Annual Conference: Futures of Doing Literature | 9–11 July 2025
Video Impressions from the 5th EXC 2020 Annual Conference "Futures of Doing Literature"
Invited Guests:
Jamal Abasi, Janneke Adema, Marwa M. Ahmed, Laura Bieger, Gimena del Rio Riande, Dhritii Dutta, Anke Finger, Heike Geißler, Till Grallert, Jack Halberstam, Saskya Jain, Vadim Keylin, Susanne Koelbl, Nicolas Longinotti, Johanna Maierski, Sulthana Nasrin, Christopher Ohge, Ananya Punyatoya, Niki Rhyner, Suja Sawafta, Carolin Schmidt, Mark Schmitt, Caroline Lillian Schopp, Olga Schubert, Jennifer Sichel, Amina Zarzi
About
The 5th Annual Conference Futures of Doing Literature explored the challenges and potentialities that constantly mediate how literature is practised, studied, valued and conceptualised today. At a moment marked by rapid technological, ecological, political and institutional change, this conference investigated what it means to do literature. This included not only scholarly and publishing activities but also literature as a social, aesthetic and performative act. Together, we examined literature as a generative site of unsettling and reimagining, where narratives entail memory, belonging, world-making and transformation.
Impressions and Outcome
Our digital journal Articulations will feature selected work from the conference. These forthcoming issues will include curated collections, reflective responses, as well as individual insights developed from our early career researchers' quick-fire talks. Together, these contributions extend the conference's exploration of diverse possible futures for doing literature.
In the meantime, follow the links below to learn more about the different sessions and to view impressions gathered over three days of conversation with our Cluster members, associated researchers, fellows and international partners, as we reflected on the ways that doing literature will continue to shape and expand the humanities.
Image Credit: S. Messner 2025 for EXC 2020 using a photo by Valeria Reverdo on Unsplash.
Video produced by LUK Productions.