The Rise of the Novel in Modern Romania:
Translations, Embedded World Literature, and Transnational Networks
July 8-9, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
Conference Program:
July 8, 2022
University Library, LBUS: Lucian Blaga street, 2A
Online: https://meet.google.com/tpt-jgqz-cax
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9:00-11:20 – Worlding the East. Chair: Ștefan Baghiu
Cosmin Borza (Romanian Academy, Sextil Pușcariu Institute, ROU) “Unmaking Primitivism: Peripheral Modernity, Capitalism, and the Romanian Rural Fiction”
Andreea Mîrț (Babeș Bolyai University, ROU) “Crossing Borders Within the Periphery: Balkanism, Self-Balkanism, and the East in the Modern Romanian Novel”
Maria Chiorean (University of St. Andrews, GB-SCT) “Mimetic Colonialism: Stratified Peripheries in the Modern Romanian Novel”
Tomasz Krupa (INALCO, FR; Jagiellonian University, POL) “Is There a Man in This Text? French (Auto)-Translation of Sorana Gurian’s Zilele nu se întorc niciodată”
Ștefan Baghiu (Lucian Blaga University, ROU) “First, Second, and Third Hand Experiences of the World: The National Modern Epic and Translation”
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11:30-14:00 – Literature in the European Periphery. Chair: Cosmin Borza
Mihnea Bâlici (Babeș Bolyai University, ROU) “The Birth of the Public Space in Modern Romanian Fiction: Having Fun at the Periphery”
Cătălina Stanislav (Utrecht University, NLD) “Writing Sex as Means to an End: Gendered Pleasure, Sorrow, and Agency in the Modern Novel”
Valeska Bopp-Filimonov (University of Jena, DEU) “Fragile (Co-)Existences: Children and Animals in Romanian Fiction and Beyond”
Teona Farmatu (Babeș Bolyai University, RO) “Borderline Masculine Youthfulness: Marginality, Collectivity, and Radical Ideas in the Interwar Novel”
Costi Rogozanu (Lucian Blaga University, ROU) “Bourgeois, Petty Bourgeois, and Peasants: Narratology and Class in Reymont, Bánffy, and Rebreanu”
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16:00-17:00 – The Politics of Representation. Chair: Ovio Olaru
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Emanuel Modoc (Romanian Academy, Sextil Pușcariu Institute, ROU) “Peripheral Spaces in the Modern Romanian and South American Novel”
Ovio Olaru (Lucian Blaga University, ROU) “Social Mobility at the Periphery: Class, Work, and Gender in the Romanian Novel”
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17:00-19:00 – Keynote Address
Cosmin CERCEL
Lazarski University in Warsaw, POL & The Romanian Academy Cluj-Napoca, “George Baritiu” History Institute, ROU
“Law, Sovereignty, Citizenship:
The Body Politic of Modern Romania”
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Organizing committee for the conference: Ștefan Baghiu, Vlad Pojoga, Andrei Terian, Mihaela Ursa
This work was supported by a grant of the Romanian Ministry of Research and Innovation, CNCS – UEFISCDI, project number PN-III-P1-1.1-PD-2019-0946, within PNCDI III. TRANOV: http://grants.ulbsibiu.ro/tranov/.