Organised by Research Area 5: "Building Digital Communities".
For detailed information, please visit the Annual Conference 2025 website.
Invited Guests:
Janneke Adema, Marwa M. Ahmed, Laura Bieger, Gimena del Rio Riande, Dhritii Dutta, Anke Finger, Heike Geißler, Till Grallert, Jack Halberstam, Vadim Keylin, Nicolas Longinotti, Johanna Maierski, Sulthana Nasrin, Christopher Ohge, Yvonne A. Owuor, Ananya Punyatoya, Niki Rhyner, Suja Sawafta, Carolin Schmidt, Mark Schmitt, Caroline Lillian Schopp, Olga Schubert, Jennifer Sichel, Amina Zarzi
Please register by 22 June 2025 via the registration form. Venue: silent green Kulturquartier, Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin
The 5th Annual Conference “Futures of Doing Literature” focuses on the potentialities, strategies, expectations, challenges and imaginaries for doing literature, both as a scholarly practice and as a social, material-aesthetic and performative form of expression, communication and negotiation. We explore how doing literature enables mediation, critique and action; how it enacts different notions of participation, impact, agency and literary timing, always creating temporalities of its own.
In addition, by placing contributions from Cluster members, associated researchers and fellows at the core of the programme, the conference provides an opportunity to reflect on the collaborative achievements and developments throughout Temporal Communities’ first funding phase.
Three days of panels, roundtables, presentations and readings provide an exploratory space and shared time for Cluster members and friends to engage in critical discussion and reflection, while the Cluster’s international partners gather with the local research community in Berlin to discuss the future(s) of their collaborative work.
Programme
9 July12:30 | Registration and Coffee
13:00–13:30 | Conference Opening
13:30–15:30 | Panel: Hierarchies of the Past, Entanglements of the Future
With Suja Sawafta, Mark Schmitt and Amina Zarzi
15:30–16:00 | Break
16:00–17:30 | Roundtable: Reading Matters – Literature as Social and Political Practice
With Laura Bieger, Heike Geißler and Hanan Natour
17:30–18:30 | Dinner Break
18:30–20:00 | Nocturne/Blue Light Moon: Public Reading and Interview with Yvonne A. Owuor
Followed by a Conversation with Ana Rocío Jouli
11:00–12:30 | New Voices, Next Turns: Emerging Futures in Literary Research
With Julius Böhm, Melina Brüggemann, Carla Dalbeck, Dhritii Dutta, Chiara Liso, Nicolas Longinotti, Pedro Mora Madriñán, Omid Mashhadi, Sulthana Nasrin, Elena Patrika, Ananya Punyatoya, Nathalie Rennhack, Anton Terhechte, Laura Untner and Victoria Wirtz
12:30–13:30 | Lunch Break
13:30–15:30 | Panel: Infinite Texts – Digital Editions as Matters of Time
With Marwa M. Ahmed, Gimena del Rio Riande, Till Grallert, Beatrice Gründler and Christopher Ohge
15:30–16:00 | Break
16:00–17:30 | Doing Literature: A Fishbowl Conversation on Literary Futures
Initiated by Dîlan Canan Çakir, Rebecca Hardie, Viktor J. Illmer and Stefanie Messner
17:30–18:30 | Dinner Break
18:30–20:00 | Roundtable: Past Perspectives on Contingent Futures for the Performing Body – Anarchival, Anarchitectural and Queering Practices
With Jack Halberstam, Friederike Schäfer, Caroline Lillian Schopp and Jennifer Sichel
11:00–13:00 | Panel: The Futures of Doing Publishing / Publishing as Doing Literature
With Janneke Adema, Johanna Maierski, Niki Rhyner and Olga Schubert
13:00–14:00 | Lunch Break
14:00–16:00 | Panel: Literature Augmented
With Anke Finger, Vadim Keylin and Carolin Schmidt
16:00–16:30 | Break
16:30–17:30 | Constellations Walkthrough
17:30–18:00 | Conference Round Up
18:00–19:00 | International Partners Reception with Flying Buffet
19:00 | Summer Party with the Adriano Celentano Gebäckorchester
Time & Location
Jul 09, 2025 - Jul 11, 2025
silent green Kulturquartier
Gerichtstraße 35
13347 Berlin