Grand Opening | EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" – A New Understanding of Literature Across Media, Periods and Cultures
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The Cluster of Excellence "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" commenced its work on 1 January, 2019. The project aims to re-conceptualise literature in a global perspective, positing that temporal entanglements crucially contribute to how literature becomes global. The Cluster builds its dynamic and flexible platform for collaborative research through an extensive fellowship programme, a global network of academic institutions and cooperations with partners in Berlin's vibrant literary and artistic scene.
From 24 to 26 October, 2019, the Cluster's Grand Opening explores how literature manifests itself as a multi-faceted practice at the nexus of academia, art and culture.
Programme
Thursday, October 24, 2019
9:00 - 17:00 @ Freie Universität BerlinModelling Global Literature — International Conference
Event in English
Seminarzentrum, Raum L115, Otto-von-Simson-Str. 26 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Die Verwörterung der Welt: Literary and Academic Interventions
Event in German and English
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin
Friday, October 25, 2019
14:00 - 22:00 @ Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin und Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut – Preußischer KulturbesitzNexus Berlin. Literature as Praxis between Media and Arts
Event in German, English, Spanish, and sign language with sign language translation provided (German)
Potsdamer Straße 37, 10785 Berlin
Saturday, October 26, 2019
17:00 @ Schaubühne BerlinOrlando von Virginia Woolf
Directed by Katie Mitchell
Event in German | Tickets at the box office
Kurfürstendamm 153, 10709 Berlin
Detailed Programme
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Modelling Global Literature — International ConferenceFreie Universität Berlin, Seminarzentrum, Raum L115
Otto-von-Simson-Str. 26 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Event in English
9:00 – 9:30 Welcome & Introduction
Andrew James Johnston & Anita Traninger (Cluster Directors, EXC 2020, Freie Universität Berlin)
9:30 – 10:30 The Virtual Spaces of Literature: Three Pathways, Three Rooms
Suzanne Conklin Akbari (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ)
Chair: Andrew James Johnston (EXC 2020)
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 11:45 Petrarchan Bonds: Virtue, Vulnerability, and Community in Petrarch’s Letter Collections
Gur Zak (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Chair: Frank Kelleter (EXC 2020)
11:45 – 12:45 Audiences as Performers and Re-performers in Temporal Communities
Caroline Heim (Queensland University of Technology)
Chair: Doris Kolesch (EXC 2020)
12:45 – 13:45 Lunch break
13:45 – 14:45 Walking in the Steps of Poets: Secular Arabic Poetry in Sufi Anthologies
Bilal Orfali (American University of Beirut)
Chair: Beatrice Gründler (EXC 2020)
Heribert Tommek (Universität Regensburg)
Chair: Michael Gamper (EXC 2020)
15:45 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00 Reading (as) Data: Modelling Transnational Literary Entanglements
Die Verwörterung der Welt: Literary and Academic InterventionsKatherine Bode (Australian National University)
Co-Chairs: Lindsey Drury & Bart Soethaert (EXC 2020)
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin
Event in German and English
Members of the Cluster of Excellence guide themed investigations of the exhibition "Love and Ethnology. The Colonial Dialectic of Sensitivity (after Hubert Fichte)", and authors Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor and Lesley Nneka Arimah read excerpts from their most recent works.
18:00 Doors Open
18:30 Welcome
Prof. Dr. Bernd M. Scherer (Intendant, Haus der Kulturen der Welt)
Prof. Dr. Andrew James Johnston (Co-director EXC 2020)
Prof. Dr. Anita Traninger (Co-director EXC 2020)Followed by a wine reception
19:10 Intervention: Between, Across, and Through the Americas
Dustin Breitenwischer & Jasmin Wrobel (EXC 2020)
19:30 Reading: The Dragonfly Sea
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
20:00 Intervention: Mein Lesebuch und Elf Übertreibungen
Simon Godart & Lukas Regeler (EXC 2020)
20:20 Intervention: "weder einfach außen noch einfach innen". Eine materialästhetische Intervention
Anna Degler (EXC 2020)
20:40 Reading: What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky
Lesley Nneka Arimah
21:10 Intervention: Hot Sex and Death. Between AIDS and Queer Erotic Thought
Lindsey Drury (EXC 2020)
Friday, October 25, 2019
Nexus Berlin. Literature as Praxis between Media and ArtsStaatsbibliothek zu Berlin und Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut – Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Potsdamer Straße 37, 10785 Berlin
Event in German, English and Spanish, sign language interpretation provided (German)
14:00 – 18:00 Dialogstationen
The Berlin network's academic and cultural partners present current and future cooperation projects with the Cluster of Excellence.
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Third Culture Kids – Schreiben zwischen den Kulturen. A cooperation between internationales literaturfestival berlin (ilb) and EXC "Temporal Communities" / Eine Kooperationsveranstaltung des internationalen literaturfestivals berlin (ilb) und des EXC "Temporal Communities"
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Handverlesen – Text kommt in Bewegung. A project on poetry in sign language by Lettrétage / Ein Projekt der Lettrétage zur Gebärdensprachpoesie
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Probendokumentation HAMLET/MASCHINE 1990. Performances from the archives of the Akademie der Künste / Vorführungen aus dem Archiv der Akademie der Künste
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Embodied Histories – Entangled Communities. A cooperation between Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin and EXC "Temporal Communities" / Eine Kooperationsveranstaltung des Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin und des EXC "Temporal Communities"
14:00 – 18:00 Exhibitions
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Schriften, Sprachen und Zeichen. Zimelien aus der Ostasien- und der Orientabteilung der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
Vorraum Simón-Bolívar-Saal, Untergeschoß
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Zarzuela: Spanisches Musiktheater als globales Phänomen. Eine Ausstellung des Ibero-Amerikanischen Instituts
Foyer Otto-Braun-Saal
14:30 Performance with Letters, Voices, Dance, and Music
Tomomi Adachi & Natsuko Tezuka
Simón-Bolívar-Saal
15:15 Gebärdensprachpoesie – Text kommt in Bewegung
Julia Kulda Hroch, Lea Schneider, Kassandra Wedel
Introduction by Franziska Winkler
Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Saal
16:00 Zarzuela: Spanisches Musiktheater als globales Phänomen
Introduction to the Exhibition by the curator Stephanie von Schmädel
Foyer Otto-Braun-SaalZarzuela: Spanisches Musiktheater live!
Carmen Celada (singer) & Nikolaos Tsiachris (guitar)
Simón-Bolívar-Saal
16:45 Probendokumentation HAMLET/MASCHINE 1990
Roundtable with Stephan Dörschel, Marcel Lepper, Thomas Martin und Sara Örtel
Moderation: Matthias Warstat
Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Saal
17:30 Feeling Sonnets
Eugene Ostashevsky (Dorothea Schlegel Artist-in-Residence (EXC 2020)
Simón-Bolívar-Saal
18:15 Ceremonial Opening of EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities"
Greeting
Reinhard Altenhöner (Representative of the General Director of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz)
Prof. Dr. Barbara Göbel (Director of the Ibero-American Institute – Preußischer Kulturbesitz)
Prof. Dr. Georg W. Bertram (Dean of the Department of Philosophy and Humanities, Freie Universität Berlin)
Prof. Dr. Günter M. Ziegler (President of the Freie Universität Berlin)
Introduction
Prof. Dr. Andrew James Johnston, Co-director (EXC 2020)
Prof. Dr. Anita Traninger, Co-director (EXC 2020)
Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Saal
19:00 Podium Discussion: Wer darf Literatur?
Discussants:
Eva Geulen (Director of the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung / EXC 2020)
Lütfiye Güzel (Author)
Ijoma Mangold (Literary Critic, DIE ZEIT)
Stephan Porombka (Professor of Text Theory and Textual Design at the Universität der Künste Berlin)
Lea Schneider (Poet and translator; doctoral candidate at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule für Literaturwissenschaftliche Studien / EXC 2020)Moderation: Jutta Müller-Tamm (Professor of Contemporary German Literature, Freie Universität Berlin / EXC 2020)
Reception to follow (20:30 - 22:00)
Saturday, 26. October 2019
Schaubühne BerlinKurfürstendamm 153, 10709 Berlin
Event in German | Tickets at the box office
17:00 Orlando von Virginia Woolf
Directed by Katie Mitchell
In a version by Alice Birch
Translated from the English by Brigitte Walitzek
Followed by a panel discussion in English featuring Cluster members, actors and dramaturge Maja Zade
Time & Location
Oct 24, 2019 - Oct 26, 2019
Freie Universität Berlin,
Haus der Kulturen der Welt,
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin & Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut - Preußischer Kulturbesitz,
Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz.