Annual Conference: "Literary Value: Artistic, Academic and Critical Practices" | 3–5 July 2024
Invited speakers: Yvonne Albers, Maryam Aras, Barbara Bausch, Dustin Breitenwischer, Sophia Brown, Elke Buhr, continent., Gregor Dotzauer, Sabine Erbrich, Frank Fischer, Emma Gallon, Eva Geulen, Dominique Haensell, Rebecca Hardie, Lea Hopp, Viktor J. Illmer, Christian Junge, Alevtina Kakhidze, Georg Kasch, Ekkehard Knörer, Caroline Kögler, Madhu Krishnan, Nadja Küchenmeister, Lianna Mark, Chris Möller, Joseph North, Christopher Ohge, Lily Robert-Foley, Lea Schneider, Girish Shambu, Bart Soethaert, Susanne Strätling, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Jasmin Wrobel
Annual Conference 2024
The annual conference investigated practices, contexts and agents of literary evaluation. The assignment of value to texts and artworks within the cultural sphere, the academic world and on the global market is deeply entangled with the dynamics of power and gatekeeping, inclusion and exclusion. As such, notions about literature and literary value are subject to continuous explicit or implicit negotiation, challenge and subversion. The three conference sections "Artistic Practices", "Academic Practices" and "Critical Practices" aimed to develop a praxeological perspective on the various ways in which literary value is produced and questioned within the respective fields.
Concept and organisation: Research Area 4: "Literary Currencies" (Florian Fuchs, Michael Gamper, Till Kadritzke, Alexandra Ksenofontova, Anna Luhn and Jutta Müller-Tamm)
