Workshop: Literature, fieldwork, and the social sciences, on 13-14 March

Workshop: Literature, fieldwork, and the social sciences

Where: Spiegelzaal, Grote Gracht 80-82
When: 13-14 March 2018, 11.00-18.00

Please register by 4 March by sending your name, affiliation and day(s) you will attend to secr.hislk@maastrichtuniversity.nl with the subject ‘Workshop March’.

Outline
Bringing together an international group of specialists, this workshop reflects on the role of literary and cultural studies in the contemporary humanities and on potential collaborations with colleagues from the social sciences who use qualitative methods like interviewing and fieldwork. This is a timely topic, as is shown by special issues devoted to ‘description across disciplines’ and ‘postcritique’ (Representations, 2016; PMLA, 2017) as well as by recent publications of scholars like Amy Hungerford, Margaret Mackey, Shalini Puri, Heather Love, Rita Felski, Ivan Jablonka and many others. These articles and research projects are different in various ways, but they share the ambition to develop new paths for literary studies with the help of insights from the social sciences, to develop future forms of ‘fieldwork’, broadly construed. Our workshop aims to map these new paths and set the agenda for new collaborations between literature, literary studies, and the social sciences. We would like to tackle questions like the following: what role does literary studies play in the contemporary humanities? Which insights from the social sciences can help us to rethink contemporary literature and literary studies? What themes, methods, and histories connect literary studies and the social sciences? How have novelists and other writers picked up on these ideas, and used/criticized them? How does a social sciences approach to novels, poems, and other cultural artifacts differ from a literary approach, and how can they enrich each other?

Programme

Tuesday 13 March

  • 11.00 welcome by the organizers
  • 11.15-12.30 Amy Hungerford
  • 12.30-14.00 lunch
  • 14.00-14.45 Aagje Swinnen
  • 14.45-15.30 Miriam Meissner
  • 15.30-16.00 break
  • 16.00-17.00 Marco Caracciolo and Susannah Crockford
  • 17.00-17.15 break
  • 17.15-18.15 Odile Heynders

Wednesday 14 March

  • 10.00-11.15 Shalini Puri
  • 11.15-11.30 break
  • 11.30-12.15 Emilie Sitzia
  • 12.15-13.45 lunch
  • 13.45-14.30 Gaston Franssen
  • 14.30-15.15 Leni Van Goidsenhoven
  • 15.15-15.30 break
  • 15.30-16.45 Margaret Mackey
  • 16.45-17.00 break
  • 17.00-18.00 Lies Wesseling

Registration
Please register by 4 March by sending your name, affiliation and day(s) you will attend to secr.hislk@maastrichtuniversity.nl with the subject ‘Workshop March’.

Contact and organisers
Aagje Swinnen: a.swinnen@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Ben de Bruyn: b.debruyn@maastrichtuniversity.nl

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