Az ERA – Epimodern Research Atelier nemzetközi kutatócsoport kilencedik konferenciájának helyszíne ezúttal Szeged lesz.
A konferencia címe: Origin and Secrecy.
Időpontja: 2025. november 27-29.
Helyszín: SZTE BTK Kari konferenciaterem
A konferencia szervezője: Ritz Szilvia, SZTE BTK Osztrák Irodalom és Kultúra Tanszék
A konferencia nyelve angol.
A kutatócsoport honlapja itt elérhető: http://epimodernism.hypotheses.org/
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Szeged
27th-29th November 2025
Faculty Conference Room (Egyetem utca 2, Ground floor)
Thursday, 27. November
9.30 Welcome Address by Prof. Dr. Zoltán Gyenge, Pro-Dean and Head of International Affairs, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Szeged
9.45 Welcome Address by Szilvia Ritz, Institute of German Studies, Department of Austrian Literature and Culture
10.00 Plenary talk Emmanuel Bouju (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris): “Arkhe, Istor, Plasma: Epimodernism and Succession Rights.“
10.45-11.00 Coffee break
Chair: Emily Apter
11.00‒11.20 Ian James (King’s College, University of Cambridge): “What Lies at the Origin and Why Should it be Secret?”
11.20‒11.40 Csaba Horváth (Károli Gáspár University, Budapest): “From the Truth of the Novel to the Post-Truth Novelisation.”
11.40‒12.00 Roland Innerhofer (University of Vienna): “The Return of Reality and the Lost Future: Anna Kim’s Frozen Time.”
12.00‒12.30 Discussion
Chair: Roland Innerhofer
14.15‒14.35 Michael Lackey (University of Minnesota Morris): “The Perpetually Resurrected Author: Biofiction Versus / And / Or Epimodernism.”
14.35‒14.55 Szilvia Ritz (University of Szeged, Hungary): “’Can one write about life?’” Putting Together the Pieces in Eigentum (Property) and Wackelkontakt (Loose Connection) by Wolf Haas and Helping Verbs of the Heart by Péter Esterházy.”
14.55‒15.15 Vladimir Zorić (University of Nottingham): “An Epimodern Bestiary? The Serpentine Narrative in Saša Stanišić’s Herkunft.”
15.15‒15.45 Discussion
15.45‒16.00 Coffee break
Chair: Emmanuel Bouju
16.00‒16.20 Kinga Piotrowiak-Junkiert (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań): “Echo that Does Not Return. Third-generation Trauma in Marta Hermanowicz’s Novel Koniec.”
16.20‒16.40 Ivana Taranenková (Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences): “Haunting as a Form of Persistence in 21st-Century Slovak Fiction.”
16.40‒17.00 Discussion
Friday, 28. November
9.00‒9.45 Plenary talk
Emily Apter (New York University): "The Secret Lives of Translation, A Post-Truth Condition? Lydia Davis as Writer/Translator."
9.45‒10.00 Coffee break
Chair: Csaba Horváth
10.00‒10.20 István László Géher (Károli Gáspár University, Budapest): “Poems Written in the Mirror (László Nagy Seven Poems for Béla Kondor’s Paintings).”
10.20‒10.40 Loїse Lelevé (University Paris Nanterre): “The Ethics of Sur(fac)ing: Aporetic Quests of Origins and Virtual Odysseys in Cécile Portier’s Pourquoi Pacifique.”
10.40‒11.00 Discussion
11.00‒11.20 Coffee break
Chair: Zoltán Z. Varga
11.20‒11.40 László Bedecs (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski): “An Example of Social Responsibility in Hungarian Literature: Árpád Kun’s Boldog Észak (Happy North) as an Epimodern Novel.”
11.40‒12.00 Alexander Mionskowski (GWZO Leipzig): “The Ashes of Identity – Glacial Poetics and Volcanic Eruptions in the Icelandic Series Katla.”
12.00‒12.20 Discussion
Chair: Ian James
14.00‒14.20 László Sári B. (University of Pécs, Hungary): “Doubling Down on Modernism as War Propaganda: Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer and the War in Vietnam.”
14.20‒14.40 Laura Pintér (Károli Gáspár University, Budapest): “The Meandering Narrator at the Negative Berlin Wall. Metafiction and Historical Representation in Tóth Krisztina’s Pixel.“
14.40‒15.00 Zoltán Z. Varga (University of Pécs and Research Center for Humanities, ELTE Budapest): “Confessions in the Age of Post-Truth: Autofiction, a New Literary Genre or a New Imposture?”
15.00‒15.30 Discussion
16.00 Sightseeing in Szeged
Saturday, 29. November
Chair: Vladimir Zorić
9.00‒09.20 Michael Syrotinski (University of Glasgow): “Sacred Secrets: Reading and Translating Origins in Tony Hillerman’s Navajo/Diné Detective Fiction.” (online)
9.20‒09.40 Imre József Balázs (Babes-Bolyai University Cluj): “Investigating the Origins: Multiple Truths in Sándor András’s Crime Novel Murder in Alaska: Sherlock Holmes in the Land of the Tlingit.”
9.40‒10.00 Karina Kora: “Secrecy as Structure. Narrative Geometry in Michael Stavaric’s Böse Spiele.”
10.00‒10.30 Discussion
10.30‒10.50 Coffee break
Chair: Ivana Taranenková
10.50‒11.10 Pál Száz (Comenius University in Bratislava): “The Epigenetics of Secrecy: The Jewish as Otherness, Identity, and Origin in Contemporary Hungarian Literature.”
11.10‒11.30 Gyula Tóth (University of Szeged, Hungary): “An Anxious Guardian Angel: Memory, Secrets and Shame in Robert Menasse’s Expulsion from Hell.”
11.30‒11.50 Duarte Bénard da Costa (University of Cambridge): “Intertextuality Today.”
11.50‒12.20 Discussion
12.20 Closing
