Online conference of the Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU)

Zoom link (with a waiting room): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89804718698

Program

Thursday, 17 March 2022

09:30–09:40 CET: Introduction:

Jernej Habjan (ZRC SAZU): Mountaineers as Writers, Writers as Mountaineers

09:40–11:15 CET: The Alps as a Style

Johann Georg Lughofer (U of Ljubljana): Alpine Clichés and Critiques in German-Language Literature

Sophia Mehrbrey (Saarland U): Alpine Borderscapes: Transcultural Memory of World War II in Mountain Literature

Marijan Dović (ZRC SAZU): Slovenian Mountains: The Birth of a Mythical Site from the Spirit of Poetry

11:30–13:30 CET: The Alpine Style in the Himalaya I: The Basics

Marek Pacukiewicz (U of Silesia): Liminal Literature and the School of Vertical Promotion

Ewa Grzęda (U of Wrocław): A History of Polish Himalayan Literature

Peter Mikša (U of Ljubljana): Slovenian Routes and Books on Eight-Thousanders

15:00–17:00 CET: The Alpine Style in the Himalaya II: Examples

Jernej Habjan (ZRC SAZU): Slovenian Mountaineering Literature: A Network

Alenka Koron (ZRC SAZU): Vertical Trials in Three Narrative Texts of Slovenian Mountaineering Literature

Przemysław Kaliszuk (Maria Curie-Skłodowska U): Tadeusz Piotrowski’s Account of the Polish–Yugoslav Expedition to Tirich Mir

Elżbieta Dutka (U of Silesia): The Four-handed Mountaineering Autobiography by Olga Morawska and Piotr Morawski

Friday, 18 March 2022

16:30–18:30 CET: Recent Books in the Field, and Beyond (Chair: Amrita Dhar [Ohio State U])

Julie Rak (U of Alberta): On Ang Tharkay’s Sherpa and Nimsdai Purja’s Beyond Possible

Harald Höbusch (U of Kentucky): Beyond the “Mountain of Destiny”: In the Face of Tragedy—Nanga Parbat and National Socialist Radio

Martina Kopf (U of Mainz): René Daumal, Le Mont Analogue (1952)

Delphine Moraldo (ENS de Lyon): The Spirit of Mountaineering: Towards a Sociology of Excellence