Programme

THURSDAY 19 MAY

9:00-12:00 Registration open (ground floor Bâtiment d’enseignement UFR Lettres)

9:00-9:15 Welcome by the conference organizers (Room 7 d’enseignement UFR Lettres)

PANEL 1

Transcultural Literature: A Study

9:15-10:45

(Room 9 Bâtiment d’enseignement UFR Lettres)

Moderator Stefano Rosso (University of Bergamo, Italy)

Guiyou Huang (Western Illinois University, USA)

“Transculturaliterature: A Definition and Discussion”

T.Sai Chandra Mouli (Osmania University, India)

“Significance of Transcultural Fiction: A Study”

Julia Siccardi (Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, France)

“‘Sharing the Experience of the Other’: Towards an Understanding of Transcultural Literature”

PANEL 2

Literary Translingualism

9:15-10:45

(Room7 Bâtiment d’enseignement UFR Lettres)

Moderator Elisabeth Lamothe (Le Mans University)

Kornelia Slavova (St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, Bulgaria)

“Literary Translingualism and the Case of ‘World Literature’: A View from Eastern Europe”

Liana Pshevorska, (United States Military Academy, West Point, USA)

“Ethics and Aesthetics of Katalin Molnár’s Translingual Literature”

Béatrice Bouvier, Laffitte (Université d’Angers France) “Segalen, écrivain translingue ? ” 

Coffee Break 10:45-11:15

KEYNOTE

Aboueddahab Mohammed Redouane

(Le Mans University)

“Transsubjectivity, sublimation, and the desire of otherness.

Toward an American transcultural text”

Moderator François Thirion

11:15-12:15

(Room7 Bâtiment d’enseignement UFR Lettres)

LUNCH 12:15-13:45

PANEL 3

Transculturality in American literature

13:45pm-15:45

(Room 9 Bâtiment d’enseignement UFR Lettres)

Moderator Marek Paryż (University of Warsaw Poland)

Aristi Trendel (Le Mans University, France) “Transculturality: Ethics and Politics in Eva Hoffman’s Appassionata”

Adriana Elena Stoican, (Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania)

“Jhumpa Lahiri — Facets of Transculturality in South Asian American literature”

Shuang Liu (Leiden University, Netherlands)

“Translingualism ≠ transculturality: A comparison reading of David Henry Hwang’s Chinglish and Ha Jin’s ‘An English Professor’”

Marta Koval (University of Gdansk)

“Linguistic Framework of Immigrant Experience and Challengers of (Trans)cultural Memory in Recent American Fiction” 

PANEL 4

Transcultural Communication: Language and Translation

13:45pm-15:45

(Room 7 Bâtiment d’enseignement UFR Lettres)

Moderator Gunta Roziņa (University of Latvia)

Indra Karapetjana/Gunta Roziņa (University of Latvia)

“English as an academic Lingua Franca in Transcultural Communication in Latvia”

Yana Kuzmina (University of Latvia) “Transcultural Communication in EU and US Research Project Reports”

María Jesús Fernández-Gil/ Nagore Palomares Martín (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain)

“Transcultural Engagement with Holocaust Memory in Spain: A One-Way Process?”

Bentolhoda Nakhaei (Université de Rouen Normandie, France)

“The Transcultural Perspectives of African American Literature in French Translation of the Known World”

COFFEE BREAK 15:45-16:15

ROUND TABLE

(Room 7 Bâtiment d’enseignement UFR Lettres)

16:15-17:30

Transculturality and the translation of English and Spanish Creole into French, and the transcultural, multipolar experience of translating Japanese-American poet Amy Uyematsu

(University of Bordeaux-Montaigne)

The group, represented by Lhorine François, Sophie Rachmuhl (who discovered and presented Amy Uyematsu to us), Sabine Tinchant, and Nicole Ollier, who directs the group, will try to render the delicate transcultural task they face

Moderator Ojārs Lāms (University of Latvia)

18:30-19:30

Guided Visit to the Old City, le Mans

Meeting Point: Place de la République

(in front of the MONOPRIX supermarket)

20:00 CONFERENCE DINNER

FRIDAY 20 MAY

9-12 Registration open

PANEL 5

Transcultural Perspectives on the Western

Session I: Contemporary Literary Westerns Across Cultures

9:00-11:00

(Room 9 Bâtiment d’enseignement UFR Lettres)

Moderators Marek Paryż, University of Warsaw, Poland and Johannes Fehrle, Humboldt University, Germany

MaryEllen Higgins (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

“The Western as a Transcultural Genre: A Reading of J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians”

Johannes Fehrle (Humboldt University, Germany) “Guy Vanderhaeghe’s Transcultural Mapping of History”

Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo (University of the Basque Country, Spain)

“Pioneras by Silvia Coma: A Two-Way Trans-Atlantic, Cross-Gender Journey to the “Promised Land”

Marek Paryż (University of Warsaw, Poland) “A Transnational Queer Western: Sebastian Barry’s Days Without End”

PANEL 6

Transculturality in the Humanities

9:00-11:00

(Room 7 Bâtiment d’enseignement UFR Lettres)

Moderator Kornelia Slavova (St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, Bulgaria)

François Thirion (Le Mans University, France)

“From Modern Era Anarchism to XXIst Century Global Environmental Movements: Class Struggle, Anarchism and Anti-capitalist Traditions in the New "Green" Movements of the Western World”

Claudie Servian (Université Grenoble Alpes, France)  

“Hybridation culturelle et idéelle franco-américaine dans le travail des chorégraphes étatsuniens au XXI^ème siècle”

Nesrin Alrefaai (London School of Economics and Political Science) / Lyudmila Razumova (King’s College London / (DL) and University of Birmingham) “Transcultural Collaboration: A Journey of an Animated Film”

Olga Thierbach-McLean (Independent scholar) “'Great Storytelling Transcends Borders': The Transculturation Effect of Multinational Streaming Services” 

Coffee Break

11:00-11:30

KEYNOTE

THEODORA TSIMPOUKI

(NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS)

“Home everywhere or nowhere?

Understanding the Transcultural Experience Contrapuntally”

Moderator Aristi Trendel

(Le Mans University)

11:30-12:30

(Room 7 Bâtiment d’enseignement UFR Lettres)

12:30-13:45

LUNCH

PANEL 7

Transcultural Perspectives on the Western

Session II Tracing the Genealogies of Transnationalism in Contemporary Cinematic (Post)Westerns

13:45-15:15

(Room 9 Bâtiment d’enseignement UFR Lettres)

Moderators Marek Paryż (University of Warsaw Poland) and Johannes Fehrle (Humboldt University, Germany)

Stefano Rosso (University of Bergamo, Italy)

“From James Fenimore Cooper to Tex Willer and Bruno Bozzetto: Eccentric Transcultural Migrations of the American Western”

Ralph Poole (University of Salzburg, Austria)

“Home-Longing in Fatih Akin’s Transnational Heimat Westerns”

Jesús Ángel González (Universidad de Cantabria, Spain)

“Transcultural Approach to the Argentinian Western”

PANEL 8

The Transcultural Aspects of Food in Latvian Literature and Life-Stories

13:45-15:15

(Room 7 Bâtiment d’enseignement UFR Lettres)

Moderator Ojārs Lāms (University of Latvia)

“The Representation of Oranges in Contemporary Latvian Prose and Challenges for Translation” Ieva Kalniņa / Madara Stāde (University of Latvia)

Ojārs Lāms / Mārtiņš Laizāns (University of Latvia)

“Zis is ze rasol”. Contemporary Latvian migrant literature and the translation of food culture”

Elina Kursite (University of Latvia) “Mixed food-identities of 90's Latvia”

PANEL 9

Language and transculturality

15:15-16:15

(Room 9 Bâtiment d’enseignement UFR Lettres)

Moderator: Johannes Fehrle (Humboldt University, Germany)

Cecily Fasham (Keble College, University of Oxford, UK)

 “All l language is migrant’: Language as Transcultural Network in Caroline Bergvall’s Transhistorical Translations”

Stanislav Kolář/ Iva Dedková (University of Ostrava, Czech Republic)

“Bilingual and Cross-cultural Encounters in Kate Chopin’s Short Stories”

16:15 conference closing drink