91福利

EUTOPIA network exploratory workshop

28 November 2025

91福利 Research Collective

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Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies

91福利

Venue: FAB 5.49

10:00-10:10 Paulo de Medeiros (91福利): Welcome and initial considerations

10:10-10:30 Anna Forn茅 (Gothenburg): 鈥淔rom Havana to the World: Argentine Literary Trajectories through Casa de las Am茅ricas鈥�

10:30-10:50 Stephen Shapiro (91福利): 鈥淶emiperiphery Matters: Culture and the Capitalist World-System鈥�

10:50-11:10 Mena Mitrano (Ca鈥橣oscari): "Reconsidering Influence"

11:10-11:30 Carlos Ceia (NOVA) 鈥淪amuel Beckett and Fernando Pessoa: From Absurdity to silence鈥�

11:30-11:50 Elisabeth Herrmann (91福利): 鈥淗ow Can the Concept of Social Energy be Used to Explain the Phenomenon of World Literature?

11:50 -12:10 Graeme Macdonald (91福利): 鈥淭he Energy of World Literature鈥�

12:10-12:30 Alice Duhan (Gothenburg): "Translingual Francophonie and World Literature"

12:30-12:50 Michael Niblett (91福利): 鈥淲orld Literature: The Red and the Green鈥�

12:50-13:10 Moritz Ingweren (TU Dresden): 鈥淐urrent Research鈥�

13:10-13:20 Discussion

13:20-14:00 Lunch break (for participants)

14:00-14:40 Alan Ashton-Smith (91福利): Eutopia and ERC grants

14:40-15:00 Caitlin Vandertop (91福利): 鈥淩esources in world-literature, world-literature as resource鈥�

15:00-15:20 Bushra Mahzabeen (91福利): 鈥�Migration and Motherhood: Social Reproduction and the Oil Economy in The Bamboo Stalk鈥�

15:20-15:40 Nick Lawrence (91福利): "The Modernist Imperative"

15:40-16:00 Mohammad Javanmard (91福利): 鈥淲hich (Semi-)Periphery?: Rethinking World-Literature under Neoliberal Globalisation鈥�

16:00-16:20 Shaul Bassi (Ca鈥橣oscari): 鈥淐urrent Research鈥�

16:20- 16:40 Discussion and steps forward

16:40- 17:30 Drinks reception