Cirkulace, sestavení antologií a tvoření kánonu z komparativní perspektivy
Partnerské instituce
Coordinating Committee for the Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages Series, International Comparative Literature Association (CHLEL-ICLA), National Scientific Research Fund, Belgium (FNRS), Brussels Free University (ULB), Adelphi University, New York, United States, French Research Centre in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES), Prague, French Research Fund SPHINX project: Sustaining and preserving cultural heritage, Sorbonne University’s Gender Network PHILOMEL
Kdy: 11.-13. května 2026
Kde: ULB – Solbosch, Brusel, budova R42
Jazyky: angličtina a francouzština
Organizační tým
Mateusz CHMURSKI, CEFRES / Sorbonne univerzita
Clément DESSY, FNRS / Université libre de Bruxelles
Ana I. SIMÓN-ALEGRE, Adelphi University, NYC
Výzvu k účasti na konferenci naleznete zde.
Program
Pondělí, 11. května, R42.2.113
15:00-15:30 Opening remarks
Clément DESSY (ULB / FNRS), Ana I. SIMON-ALEGRE, (Adelphi University), Mateusz CHMURSKI (CEFRES / Sorbonne University)
15:30-16:30 Keynote lecture
Santanu DAS (OXFORD)
The Maritime Closet: Desire across archives, literature and film
Chair: Cedric VAN DIJCK (VUB)
16:30-17:00 Pauza
17:00-18:30 SESSION 1: QUEER BOOKSHELVES: RE/VISITED
Chair: Clément DESSY (FNRS / ULB)
Maika NGUYEN (CEFRES)
Queering the Vietnamese Diaspora: tracing American and European trajectories in contemporary migrant literary and film narratives
Emilie HAUTEMONT (Tulane University)
Écriture du soi, écriture de l’autre : (Re)définir la littérature queer maghrébine
Darko ILIN (University of Nova Gorica)
Making Queer Worlds in Print: LGBTQI+ Zines and Literary Community-Building During Yugoslavia’s Transition
19:00 Večeře
Úterý, 12. května, R42.5.107
10:00-12:00 SESSION 2: QUEER CANONS (1): REDEFINE
Chair: Josef ŠEBEK (Charles University / CEFRES)
Valentine BOVEY (University of Basel)
The Sexologist and the Scholarly Publisher: At the Origins of Queer Classics?
Jean-François LAPLENIE (Sorbonne Université)
Mapping the Gay ‘Literary Canon’ in France and Germany (1980-2000): Centres, Marginality and ‘Provincialism’
Birgit NEUMAN (University of Düsseldorf)
Neoliberal Ecologies in the Queer Publishing Market
Emilio VIVÓ (University of Antwerp)
Giving Voice to the Subaltern? The Search for a Testimonial Account of Violence against LGTBIQ+ People in Equatorial Guinea in the Work of Trifonia Melibea Obono
12:00-13:00 Oběd
13:00-15:00 SESSION 3: QUEER CANONS (2): ANTHOLOGIES MATTER
Chair: Mateusz CHMURSKI (Sorbonne Université / CEFRES)
Błażej WARKOCKI (Adam Mickiewicz University)
“Anthology of Polish Queer Literature” – History, Politics and Intervention in the Canon
Josef ŠEBEK (Charles University / CEFRES)
Queer Literary Canons in the Time of Social Transition (1980s–1990s): The Czech and Polish Cases
Matteo COLOMBI (Universität Leipzig) & Clément DESSY (FNRS / ULB)
Homer, Proust & the Others: Books(helves) in Gay Books
Šimon ČIŽMÁR (Slovak Academy of Sciences)
From Translation to Appropriation: Queer Anthologies and Transnational Resonances in Slovakia since the 1990s
15:00-15:30 Pauza
15:30-17:00 SESSION 4: IN SEARCH FOR QUEER CANONS
Chair: Jean-François LAPLENIE (Sorbonne Université)
Nicolas AUDE (Sorbonne Université), Arthur CLECH (Eur’ORBEM, CNRS-Sorbonne Université)
A la recherche d’un canon « queer » russophone
Rowan DOWLING (University of Oxford)
Searching for Queer Sci-Fi and Fantasy in Russian: FantLab.ru and the ‘Non-traditional Orientation/Self-Identification’ Tag
Xavier ROCK (University of Oxford)
Banned but Circulating: Gender Nonconformity and Transgender Representation in Prohibited Literary Works in Russia
19:00 Večeře
Středa, 13.května, R42.2.113
10:00-12:00 SESSION 5: TRANSLATING QUEER
Chair: Vincent LOUIS (ULB)
James VLIEXS (ULB / Paris Nanterre)
Edward Carpenter: Queer Activism in Translation
Clara ZGOLA (ULB / UniCaen)
Politiques des genres et canonisation d’œuvres queer : perspectives transatlantiques
Kathryn WOODS (Univ. of Bristol)
Translation as Queer Emancipation?
Paola BOUÉ (CUNY)
From France to the United States: Édouard Louis and Queer Literature
12:00-13:00 Oběd
13:00-14:00 Keynote lecture
Ana-Isabel SIMÓN-ALEGRE (Adelphi University)
Queer Bookshelves Before Queer: Transatlantic Women Writers & the Intimate Politics of Objects
Chair: TBC
14:00-16:00 SESSION 6: REPRESENTING QUEER
Chair: Ana Isabel SIMÓN-ALEGRE (Adelphi University)
Denis SAINT-AMAND (FNRS / UNamur)
Rimbaud poète queer
Honorata SROKA (Polish Academy of Sciences)
@Masks, Dolls, and Dada: The Portraits of Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Hannah Höch
Manuel A. BROULLÓN-LOZANO (Complutense University Madrid)
Trans-Writing Practices in Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s «La Virgen Cabeza» (2009): Transtextuality, Social Class, Decoloniality, and Gender around the Literary Canon
Jeffrey ZAMOSTNY (Kansas State University), on-line
The Library and the Laboratory: Books, Poisons, and Queer Love in Pedro Badanelli’s Serenata del amor triunfante (Spain, 1929)
16:00-16:30 Conclusive remarks & future steps