung, University of Oxford
Living Antifascism: Greta Kuckhoff’s writings in Die Weltbühne
Joanne Sayner, University of Birmingham
The GDR author revisited: the Case of Post-89 East German Writing
Jenny McKay, University of Leeds
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Panel 5: State Institutions and the Writer
The free publishing market vs. the socialist state. The Polish Writers’
Union in the 1970s and 1980s
Karolina Ziolo, University of Sheffield
State Institutions and Writing in Cuba
Meesha Nehru, University of Nottingham
15.00-15.30 Coffee/Tea
15.30-17.00 Panel 6: Socialist Journals Between Conformity and
Criticism
Writing to order? Soviet literature and the Stalinist past in the
Khrushchev era
Polly Jones, University College London
Double Agents: The Editorial Habitus and the ‘Thick’ Socialist Literary
Journal
Matthew Philpotts, University of Manchester
Post-Censorship or Controlled Debate: Neue Deutsche Literatur and the
publication of Elfriede Brüning’s Septemberreise
Sara Jones, University of Nottingham
17.00-17.30 Close
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