Workshop: The Political Novel in Europe and the Challenges of the Digital Era
By: Aurore Peyroles, Ivana Perica, Johanna-Charlotte Horst, Christoph Schaub, Anna Murashova, Isabell A. Meske, Joana Roqué Pesquer, Sophie Salvo, Elias Kreuzmair, Verónica Paula Gómez, Liam Connell, Tara Talwar Windsor, Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis, Inna Häkkinen, Anna-Lena Eick
Recording of the research workshop that took place in Berlin on 16 and 17 January 2025
(Day 1)
(Day 2)
Thursday, 16 Jan 2025
14.00
Transcultural Perspectives and Geopolitics
Chair: Patrick Eiden-Offe (ZfL)
- Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles (ZfL): Welcome & Introduction
- Anna-Lena Eick (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz): After Digitalisation. Taking Stock from a Transcultural Perspective (online)
Response: Tara Talwar Windsor (University of Cambridge) - Verónica Paula Gómez (Freie Universität Berlin): Beyond the Idea of Nation: The Political Belongings of Electronic Literature in the Interzone
Response: Liam Connell (University of Brighton)
16.15
Digitalisation and the Nation
Chair: Christoph Schaub (University of Vechta)
- Inna Häkkinen (University of Helsinki): ‘The Communist Party Lies as Gutted as Reactor Four’: Collaborative Storytelling of Profiling ‘State Agency’ in Chernobyl Fiction (online)
Response: Rossie Artemis (University of Nicosia)
17.00
- Discussion of Claudia Kozak’s essay “Experimental Electronic Literature from the Souths” (2020)
Friday, 17 Jan 2025
9.30
Facts and Fictions
Chair: Johanna-Charlotte Horst (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
- Anna Murashova (University of Tartu): Digitalisation of Novel: Practices, Hierarchies, Texts. The Russian Case
Response: Isabell Meske (Hannover) - Sophie Salvo (University of Chicago) : Impotent Forms: Crabwalk and the Efficacy of Political Narrative (online)
Response: Elias Kreuzmair (University of Siegen)
11.00
- Discussion of the chapter “Computer-Generated Text” by Annika Elstermann (2023)