8 July: Constructing Worlds of Literature

Aerial photograph of the Suez Canal in 2015. Wikimedia Commons.

Part One
14:30-16:00 Berlin
(5:30-7:00 Los Angeles, 8:30-10:00 NYC, 9:30-11:00 Buenos Aires, 18:00-19:30 New Delhi)

Moderated by Bart Soethaert

with presentations by Susanne Frank and Jutta Müller-Tamm.

Part Two
17:00-19:30 Berlin
(8:00-10:30 Los Angeles, 11:00-13:30 NYC, 12:00-14:30 Buenos Aires, 20:30-23:00 New Delhi)

Moderated by Dustin Breitenwischer
and Samira Spatzek

with presentations by Aamir Mufti, Rebecca Walkowitz, and David Damrosch.

Access both sessions via the Digital Meeting Room.

Part One Presentations

Part Two Presentations

Susanne Frank
“Competing Claims to World Literature as Heritage (The Mid-1930s and Beyond)”
Abstract & Bio

Jutta Müller-Tamm
“‘One heritage; one future; one city. Two sectors.’ Building International Literary Communities in 1960’s Berlin (East and West)”
Abstract & Bio

Aamir Mufti
“The Nomos of World Literature”
Abstract & Bio

Rebecca Walkowitz
Abstract & Bio
“English as an Additional Language”

David Damrosch
“What Isn’t World Literature?”
Abstract & Bio


Reading by Sergio Raimondi
Moderator: Susanne Klengel.

20:15 Berlin
(11:15 Los Angeles, 14:15 NYC, 15:15 Buenos Aires, 23:45 New Delhi)
Link to reading Hosted by Literarisches Colloquium Berlin.

21:00 Berlin
(12:00 Los Angeles, 15:00 NYC, 16:00 Buenos Aires, midnight New Delhi)
Link to Discussion session
hosted by the Cluster of Excellence “Temporal Communities”.

Sergio Raimondi
On Archaea, Seagulls and Gas Pipelines
Reading and conversation with Sergio Raimondi and Susanne Klengel
Abstract & Bio.

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Worlds of Literature: Competing Notions of the Global