With:
Janneke Adema, Marwa M. Ahmed, Yvonne Albers, Barbara Bausch, Laura Bieger, Julius Böhm, Melina Brüggemann, Dîlan Canan Çakir, Carla Dalbeck, Gimena del Rio Riande, Dhritii Dutta, Anne Eusterschulte, Frank Fischer, Heike Geißler, Beatrice Gründler, Jack Halberstam, Rebecca Hardie, Viktor J. Illmer, Andrew James Johnston, Torsten Jost, Ana Rocío Jouli, Chiara Liso, Nicolas Longinotti, Anna Luhn, Johanna Maierski, Omid Mashhadi, Stefanie Messner, Pedro Mora Madriñán, Sulthana Nasrin, Hanan Natour, Christopher Ohge, Yvonne A. Owour, Elena Patrika, Ananya Punyatoya, Nathalie Rennhack, Niki Rhyner, Suja Sawafta, Friederike Schäfer, Mark Schmitt, Christina Schmitt, Caroline Lillian Schopp, Olga Schubert, Jennifer Sichel, Bart Soethaert, Anton Terhechte, Nina Tolksdorf, Laura Untner, Victoria Wirtz, Amina Zarzi
Annual Conference 2025
The 5th Annual Conference "Futures of Doing Literature" will focus on the potentialities, strategies, expectations, challenges and imaginaries for doing literature, both as a scholarly practice and as a social, material-aesthetic and performative form of expression, communication and negotiation. We will explore how doing literature enables meditation, critique and action; how it enacts different notions of participation, impact, agency and literary timing, always creating temporalities of its own.
In addition, by placing contributions from Cluster members, associated researchers and fellows at the core of the programme, the conference will provide an opportunity to reflect on the collaborative achievements and developments throughout Temporal Communities' first funding phase.
Three days of panels, roundtables, presentations and readings will provide an exploratory space and shared time for Cluster members and friends to engage in critical discussion and reflection, while all of the Cluster's international partners will gather with the local research community in Berlin to discuss the future(s) of their collaborative work.
Conference Organisation Team (Research Area 5: "Building Digital Communities"):Dîlan Canan Çakir, Frank Fischer, Rebecca Hardie, Viktor J. Illmer and Bart Soethaert.
Venue: silent green Kulturquartier, Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin. Please register by 22 June 2025 via the registration form.
Provisional Programme
RA = Research Area
9 JulyPanel "Hierarchies of the Past, Entanglements of the Future"
Curators: Hanan Natour (RA 3) & Frank Fischer (RA 5)
Panel "Reading Matters: Literature as Social and Political Practice"
Curator: Barbara Bausch (RA 4)
Nocturne/Blue Light Moon: Public Reading and Interview with Yvonne A. Owuor (writer)
Curator: Ana Rocío Jouli (RA 2)
Rolling Interviews with Early Career Researchers
Curators: Dîlan Canan Çakir, Rebecca Hardie & Viktor J. Illmer (all RA 5)
Panel "Infinite Texts: Digital Editions as Matters of Time"
Curators: Yvonne Albers (RA 1) & Bart Soethaert (RA 5)
Fishbowl "Doing Literature"
Curators: Dîlan Canan Çakir (RA 5), Rebecca Hardie (Articulations), Viktor J. Illmer (RA 5) & Stefanie Messner (Technical University of Darmstadt)
Roundtable "Past Perspectives on Contingent Futures for the Performing Body: Anarchival, Anarchitectural and Queering Practices"
with Jack Halberstam (Columbia University/EXC 2020 Distinguished Fellow of Global Literary Studies), Jennifer Sichel (University of Louisville), Caroline Lillian Schopp (Johns Hopkins University)
Curator: Friederike Schäfer (RA 2)
Panel "Futures of Digital Literature"
Curator: Nina Tolksdorf (RA 2)
Panel "The Futures of Doing Publishing | Publishing as Doing Literature"
Curators: Anna Luhn (RA 4/Constellations) & Christina Schmitt (Publications Management)
Image Credit: S. Messner 2025 for EXC 2020 using a photo by Valeria Reverdo on Unsplash.