11.00
Begrüßung und Einführung
Michael Naumann, Rector of the Barenboim-Said Akademie
Kai Wiegandt, Professor of Literature at the Barenboim-Said Akademie
Section 1: Genres and Species in Migration Literature
11.30 – 13.00
Peter Arnds (Dublin)
Wolves and the Politics of
Dehumanization in the Contemporary Novel of Forced Migration
Julia Hoydis (Graz)
“Stranger than Fiction”? (Im)probability,
Multi-Species Migration, and Climate Change in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun
Island
13.00 – 14.30
Mittagspause mit Führung durch die Akademie
14.30 – 16.00
Katrin Becker (Siegen)
Coming of Age, Coming of Class:
Subjectivities of Migration in Zadie Smith’s NW (2012) as
Second/Third-Generation Bildungsroman
Núria Codina (Leuven)
Transculturality as Intertextuality: Thematic and
Aesthetic Crossings in Migration Literature
16.00 – 16.30
Kaffeepause
Section 2: Ghosts and the Gothic in Migration
Literature
16.30 – 18.00
Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt (Dortmund)
Moving from the Shadows:
The Spectral Turn in Vietnamese American Refugee Narratives
Kai Wiegandt (Berlin)
Neo-Imperial Gothic: Western Migrant Fiction's Imagination of Reverse Domination
6.30 pm – 8 pm
Tickets to this event may be purchased here.
Elleke Boehmer (Oxford)
Reading: To the Volcano
Featuring musical performances by students of the Barenboim-Said Akademie
