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