tag:www.romanistik.de,2005:/aktuelles/6878Romanistik.de – Meldungenhttps://www.romanistik.de/aktuelles/68782023-05-26T17:39:11+02:002023-05-29T21:13:18+02:00Conference "Pandemic Protagonists: Viral (Re)Actions in Pandemic and Corona Fictions"<p>This conference marks the culmination of a year of joint work on the eponymous edited volume and represents another milestone in the <span class="caps">FWF</span> project on Corona Fictions (P 34571). The presentations take a closer look at different pandemic protagonists in fictional narratives relating to the Covid-19 pandemic as well as in existing pandemic fictions. Hereby, they offer a diverse array of impressions into pandemic narratives from a cultural, literary, and media studies perspective from antiquity to today.</p>
<p>On Friday, you can attend the conference in person; on Saturday, you can join online. If you wish to participate, in both cases please register with: daniel.milkovits[a]tugraz.at.</p>
<p><strong><span class="caps">PROGRAM</span>:</strong> <br />
<strong>Thursday I 01.06.2023</strong><br />
Conference Warming</p>
<p><strong>Friday I 02.06.2023</strong><br />
<span class="caps">OPENING</span> & <span class="caps">OFFICIAL</span> <span class="caps">BOOK</span> <span class="caps">LAUNCH</span></p>
<p><span class="caps">PANEL</span> I<br />
Małgorzata Sugiera (Kraków): Human-Viral Hybrids as Challenge to the Outbreak Narrative and Neo-Liberal Biopolitics<br />
Julia Obermayr (Graz): Corona Fictions Agents: Cinematic Representations of Hopeful Pandemic Protagonists in Early Corona Fictions</p>
<p><span class="caps">PANEL</span> II<br />
Justyna Ziarkowska (Wrocław): La novela de la pandemia como una modalidad de la novela de la crisis. El caso de La madre del futbolista de Pablo García Casado <br />
Ana Carolina Torquato (São Paulo/Cologne) & Aureo Lustosa Guerios (São Paulo): The Role of Animals in Pandemic Narratives: Forewarning Disaster, Causing Outbreaks, Conferring Immunity</p>
<p><span class="caps">PANEL</span> <span class="caps">III</span><br />
Aureo Lustosa Guerios (São Paulo): The Crowd as a Pandemic Character: Determinism, Entertainment and Transgression in Literature<br />
Louis Mühlethaler (Paris): Immunity and Community: The Role of Immune Protagonists in Saramago’s Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (1995) and Roth’s Nemesis (2010)<br />
Luana Bermúdez (Genève): ‘¿Te importa?’ Entre soledad y olvido: la representación de los ancianos en el teatro español durante la pandemia de <span class="caps">COVID</span>-19</p>
<p><span class="caps">PANEL</span> IV<br />
Martina Stemberger (Vienna): Corona Palimpsests: Pandemic Protagonists as Readers<br />
Tommaso Meozzi (Graz): Protagonisti in cerca di una nuova agency: la pandemia di Covid-19 nella letteratura italiana</p>
<p><strong>Saturday I 03.06.2023</strong> (hybrid panels)<br />
<span class="caps">PANEL</span> V<br />
Fleur Hopkins-Loféron (Paris): ‘C’était quelqu’un de toute façon’ : les personnages humains et non humains dans le roman animaliste Les Métamorphoses de Camille Brunel<br />
Anna Isabell Wörsdörfer (Münster): Bloody Investigations. Scientists as Ambiguous Pandemic Protagonists in the Dystopian Streaming Series La Valla and La Révolution<br />
Elisabeth Hobisch (Graz): Hysterical Men and Reasoning Women? On Gender Roles and Agency in Corona Fictions</p>
<p><span class="caps">PANEL</span> VI<br />
Paulina Pająk (Wrocław): Mediated Vulnerabilities: Transforming Virginia Woolf’s Characters in Corona Fictions<br />
Claire Demoulin (New Haven): Germs as Social Protagonists: (In)visible Enemies and the Fear of Epidemic Invasion in Classical Hollywood Cinema</p>
<p><span class="caps">FINAL</span> <span class="caps">DISCUSSION</span></p>PD Dr. Yvonne Völkl