International Conference: "Re-mapping World Literature. Estéticas, mercados y epistemologías entre América Latina y el Sur Global" - Universität zu Köln, January 31 and February 1, 2017
The dynamics of a (western) center and a (southern) periphery play a decisive role in the current debate on the origin processes of World Literature: On the one hand, such dynamics – which have evolved throughout history and are orientated towards the power centers of the publishing industry – still have a lasting effect on the research; on the other hand, demands for a change in perspective are becoming increasingly stronger. For world literature from Latin America this has the following consequence: It is not only the traditional research of Latin American literatures with regard to its transatlantic relations to Europe and the relationships within America to its northern neighbors that belongs on the center stage. Further illumination is necessary on literary relationships beyond established lines of thinking and perspectives which established themselves outside of the traditional coordinates in the past and/or are still expanding at present: What is it that connects Latin American literatures with other literatures of the Global South? How can a new compass for world literary navigation be found which is not primarily orientated by/ the known poles and meridians?
Tuesday, 31 January
Place: University of Cologne, Seminargebäude, Room 004
09:00 – 09:30 Welcome and Introduction:
Professor Stefan Grohé (Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities)
Professor Michael Bollig (Global South Studies Center Cologne)
Gesine Müller, Jorge J. Locane and Benjamin Loy
World Literature and the Global South: Epistemologies
09:30 – 10:00 Vittoria Borsò (Düsseldorf): “Orientalismo y realismo mágico al revés. Juan Rulfo y Salman Rushdie o los desafíos del Sur global para la literatura mundial”
10:00 – 10:30 Eduardo Devés Valdés (Santiago de Chile): “Hacia una teoría de la circulación, con énfasis en la circulación de las ideas”
10:30 – 11:00 Robert Stockhammer (Munich): “‘World’, ‘Earth’, or ‘Globe’, from an African point of view”
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:00 Ignacio Sánchez Prado (St. Louis): “África en la imaginación literaria mexicana: exotismo, desconexión y los límites materiales de la ‘Epistemología del sur’”
12:00 – 12:30 Hermann Herlinghaus (Freiburg): "Sobre lo utópico, lo fantástico y lo ecológico. Posicionamientos literarios y existenciales”
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch break
Processes of circulation in the Global South: Book markets
14:30 – 15:00 Gesine Müller (Cologne): “Re-mapping World Literature desde Macondo”
15:00 – 15:30 Ignacio López-Calvo (Merced): “Post-World War II, Lusophone, Nikkei Discourse and Cultural Production in Brazil and Japan”
15:30 – 16:00 Harry Garuba (Cape Town): “Travelling into the World: African Literature and Modes of Entry into World Literature”
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 17:00 Jorge J. Locane (Cologne): “Por una sociología de las ausencias en la literatura mundial”
17:00 – 17:30 Gustavo Guerrero (Paris): "El sur de Caillois y el sur de Sarduy : reflexiones sobre dos colecciones latinoamericanas de Gallimard : La Croix du Sud y La Nouvelle Croix du Sud"
18:00 – 19:00 Reception
Evening Lecture:
19:00 – 19:30 Keynote Ottmar Ette (Potsdam): “TransArea Tanger: The City and the Literatures of the World"
19:45 “Tradición y traducción”: Lecture and debate with Rodrigo Blanco Calderón (Paris/Caracas) and Gustavo Guerrero (Éditions Gallimard); Presentation: Benjamin Loy
Wednesday, February 1
Place: University of Cologne, Seminargebäude, Room 004
Processes of circulation in the Global South: Institutions and translation politics
09:30 – 10:00 Alexandra Ortiz Wallner (Berlin): “Cosmopolitanismos/Orientalismos: configuraciones tempranas del Sur global desde América Latina”
10:00 – 10:30 Wei Teng (Guangzhou): “Pablo Neruda in China: translation between National and International Politics”
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 Susanne Klengel (Berlin): “El Derecho a la Literatura (mundial y traducida). Sobre el sueño translatológico de la UNESCO”
11:30 – 12:00 César Domínguez (Santiago de Compostela): “Literatura mundial en biblioburro. Traducción en Aracataca global”
12:00 – 12:30 Stefan Helgesson (Stockholm): “The world-literary formation of Antonio Candido”
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch break
Writing the South: Literary Aesthetics between Latin America and the Global South
14:30 – 15:00 Daniel Link (Buenos Aires) “Rubén Darío: la sutura de los mundos”
15:00 – 15:30 Michael Niblett (Warwick): “The Long 1970s: Neoliberalism, Narrative Form, and Slum Ecology in the work of Marlon James and Paulo Lins”
15:30 – 16:00 Tahia Abdel Nasser (Cairo): “Between Latin America and the Arab World: Héctor Abad Faciolince and Rodrigo Rey Rosa in Egypt and Morocco”
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 17:00 Benjamin Loy (Cologne): “(I can’t get no) Satisfiction – cansancio filológico y crisis afectivas en la obra de J.M. Coetzee y Roberto Bolaño”
17:00 – 17:30 Héctor Hoyos (Stanford): “Global Supply Chain Literature vs. Extractivism”
18:00 Book presentation: Ottmar Ette, Gesine Müller (Ed.): “New Orleans and the Global South. Caribbean, Creolization, Carnival.“ (Hildesheim: Olms 2017)
Organization and Concept:
Gesine Müller
Jorge Locane
Benjamin Loy
A cooperation of “Reading Global. Constructions of World Literature and Latin America” (Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council) and Global South Studies Center (GSSC)
Venue:
University of Cologne
Seminargebäude
Universitätsstraße 37
50931 Cologne
Further Information: www.readingglobal.de