Glocal Places of Literature

We concluded our conference with the 6th and last panel on "Placelessness – Hybridity – Aesthetics". Many thanks to Anna Savitskaya, MaryAnn Snyder-Körber and Graciela Susana Boruszko for their extremely interesting talks, and a big thank to Dr. Vanessa Künnemann for chairing the panel that was full of intriguing discussions!

Dr. Vanessa Künnemann started the second panel of the day just a couple of minutes ago! We are all very excited and looking forward to hearing the talks on placelessness – hybridity – aesthetics!

The first panel of the last day has offered a place for great discussions, we are not really sorry that it took "a little" longer than it was expected!

Many thanks to Chandrika Kumar, Sandra Rühr and Lebriz Sönmez for taking part in this interesting panel. And also Barbara Danti for charing the panel for us!

Today's last panel " Cities – Materiality – Transformations" is just finished! Many thanks to Anja Johannsen, Mart Velsker and Laura McAleese for these great talks! And also thanks to Anna Savitskaya for chairing this panel!

If you have time tomorrow, do visit our last panels and join our interesting discussions!

Barbara Danti and Sambuddha Jash shared the third panel of our conference: "Contexts – Production – Audiences" and Avrina Jos Joslin Thambi chaired the panel. Barbara Danti talked about Irish Literature and abstract places of literature whereas Sambuddha Jash shared his research on English as colonial tool of hegemony, and its problematic relationship with the Indian vernaculars.

It was an exciting panel for all of us!

Our third panel which was on "Institutions - Distribution – Access" is about to come to an end. Marleen Knipping and Jack McMartin are answering the questions about their research papers. Interesting discussions on the side of institutions and the 'money' part of this field!

And a thank you to Tina Helbig for charing this interesting panel!

We just finished the first panel which was focused on Languages – Circulation – Markets. Pedram Maniee (Tehran), Thomas Wisniewski (Harvard) and Ene Reet-Soovik have shared their very interesting papers with us.
Right now, Susann Köhler, chair of the panel, is leading the discussions for this panel.

Our second keynote lecture is just delivered by Johan Schimanski and Ulrike Spring! They touched upon several topics such as transnational and transcultural dynamics of autor museums by providing examples, like "Museum of Innocence", from all over the world.
Their panel was chaired by Dr. Frauke Reitemeier.

Nicola Watson, one of our Keynote speakers, gave her amazing keynote lecture titled "Writing on Location: or, Why We Love to Catch an Author at Their Desk".

Conference organisers Marleen Knipping and Julia Kroll welcomed our guests at Glocal Places of Literature! And right after the opening remarks, all our guests and speakers were welcomed by Professor Dr. Barbara Schaff!
We had a great start!

We are all set and looking forward to welcoming you! 🎉🎉🎉

Are you curious about the papers that will be presented in our conference? Do you want to know more about our speakers? Visit our website for the answers!

Speakers & Abstracts PEDRAM MANIEE is currently studying English Literature at M.A level at Shahid Beheshti University of Tehran, Iran and his field of researches and interests has almost been limited to cultural studi…