Video: The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era
By: Aurore Peyroles, Ivana Perica, Johanna-Charlotte Horst, Christoph Schaub
Recording of the research workshop that took place in Berlin on 16 and 17 January 2025
Thursday, 16 Jan 2025
14.00
Transcultural Perspectives and Geopolitics
Chair: Patrick Eiden-Offe (ZfL)
- Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles (ZfL): Welcome & Introduction
- Anna-Lena Eick (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz): After Digitalisation. Taking Stock from a Transcultural Perspective (online)
Response: Tara Talwar Windsor (University of Cambridge) - Verónica Paula Gómez (Freie Universität Berlin): Beyond the Idea of Nation: The Political Belongings of Electronic Literature in the Interzone
Response: Liam Connell (University of Brighton)
16.15
Digitalisation and the Nation
Chair: Christoph Schaub (University of Vechta)
- Inna Häkkinen (University of Helsinki): ‘The Communist Party Lies as Gutted as Reactor Four’: Collaborative Storytelling of Profiling ‘State Agency’ in Chernobyl Fiction (online)
Response: Rossie Artemis (University of Nicosia)
17.00
- Discussion of Claudia Kozak’s essay “Experimental Electronic Literature from the Souths” (2020)
Friday, 17 Jan 2025
9.30
Facts and Fictions
Chair: Johanna-Charlotte Horst (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
- Anna Murashova (University of Tartu): Digitalisation of Novel: Practices, Hierarchies, Texts. The Russian Case
Response: Isabell Meske (Hannover) - Sophie Salvo (University of Chicago) : Impotent Forms: Crabwalk and the Efficacy of Political Narrative (online)
Response: Elias Kreuzmair (University of Siegen)
11.00
- Discussion of the chapter “Computer-Generated Text” by Annika Elstermann (2023)