Literature and Emotions
Preliminary Program
Thursday 24
8.30-9.15 Venue and Registration (Room 23.4.39, lobby)
9.15-9.30 Welcome (Christian Dahl)
9.30-11.00 Prof. Winfried Menninghaus: The Enjoyment of Negative Feelings in the Arts(Keynote Speech)
11.15-11.30 Coffee Break
11.30-12.30 Panel 24-1: Emotional Excess as Strategy (Room 23.4.39)
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Parallel sessions:
- Panel 24-2a: Citizenship, Readership and Affective Transformation I (Room 23.4.39)
- Panel 24-2b: Voice and Affect in Poetry (Room 23.2.39)
15.00-15.15 Coffee Break
15.15-16.45 Parallel sessions:
- Panel 24-3a: Citizenship, Readership, and Affective Transformation II (Room 23.4.39)
- Panel 24-3b: Tragedy and the Poetics of Affective Excess (Room 23.2.39)
16.45- Drinks
19.30 Conference Dinner (Madklubben, Store Kongens Gade 66)
Friday 25
8.45-9.15 Coffee
9.15-10.45 Panel 25-1: Literature, Emotions and Moral Philosophy (Room 23.4.39)
10.45-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.30 Parallel Sessions:
- Panel 25-2a: Drama, Theatricality and Emotional Response (Room 24.4.39)
- Panel 25-2b: The Poetics of Emotions in 20th c. Fiction (Room 23.2.39)
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Panel 25-3: Writing after the Catastrophe: Trauma, Memory and Emotion(Room 24.4.39)
15.00-15.15 Coffee Break
15.15-16.45 Prof. Rita Felski: "Context stinks!" (Keynote Speech)
16.45- Farewell Toast
List of Panels: Literature & Emotions Conference (March 24-25)Thursday
24-1: Subjectivity, Identity and Emotional Excess
Thu 11.30-12.30, Room 23.4.39
Chair: Dennis Meyhoff Brink
Elisabeth Friis (Copenhagen): "Tracie Morris and the Sounds of Emotion"
Benjamin Bateman (Los Angeles): "Feeling Wilde: De Profundis and the Queer Ethics of Emotional Excess"
24-2a: Citizenship, Readership and Affective Transformation I.
Thu 13.30-15.00, Room 23.4.39
Chair: Knut Ove Eliassen
Tue Andersen Nexø (Copenhagen): "Affective Bonds. Passionate Sociability and the Body Politic in Shaftesbury and Fielding"
Hülya Yildiz (North Cyprus): "The Politics of Literary Affect. Encounter with Modernity in the Ottoman Novel"
Isak Winkel Holm (Copenhagen): "Crying to Heaven: Poetic Justice and Sense of Injustice in Gustave Flaubert's Un coeur simple"
24-2b: Voice and Affect in Poetry
Thu 13.30-15.00, Room 23.2.39
Chair: Elisabeth Friis
Alfred Alexander Stumm (Berlin): "Between Dialogue and Monologue. The Emotion of Anger in Hans Magnus Enzensberger's Verteidigung der Wölfe gegen die Lämmer"
Jesper Kruse (Copenhagen): "Wrath in Poetry"
Ilana Shiloh (Ramat Gan): "Mind the Gap: Literature, Emotion and the Power of the Unsaid"
24-3a: Citizenship, Readership and Affective Transformation II
Thu 15.15-16.45, Room 23.4.39
Chair: Tue Andersen Nexø
Lina Minou (Loughborough): "Advising against Anger; Sociability and Sensibility"
Anne Fastrup & Knut Ove Eliassen (Copenhagen/Trondheim): Sentimentalizing Oriental Despotism: Montesquieu's Lèttres persanes"
Siv Gøril Brandtzæg (Trondheim): "Defective Affect. The Reception of the Sentimental Novel in 18th Century British Periodicals"
24-3b: Tragedy and the poetics of affective excess
Thu 15.15-16.45, Room 23.2.39
Chair: Catherine Grall
Selima Lejri (Tunis): "New Strains of Grief: Aesthetic Dionysian Extremes in Euripides'Hecuba"
Sofie Kluge (Copenhagen): "Passions Made of Nothing are but the Finest Part of our Love. Modalities of Passion in three 17th c. Egyptian plays."
Julian Zanetta (Geneva): "The Theatre of Emotions: William Hazlitt and Literature"
Friday
25-1: Literature, Emotions, and Moral Philosophy
Fri 9.15-10.45, Room 23.4.39
Chair: Knut Ove Eliassen
Martine Boyer-Weinmann (Lyon): "Sexual Shame vs. Social Shame : About Didier Eribon Literary-Theoretical essay Retour à Reims"
Jennifer Tamas (Paris/Stanford): Is there a Morality of Emotions in Racine's Theater?
Alexandre Gefen (Bordeaux): "Literature, Emotions and Contemporary Moral Philosophy"
25-2a: Drama, Theatricality and Emotional Response
Fri 11.00-12.30, Room 23.4.39
Chair: Christian Dahl
Marcel Lysgaard Lech (Copenhagen): "Neuro-Aristophanes. How Cognitive Science May Inform the Study of Old Attic comedy"
Catherine Grall (Valencia): "Meta-Representation. Emotions without the Suspension of Disbelief"
Laetitia Pasquet (Paris): "Catharsis and the Comic in Contemporary English Drama"
25-2-b: The Poetics of Emotion in 20th Century Fiction
Fri 11.00-12.30, Room 23.2.39
Chair: Dennis Meyhoff Brink
Robert Zaborowski (Warmia): "Proust and Mann on the Logic of Emotions"
Rousbeh Djahangiri (Berlin): "Beyond Compassion and Disgust. The Poetics of Affect in Robert Musil's Das Fliegenpapier"
Mette Steenberg (Aarhus): "Forms of Reading and Forms of Self-Conceptualization"
25-3: Writing after the Catastrophe: Trauma, Memory and Emotion
Fri 13.30-15.00, Room 23.4.39
Chair: Anne Fastrup
Svend Erik Larsen (Aarhus): "Emotion and Forgiveness in Literature"
Helge Skirl (Berlin): "The Verbalization of Extreme grief: Metaphors in Holocaust Literature
Moritz Schramm (Odense): "Monstrous pity": Empathy and Disgust in Jonathan Littell'sLes Bienveillantes.