Affinités sans limites
Méthodologies pour une histoire comparée des littératures du désir entre personnes du même sexe. XIXe-XXe siècles
Ce colloque international constitue un événement préparatoire pour la conception d’un volume thématique intitulé Representing Same-Sex Desire. Local Contexts, Global Circulations in European Literary Cultures à paraître au sein de la collection ‘ICLA Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages’ (CHLEL : https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/chlel/).
Date : 19-20 septembre 2024
Lieu : CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague et en ligne (pour vous inscrire, écrivez à l’adresse cefres@cefres.cz)
Langue : anglais
Organisateurs
- Mateusz Chmurski, Sorbonne-Université / CEFRES
- Clément Dessy, Université libre de Bruxelles
- Ana Isabel Simón-Alegre, Université Adelphi
- Josef Šebek, Département de littérature tchèque et comparée, Faculté des lettres, Université Charles
Partenaires
- Comité de coordination pour l’histoire comparée des littératures en langues européennes, Association internationale de littérature comparée (CHLEL-ICLA)
- Fonds national de la recherche, Belgique (FNRS)
- Université Adelphi (New York), États-Unis
- Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales (CEFRES), Prague, République tchèque
- Département de littérature tchèque et comparée, Université Charles (ÚČLK FF UK)
JEUDI 19 SEPTEMBRE 2024
10:00-10:30 | Opening Remarks & Morning Coffee
- Helga Mitterbauer (ULB), President of the ICLA Committee of History Literatures in European Languages
- Mateusz Chmurski (CEFRES/Sorbonne Université), Director of the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences
- Josef Šebek (ÚČLK FF UK), Clément Dessy (ULB) & Ana Isabel Simon-Alegre (Adelphi University)
10:30-12:00 | Session 1: Genres and Canons in Question
Chair : Mateusz CHMURSKI (CEFRES / Sorbonne Université)
- (Sorbonne Université, Paris) : “Where Is the German AIDS novel?” Circulations, centralities and provincialisms in European ‘Aids literatures’ (1990-2000)
- Eva SPIŠIAKOVÁ (Constantin the Philosopher University, Nitra, FF UKF): Translating Desire: Linguistic Pathways of Same-Sex Desire in Central Europe and the Role of the Translator at Its Centre
- Zoltan CSEHY (Comenius University, Bratislava): Same sex desire and new trends in contemporary Hungarian poetry from a transcultural perspective
12:00-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-15:00 | Session 2: Coded Languages and Common References
Chair: Clément DESSY (Université libre de Bruxelles / FNRS)
- Xavier GALMICHE (Sorbonne Université) : “The infinitely graceful waist of the young man”: homosexual motives, practices of fictional camouflage. A few hints from William Ritter’s readings
- Błażej WARKOCKI (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań): Wilde at heart. Uses of Oscar Wilde and other figures of queerness in the works of the young Witold Gombrowicz
- Anton JUUL (Copenhagen University): A Romeo is a Romeo is a Romeo »: On Chemsex, Pharmakon and Figurative Language in Nikolaj Tange Lange’s Romeo & Seahorse
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 | Session 3: Queer Reading
Chair: Josef ŠEBEK (Department of Czech & Comparative Literature, Charles University)
- Salomé HONÓRIO (ICS, University of Lisbon): Queer, Kwir, Cuir – Towards a Decolonial Critique of National Culture and Queer Universalism
- Peter DEMETER (University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, FF JČU): Beyond the Surface – Queer Readings in Homosocial Environments
- Rebeka PAP (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest): Lonely Struggle and Marginalized Rebellion – A Gender Reading of Erzsébet Galgóczi’s Novel Another Love
19:00 Conference dinner
VENDREDI 20 SEPTEMBRE 2024
10:30-11:30 | Session 4: Writing Identities
Chair: Matěj HŘIB (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University)
- Thibaut CASAGRANDE (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) : Literary aestheticism: camp as a transnational and intertextual practice / questioning a European camp
- Tomasz KALIŚCIAK (University of Silesia, Katowice) : Same-sex marriages in 19th and 20th century Polish literature
11:30-13:00 Lunch break
13:00-14:30 | Session 5: Circulations and Networks
Chair : Hélène MARTINELLI (CEFRES/ENS de Lyon)
- Darko ILIN (University of Nova Gorica) : The Emergence of the (Trans)national Queer Literary Subcanons in the Post-Yugoslav Space: A Comparative Study
- Adriana KOVACHEVA (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań): Mach and Dobrev – Experiment, Communism, and Social Advancement from a Polish-Bulgarian Queer Perspective
- Natalia TOPOROWSKA (University of Warsaw): “To be visible it is necessary to speak”?
14:30-15:00 Coffee Break
15:00-16:30 | Session 6: Poetry across Borders
Chair : Ana Isabel SIMON-ALEGRE (Adelphi University)
- Anna DŻABAGINA (CEFRES/University of Warsaw): Lonesome Archipelagos. Sapphic Modernism on the Territories of the Russian Empire and Beyond (Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian Literature)
- Julie OLIVEIRA DA SILVA (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris) : Between the spoken and the unspoken : strategies of expression and dissimulation of same-sex desire in the poetry of Renée Vivien, Judith Teixeira, Virginia Victorino and Gilka Machado
- Lorenzo RUZZENE (Sorbonne Université, Paris) : Same-sex desire and urban public spaces in Western European poetry (1940-1999)
16:30-17:30 | Conclusive Remarks & Future Steps