VAL-Symposium 2022

A Challenging Age: literatuur, klimaatcrisis en intergenerationele dialoog

Datum 25 november 2022
Locatie Monasterium PoortAckere, Sint Lucas room
Oude Houtlei 56
9000 Ghent
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9:00 Introduction - Marco Caracciolo (UGent)
9:15 Keynote 1
Vanessa Joosen (UAntwerpen), "The Merits of Big and Small: Children's Literature, Intergenerational Relationships and Climate Change"
Chair: Jonas Vanhove (UGent)
10:00 Coffee break
10:30 English-language panel; chair: Pieter Vermeulen (KULeuven)
Simona Adinolfi (UGent), “‘After the End Came the Beginning’: Spatial-Temporal Logic in Ling Ma’s Severance”
Jade Thomas (VUB), “Melodrama’s Representational Legacies: Intergenerational, -racial and Queer Relationships in Jeremy O. Harris’s ‘Daddy’: A Melodrama”
Laura Welsch (UGent), “Body, Land and Soil in the Novel Las orillas del aire by Karina Pacheco”
12:00 Lunch (Alice Tearoom, Onderbergen 6)
13:45 Round table on methodology in the study of children’s literature
with Elly McCausland (UGent), Maureen Hosay, Leander Duthoy, Lindsey Geybels, and Andrea Davidson (UAntwerpen). Moderated by Emma-Louise Silva (UAntwerpen) and Marco Caracciolo (UGent)
14:45 Dutch-language panel; chair: Sara Buekens (UGent)
Caroline Baetens (UGent), “Zorg vlieden of zorg dragen? Biofilie en ecofobie in Cats’ Ouderdom en Buytenleven op Sorghvliet”
Els Biesemans (UGent), “Intergenerationele kwesties in moderne Scandinavische klimaatromans (2012-2022)”
Hanne Janssens (UGent), “Afval en mensen in de hedendaagse Duitstalige literatuur”
Liselotte Van der Gucht (UGent), “‘Feurige Blitze in ihrem Kopf hin und her’: zintuiglijke ervaring en empathie in de natuurbeleving van kinderen bij Else Lasker-Schüler en Marlen Haushofer”.
16:45 Coffee break
17:00 Keynote 2:
Sarah Falcus (University of Huddersfield), “Precarious Generations: Futurity, the Life Course and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative Fiction”
Chair: Sara Buekens (UGent)
17:45 End of the symposium