World Exhaustion
International Conference
World Exhaustion in Latin American Literatures and Cultures/El agotamiento del mundo en las literaturas y culturas de América Latina
June 29 & 30, 2023
9H – 19H
World Exhaustion/Agotamiento del mundo: this theoretical concept has emerged against the backdrop of today’s world culture in a distinctive and ambivalent way— one characterized by manifold post-global dynamics. In this congress, we aim to analyse the implications of the term “world exhaustion”, examining geopolitical and cultural effects that are particularly salient in the literatures and cultures in the Latin American region. The conceptual term is suitable for the ambivalence of the lived experiences of societies that have been marked by centuries of globalization— and for the artistic production that seeks to give form and meaning to these experiences.
ORGANIZATION AND CONCEPT
Gesine Müller (University of Cologne)
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado (Washington University in St. Louis)
This conference is part of the DFG Project “Post-globale Ästhetiken. Welt(er)schöpfung in lateinamerikanischen Literaturen des 21. Jahrhunderts”, with additional support of the Global South Studies Center Cologne (GSSC)
Venue:
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
Apostelnkloster 13-15
50672 Köln
Participation is possible in presence as well as via Zoom. If you are interested, please register until June 24 via email to Ceylan Küfner: ckarada2@uni-koeln.de
Conference program
June 29
09:00-09:15: Welcoming, Barbara Potthast (MECILA)
09.15-09.30: Introduction, Gesine Müller/Ignacio Sánchez Prado
Infrastructures and logistics of cultural production in the era of exhaustion
09.30-09.50: Ignacio Sánchez Prado (Washington University in St. Louis): “Estéticas a contrapelo del agotamiento del mundo”
09.50-10.10: Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra (Pennsylvania State University): “Festivals, Fellowships, Meetings, Programs: The Latin American Writer on the World-Literary Circuit”
10.10-10.30: Paulo Lemos Horta (NYU Abu Dhabi): “Literary Markets and Exhaustion: Latin American writing in Spain”
10.30-11.00: Discussion
11.00-11.30: Break
11.30-11.50: Gesine Müller (Cologne): “El agotamiento del mundo: Variantes literarias”
11.50-12.10: Reindert Dhondt (Utrecht): “The Exhaustion of the ‘Global Museum’: Narrating Looted Artefacts and Memories of Extractivism in Untold Microcosms: Latin American Writers in the British Museum (2021)”
12.10-12.30: Jan Knobloch (Cologne): “Paisajes más allá del Holoceno: Agotamientos y nuevos mapas en la producción literaria y artística argentina (Nieva, Villar Rojas, Giron)”
12.30-13.00: Discussion
The exhaustion of the world and its ideologies
14.30-14.50: Sophie Esch (Rice University): “Temporalities and Ends of Worlds in Rita Indiana”
14.50-15.10: Kristine Vanden Berghe (Liège): “El arte de esquivar las categorías (o el gesto gótico de Evelio Rosero)”
15.10-15.30: Claudia Hammerschmidt (Jena): “Agotamiento del mundo postglobal y activismo estético desde el tierra: poesía mapuche contemporánea”
15.30-16.00: Discussion
16.00-16.30: Break
16.30-16.50: Alain Álvarez Vega (Ciudad de México): “Emergencia y pensamiento ante el agotamiento del mundo: perspectivas decoloniales para la teoría literaria“
16.50-17.10: Catarina von Wedemeyer (Jena): “A queda do céu – El agotamiento de la explotación en el anarquismo decolonial de Maria Galindo y Davi Kopenawa”
17.10-17.40: Discussion
June 30
Extractivism and the world’s climate exhaustion
09.00-09.20: Carolyn Fornoff (Cornell University): “Reef Aesthetics for the Era of Exhaustion”
09.20-09.40: Liliana Gómez (Kassel): “Radical aesthetics: post-extractive eco-fictions in Latin American arts”
09.40-10.00: Yasmin Temelli (Siegen): “La hora del crimen: el Antropoceno. Pesquisas y desafíos en el eco-thriller argentino”
10.00-10.30: Discussion
10.30-11.00: Break
11.00-11.20: Kate Rigby (Cologne): “Safeguarding Creation and Countering (Neo-) colonialism in the Amazon”
11.20-11.40: Jobst Welge (Leipzig): “Extracción natural y escalas temporales en dos novelas de Juan Cárdenas”
11.40-12.00: Victoria Torres (Cologne): “Crónica de una relación agotada: Una lectura geocrítica de La lengua alemana (2018) de Julieta Mortati”
12.00-12.30: Discussion
12.30-13.00: Break
Exhaustion/creation and the imagination of worlds to come
14.30-14.50: Jorge Locane (Oslo): “El agotamiento de un mundo. La oportunidad de otros. Sobre Cuaderno de Pripyat y otras ficciones”
14.50-15.10: Sandra Kurfürst (Cologne): “Making futures in hip hop: peer production and the meaning of community”
15.10-15.30: Eduardo Ruiz Sosa (Barcelona): “Lengua rota/Lengua cansada: escuchar y escribir en el siglo XXI”
15.30-16.00: Discussion
16.00-16.30: Break
16.30-16.50: José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra (University of Houston, Texas): “Literaturas de lo infraordinario: un panorama de mundos no fundados en el acontecimiento”
16.50-17.10: Ramiro Segura (La Plata): “(Des)composiciones urbanas: imaginación y producción de lugar en contextos de abandono, agotamiento y fragmentación”
17.10-17:30: Susanne Klengel (FU Berlin): “Agotamiento y resurrección. El mundo según Sebastião Salgado en ‘La sal de la tierra’ de Wim Wenders”
17.30-17.50: Gustavo Guerrero (Cergy Paris Université): “Poesía electrónica y post-humanismo: explorando otro mundo”
17.50-18.30: Discussion