Acts of Comparison. The Emerging Modern Humanities and East-Central Europe in the Long Nineteenth-Century (Bucarest)
Acts of Comparison
The Emerging Modern Humanities and East-Central Europe
in the Long Nineteenth-Century
International Conference
November 24-25, 2017
Convenors :
New Europe College (Bucharest) and Babeș-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca)
PROGRAMME
Day 1 - Friday, November 24th 2017
Location: New Europe College (21 Plantelor Street, Bucharest)
10:00-10:30
Welcome Address
10:30-11:30
Plenary lecture
Prof. Galin TIHANOV (Queen Mary University of London)
Five Meanings of “World Literature”
11:30-12:00
Coffee break
12:00-14:00
Session A – Mapping Comparison
Chair: Ioana BOT
12:00-12:30
Corin BRAGA (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
The Theory of ’Universals’ in the 21st Century
12:30-13:00
Imre József BALÀZS (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
Maldoror – a Map of Late Surrealist Reading
13:00-13:30
Borbála Zsuzsanna TÖRÖK (Institute of Austrian History, University of Vienna)
Modern Transylvanian Archaeology and the Genesis of Mankind:
Comparative Gestures amidst local, national and international geographies of knowledge
13:30-15:00 Lunch
15:00-16:00
Plenary Lecture
Dr. Sándor HITES (Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest)
Comparison as Exchange: Monetary and Literary Equivalences in the 19th century
16:00-16:30
Coffee break
16:30-18:00
Session B – Archeologies of Comparison
Chair: Oana FOTACHE (University of Bucharest)
16:30-17:00
Eszter SZABÓ-REZNEK (Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest)
Displaced literary canons. Hugo von Meltzl’s regional reinterpretation of the national poet Sándor Petőfi
17:00-17:45
Levente T. SZABÓ (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
How is early comparative literary knowledge produced?
The Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum as a hub of networks
19:00 Dinner
Day 2 - Saturday, November 25th 2017
Location: New Europe College (21 Plantelor Street, Bucharest)
10:00-11:00
Plenary lecture
Prof. Jens HERLTH (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
Une route non prise: Ludwik Krzywicki et les débuts de la littérature comparée en Pologne
11:00-11:30
Coffee break
11:30-13:00
Session C – Comparaisons en mineur (I)
Chair: Corin BRAGA
11:30-12:00
Ioana BOT (Université Babeș-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca)
Comparer au 19e siècle – et comment fabriquer un poète national (roumain) du même coup…
12:00-12:30
Adrian TUDURACHI (Institut “Sextil Pușcariu” de l’Académie Roumaine, Cluj-Napoca)
Éthique du comparatisme à l’Est
12:30-13:00
Laura T. ILEA (Université Babeș-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca)
Redéfinir la littérature comparée dans un contexte planétaire
13:30-15:00 Lunch
15:00-16:00
Session D – Minor Comparisons (II)
Chair: Borbála Zsuzsanna TÖRÖK (Institute of Austrian History, University of Vienna)
15:00-15:30
Zsuzsanna VARGA (Glasgow University)
Imagining Comparative Literature. Hungarian women writers of the 19th century
15:30-16:00
Marius POPA (Université Babeș-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca)
Radiographies d'un malentendu: le classicisme français revisité à l'heure du réalisme socialiste, en Roumanie
16:00-16:30
Presentation of the “Caietele Echinox” Journal, no 33 – Sujets dépourvus d’importance.
Pour une politique du résiduel en littérature
Corin BRAGA, Adrian TUDURACHI, Ioana BOT, Levente SZABO
16:30-17:00
Concluding remarks
Levente T. SZABÓ, Adrian TUDURACHI