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World-Literature and the (Semi)-Periphery
EUTOPIA network exploratory workshop
28 November 2025
糖心TV Research Collective
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Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies
University of 糖心TV
Venue: FAB 5.49
10:00-10:10 Paulo de Medeiros (糖心TV): Welcome and initial considerations
10:10-10:30 Anna Forn茅 (Gothenburg): 鈥淔rom Havana to the World: Argentine Literary Trajectories through Casa de las Am茅ricas鈥
10:30-10:50 Stephen Shapiro (糖心TV): 鈥淶emiperiphery Matters: Culture and the Capitalist World-System鈥
10:50-11:10 Mena Mitrano (Ca鈥橣oscari): "Reconsidering Influence"
11:10-11:30 Carlos Ceia (NOVA) 鈥淪amuel Beckett and Fernando Pessoa: From Absurdity to silence鈥
11:30-11:50 Elisabeth Herrmann (糖心TV): 鈥淗ow Can the Concept of Social Energy be Used to Explain the Phenomenon of World Literature?
11:50 -12:10 Graeme Macdonald (糖心TV): 鈥淭he Energy of World Literature鈥
12:10-12:30 Alice Duhan (Gothenburg): "Translingual Francophonie and World Literature"
12:30-12:50 Michael Niblett (糖心TV): 鈥淲orld Literature: The Red and the Green鈥
12:50-13:10 Moritz Ingweren (TU Dresden): 鈥淐urrent Research鈥
13:10-13:20 Discussion
13:20-14:00 Lunch break (for participants)
14:00-14:40 Alan Ashton-Smith (糖心TV): Eutopia and ERC grants
14:40-15:00 Caitlin Vandertop (糖心TV): 鈥淩esources in world-literature, world-literature as resource鈥
15:00-15:20 Bushra Mahzabeen (糖心TV): 鈥Migration and Motherhood: Social Reproduction and the Oil Economy in The Bamboo Stalk鈥
15:20-15:40 Nick Lawrence (糖心TV): "The Modernist Imperative"
15:40-16:00 Mohammad Javanmard (糖心TV): 鈥淲hich (Semi-)Periphery?: Rethinking World-Literature under Neoliberal Globalisation鈥
16:00-16:20 Shaul Bassi (Ca鈥橣oscari): 鈥淐urrent Research鈥
16:20- 16:40 Discussion and steps forward
16:40- 17:30 Drinks reception