Programme

Wednesday, May 25

4:00-5:30 Identity and Community: Terms and Questions
University College, Room 224a

  • C. Mihăilescu, "I Dent, therefore We are"
  • A. Esterhammer, "Improvising Identity"

6:00 Opening Reception in University College, Room 225

Thursday, May 26

9:00 - 11:00 Narrative and Autobiography
University College, Room 224a
Chair: Z. Ben-Porat

  • B. Pettersson, "Narrative and Moral Identity in Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction"
  • S.E. Larsen, "Cohesion through Narrative: A Literary Paradox"
  • V. Biti, "Narrative Identification"

11:30-1:00 Case Studies of Autobiographical Identity-Construction
University College, Room 224a
Chair: R. Nethersole

  • U. Kistner, "(Mis-)Taken Identities: Myths of Origin between Psycho- and Sociogenesis"
  • C. Barbu, "On the Various Uses of a Poor Musician's Art"

Lunch: To be served in University College, Room 225

2:30 - 4:30 (Anti-)Community
University College, Room 224a
Chair: A. Esterhammer

  • J. Plug, "Community Subjects"
  • A. Fuenzalida, "The Cold Sweat of Junk: De Quincey, Burroughs, and the Construction of the Anti-Community"
  • J. Vanderheide, "The Johnson Family and Margaras Unlimited: William Burroughs' Transmigrational Communities"

5:00 - 7:00 Identity-Construction through Interactions of Texts and Readers
University College, Room 224a
Chair: S.E. Larsen

  • A. Pettersson, "The Formative Influence of Literature: Analogical Thinking and Identification"
  • W. Hamarneh, "Is an Islamic Identity Possible?"
  • H. Herlinghaus, "In Search for Communal Experience: Storytelling vs. Modern Discourse"

Friday, May 27

9:00 - 11:00 Identity in Global Contexts
University College, Room 114
Chair: J. Plug

  • P. Bartoloni, "Translation, Memory, and Identity"
  • D. Brydon and J. Schagerl, "Empire Girls and Global Girls: A Dialogue on the Shifting Sites of Canadian Identity, 1905-2005"
  • R. Nethersole, "Changing Si(gh)t(e)s: Considering Critical Cosmopolitanism"

11:30 - 1:00 Communal Consensus and Post-Consensus
University College, Room 114
Chair: V. Biti

  • S. Park, "Openness, Contextualization, and Identity"
  • G. Kálmán, "National Identity and National Community: Canons, Interpretations, Choices"

Lunch: at Michael's in Somerville House

2:30 - 4:30 Interpretive Communities
University College, Room 114
Chair: C. Mihăilescu

  • R. Darnell, "First Nations Identity and Nomadic Continuities"
  • Z. Ben-Porat, "Identity Crisis in Contemporary Israeli Poetry"
  • R. Stockhammer, "Linguistic Conditions of Identity; or, about a Genocide"

5:00 - 7:00 ICLA Committee on Literary Theory Business Meeting
University College, Room 114