The 5th Annual Conference "Futures of Doing Literature" will focus on the potentialities, strategies, expectations, challenges and imaginaries for doing literature, both as a scholarly practice and as a social, material-aesthetic and performative form of expression, communication and negotiation. We will explore how doing literature enables mediation, critique and action; how it enacts different notions of participation, impact, agency and literary timing, always creating temporalities of its own. 

In addition, by placing contributions from Cluster members, associated researchers and fellows at the core of the programme, the conference will provide an opportunity to reflect on the collaborative achievements and developments throughout Temporal Communities' first funding phase. 

Programme

9 July

12:30 | Registration and Coffee

13:00–13:30 | Conference Opening

13:30–15:30 | Panel: Hierarchies of the Past, Entanglements of the Future
With Suja Sawafta, Mark Schmitt and Amina Zarzi

15:30–16:00 | Break

16:00–17:30 | Roundtable: Reading Matters – Literature as Social and Political Practice
With Laura Bieger, Heike Geißler and Hanan Natour

17:30–18:30 | Dinner Break

18:30–20:00 | Nocturne/Blue Light Moon: Public Reading and Interview with Yvonne A. Owuor
Followed by a Conversation with Ana Rocío Jouli

10 July

11:00–12:30 | New Voices, Next Turns: Emerging Futures in Literary Research
With Julius Böhm, Melina Brüggemann, Carla Dalbeck, Dhritii Dutta, Chiara Liso, Nicolas Longinotti, Pedro Mora Madriñán, Omid Mashhadi, Sulthana Nasrin, Elena Patrika, Ananya Punyatoya, Nathalie Rennhack, Anton Terhechte, Laura Untner and Victoria Wirtz

12:30–13:30 | Lunch Break

13:30–15:30 | Panel: Infinite Texts – Digital Editions as Matters of Time
With Marwa M. Ahmed, Gimena del Rio Riande, Till Grallert, Beatrice Gründler and Christopher Ohge

15:30–16:00 | Break

16:00–17:30 | Doing Literature: A Fishbowl Conversation on Literary Futures
Initiated by Dîlan Canan Çakir, Rebecca Hardie, Viktor J. Illmer and Stefanie Messner

17:30–18:30 | Dinner Break

18:30–20:00 | Roundtable: Past Perspectives on Contingent Futures for the Performing Body – Anarchival, Anarchitectural and Queering Practices
With Jack Halberstam, Friederike Schäfer, Caroline Lillian Schopp and Jennifer Sichel

11 July

11:00–13:00 | Panel: The Futures of Doing Publishing / Publishing as Doing Literature
With Janneke Adema, Johanna Maierski, Niki Rhyner and Olga Schubert

13:00–14:00 | Lunch Break

14:00–16:00 | Panel: Literature Augmented
With Anke Finger, Vadim Keylin and Carolin Schmidt

16:00–16:30 | Break

16:30–17:30 | Constellations Walkthrough

17:30–18:00 | Conference Round Up

18:00–19:00 | International Partners Reception with Flying Buffet

19:00 | Summer Party with the Adriano Celentano Gebäckorchester

Conference Organisation Team (Research Area 5: Building Digital Communities):
Dîlan Canan Çakir, Frank Fischer, Rebecca Hardie, Viktor J. Illmer and Bart Soethaert.Venue: silent green Kulturquartier, Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin

How to get there:
We recommend using public transport. The silent green Kulturquartier is just a few minutes' walk from:
S+U Wedding (U6, S41, S42, S46) – approx. 400 m
U Leopoldplatz (U6, U9) – approx. 600 m
Nettelbeckplatz (bus lines 247 and M27) – approx. 250 m

Access to the venue is step-free.

Contact Information

Please register by 22 June 2025 via the registration form.

You can download the programme here:
Programme_EXC 2020 Annual Conference_Futures of Doing Literature.pdf

Contact Email

communications@temporal-communities.de

URL

https://www.temporal-communities.de/explore/listen-read-watch/futures-of-doing-…

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Programme Annual Conference Futures of Doing Literature