This week, we had a lovely conference gathering researchers working on literature across the University of Copenhagen:

Programme

• Nicolai von Eggers: “Creating a Feminist Canon: Women Writing about Women in the Age of Revolution”
• Kirstine Nielsen Degn: “What Literary History Knows about Friendship: A Computational Approach to Friendship in Danish Novels from 19th and 21st Centuries”
• Agus Soewarta: “Touching the Limit of Human Existence: Reading Karl Barth’s Commentary on St. Pauls Epistle to the Romans as a Tangential Theology”

Panel 2

• Emil Madsen Brandt: “Drama as a Locus of Iranian Modernity: The Case of Bijan Mofid’s Moon and Leopard”
• Ida Svingen Mo: “A Beauvoirian Reading of Brigitte Reimann”
• Bridget Vincent: “Germain Greer’s Classrom and the Politics of Poetic Form”

Panel 3

• Stefaine Heine: “Writing Beeches: Anna Ospelt’s Wurzelstudien and Kim de’l Horizon’s Blutbuch”
• Maria Damkjær: “The Silent Forest and Tree Agency in Ann Leckie’s The Raven Tower”
• Astrid Møller-Olsen: “Metafictional Rainforests: Multi-Lingual More-than-Human Ecologies in Mahua Literature”

Panel 4

• Valentina Orrù: “Time Travelling to Fantastic Lands”
• Kirsten Thisted: “Code-Stitching: A New Concept in Town – Do We Need It, and What Can We Use It For?”
• Linus Nicolaj Carlsen: “Autism’s Configurations”

Organizers

Stefanie Heine, Maria Damkjær, and Christina Jolan Fogarasi