2017 marks 30 years since Herta Müller fled Romania, yet her work on the damaging effects of exploitative regimes and the dehumanisation of man by man sadly remains as relevant as ever. This conference aims to bring together leading Müller scholars as well as new voices, and to facilitate a collective reassessment of her work and its significance in the light of 20th- and 21st-century history, as well as the now over 40 spanned by her career.

Keynote speakers: Karin Bauer (McGill University); Norbert Otto Eke (Paderborn University)

Panels (Speakers):
- Communication beyond Language (Katja Schubert; Pavlo Shopin)
- Early Works (Christina Rossi; Anca Luca Holden)
- Blending (Ernő Csongor Kiss; Susanne Klagges-Millet; Mette Hoegg)
- Intertextuality and Comparative Literature (Paulian Petric; Monika Leipelt-Tsai; Maria-Ioana Marchidanu)
- Interculturality and its Impacts (Christina Markoudi; Jule C.A. Tjiemann; Áine McMurtry)
- Writing Romania (Dana Bizuleanu; Marius Conkan; Lázló V. Szabó)
- Weaving Images, Creating Meaning (Eva Kormann; Jenny Watson; Natalie Moser)
- Narrative Perspective (Anca Paunescu; Aleksandra Lendzinska; Michel Mallet)
- Literary Traditions (Julia Kölling; Roxana Nubert; Ana-Maria Dascălu-Romiţan; Hiroshi Yamamaoto)
- Playfulness (Grégoire Ming; Jürgen Brokoff)
- History, Ethics, Poetics (Iulia-Karin Patrut; Brigid Haines)
- Politics and Power (Ute Christine Weidenhiller; Monika Moyrer)
- Landscape and Memory (Friedmar Apel; Alexa Stoicescu; Hannah Vinter; Silvia Vezzoli)

Conference Organisers: Brigid Haines (Swansea University), Michel Mallet (Université de Monction) and Jenny Watson (Sheffield University)

This event is sponsored by the AHRC Open World Research Initiative, the Modern Humanities Research Association, the IMLR, Swansea University, and the Université de Moncton