In the first panel on Friday, Cluster member Barbara Bausch gathered three scholars who presented their current research with a special focus on reception practices.

Lianna Mark, a former fellow of the Cluster now working at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, compared autofictional narratives about social mobility and their theater adaptions in London and Berlin. Sophia Brown, also formerly a Cluster fellow and currently a fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, presented her work on the Palestinian writer Raja Shehadeh and his reception in different media environments, emphasising how the political dimension of Shehadeh's work is often pushed into the background in Western reception environments. Finally, Christian Junge from Marburg University talked about reception practices in social media in the field of Arabic Literature, focusing especially on the role of affect as aesthetic judgement.