Symposium | Literature, Prizeworthiness, and Kinship Across Borders
Program
Monday, 25. November 2024EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities" (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 15 14195 Berlin; Room: 00.07)
10:00 – 15:00 | Meeting of the Research Group
From 15:00 I Tour of Berlin Book Stores (Kinship focus, e.g. “She Said”)
19:00 I Dinner
Tuesday, 26. November 2024EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities" (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 15 14195 Berlin; Room: 00.05)
10:00 | Welcome, Caroline Kögler (FU Berlin)
PANEL ONE: Prizeworthiness and Kinship Beyond Literary Nationalism
10:15 I Julie Rak (U of Alberta) Heavy Industry: Kate Beaton’s Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands—Class Politics and Awards Culture
11:00 I Coffee Break
11:15 I Alex Dane (U of Melbourne): ‘Fluctuating Prestige’ and the Temporality of Circulation
12:00 I Victoria Wirtz (FU Berlin): Literary Prizes and Queer Working-Class Kinship
12:45 I Lunch Break
PANEL TWO: Prizeworthiness and Cultures of Recommendation
14:00 I Corrina Norrick-Rühl (U of Münster): Building Reading Communities, Shaping Genres? The Goodreads Choice Awards
14:45 I Danielle Fuller (U of Alberta): Practices of Value/Valued Practices: Readers and Recommendation Cultures
15:30 I Coffee Break
16:00 I Chiara Bullen (U of Stirling): Pre-Publication Literary Award Culture, Corporate Social Responsibility and Cultural Production
16:45 – c. 17:15 I Take-aways from Panels One & Two
19:00 I Conference Dinner
Wednesday, 27. November 2024EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities" (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 15 14195 Berlin; Room: 00.05)
9:30 I Coffee
PANEL THREE: Prizeworthiness and Forums of Cohesion/Diversion
9:45 | Stevie Marsden (Edinburgh Napier U): Levelling Up: Class[ifying] Prizeworthiness
10:30 I Alexander Starre (FU Berlin) Paradoxes of Prestige: Debunking and Endorsing the Literary Prize Economy in US Book Club Fiction
11:15 I Coffee Break
11:45 | Caroline Kögler (FU Berlin): Prizeworthiness as Literary Affect in Publishing Meta-Narratives
12:30 | Lunch Break
PANEL FOUR: Prizewhorthiness and Dis/Affection
13:30 | Elisa Haf (FU Berlin): "Come and Get Me": Prizeworthiness as Affective Investment in the Novels of Sally Rooney
14:15 | Beth Driscoll (U of Melbourne): What Readers Do: Aesthetic and Moral Practices of a Post-Digital Age
15:15 – c. 16:00 I Closing Plenary Discussion
Time & Location
Nov 25, 2024 - Nov 27, 2024
EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities"
Otto-von-Simson-Straße 15
14195 Berlin; Room: 00.05, 00.07
Further Information
E-Mail: caroline.koegler@fu-berlin.de