Organised by Caroline Kögler, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies".

Programme

Monday, 25 November 2024
EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities" (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 15, 14195 Berlin; Room 00.07)

10:00–15:00 | Meeting of the Research Group

From 15:00 I Tour of Berlin Book Stores (Kinship focus, e.g. "She Said")

19:00 I Dinner

Tuesday, 26 November 2024
EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities" (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 15, 14195 Berlin; Room 00.05)

09:45 | Reception (Coffee)

10:00 | Caroline Kögler (Freie Universität Berlin/EXC 2020): Introduction

PANEL ONE: Prizeworthiness and Kinship Beyond Literary Nationalism

10:15 I Alexandra Dane (University of Melbourne): 'Fluctuating Prestige' and the Temporality of Circulation

11:00 I Julie Rak (University of Alberta): Heavy Industry: Kate Beaton's Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands—Class Politics and Awards Culture

11:45 I Victoria Wirtz (Freie Universität Berlin): Literary Prizes and Queer Working-Class Kinship

12:45–14:00 I Lunch Break

PANEL TWO: Prizeworthiness and Cultures of Recommendation

14:00 I Corinna Norrick-Rühl (University of Münster): Building Reading Communities, Shaping Genres? The Goodreads Choice Awards

14:45 I Danielle Fuller (University of Alberta): Practices of Value/Valued Practices: Readers and Recommendation Cultures

15:30 I Chiara Bullen (University of Stirling): Pre-Publication Literary Award Culture, Corporate Social Responsibility and Cultural Production

16:15 I Coffee Break

16:30–c. 17:00 I Take-aways from Panels One & Two

Wednesday, 27 November 2024
EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities" (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 15, 14195 Berlin; Room 00.05) 

9:00 I Reception (Coffee)

9:15 I Keynote Lecture [digital] 

Sandra Phillips (University of Melbourne): Pre-publication Indigenous literary prizes in Australia tell a story about what the publishing industry doesn't know, post-publication prizes confirm what it needs

10:15 | Coffee Break 

PANEL THREE: Prizeworthiness and Forums of Cohesion/Diversion

10:30 I Christine Emmett (University of Warwick): 'Political authors', the Nobel, and the Vicissitudes of Prizeworthiness: Nadine Gordimer and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

11:15 I Stevie Marsden (Edinburgh Napier University): Levelling Up: Class[ifying] Prizeworthiness

12:00 | Alexander Starre (Freie Universität Berlin): Paradoxes of Prestige: Debunking and Endorsing the Literary Prize Economy in US Book Club Fiction

12:45–13:30 | Lunch Break

PANEL FOUR: Prizeworthiness and Dis/Affection

13:30 | Elisa Haf (Freie Universität Berlin): "Come and Get Me": Prizeworthiness as Affective Investment in the Novels of Sally Rooney

14:15 | Beth Driscoll (University of Melbourne): What Readers Do: Aesthetic and Moral Practices of a Post-Digital Age

15:15–c. 16:00 I Coffee & Closing Plenary Discussion