The Transnational and Transmedial Circulation of Literature

Conference organized by Gisèle Sapiro (EHESS) and Tristan Leperlier (EHESS / Paris 5), with the support of the Paris IAS

The first day of the conference will take place at the EHESS, Amphithéâtre François Furet.
The second day will take place at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study.

Presentation

Après deux rencontres entre chercheurs en littérature et en sociologie de l’EHESS et d’Oxford, avec pour thématiques le « champ littéraire transnational » puis le « cosmopolitisme », ce colloque, à cheval entre sociologie et littérature comparée, croise la problématique du transnational avec celle du transmédial, soit le passage des œuvres entre différents supports (écrits, performés, filmés…).

Program

Monday, 22 January 2018
EHESS, 105 Bd Raspail, 75006 Paris
Amphithéâtre François Furet

17:00    Introduction
Gisèle Sapiro (CNRS-EHESS) and Tristan Leperlier (Univ. Paris 5)

17:10 - 17:40   Vérité cinématique: Reality effects in transnational and global literature and film
David Damrosch (Harvard)
Chair: Jean-Marie Schaeffer

17:40 - 19:00   Round table: Elleke Boehmer (Oxford), Stefano-Maria Evangelista (Oxford), Laura Marcus (Oxford), Tiphaine Samoyault (Univ. Paris 3)
Moderators: Gisèle Sapiro and Jean-Marie Schaeffer (EHESS)

Tuesday, 23 January 2018
Institut d'études avancées de Paris
Hôtel de Lauzun
17 quai d'Anjou, 75004 Paris

Morning session - The circulation of literature in (post)colonial and/or authoritarian contexts Chair and discussant: Elleke Boehmer (Oxford)

9:30 - 11:00  

African literary festivals and world literature: from the map to the territory
Claire Ducournau (Univ. Montpellier)

Fake Internationality? Prizes and the Circulation of Francophone African Authors
Madeline Bedecarré (EHESS)

Postcolonial writers in the global literary marketplace: the case of Italy
Laura Penachietti (University of Manchester)

11:00 - 11:15   Break

11:15 - 12:45

"What Filters through the Curtain": Reconsidering ‘Indian’ modernism, travelling literatures, and little magazines in a Cold War context
Laetitia Zecchini (CNRS)

The import of theories in the field of literary studies (Argentina, 1976-1986): between clandestine and institutional practices
Analia Gerbaudo (UNL)

Palestinian Translators of Hebrew Literature: Translation as a Social Practice and a vehicle for cultural exchange
Sadia Agsous (EHESS)

12:45 - 14:00   Lunch Break

Afternoon session - Translatio: from text to images
Chair and discussant: Laura Marcus (Oxford)

14:00 - 15:30

The Surreal Real: Proust, Woolf, and World Cinema
Delia Ungureanu (University of Bucarest)

"Novels are written to God, scripts are sent to a director..." Imre Kertész as the scriptwriter of Fatelessness
Clara Royer (CERFRES, Prague)

Constructing National Film through Literature: Contemporary British Adaptation
Alexis Brown (Oxford)

15:30 - 15:45   Break

15:45 - 17:15

Comic, City, Archive: Public Space, Private Lives and Post-War Reconstruction in Recent Lebanese Graphic Memoirs
Dominic Davies (Oxford)

Transnational Translation Policies in the Interwar Period (1925-1946): The International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation and Its Agents
Diana Roig Sanz (Open University of Catalonia)

Literary agents as cardinal intermediaries of World Literature
Lilas Bass, Delia Arribas Guijarro, Tristan Leperlier, Gisèle Sapiro (EHESS)

17:15 - 17:45   Discussion introduced by Vered Shemtov (Stanford), and concluding remarks by Stefano-Maria-Evangelista and Gisèle Sapiro

Contact: tristan.leperlier@normalesup.org