Literature at KU

8:30: Setting up

9:00-10:30: Panel 1

• Nicolai von Eggers: “Creating a Feminist Canon: Women Writing about Women in the Age of Revolution”
• Kirstine Nielsen Degn: “What Literary History Knows about Friendship: A Computational Approach to Friendship in Danish Novels from 19th and 21st Centuries”
• Agus Soewarta: “Touching the Limit of Human Existence: Reading Karl Barth’s Commentary on St. Pauls Epistle to the Romans as a Tangential Theology”

10:30-11.00: Coffee break

11:00-12:30: Panel 2

• Emil Madsen Brandt: “Drama as a Locus of Iranian Modernity: The Case of Bijan Mofid’s Moon and Leopard”
• Ida Svingen Mo: “A Beauvoirian Reading of Brigitte Reimann”
• Bridget Vincent: “Germain Greer’s Classrom and the Politics of Poetic Form”

12:30-13:30: Lunch 

13:30-15:00: Panel 3

• Stefaine Heine: “Writing Beeches: Anna Ospelt’s Wurzelstudien and Kim de’l Horizon’s Blutbuch”
• Maria Damkjær: “Stonelore and Book Destruction in Jesimin’s Broken Earth”
• Astrid Møller-Olsen: “Metafictional Rainforests: Multi-Lingual More-than-Human Ecologies in Mahua Literature”

15:00-15:30: Coffee break

15:30-17:00: Panel 4

• Valentina Orrù: “Time Travelling to Fantastic Lands”
• Kirsten Thisted: “Code-Stitching: A New Concept in Town – Do We Need It, and What Can We Use It For?”
• Linus Nicolaj Carlsen: “Autism’s Configurations”

18.00: Conference Dinner (at own expense)