Workshop | Book Fairs and Literary Prizes: Economy, Prestige, and Global Circulation
Organised by Michael Gamper, Jutta Müller-Tamm, and Jasmin Wrobel, Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies"
Programme
Moderation: Alexander Nebrig (Düsseldorf) & Jasmin Wrobel (Berlin)
Thursday, 10 December 2020, 15:00 - 18:1515:00 - 15:15 | Introduction
15:15 - 16:30 | Marco Thomas Bosshard (Flensburg / EXC 2020 guest): "Book fairs as spaces of cultural and economic negotiation: Project results and a discussion of the influence of the Guest of Honour format at Frankfurt Book Fair on book sales of foreign literature in translation"
16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee break
17:00 - 18:15 | Gustavo Sorá (Córdoba, Argentina): "Theory and ‘sens pratique’ in the socio-anthropological analysis of international book fairs"
Friday, 11 December, 10:00 - 15:0010:00 - 10:15 | Introduction
10:15 - 12:15 | Corinna Norrick-Rühl (Münster) / Urs Büttner (Düsseldorf): "Commerce, culture – and a camel: The re-establishment of Frankfurt Book Fair as an institution of literary circulation after World War II"
12:15 - 13:15 | Lunch break
13:15 - 14:30 | Alexandra Pontzen (Duisburg-Essen): "Das Zirkulationsnetzwerk der Literaturpreise"
14:30 - 15:00 | Final discussion
Time & Location
Dec 10, 2020 - Dec 11, 2020
Contact and registration (until December 3): jasmin.wrobel@fu-berlin.de The workshop will be held on the platform WebEx. You will receive information concerning your access to the event on December 4. The workshop languages will be English and German.