Literary Value: Artistic, Academic and Critical Practices  

Annual Conference of EXC »Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective«

In englischer Sprache.

All events are open to the public and will be held in English. For organizational reasons, we kindly ask you to register: literary-value@temporal-communities.de.

Alle Veranstaltungen sind öffentlich und finden in englischer Sprache statt. Aus organisatorischen Gründen wird um Anmeldung freundlich gebeten: literary-value@temporal-communities.de.

The Annual Conference 2024 of the Cluster of Excellence investigates practices, contexts and agents of literary evaluation. The assignment of value to texts and artworks within the cultural sphere, the academic world and on the global market is deeply entangled with the dynamics of power and gatekeeping, inclusion and exclusion. As such, notions about literature and literary value are subject to continuous explicit or implicit negotiation, challenge and subversion. The three conference sections ›Artistic Practices‹, ›Academic Practices‹ and ›Critical Practices‹ aim to develop a praxeological perspective on the various ways in which literary value is produced and questioned within the respective fields.

Program
Wednesday, July 3

2:30–3:00 PM | Welcome
»Literary Value: An Introduction«
With Florian Fuchs, Michael Gamper, Till Kadritzke, Alexandra Ksenofontova, Anna Luhn & Jutta Müller-Tamm

3:00–4:30 PM | Conversations
»Valuation in Literary Inrastructures«
Caroline Kögler & Madhu Krishnan: »Writing and Publishing Postcolonial Literatures: Marginalised Aesthetics?«
Sabine Erbrich & Chris Möller: »Nothing but Trouble? Gender in Literary Production and Publishing«

5:00–6:00 PM | Roundtable und Audience Discussion
»Disenfranchised Perspectives in Literary Infrastructures: New Values and/or New Voices?«
With Sabine Erbrich, Lea Hopp, Caroline Kögler, Madhu Krishnan & Chris Möller
Chair: Alexandra Ksenofontova