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Localizing Theory. Schools of Thought and Policies of Knowledge in Contemporary Literary Studies Bucharest, 3-4 April 2015
03.04.2015 @ 9:30 am - 04.04.2015 @ 6:00 pm
Conference Program
Day 1 (3 April 2015)
9.30 – Conference opening speeches (Liviu Papadima, Mircea Martin, Mircea Vasilescu, Oana
Fotache), Council Room, Faculty of Letters
9.45 – Keynote lecture: Prof. Didier Coste, “Power Failure in Paris”: Detheorization of the Center
11.00 – Coffee break
11.30 – 13.00 – Session 1. Ideologies and Theoretical Travels
Chair: Mircea Martin
Ioana Bican, Sans temps, ni lieu. Innover en théorie littéraire au temps du communisme
Ovidiu Verdeș, Matei Călinescu et la dimension autobiographique de la (re)lecture
Mircea Vasilescu, Intellectuels et médias dans la Roumanie postcommuniste. Débats et
instruments d’analyse
13.00 – 14.30 – Lunch break
14.30 – 16.00 – Sessions 2 and 3
Session 2. Romanian Marginalities (Literary Studies Department Room)
Chair: Mircea Vasilescu
Adriana Babeți, Un avant-poste margino-centrique. La littérature et ses théories à Timișoara
dans les années 70-80
Maricica Munteanu, Theory of Romanian National Identity: Cultural Identity and Geopolical
Immaginary
Antonio Patraș, For the Rehabilitation of the Common Place. Jean Paulhan, N. Steinhardt
and the ‘Terror in Literature’
Session 3. From Postcolonialism to Postcommunism and Back (Council Room)
Chair: Anca Băicoianu
Ioana Zirra, Is Romanian Postcommunist Identity Hyphenated in the Same Way as the
Poststructuralist, Postcolonial and Post-traumatic Hyphenated Identity Foregrounded by
Emily Apter’s New Comparative Literature Outlined in The Translation Zone?
Dumitru Tucan, The Adaptability of Theory. Postcolonialism vs Postcommunism in
Romanian Literary Studies
Bogdan Ștefănescu, Denied Visas: Tough Theoretical Travels between Postcolonial and
Postcommunist Worlds
16.00 – 16.30 – Coffee break
16.30 – 18.00 – Session 4. Methodological Jetlags and/in Romanian literary studies (Council
Room)
Chair: Didier Coste
Adrian Tudurachi, La théorie à retardement : effets de la réception décalée des idées
littéraires
Magda Răduță, Il y a un champ dans cette littérature? Les défis de la théorie sociologique de
Pierre Bourdieu dans les études littéraires roumaines
Mircea Martin, Comment l’antimodernité a été accueillie en Roumanie
18.00 Welcome Cocktail
Day 2 (4 April 2015)
10.00 – 11.30 – Session 5 and 6
Session 5. Border Crossings (Council Room)
Chair: Ovidiu Verdeș
Caius Dobrescu, Why the Center-Periphery Divide Makes No Sense: Modernity as a Travelling
Sphere of Options
Ioan Alexandru Grădinaru, The Import of Thick Description in Romanian Religious Studies
Nicholas O. Pagan, Thing Theory and the Appeal of Literature
Session 6. Historical Perspectives (Literary Studies Department Room)
Chair: Ioana Bican
Ligia Tudurachi, Emprunter la théorie, re-fonder la communauté. La réception des idées de
Fr. Paulhan dans le cénacle Sburătorul (1919-1943)
Roxana Patraș, Where do Memories of Political Talk Come from? P.P. Carp and the Rising
of Englishness in Romanian culture
Romanița Constantinescu, L’identité de rôle – l’histoire discontinue d’une idée
transatlantique
Carmen Mușat, Can One Talk about the End of Literary Theory?
11.30 – 12.00 – Coffee break
12.00 – 13.30 – Sessions 7 and 8
Session 7. Western Theories, Eastern Practices (Council Room)
Chair: Dumitru Tucan
Oana Fotache, Foucault’s Reception by the Romanian Literary Field (1990-2000)
Roxana Eichel, Theory in Motion: from Kristeva’s Hyperbolic Western “We” to a Fictional
“I” in Byzantium
Liviu Papadima, Reception Theory in Retrospect
Session 8. Conceptualizing Contemporary Romanian Literature (Literary Studies Department
Room)
Chair: Caius Dobrescu
Robert Cincu, Localizing Postmodernism in Mănăștur
Cătălin Sturza, Two Generations of Romanian Writers (1980 and 1990) Facing the West.
The Three Postmodernisms
Bogdan Tănase, What Does “Inner Age” in Literary Studies Stand for? Travelling Literary
Concepts during Communism
13.30 – 15.00 – Lunch break
15.00 – 16.30 – Sessions 9 and 10
Session 9. Figures of Authority (Council Room)
Chair: Carmen Mușat
Laura Dumitrescu, Mon nom est Légion, car nous sommes nombreux
Laura Cernat, Shifting Histories – J.M. Coetzee’s Overwriting of Canonical Figures in Foe
and The Master of Petersburg
Mahmoud Baballah, The Legacy of Representation. Muslim Veiled Woman as Case Study
Serguei Panov, La connaissance du soi dans la culture littéraire. Projet transcendantal,
schème phénoménologique, illusion sémiotique
Session 10. Interpretive Experiments (Literary Studies Department Room)
Chair: Adrian Tudurachi
Eugen Radu Wohl, Tadeusz Kantor’s „Exploded” Artistic Form – An Exportable Model for
Interpretation
Laura Marin, Acclimater la figure
Anca Băicoianu, Thinking Space: Estrangement, Translation, and the Adventure of Theory
16.30 – 17.00 – Coffee
17.00 Closing remarks (Magda Răduță, Adrian Tudurachi), Council Room