Allegories of Breathing Conference

A konferencia angol és német nyelven zajlik majd.

Helyszín: ELTE BTK A épület, -150 (alagsor)

Időpont: 2023. szeptember 14-15.

Az esemény programja:

Thursday, September 14.

10:00 – 11:00 Conference opening
Welcome ‒ Zoltán Kulcsár-Szabó
Keynote address:

• Stefanie Heine (University of Copenhagen) ‒ Loose a Language: M. NourbeSe Philip’s and Charles Olson’s Poetics of Conspiration

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

11.30 – 13:00 Chair: Stefanie Heine

• Susanne Strätling (FU Berlin) ‒ Flüchtige Formen des Atems
• Csongor Lőrincz (HU Berlin) – Atem und Intervall in der Lyrik
• Zoltán Kulcsár-Szabó (ELTE Budapest) – Enteignungen des Atems

13:00 – 14.30 Lunch break

14:30 – 16:00 Chair: Thomas Schestag

• Attila Simon (ELTE Budapest) – Breathing in Homer
• Ophelia Norris (LMU München) – Breath of life, soul of death: Interpretations of nep̄eš (נֶפֶשׁ), anima, and pysche (ψῡχή) in Jewish funerary texts of the Graeco-Roman World
• Ábel Tamás (ELTE Budapest) ‒ The Still Breathing Head: Pompey’s Death in Lucan’s Bellum Civile

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 – 18:00 Chair: Enikő Bollobás

• Péter Szendy (Brown University Providence) – Breathing Exchange: A Close Reading of Edgar Allen Poe’s Loss of Breath
• Danijela Lugaric (University of Zagreb) – Physiology of Production. Pneumatic Rhythm of Epiphanies in Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace
• Róbert Smid (University of Theatre and Film Arts Budapest) – Taking in the Other: Breathing in a Foreign Climate in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India

19:00 Conference dinner

Friday, September 15.

10:00 – 11:30 Chair: Csongor Lőrincz

• Charles de Roche (Universität Zürich) – Atem und Kalkül. Zu einer Passage in Jean Paulhans Schlüssel der Poesie (Cléf de la poésie)
• Georg Witte (FU Berlin) – “Take the drums out…” Der Atem zwischen den Worten und vor den Worten
• Thomas Schestag (Brown University Providence) – Athem hohlen – Hollowing Breath

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 – 13:30 Chair: Susanne Strätling

• Gábor Tamás Molnár (ELTE Budapest) – “until the last breath is out of their bodies” ‒ The Death of the Moth in Sebald’s Austerlitz
• Enikő Bollobás (ELTE Budapest) – Pneuma/Spiritus Literalized: Breath and American Poetics in the 1950s
• Gábor Mezei (ELTE Budapest) – The Appearance of the Organic in Language (Ágnes Nemes Nagy)

13:30 – 15:00 Lunch break

15:00 – 16:30 Chair: Attila Simon

• Hajnalka Halász (HU Berlin) – Die reine Austauschbarkeit des Atmens. R. M. Rilke: Atmen, du unsichtbares Gedicht!
• Csaba Szabó (Eszterházy Károly Katholische Universität Eger) – Staunen ‒ atmen (Rilke)
• Karl Katschthaler (University of Debrecen) – Exspiration. Gesten des Verstummens

Closing remarks ‒ Attila Simon

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