Program

Friday, September 4
 

University Main Building, Lecture Hall IX

09:00-09:15	Welcome and opening remarks Coco Norén, Dean of the Faculty of Languages
09:15-10:15	Keynote lecture: Does translingualism matter? Steven G. Kellman, University of Texas at San Antonio
10:15-10:30	Coffee break
10:30-12:00	Session 1   Chair: Michael Boyden, Uppsala University
	Eugenia Kelbert, University of Passau Writing in an acquired language: Translingualism as a challenge for translation
	Julia Tidigs, University of Helsinki The writer, the text and the readers beyond the monolingual paradigm: A critical re-conceptualization of textual multilingualism
	Stefan Helgesson, Stockholm University & Christina Kullberg, Uppsala University The languaging of literatures
12:00-13:30	Lunch break
13:30-15:00	Session 2    Chair: Roberto Del Valle Alcalá, Uppsala University
	Sara Orwig, Cardiff University Code switching in contemporary Welsh literature
	Olli Löytty, University of Turku Hassan Blasim: The precarious position of an Arabic author in the national literary field of Finland
	Rainer Guldin, Università della Svizzera Italiana Writing in a plurilingual context: Literary translingualism in Switzerland
15:00-15:30	Coffee break
15:30-17:00	Session 3    Chair: Christina Kullberg, Uppsala University
	Eloi Grasset Morell, Harvard University Jorge Semprún: Between language and memory
	Alain Ausoni, University of Lausanne Translingual life-writing in French
	Heidi Grönstrand, University of Turku Multilingual texts, monolingual readers? Questions of translation in Finnish autobiographical writing
17:15-18:15	University Main Building, Lecture Hall II
	Translingual, transdisciplinary, transatlantic: Planning the future Network meeting for international cooperation in the field of translingual literary studies (open to all interested researchers and doctoral students)
	Natasha Lvovich, Kingsborough Community College & City University of New York
	Eugenia Kelbert, University of Passau