La conferencia final del Global Novel Research Project reúne a académicos que realizan investigaciones sobre la novela contemporánea desde una perspectiva global, de cualquier tradición literaria y lingüística. El tema de la conferencia se alinea con el objetivo del proyecto. Nos interesa una perspectiva nueva, más integrada y descentralizada en el estudio del género emergente de la novela global, definida como una forma narrativa que aspira a representar y pensar el mundo contemporáneo desde una perspectiva global. Este nuevo enfoque nos ayudará a comprender mejor cómo la novela global contribuye, discute y construye discursos globales a través de poéticas exploratorias específicas. Al mismo tiempo, ayudará a mapear la circulación desigual de estas obras dentro del espacio literario. Trabajando desde una perspectiva comparada, la conferencia busca cruzar los enfoques poético y sociológico del género, cuya adopción separada está produciendo hoy definiciones contradictorias y simplificaciones. A través de este cruce pretendemos comprender cómo las novelas contemporáneas abordan cuestiones globales, como la violencia global, la desigualdad, la migración o el cambio climático, así como cómo circulan las novelas en el mercado literario internacional. Nuestro objetivo es tanto contribuir al debate global sobre novelas como cuestionar su conceptualización, alcance y comportamiento.
Lugar
Barcelona
Espanya
Cuándo
24/04/2024 - 26/04/2024
Organiza
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Programa
Wednesday, 24 April 2024
9:30am - 10 am | Opening Session
Welcome addresses
Introduction - Organizers
10am - 11am | Opening Keynote: Debjani Ganguly (University of Virginia), Planetary Realism, Science Studies and Speculative Form
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:15 Panel 1 | The Global Novel in Theory
11:30 - 11:50 Nadia Butt (Goethe University Frankfurt), The Global Novel and Its Theory
11:50 - 12:10 Aurea Mota (Universitat Abat Oliva), Where are the Literary Boundaries of the Globe? A Discussion about Circulation of Global Novels in Terms of Gender, Race, and Place of Origin
12:10 - 12:30 Jernej Habjan (Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts), The Global More-than-Novel
12:30 - 13:15 Discussion
13:15-15 Lunch Break
15:00 - 16:45 Panel 2 | Local-Global Tensions
15:00 - 15:20 Petra Bakos (Central European University in Wien), Local Borders – Global Frontiers: Decolonial Perspectives Interrogating the Global in the Contemporary Novel
15:20 - 15:40 Natalya Bekhta (Tampere Institute for Advanced Study), The Global Novel in Contemporary Ukraine
15:40 - 16:00 Ana Kvirikashvili (IN3-UOC), The Ambivalences in the Internationalization of Georgian Literature: The Case of Nino Haratischwili and The Eighth Life
16:00- 16:45 Discussion
16:45 - 17 Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:45 Panel 3 | Transnational-Translation Processes and Poetics of the Novel
17:00 - 17:20 Albert Jornet Somoza (Universitat de Barcelona) and Elsie Cohen (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), Transclass Literature as Global Novel: A French-Spanish Comparative Perspective
17:20 - 17:40 Laura Fólica (IN3-UOC), ‘The Task of the (Woman) Translator’: Between the Fictional Turn of Translation Studies and the Global Novel
17:40 - 18:00 Jorge J. Locane (University of Oslo), Tropical Norway. On Mengele Zoo, by Gert Nygårdshaug
18:00 - 18:45 Discussion
DINNER
Thursday, 25 April 2024
10am - 11am | Keynote 2: Marco Caracciolo (Ghent University), Algorithmic Uncertainty and the Global Scale in the Contemporary Anglophone Novel
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:15 Panel 4 | Worlding Narrative Modes
11:30 - 11:50 Chi-she Li (National Taiwan University), A New Mode of Global-Novel Narration: Attention to Murmurs in Ruth Ozeki’s The Book of Form and Emptiness
11:50 - 12:10 Francesco Eugenio Barbieri (University of Bergamo), Contemporary Japanese Literature and Global Appreciation: Reframing Kawakami Mieko’s Fiction
12:10 - 12: 30 Jordi Serrano-Muñoz (UOC), Care, Nature, and Dystopia: Affective Ecocriticism of Tawada Yōko’s Kentōshi and Fernanda Trías’ Mugre Rosa
12:30 - 13:15 Discussion
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch Break
15:00 - 16:45 Panel 5 | Editorial Practices for a Global Readership
15:00 - 15:20 Diana Roig-Sanz (IN3-UOC), The Global Novel and the Branding of Hybrid Voices: the Cases of Samanta Schweblin and Ariana Harwicz
15:20 - 15:40 Joan Vázquez Salvador (UB), Blurbs: The Quest for Global Readership in English and French Literary Markets
15:40 - 16:00 Paulo Lemos Horta (NYU), The Multiverse of Delirium: The Editor and the Latin American Novel in Translation
16:00 - 16:45 Discussion
ACTIVITY
Friday, 26 April 2024
10am - 11am | Keynote 3: Treasa De Loughry (University College Dublin), Realist Form, the Frankfurt School, and Interrogating “Polycrisis” in Contemporary Global Literature
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 13:00 Panel 6 | An Ocean Planet in Contemporary Novels
11:15 - 11:35 Aina Vidal-Pérez (UIB), Mediterraneanism Meets the Anthropocene. On Authenticity and Global Green Discourse in Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees
11:35 - 11:55 Ignacio Martínez Armas (UIB), Ocean’s Vengeance against Humanity: Catastrophic Villains in The Abbys (1989), Ponyo (2009), and Aquaman (2018) under Ecocinema Lenses
11:55 - 12:15 Laia Ventayol-García (UIB), The Wall: Virtuality as Potentiality
12:15 - 13:00 Discussion
13:00 - 13:30 Final Discussion and Farewell