Ráðstefna: Rauðar heimsbókmenntir

Alþjóðlega ráðstefnan Rauðar heimsbókmenntir fer fram í Veröld-húsi Vigdísar þann 11. og 12. maí næstkomandi á vegum Bókmennta- og listfræðastofnunar Háskóla Íslands í samvinnu við Stofnun Vigdísar Finnbogadóttur í erlendum tungumálum. Ráðstefnan beinir sjónum sínum að og tekst á við nýlegar rannsóknir sem leitast hafa við að kortleggja menningarsvæði rauðra heimsbókmennta á 20. öld. Sérstök áhersla er lögð á menningarhefðir sem þróuðust í fjarlægð frá miðju menningar- og bókmenntakerfis Sovétríkjanna eða á jöðrum kerfisins.

Málstofur ráðstefnunnar fara fram í stofu 008 og 201 í Veröld. Aðgangur er ókeypis og finna má upplýsingar um streymi á facebook-event síðu viðburðarins. 

Aðalerindi ráðstefnunnar flytja Ericka Beckman, dósent í róönskum fræðum við University of Pennsylvania, Rossen Djagalov dósent í Rússneskum og Slavneskum fræðum við New York University og Christoph Schaub, nýdoktor í Þýsku og þátttakandi í Horizon 2022 verkefninu “The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe” við Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin. 

Ráðstefnan er styrkt af RANNÍS, Ráðstefnusjóði Hugvísindastofnunar HÍ og Sjóði Rektors. Ráðstefnan er studd af Stofnun Vigdísar Finnbogadóttur og Bókmennta- og Listfræðastofnun Háskóla Íslands. 

Dagskrá fimmtudaginn 11. maí:

Welcome in Veröld Hús Vigdísar (VHV) at 9:30-10:00

Panel 1 VHV-201 at 10:00-12:00

  • Daniel Pratt, McGill University. International Literature and thePursuit of a Global Socialist Canon.
  • Elena Ostrovskaya, Strasbourg University. International Literature Journal as a Utopian Space of Red World Literature.
  • Elena Zemskova. International Literature Journal as a Network in 1934-1935.
  • Paula Wojcik, University of Vienna. World Literature under the Communist Condition: The Polish Journal Literatura na Swiecie between 1970 and 1990.

Panel 2 VHV-008 at 10:00-12:00

  • Jesook Song, University of Toronto. Women Writers in the Decolonial Worldmaking of Early to Mid 20th Century: Korean Socialist Feminist Writers
  • Elisa Purschke, Princeton University. Mass Action at the Revolutionary Juncture: Proletkul'tTheater.
  • Filip Kucekovic, University of Zagreb. Emerging Avant-Gardes: The Internationalist Program of the Magazine "Zenit: International Review of Arts and Culture."
  • Byron Taylor, University College London. Great Power Competition in the Field of World Literature.

Hádegismatur 12:00-13:00

Keynote VHV-201 13:00-14:30

Rossen Djagalov, New York University. The Soviet Republic of Letters betweenInternational Literature and Friendship of the Peoples.

Panel 3 VHV-201 14:45-16:45

  • Samuel Hodgkin, Yale University. Genres and Geographies of Persianate Internationalism.
  • Olga Nechaeva, University of Pennsylvania. Atukwei Okai, Ghanaian Poetry, and Soviet Education.
  • Tal Isaacson, University of Toronto. The limits of solidarity in Aimé Césaire's Une Saison au Congo.
  • Nandini Dhar, O.P. Jindal Global University. 
  • Upama Nirjharani, Jadavpur University
  • Akashneel Ghatak, University of Texas at Austin. Beyond the Colonial Children’s Literature: The Bengali Translations of the Soviet-Era Children’s Literature and the Desires for Another Modernity

Panel 4 VHV-008 at 14:45-16:45

  • Jonas Bokelmann, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München and University of Iceland. Nach schön missglückter Weltreise beim Distriktarzt auf Island: Reykjavik Based German Refugee-Writer Albert Daudistel as an Exponent of Internationalist World Literature in 1920s Berlin and in Icelandic Exile.
  • Benedikt Hiartarson, University of Iceland. Toward a Canon of Red World Literature: Translations and Publishing Enterprises of the Radical Left in Iceland Before Socialist Realism
  • Sebastian Schuller. Umfunktionieren!: Heterodox Revolutionary Literary Theory between Berlin, Yan'yan and Reykjavik.
  • Jonathan Schmidt-Dominé, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. The Construction of Afro-Asian Solidarity in Poetry.

Kaffihlé 16:45-17:15

Keynote VHV 201 17:15-18:45

Ericka Beckman, University of Pennsylvania. Socialism and Literary Form in Peru: The Case of José María Arguedas.

Dagskrá föstudaginn 11. maí

Welcome in Veröld Hús Vigdísar (VHV) at 9:30-10:00

Panel 5 VHV-201 at 10:00-12:00

  • Sophie Esch, Rice University. Critters, Cadres & Kin: The Creaturely Cold War in Cuban and Angolan Literature
  • Georgia Nasseh, University of Oxford. 'Coalitions at Different Scales': Translating the Angolan Anticolonial Struggle in Scandinavia
  • Neil Larsen, University of California, Davis. 'Red World Literature' in Brazil: The Epic Socialist Realism of Jorge Amado, 1931-1954.
  • Anna Björk Einarsdottir, University of Iceland. Proletarian Literature and the 1950s. 

Panel 6 VHV-008 at 10:00-12:00

  • Alexandra Lepine, Western University. Canada's Proletarian Literature in an International Context (1925-1935).
  • Haukur Ingvarsson, University of Iceland. Icelandic Jungle: Upton Sinclair's Reception History in Iceland.
  • Magnus Nilsson, Malmö University. 
  • Nicklas Lund, University of Southern Denmark. The Impact of Soviet Aesthetics on Working-Class Literature in Denmark and Sweden
  • Christos Efstathiou, University of Birmingham. Red World Literature in the Mines: The Case of the Mining Novel in England.

Hádegismatur 12:00-13:00

Keynote VHV-201 13:00-14:30

Christoph Schaub, University of Vechta. Materialist World-Literary Analysis and the Afterlife of Internationalist World Literature in 1970s West Germany.

Panel 7 VHV-201 at 14:45-16:15

  • Hunter Bivens, University of California-Santa Cruz. 'The Most Important Threads': The Spanish Civil War in the Cold War Novels of Anna Seghers. 
  • Carla Steinbrecher, University of St Andrews and University of Bonn. "Internationalist World Literature" on Screen?:The Mediation of Latin American Literature in East German Documentaries of the 1970s.
  • Yejun ZOU, Sun Yat-sen University. Reconceptualising World Literature through Internationalism: A Comparison of East German and Chinese Socialist Literature.

Panel 8 VHV-008 at 14:45-16:15

  • Ovio Olaru, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu. Red Norway: Degrees of Socialist Inter-Imperiality.
  • Goran Pavlic,University of Zagreb. The Poetics of Yugo-Soviet Split: Third Congress of the Association of Writers of Yugoslavia (1952) and Communist Deferral.
  • Mario Kikas, Nord University. The Conflict on the Literary Left (Sukob na knjizevnoj ljevici) in a Political and Transnational Context. 

Kaffihlé 16:15-16:30 

Panel 9 VHV-201 at 16:30-18:30

  • Birgitte Beck Pristed, Aarhus University
  • Rósa Magnúsdóttir, University of Iceland. The "Internationalization" of the Socialist Book Trade: "Book Hunger" and Red World Literature in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • Ali Kulez, Boston College. Internationalism after the Cold War: Ash Erdogan's City ni Crimson Cloak and the Global South.
  • Mirela Dakic, University of Zagreb. (Re)mapping the LiteraryInternationalism: The Case of(Post-)Yugoslav Literature.
  • Lioudmila Fedorova, Georgetown University. Mari Subject Between the Post-Soviet and Post-Colonial in Denis Osokin and Aleksey Fedorchenko.