Workshop | Book Fairs and Literary Prizes: Economy, Prestige, and Global Circulation

Dec 10, 2020 – Dec 11, 2020

Programme

Thursday, 10 December, 15:00 – 18:15
15:00 – 15:15 | Introduction

15:15 – 16:30 | Marco Thomas Bosshard (Flensburg / EXC 2020 guest): “Book fairs as spaces of cultural and economic negotiation: Project results and a discussion of the influence of the Guest of Honour format at Frankfurt Book Fair on book sales of foreign literature in translation”

16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee break

17:00 – 18:15 | Gustavo Sorá (Córdoba, Argentina): “Theory and ‘sens pratique’ in the socio-anthropological analysis of international book fairs”

Friday, 11 December, 10:00 – 15:00
10:00 – 10:15 | Introduction

10:15 – 12:15 | Corinna Norrick-Rühl (Münster) / Urs Büttner (Düsseldorf): “Commerce, culture – and a camel: The re-establishment of Frankfurt Book Fair as an institution of literary circulation after World War II”

12:15 – 13:15 | Lunch break

13:15 – 14:30 | Alexandra Pontzen (Duisburg-Essen): “Das Zirkulationsnetzwerk der Literaturpreise”

14:30 – 15:00 | Final discussion

EXC 2020 “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective”, Freie Universität Berlin
Research Area 4: “Literary Currencies”
Organised by Michael Gamper, Jutta Müller-Tamm, Jasmin Wrobel
Moderation: Alexander Nebrig (Düsseldorf) & Jasmin Wrobel (Berlin)

Contact and registration (until December 3): jasmin.wrobel@fu-berlin.de
The workshop will be held on the platform WebEx. You will receive information concerning your access to the event on December 4.