Activiteiten
VAL-symposium 2022
Thema: A Challenging Age: literatuur, klimaatcrisis en intergenerationele dialoog
25 november 2022
Keynote speakers
Vanessa Joosen (UAntwerpen), “The Merits of Big and Small: Children’s Literature, Intergenerational Relationships and Climate Change”
Sarah Falcus (University of Huddersfield), “Precarious Generations: Futurity, the Life Course and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative Fiction”
| Datum | 25 november 2022 |
| Locatie | Monasterium PoortAckere, Sint Lucas room Oude Houtlei 56 9000 Ghent |
| 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 |