Taking a Shot at the Canon: International Conference / Colloque international : Feu (sur) le canon
This three-day international conference brings together 20 scholars, 3 keynote speakers and 1 visual artist from 12 different countries. It concludes the two-year Canon Factory Project (Emergence Programme, Sorbonne Université, 2023-2025) and aims at going further into the analysis of canon formation, resistance to canonization as well as at shedding light on new media and transmedial approches to the canon. The conference intends to engage a fruitful dialogue between researchers in English-language, German-language, Dutch-language, and Nordic literatures.
Registrations are open from March 10th to May 10th, 2025. Please send an email with:
- your first and last names
- your institution
- the day(s) you are planning to attend
to both: arina.giliazova@sorbonne-universite.fr and canon_factory@sorbonne-universite.fr
Conference attendance is free of charge.
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From 19 Jun. 2025 to 21 Jun. 2025
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Colloque international
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Thursday, June 19th, 2025: Maison de la Recherche, Sorbonne Université, Faculté des Lettres, 28 rue Serpente, 75006 Paris. ROOM D040. Métro stops: Saint Michel or Odéon
Friday and Sartuday, June 20th and June 21st: Campus Pierre et Marie Curie, Faculté des Sciences et Ingénierie, Sorbonne Université, 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris. ROOM 24-34-107. Métro stop: Jussieu
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Giliazova Arina
Conference programme:
Conference programme:
"Taking a shot at the canon", international conference, June 19th - June 21st, 2025
Colloque international « Feu (sur) le canon », 19-21 juin, 2025
Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
Projet Canon Factory (programme Émergence ; UR 4085 VALE et UR 3556 REIGENN-Sorbonne Université)
Thursday June 19th, 2025
Maison de la recherche, 28 rue Serpente, 75006 Paris
Room D040
08.30-09.00 Conference welcome with Elisabeth Angel-Perez, Vice President for Research and Innovation (Sorbonne Université)
09.00-11.00 Panel 1
The or A canon? Exclusionary and elitist or inclusive and open? / Le ou un canon ? Exclusif et élitiste ou inclusif et ouvert ?
Chair: Juliana Lopoukhine (VALE)
09.00-09.30 Paper 1 Ronald Shusterman (Université Jean Monnet, Saint Étienne; ALTER, UPPA, France): The Canon as a Weapon of Mass Construction
09.30-10.00 Paper 2 Carolina Ferrer (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada): Ce que le canon fait aux écrivain(e)s : les effets Matthieu et Matilda en études littéraires
10.00-10.30 Paper 3 Guillaume Reussner (Sorbonne Université, France): Un canon lu à rebrousse-poil : relectures du canon littéraire et artistique dans L'Esthétique de la Résistance de Peter Weiss
10.30-11.00 Discussion
11.00-11.30 Refreshment break 3rd floor hall
11.30-13.30 Panel 2
Canonical geometry: centre, periphery and motion / Géométrie du canon : centre, marges et mouvement
Chair: Kim Andringa (CanFac /REIGENN)
11.30-12.00 Paper 1 Geert Buelens (Utrecht University, The Netherlands / Stellenbosch University, South Africa): Topicality & Histoire Croisée As Ways around the Canon of Dutch-Language Literature
12.00-12.30 Paper 2 Orsolya Réthelyi (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary): Building and Deconstructing the Canon as Literary Transfer between the Peripheries. The New Literary History of Dutch Literature for Hungarian Readers
12.30-13.00 Paper 3 Alexa Stoicescu (University of Bucharest, Romania): A Dynamic, Relational Canon of Dutch-Language Literature
13.00-13.30 Discussion
13.30-14.30 Lunch break 3rd floor hall
14.30-15.30 Keynote address: Thomas Mohnike (Université de Strasbourg) - The Legacy of the Literary Canon and Its Political Implications in Sweden
15.30-16.00 Refreshment break 3rd floor hall
16.00-17.30 Panel 3 Social media and AI: shooting on old canons and building new ones? / Réseaux sociaux et intelligence artificielle : feu (sur) les canons traditionnels et émergence de canons nouveaux ?
Chair: Juliette Utard (VALE)
16.00-16.30 Paper 1 Daphne Orlandi (University of Catania, Italy): Amateurs (?) Entering the Canon: Instapoetry as World Literature
16.30-17.00 Paper 2 Sophie Picard (Aix-Marseille Université, France): Exit le canon ? Normativité et représentativité à l’ère des IA génératives
17.00-17.30 Discussion
From 18.00 Visit of drawing and photo exhibition by Parisa Akbarzadehpoladi (Iranian-Dutch visual artist) and cocktail dinner, Campus des Cordeliers, 21 rue de l’École de Médecine, 75006 Paris
Friday June 20th, 2025
Campus Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris
Room 24-34-107
09.00-11.00 Panel 1 From invisibility to (re-)formation: female and lesbian perspectives on the fashioning of the canon / De l’invisibilité à la (re)définition : présences féminines et lesbiennes dans la fabrique du canon
Chair: Jean-François Laplénie (CanFac /REIGENN / THALIM)
09.00-09.30 Paper 1 Elif S. Armbruster (Suffolk University, USA): Rebel Girls, Nasty Women, and a New American Literary Canon
09.30-10.00 Paper 2 Małgorzata Dowlaszewicz (University of Wrocław, Poland): The Dutch “Hysterical Women” of the Middle Ages: The Image of Medieval Female Writers in Dutch Literary History Books
10.00-10.30 Paper 3 Héloïse Thomas (Université des Hauts de France, France): Tipping the Velvet Canon
10.30-11.00 Discussion
11.00-11.30 Refreshment break Patio 14-24
11.30-13.30 Panel 2 Ambivalence towards the canon: aspiration, success, failure, defiance / Ambivalence envers le canon : aspirations, succès, échecs et défiance
Chair: Jaine Chemmachery (CanFac / VALE)
11.30-12.00 Paper 1 Gargi Binju (Universität Tübingen, Germany): Contested Canons: The Politics of Recognition in 21st Century East African Fiction
12.00-12.30 Paper 2 Flore Emmerich (Sorbonne Université, France): “Who Shot Ya?”: When Rap Music Challenges the Literary Canon
12.30-13.00 Paper 3 Jean-François Laplénie (Sorbonne Université, France): Impossible immortalité. La canonisation manquée de la « littérature du sida » germanophone (1992-1997)
13.00-13.30 Discussion
13.30-14.30 Lunch break Patio 14-24
14.30-15.30 Keynote address: Ulrike Draesner (Universität Leipzig)
Chairs: Bernard Banoun (CanFac / REIGENN); Sylvie Arlaud (CanFac / REIGENN); Guillaume Fourcade (CanFac / VALE)
15.30-16.00 Refreshment break Patio 14-24
16.00-17.30 Panel 3 Translations, adaptations and rewritings: questioning global canonical literature and authors / Traductions, adaptations et réécritures : quelle canonicité pour la littérature mondiale et ses auteurs ?
Chairs: Eric Chevrel (CanFac / REIGENN); Jaine Chemmachery (CanFac / REIGENN)
16.00-16.30 Paper 1 Elke Brems (KU Leuven, Belgium): "After All, Reading Is Supposed to Be Fun": World Classics Translated for Young People
16.30-17.00 Paper 2 Leo Kadokura (Oxford, UK): Gingko Trees: Kazuo Ishiguro and the Canonisation of the World Writer
17.00-17.30 Paper 3 Sarah Labelle (Université de Montréal, Canada): Cutting through: Paradoxes and Potentials of Contemporary Poetic Rewritings
17.30-18.00 Discussion
Saturday June 21st, 2025
Campus Pierre et Marie Curie
Room 24-34-107
09.30-10.00 Coffee and tea welcome
Chair: Benjamine Toussaint (CanFac / VALE)
11.00-13.00 Panel 1 When the canon goes transmedial / Transmédialité et canon
Chair: Guillaume Fourcade (CanFac / VALE)
11.00-11.30 Paper 1 Natassa Siouzouli (University of the Peloponnese, Greece): Myths Crushed or The Ruins of Representation: The Unique Case of the Vegard Vinge/ Ida Müller-Performances
11.30-12.00 Paper 2 Anne-Valérie Dulac (Sorbonne Université, France): Liebig's Real Extract of Shakespeare: Trade Card Drama & the Commercial Canon (1872-1914)
12.00-12.30 Paper 3 Pim Verhulst (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium / Oxford, UK): BBC Radio Drama, Ephemerality and the Literary Canon
12.30-13.00 Discussion and concluding remarks