Programme

Wednesday, July 6th 2022

3:00 p.m.Check-In
3:15 p.m.Conference OpeningWelcome
(Directors Andrew James Johnston & Anita Traninger)  
 3:30 – 5:30 p.m.Panel 1:  Communities in Time  
Andrew James Johnston, Beowulfian Anticipations: Wealhtheow’s Conflicted Modernisms

Bernd Roling, To Free a Soul from Hell: The Debate on Trajan’s Salvation between Late Antiquity and Early Modern Theology
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.Panel 2: Planetary Modernities, Modern Temporalities  
Carolyn Dinshaw, White Times: The Many Temporalities of the Arctic

Susan Stanford Friedman, “What we do not forget is forever in the future”: Modernities of Oceania   

Thursday, July 7th 2022

Friday, July 8th 2022

1:30 – 3:30 p.mPanel 3: Global Anticipations
Thomas Fröhlich, Shifting Temporalities in Chinese Discourses on the Modern West in the Early Twentieth Century and Early Twenty-First Century

Jahan Ramazani, World Elegy, Anticipatory Mourning, and Ecocritique
4:00 – 6:00 p.mPanel 4: Mapping Modernities  
Vilashini Cooppan, Time-Maps: Modernity, Spatiotemporality, and Postcolonial Futures

Prathama Banerjee, Disorienting Times and the Crisis of Modernity: South Asian Reflections  
6:30 – 8:30 p.mPanel 5: Projections
Sanja Bahun, Active Thought and Future Perfect: Reading History and Expression with the Belgrade Surrealist Circle

Ana Rocío Jouli, The Neo-Baroque as Writing Community
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.   Panel 6: Encounters  
Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, Encounters in Works on Paper: Beirut, Baghdad, Beijing

Alexandra Chreiteh, Anticipating the Arab(ic) Gothic: a Forgotten Prehistory of the Modern Novel 
4:30 – 6:30 p.m.Panel 7: Liminal Anticipations  
Simon Godart, Francis Bacon Against Anticipation

Mark Currie, Anticipation in an Age of Uncertainty