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Video: The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era

By: Christoph Schaub, Johanna-Charlotte Horst, Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles

Recording of the research workshop that took place in Berlin on 16 and 17 January 2025
 
 
Day 1: https://youtu.be/zghXQf6RUBs?si=Kvq5PTuuwWLz4av7
Day 2: https://youtu.be/sO0_Y7PuW-c?si=iP45HqQn9rAfaTT-
 

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)

Related topics

Authoritarianism

Digital Modernism

Critical Digital Humanities

Electronic Literature

Computer-Generated Texts

Geopolitics

Digitalisation

Technology

Artificial Intelligence

Digital Era