Political Novel in Europe and Migration/Exile

Thursday, 23 May 2024

9.30

• Zrinka Božić (University of Zagreb), Tomasz Mizerkiewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań): Introduction

Migration, Exile, Travel
Chair: Tomasz Mizerkiewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań)

10.00

• Zrinka Božić (University of Zagreb): The politics of exile, the exile for politics
• Charlotte Woodford (University of Cambridge): Imagined communities and women’s multidirectional travel in the early twentieth century

12.15

• Mark Devenney (University of Brighton): Fiktionsbescheinigung: The novel and the violent fictions of citizenship

Migrant, Post-migrant
Chair: Gerard Ronge (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań)

15.00

• Ivana Perica (ZfL): “Provocation”, “propaganda”, “resonances”: The post-migrant political novel in the German context
• Rossie Artemis (University of Nicosia): Little Bees: Difference, otherness, and exclusion in 21st century Europe

17.15

• Vedrana Velickovic (University of Brighton): ‘Where are they flocking from?’: Representation of Eastern European migration in contemporary literature and culture

Friday, 24 May 2024

9.30

• Presentation of Migrant Info Point

NGO’s perspective on the PNE and migration/exile
Chair: Błażej Warkocki (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań)

10.00

• Alicja Skrzypczak (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań): Time and waiting in the context of migration
• Marta Kowalczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań): The border

PNE and geographies of migration
Chair: Magda Potok (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań)

15.00

• Anna Gawarecka (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań): Victims or terrorists: How Czech literature looks at Islamic refugees
• Ewa Szperlik, Gerard Ronge (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań): Identity crypt and migration: Two case studies from contemporary Slavic prose (Bosnian and Polish)

17.15

• María Ayete Gil (Universidad de Alcalá): Crossing borders: From late-francoism to the 2008 crisis: A comparative study of Cacereño and Cabezas cortadas
• Ante Andabak (University of Zagreb): Abdulrazak Gurnah’s novelistic treatment of migration
• Concluding remarks: PNE and migration/exile