The Art of (Dis)Location

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Seminargebäude am Hegelplatz, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 3.246 For further information & workshop registration please contact Kathrin Tordasi. Designed as a forum for expert scholars and junior academics, The Art of (Dis)Location workshop aims to inspire a multifaceted discussion on the role (and potential) of art and literature in narrating — and thereby engendering — self-formations. Recognising both the situatedness and provisionality of self-knowledge, panels within the workshop address the temporal and spatial positioning of the self by tracing processes of dislocation and relocation across a variety of narrative forms and media. As part of the long-running collaboration between Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin and King's College London, this workshop brings together participants of the HU/KCL Joint PhD Programme and welcomes all students, lecturers and scholars who share an interest in the scope and genealogy of literary self- figurations. Program July 3rd 15:00 Coffee and Welcome 15:30 – 18:00 Panel I: (Self-)Positionings in Life Writing Chair: Elahe Haschemi Yekani (HUB) Ruvani Ranasinha (KCL): Hanif Kureishi: Writing the Self Eliza Altenhof (HUB): What Do We Know about Dying and Death? Knowledge of the Self and Experience in Memoir Ben Schofield (KCL): The Author as Expert: Reflections on the Public Performance of Expertise and Knowledge July 4th 9:30 – 11:00 Panel II: Temporal (Dis)Locations of the Self Chair: Eveline Kilian (HUB) Kathrin Tordasi (HUB): Digital Utopias? Queer Temporalities and Cultural Coding in Charlie Brooker's “San Junipero” Kaye Mitchell (University of Manchester): The Self, Intersubjectivity and Feminist Politics 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee 11:30 – 13:00 Panel III: Spatial (Re)Locations of the Self Chair: Cornelia Wilde (HUB) Johanna Fokken (HUB): Navigating Singleness in Winifred Holtby's The Crowded Street Anna Snaith (KCL): Winifred Holtby's Noisescapes: Gender, Polyphony and the Politics of Sound 13:00 – 14:30 Lunch 14:30 – 16:00 Panel IV: Dislocations of the Self and Mental Illness Chair: Barbara Wünnenberg (HUB/KCL) Kevin Neuroth (HUB): Masculinity and Mental Illness in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim Jon Day (KCL): Reading Madness in Modernist Literature 16:00 – 16:30 Coffee 16:30 – 17:00 Workshop Feedback Tijana Ristic Kern (HUB) 17:00 – 18:00 Conclusion and Future Plans