Rebecca Walkowitz on "Future Reading"

Organised and moderated by Michael Gamper and Jasmin Wrobel, Research Area 4: “Literary Currencies”. With Rebecca Walkowitz.

Programme

15:00 | Rebecca Walkowitz (Rutgers University/EXC 2020 Fellow): On Future Reading

16:00 | Coffee Break   

16:15 | Discussion “On not Knowing: Lahiri, Tawada, Ishiguro”
Comment: Stephan Laqué (EXC 2020/Freie Universität Berlin)

17:15 | Coffee Break

17:30 | Discussion “Less than One Language: Typographic Multilingualism and Post-Anglophone Fiction”
Comment: Philipp Löffler (Freie Universität Berlin)

18:30 | General discussion and coda

Contact and registration until June 25: jasmin.wrobel@fu-berlin.de. The workshop will be held on the video-conferencing platform WebEx. You will receive the texts and information concerning your access to the event after your registration. The workshop will be conducted in English.

Please note that there will be a preparatory (optional) session on June 4, 14:00-16:00, to discuss excerpts from Rebecca Walkowitz’s Born Translated (2015). Please register with Jasmin Wrobel by June 2 if you are interested.