Anonymity and Temporality
Do05Dez(Dez 5)14:30Sa07(Dez 7)17:00Anonymity and TemporalityVeranstaltungsartTagung
Details
A conference organized by the Cluster of Excellence 2020 „Temporal Communities“ in cooperation with King’s College London. For premodern literatures, anonymity has often been considered the standard form in which texts
Details
A conference organized by the Cluster of Excellence 2020 „Temporal Communities“ in cooperation with King’s College London.
For premodern literatures, anonymity has often been considered the standard form in which texts are authored, while the named author has frequently been considered to be a product of (Western) modernity. European literatures, especially, have been seen as developing within a teleological framework which posits the named and clearly identifiable author as the logical end-point of a close-to-ineluctable historical development that coincides with the rise of industrial capitalism, bourgeois societies and modern subjectivity. Paradoxically, such a perspective has been reinforced rather than deconstructed by the poststructuralist onslaught on authorship (Barthes, Foucault).
Anonymity and Temporality seeks to explore a more specific perspective within a broader cultural framework. The central issue to be investigated is that of premodern literary anonymity’s capacity for shaping temporalities – an issue to be addressed in a perspective that integrates Europe in a global perspective. Instead of seeing anonymity as a cultural given that simply occurs during a particular period in European literary history, we wish to conceive of it both as a specific cultural practice and a strategic resource that plays a central role in shaping temporalities.
Participants: Frank Bezner, Josh Davies, Anne Eusterschulte, Beatrice Gründler, Andrew James Johnston, Elke Koch, Clare A. Lees, David Matthews, Henry Ravenhall, Rachel Scott, Isabel Toral, Lawrence Warner
Further details and registration: peter.loeffelbein@fu-berlin.de
Freie Universität Berlin
Seminarzentrum, Room L 116
Habelschwerdter Allee 45
14195 Berlin
Programme
Thursday, December 5
14:30 Registration
15:00 Welcome address
15:30 Josh Davies
Names, non-names and anonymity on, in and around the Franks Casket: History, temporality and community
16:30 Beatrice Gründler
Anonymity, Obscurity, and Silent Co-Authorship in Kalīla and Dimna
Friday, December 6
09:30 Clare A. Lees
Anonymity Effects: The Medieval in The Contemporary
10:30 Isabel Toral
Anonymity and authority: authorship in an Arabic encyclopedia of the tenth century
11:30 Coffee
12:00 Rachel Scott
Temporality and Identification in Kalila wa-Dimna’s European Translations
13:00 Lunch
14:30 David Matthews
Fatherless Children: The Perils of Anonymity in the 1530s
15:30 Elke Koch
Truth and Faith. Naming and Anonymity in the context of witnessing and testimony
16:30 Coffee
17:00 Frank Bezner
Clerics without a Name? Anonymity and Medieval Latin (‘Secular’) Lyrics
Saturday, December 7
09:30 Andrew James Johnston
Anonymity Incarnate: the Scop in Beowulf
10:30 Henry Ravenhall
The Untimely Speaker: Anonymity and Narrative Voice in BnF fr. 1717
11:30 Coffee
12:00 Lawrence Warner
The Gawain Poet Rewrites Middle English Studies: Anonymity and the MED
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Anne Eusterschulte
Temporal Anonymity. Changing authorships in medieval textual traditions
15:30 Coffee
16:00 – 17:00 Final Panel Discussion
Mehr anzeigen
Zeit
5. Dezember 2019 14:30 - 7. Dezember 2019 17:00(GMT+01:00)