Book Fairs

Organised by Michael Gamper, Jutta Müller-Tamm, and Jasmin Wrobel, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies" Programme Moderation: Alexander Nebrig (Düsseldorf) & Jasmin Wrobel (Berlin) Thursday, 10 December 2020, 15:00 - 18:15 15:00 - 15:15 | Introduction 15:15 - 16:30 | Marco Thomas Bosshard (Flensburg / EXC 2020 guest): "Book fairs as spaces of cultural and economic negotiation: Project results and a discussion of the influence of the Guest of Honour format at Frankfurt Book Fair on book sales of foreign literature in translation" 16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee break 17:00 - 18:15 | Gustavo Sorá (Córdoba, Argentina): "Theory and ‘sens pratique’ in the socio-anthropological analysis of international book fairs" Friday, 11 December, 10:00 - 15:00 10:00 - 10:15 | Introduction 10:15 - 12:15 | Corinna Norrick-Rühl (Münster) / Urs Büttner (Düsseldorf): "Commerce, culture – and a camel: The re-establishment of Frankfurt Book Fair as an institution of literary circulation after World War II" 12:15 - 13:15 | Lunch break 11:45 - 13:15 | Alexandra Pontzen (Duisburg-Essen): "Das Zirkulationsnetzwerk der Literaturpreise" 14:30 - 15:00 | Final discussion