English & Comparative Literary Studies - Events Calendar

EUTOPIA network exploratory workshop

28 November 2025

Warwick Research Collective

(https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/research/currentprojects/collective/)

Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies

University of Warwick

Venue: FAB 5.49

10:00-10:10 Paulo de Medeiros (Warwick): Welcome and initial considerations

10:10-10:30 Anna Forné (Gothenburg): “From Havana to the World: Argentine Literary Trajectories through Casa de las Américas”

10:30-10:50 Stephen Shapiro (Warwick): “Zemiperiphery Matters: Culture and the Capitalist World-System”

10:50-11:10 Mena Mitrano (Ca’Foscari): "Reconsidering Influence"

11:10-11:30 Carlos Ceia (NOVA) “Samuel Beckett and Fernando Pessoa: From Absurdity to silence”

11:30-11:50 Elisabeth Herrmann (Warwick): “How Can the Concept of Social Energy be Used to Explain the Phenomenon of World Literature?

11:50 -12:10 Graeme Macdonald (Warwick): “The Energy of World Literature”

12:10-12:30 Alice Duhan (Gothenburg): "Translingual Francophonie and World Literature"

12:30-12:50 Michael Niblett (Warwick): “World Literature: The Red and the Green”

12:50-13:10 Moritz Ingweren (TU Dresden): “Current Research”

13:10-13:20 Discussion

13:20-14:00 Lunch break (for participants)

14:00-14:40 Alan Ashton-Smith (Warwick): Eutopia and ERC grants

14:40-15:00 Caitlin Vandertop (Warwick): “Resources in world-literature, world-literature as resource”

15:00-15:20 Bushra Mahzabeen (Warwick): “Migration and Motherhood: Social Reproduction and the Oil Economy in The Bamboo Stalk”

15:20-15:40 Nick Lawrence (Warwick): "The Modernist Imperative"

15:40-16:00 Mohammad Javanmard (Warwick): “Which (Semi-)Periphery?: Rethinking World-Literature under Neoliberal Globalisation”

16:00-16:20 Shaul Bassi (Ca’Foscari): “Current Research”

16:20- 16:40 Discussion and steps forward

16:40- 17:30 Drinks reception