Conference Programme
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Thursday
16.00-16.15
Registration
16.15-16.30
Opening of the Conference: Welcome Addresses
Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Ritt, Vice Dean of the Faculty
Univ. Prof. Dr. Fedor Poljakov, Head of Department for Slavonic Studies
First Thematic Session
Philology and Nation-Building: A Genealogy
Chair: Robert Stockhammer
16.30-17.00
Joep Leerssen (Amsterdam)
The Philological Turn and the Nation as Hyphen
17.00-17.30
Vladimir Biti (Vienna)
Two Concepts of Literary Bildung: Enlightenment and Romanticism
17.30-18.00
Joint Discussion
18.00-20.00
Welcome Reception
Friday
Second Thematic Session
Decomposing Nations, Establishing Contact Zones: Toward a New Idea of Literature
Part One
Chair: Galin Tihanov
9.00-9.30
Robert Stockhammer (Munich)
Countable Nations, Uncountable Languages. „Haubtsprache“ (Main Language) and Dialects in the 17th Century
9.30-9.45
Discussion
9.45-10.15
Dolores Romero López (Madrid)
Literary Nations in Hispanic Literatures: National Bodies, Transnational Minds and Virtual Interstices
10.15-10.30
Discussion
10.30-11.00
Coffee Break
Part Two
Chair: Svend Erik Larsen
11.00-11.30
Eduardo Coutinho (Rio de Janeiro)
The National Concept of Literature and Minority Groups´ Identities in Latin America
11.30-11.45
Discussion
11.45-12.15
Sándor Hites (Budapest)
Literary Exile: A Challenge to National Philology
12.15-12.30
Discussion
12.45-14.45
Lunch
Part Three
Chair: Ulrike Kistner
15.00-15.30
Svend Erik Larsen (Aarhus)
With Other Eyes or the Eyes of the Others?
15.30-15.45
Discussion
15.45-16.15
Mario Grizelj (Munich)
Schauer zweiter Ordnung. Melmoth the Wanderer und die De/konstruktion Westeuropas
16.15-16.30
Discussion
20.00
Dinner at the Croatian restaurant Abbazia (www.abbazia.co.at)
Saturday
Third Thematic Session
A Transnational Literary Politics?
Part One
Chair: Joep Leerssen
9.00-9.30
Galin Tihanov (London)
Cosmopolitanism in the Discursive Landscape of Modernity: An Enlightenment Articulation and Its Afterlives
9.30-9.45
Discussion
9.45-10.15
Ulrike Kistner (Pretoria)
The Literary-Political beyond Nation, State, Nation-State. Critical Unhingings in the Thought of Jan Patočka and Hannah Arendt
10.15-10.30
Discussion
10.30-11.00
Coffee Break
Part Two
Chair: Eduardo Coutinho
11.00-11.30
Zrinka Božić-Blanuša (Zagreb)
The Politics of Deconstruction, or the New Figure of Europe
11.30-11.45
Discussion
11.45-12.15
Zoran Milutinović (London)
A Europe-Wide `National` Philology?
12.15-12.30
Discussion
12.30-14.00
Lunch
14.00-18.00
A Guided Vienna Tour for Special Guests
20.00
Indigenous Food Dinner at the Green Outskirts of Vienna: Heuriger Zimmermann (www.zimmermans.at)
Sunday
Fourth Thematic Session
Im/proper Identities
Part One
Chair: Zoran Milutinović
9.00-9.30
Jelena Pešić, Mladen Lazić (Belgrade)
Ethnic and European Identities among Political Elites and Population: A Comparative Analysis
9.30-9.45
Discussion
9.45-10.15
Aleksandar Mijatović (Rijeka)
Heteroessences: Diderot, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Agamben on (Im)proper Identities
10.15-10.30
Discussion
10.30-11.00
Coffee Break
Part Two
Chair: Mario Grizelj
11.00-11.30
Anna Babka (Vienna)
Schichten der Differenz und das „Andere“ im „Eigenen“ reflektieren: Konzepte und Überlegungen aus dem Spektrum postkolonialer Theoriebildung für eine „Binde-Strich-Literaturwissenschaft“
11.30-11.45
Discussion
11.45-12.30
Panel Discussion and the Closure of the Conference
