EXC 2020 Temporal Communities

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.

  

Tentative Programme

RA = Research Area

9 July 

Panel "Hierarchies of the Past, Entanglements of the Future"
Curators: Hanan Natour (RA 3) & Frank Fischer (RA 5)

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Panel "Reading Matters: Literature as Social and Political Practice"
Curator: Barbara Bausch (RA 4)

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Nocturne/Blue Light Moon: Public Reading and Interview with Yvonne A. Owuor (International Advisory Board)
Curator: Ana Rocío Jouli (RA 2)

10 July

Rolling Interviews with Early Career Researchers
Curators: Dîlan Canan Çakir, Rebecca Hardie & Viktor J. Illmer (all RA 5)

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Panel "Infinite Texts: Digital Editions as Matters of Time"
Curators: Yvonne Albers (RA 1) & Bart Soethaert (RA 5)

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Fishbowl "Doing Literature"
Curators: Dîlan Canan Çakir (RA 5), Rebecca Hardie (Articulations), Viktor J. Illmer (RA 5) & Stefanie Messner (Technical University of Darmstadt)

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Roundtable "Anarchiving Anarchitecture: Past Perspectives on Building Futures"
with Jack Halberstam (EXC 2020 Distinguished Fellow of Global Literary Studies)
Curator: Friederike Schäfer (RA 2)

11 July

Panel "Futures of Digital Literature"
Curator: Nina Tolksdorf (RA 2)

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Panel "The Futures of Doing Publishing | Publishing as Doing Literature"
Curators: Anna Luhn (RA 4/Constellations) & Christina Schmitt (Publications Management)