Literature in Sync, 2018
Conference Program:
Eastern European Literary Studies in Sync
Hungarian and Romanian Transnational Literary Networks
WEDNESDAY, 24.10.2018
10:00 – 13:00 – Arrival
13:00 – 15:00 – Lunch (Casa Frieda Restaurant)
KEYNOTE ADDRESS (Faculty of Letters and Arts):
15:00 – 16:00
Zoltan Varga (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest)
Cultural Transfer, Intercultural Reception, Translation – Contemporary French Literary Influences in Hungary during the “State Socialism.” A Case Study: Camus/Kertész
PANEL 1
16:00 – 17:30 (Faculty of Letters and Arts)
Chair: Andrei Terian
János D. Mekis (University of Pécs), Krasznahorkai’s Travelling Concepts in Contexts: Original, Universal, Regional
Zsolt Bagi (University of Pécs), The Question of Equality in Style. Miklós Mészöly and Peter Nádas
Gábor Bezeczky (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest), The Confluence of Periodicals and Short Stories
18:00 – 20:00 (Astra Library, floor 5) tranzit.ro/Sibiu special event:
Galit Eliat (Tel Aviv, Amsterdam), Curating in Dark Times
moderator: Lia Perjovschi
20:00-22:00 – Dinner
THURSDAY, 25.10.2018
PANEL 2
10:00 – 11:30
Chair: Ștefan Baghiu
Vlad Pojoga (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu), A Survey of Poetry Translation in Romanian Periodicals (1990-2015)
Daniel Coman (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu), Deviant Psychologies in the Romanian Novel between the World Wars
Snejana Ung (West University of Timișoara), Remapping Post-Yugoslav Literature
11:30 – 12:00 – Coffee break
PANEL 3
12:00 – 14:00 (Faculty of Letters and Arts)
Chair: Ștefan Baghiu
Imre József Balázs (Babeș-Bolyai University), Alternative Histories of Hungarian Literature from Romania
Levente T. Szabó (Babeș-Bolyai University), Early Radical Eastern European Modernism? The First International Comparative Literary Journal as a Little Magazine
Emanuel Modoc (Sextil Pușcariu Research Institute of the Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca), Isms of East-Central European Avant-Gardes: Poetism, Activism, Integralism, Catastrophism
Gábor Tamás Molnár (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest), Transnational Tongues: Language and Food in Péter Esterházy
14:00 – 16:00 – Lunch (Casa Frieda Restaurant)
PANEL 4
16:00 – 17:30 (Faculty of Letters and Arts)
Chair: Vlad Pojoga
Adriana Stan (Sextil Pușcariu Research Institute of the Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca), Glocalizing Structuralism. Critical Hybrids in the Socialist East
Ștefan Baghiu (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu), Framing International Translation Network: The Eastern European Trends
Andrei Terian (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu), What Is a Minor Literature?
20:00-22:00 Dinner (Casa Frieda Restaurant)
FRIDAY, 26.10.2018
Departure of the guests
Organizers (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu):
Andrei Terian
Iulia Elena-Gîță
Ștefan Baghiu
Vlad Pojoga