Programme The Return of the Narrative ENGLISH

Programme The Return of the Narrative 16-‐17 January 2014 Thursday 16 January Location: PC Hoofthuis ROOM 104 9.30-‐10.00 Registration + Coffee/Tea 10.00-‐10.50 Key note prof. dr. Ellen Rutten (professor of Slavonic languages and culture) '"I Cried Twice": Artistic Sincerity in the 21st Century' Location: PC Hoofthuis ROOM 115 Session I (chair Suze van der Poll) 11.00-‐11.30 Mara Maticevic “Return of the Subject in the contemporary Novel – Zadie Smith’s White Teeth” 11.30-‐12.00 Johannes Franzen “Debates over Realism vs. Postmodernism in contemporary Anglophone literature: Jonathan Franzen and Zadie Smith” 12.00-‐13.00 Lunch Session II 13.00-‐13.30 (chair Jim Jordan) Brînduşa Nicolaescu “A Return of the Narrative in The Lair by Norman Manea” 13.30-‐14.00 Marjolein Corjanus “Sincerity in recent Second World War narrative” 14.00-‐14.15 Coffee/Tea Session III 14.15-‐14.45 (chair Erik Schilling) Robin Hauenstein “Re-‐visiting the Empire: Christoph Ransmayr’s The Terrors of Ice and Darkness. A paradigmatic example of German historiographic metafiction” 14.45-‐15.15 Carina Berg
“ Traumatic Memory and Unreliable Narration in Anne Enright’s The Gathering”
18.00 Conference Dinner Friday 17 January Location: PC Hoofthuis ROOM 560 Session IV (chair Suze van der Poll) 10.00-‐10.30 Jonas Nesselhauf & Markus Schleich “Balzac in Baltimore: New Epic Realism in The Wire.” 10.30-‐11.00 Tobias Lambrecht “Christian Kracht’s para-‐historical novel Imperium between realist and postmodernist storytelling techniques “ 11.00-‐11.30 Coffee/Tea Session V 11.30-‐12.00 12.00-‐12.30 12.30-‐13.00 (chair Markus Schleich) Guido Snel Erik Schilling “Umberto Eco – From Postmodernism to Narrative” Jim Jordan “Diasporic fiction as political sandpit? Some observations on recent diasporic Narratives from Germany 13.00-‐14.00 Lunch Session VI 14.00-‐14.30 14.30-‐15.00 (chair Guido Snel) Nouzha Baba “Autobiographical Stories as Practicing a New Cultural Space: Mapping Memories, Rethinking Multiculturality in Naima El Bazaz’s Narrative” Suze van der Poll “Life narrative. Karl Ove Knausgård’s Min Kamp -‐ a move from fiction to reality?”

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