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Contemporary Poetics, Communities, and Publics
Contemporary Poetics, Communities, and Publics
Inaugural European Association of American Studies Poetry Network Symposium
University of Göttingen | May 16-17, 2025
How does poetry circulate within or through contemporary everyday spaces, and how do networks of poets, publishers, and readers inform its evolving role in public discourse? This inaugural EAAS Poetry Network symposium aims to examine poetry not as an individual expression but as a collaborative practice deeply embedded in collective experience. By exploring how poetry engages public spaces, we also hope to address questions of accessibility, inclusivity, and to redress the boundaries of poetic form.
This symposium invites the full range of poetry in a contemporary sense, which includes its publics and expands a definition of the lyric “I”. We contend our task as scholars to involve reimagining and enabling relations between poets and their readers. This requires approaching poetry as a sphere of collaboration and dialogue, while understanding sociability and networks as historically central to even the most personal and subjective poetic voices. Our work thus aims to look outwards, towards the civic and communal, where a definition of poetry is constantly being renewed as it exists in a generative relationship with its readers and the places they occupy and create.
Organizers:
Organizers:
Lucy Cheseldine (University of York)
Gulsin Ciftci (University of Münster)
Mohan Ding (University of Göttingen)
Andrew Gross (University of Göttingen)
Philip McGowan (Queen’s University Belfast)
Symposium Programme
Contemporary Poetics, Communities, and Publics
Inaugural European Association of American Studies Poetry Network Symposium
University of Göttingen | May 16-17, 2025
Heyne House, Papendiek 16
Day 1, May 16
Day 1, May 16
1pm - Registration
1.30pm - Opening Remarks
1.45pm - Keynote
Lucy Cheseldine (University of York), The Social Making of Poetry: A Poetics of Curation
2.45pm - Coffee Break
3.00pm - Panel 1: Race, Identity and Collective Selves
Paper 1: Jules Machtenberg (Ruhr-University Bochum), Lorde’s Rearticulation of Vulnerability
Paper 2: Julius Greve (University of Oldenburg), Lyric Obscurity, Fugitive Publics: Rereading the Black Arts Movement
Paper 3: Jiann-Chyng Tu (MLU Halle-Wittenberg), The Transnational Poetics of Rita Dove
Paper 4: Sara L. Borga (St. John’s College, University of Oxford), ‘Impractical’ and ‘unsummarizable’: the terms of Tracy K. Smith’s poetry
6pm - Conference dinner (Restaurant Kartoffelhaus)
Day 2, May 17
Day 2, May 17
9.00am - Coffee
9.15am - Panel 2: Infrastructure and Industry
Paper 1: Christos Kalli (University of Pennsylvania), CAConrad’s Deindustrializing (Soma)tics
Paper 2: Simone Knewitz (University of Bonn), “Beneath the Poetry the Barricade”: The Poetics of Infrastructure in Stephen Collis’s Once in Blockadia
Paper 3: Niall Munro (Oxford Brookes), The travelling memory of Paisley Rekdal’s West: A Translation
10.45am - Coffee Break
11.00am - Panel 3: Immigrant Poetics
Paper 1: Zélia Rafael (University of Iceland), (The) Poetry (Collection) as a Safe Space: Migration, Legality, and Visibility in Here to Stay
Paper 2: Maria Proitsaki Stjernkvist (Gothenburg University), Examining Liminality in Immigration Poems, for Intercultural Communication Pedagogy
Paper 3: Nazli Özcelik (University of Münster), The Intersection of Trauma and Poetry – Reading Intergenerational Trauma in the Works of Diana Khoi Nguyen
Paper 4: Mohan Ding (University of Göttingen), Reinventing the Garden of Eden: Chen Chen, Joseph O. Legaspi, and Ching-In Chen on Queer Spirituality
12.45pm - Lunch Break
2.00pm - Panel 4: Forming Communities: Publishing, Reproducing, Corresponding
Paper 1: Johanna Pelikan (University of Hamburg), Web of Words: Lessons from the Digital Poetry Project “Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde”
Paper 2: Marzia Dessi, (European Graduate School in Switzerland), The Continued Relevance of Literary Journals: A History of Marketability
Paper 3: Yuqi Li, (Trinity College Dublin), “Beyond Words”: The Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill
3.30pm - Coffee Break
3.45pm - Panel 5: Poetry as/in Translation
Paper 1: Eva Stenskar, (Trinity College Dublin), Translating Sylvia Plath
Paper 2: Paulina Ambrozy, (Adam Mickiewicz University), Other Voices, Other Tunes:
Contemporary American Poetry in Poland
5.00pm - Performance Lecture (Vortragsraum, The Historical Building of the
Göttingen State and University Library, Papendiek 14)
Marina Kazakova (KU Leuven / LUCA School of Arts, Belgium) and Sara Maino (University of Trento, Italy) – "I CAN SPEAK," a two-poet show, an extension of PhD research on symphonism as a strategy for translating a lyric poem into an audio-visual medium.
5.30pm - Closing remarks
5.40pm - Conference close
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