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Thursday 16 April
Venue: Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, 43 Gordon Square
Friday 17 April
Venue: Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Malet St (Torrington Sq)
Saturday 18 April
Venue: Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Malet St (Torrington Sq)
| Time |
Content |
Venue |
| 9-9.30am |
Registration |
MAL B04 |
| Coffee & tea |
MAL B02 |
| 9.30-11am |
Policy-makers/stakeholder panel – see video
Room: MAL B36
- Monica Dietl, COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology)
- Maureen Freely, Warwick University (UK)
- Philippe Keraudren, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission
- Svend Erik Larsen, Aarhus University (Denmark), Academia Europaea
- Wolfgang Mackiewicz, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
- Rossella Magli, COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology)
- Angela Schindler-Daniels, German Aerospace Center (DLR), the National Contact Point for Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities (Germany), NET4SOCIETY network
- Milena Žic Fuchs, University of Zagreb (Croatia), ALLEA
|
| 11am–12 noon |
Keynote
Aleida Assmann – Resonance and Impact: towards a theory of the emotions in cultural memory (see video) |
MAL B36 |
| 12 noon–1pm: Papers – parallel sessions |
Cultural Memory
MAL B29 |
Migration & Translation
MAL B30 |
Digital Textuality
MAL G15 |
Biopolitics & the Body
MAL G16 |
Gabriela Dima
Schoolbooks in the 18th-century Romanian Provinces… |
Alexandra Lopes
Something to be hung about – the many faces of Richard Zimmler’s ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ |
Frederik Tygstrup
Transformations of Fiction |
Heather Bradshaw-Martin
Fictionality and Textuality On the Road: driving the future |
Christine Nicholls
Australian Aboriginal dreaming narratives, ‘hard’ knowledge transmission and linguistic and cultural memory desuetude |
Barnita Bagchi
The Translator as Writer, The Writer as Translator: Vikram Seth’s ‘Two Lives’ (2003) and ‘The Rivered Earth’ (2011)… |
Piotr Marecki
Augmented Reality storytelling |
Sangkyu Shin
Human Enhancement and Social Justice – How to frame a problem? |
Roxana Patraş
Talking Dissidence in fin-de-siècle Romania: literature’s business into political affairs |
Enza De Francisci
Read all about it: Giovanni Grasso’s Sicilian dialect theatre in London |
Maciej Maryl
Computer-Generated Typology of Weblog Subgenres? on integrated research in literary and cultural studies |
Paulo Serra
Surveillance medicine and the rhetoric of risks |
| 1-3pm (poster session starts at 1.30) |
Lunch – own arrangements |
Poster session
Room: MAL B02
|
| 3:00-4pm |
Keynote
Lars Elleström – A Medium-Centred Model of Communication in the Context of Cultural Literacy (see video) |
MAL B36 |
| 4-4.30pm |
Coffee break |
MAL B02 & B04 |
| 4.30-5.30pm: Papers – parallel sessions |
Cultural Memory
MAL B29 |
Migration & Translation
MAL B30 |
Digital Textuality
MAL G15 |
Biopolitics & the Body
MAL G16 |
Ann David
Embodied cultural memories of the Punjab: ‘Giddha’ dance and song in migrant London spaces |
Lucia Aiello
Figures of Displacement: language and memory in Amelia Rosselli’s multilingual poetry |
Nagihan Haliloglu
Cultural Literacy for Istanbul: reading and writing the ‘tekke’ |
Laura Colombino
Embodiments of the urban and the global |
Aleksandra Rychlicka
In Past We (Dis)Trust – the post-1989 transformation of cultural memory into mass memory |
Madeleine Campbell
Atavism in ‘minor’ literatures |
Kiene Brillenburg Wurth
Imagining the disappearing of writing systems: the futures of alphabetic writing in literature |
Dario Gentili
The biopolitical ‘dispositif’ of the neoliberal crisis |
Igor Maver
Recollections of the Austro-Hungarian past… |
Joanna Szerszunowicz
Cultural Memory and lacunary idioms in a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective |
Kieran Fenby-Hulse
The impact of digital music platforms on music listening and experience |
Øyvind Eide
The human body between texts, maps, and landscapes |
| 5.30-6.30pm |
Closing session: conclusions and way forward (see video) |
MAL B36 |
