Conference: What is the Political Novel? Defining the Genre

1.15 pm

• Eva Geulen, Zrinka Božić, Patrick Eiden-Offe: Introduction

2.00 pm
Institutions of Genre
Chair: Patrick Eiden-Offe (ZfL)

• Zrinka Božić (University of Zagreb): Rethinking politics of an unfinished project
• Mark Devenney (University of Brighton): Thinking fictions of the political

4.00 pm
A Genre between Estrangement and Identification: Perceptions and Perspectives
Chair: Ivana Perica (ZfL)

• Zvonimir Glavaš (University of Zagreb): “From Charlemagne to the title of the King”: Political novel between estrangement and recognition
• Tomasz Mizerkiewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań): Perceptions in the political novels

5.45 pm
Fishbowl

Thursday, 28 Sep 2023 

10.00 am
Identity, Social Stratification and the Politics of the Novel
Chair: Christoph Schaub (University of Vechta)

• Polina Mackay (University of Nicosia): Intersectional politics in the ‘cancerland’: Reading Natasha Brown’s Assembly
• Marina Protrka Štimec (University of Zagreb): “Perché i xe bestie?!” Politics, race and exclusion in Vladan Desnica’s Zimsko ljetovanje (The Winter Summer Holiday)

12.00 pm
The Political Novel and Political Readings of the Novel: Feminist Perspectives
Chair: Christoph Schaub (University of Vechta)

• Mirela Dakić (University of Zagreb): What is novel in the political novel? The perspectives of contemporary feminist theory

2.00 pm
Flourishing Repoliticisations
Chair: Aurore Peyroles (University of Regensburg)

• Magda Potok (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań): The repoliticisation of Spanish culture and the dispute over the political novel in the context of the economic crisis of 2008
• Vedrana Veličković (University of Brighton): Brexit and the political novel/The politics of Brexlit

4.00 pm
Academic Fictions
Chair: Ivana Perica (ZfL)

• Rahul Putty (Manipal Academy of Higher Education): Not a book for burning: Reading the political in academic fiction

5.00 pm
Fishbowl

8.00 pm
Round Table
Moderators: Patrick Eiden-Offe and Ivana Perica (ZfL)

• Literatur in Zeiten der Krise: Was kann der Roman leisten? (Literature in Times of Crisis: What Can the Novel Do?)
  With Heike Geißler, Alhierd Bacharevič and Maryam Aras (in German)

Friday, 29 Sep 2023

10.00 am
Individual Subjects and/against Collectivity
Chair: Patrick Eiden-Offe (ZfL)

• Andrea Milanko, Ana Tomljenović (University of Zagreb): The picaresque novel: Claiming the unclaimed existence
• Paul Stewart (University of Nicosia): The individual and incorporation: Fundamental operations of the political in Beckett’s Molloy

12.00 pm
Blurred Boundaries
Chair: Kyung-Ho Cha (ZfL)

• Shambhavi Prakash (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi): Reading Hubert Fichte’s literary works as political

2.00 pm
Eastern/Western Chronotopes
Chair: Kyung-Ho Cha (ZfL)

• Rossie Artemis (University of Nicosia): Of people and chronotopes – Berlin in the early novels of Nabokov and Shklovsky
• Błażej Warkocki (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań): Political parameters of East European queer novel: The case of Lubiewo (Lovetown) by Michał Witkowski

4.00 pm
The Political Novel in Europe: A Case Study
Chair: Aurore Peyroles (University of Regensburg)

• Nenad Ivić (University of Zagreb): Is Pierre Michon’s The Eleven a political novel?

5.00 pm
Fishbowl