Violent Child-Animal Encounters in Literature

Violent Child-Animal Encounters in Literature

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Hybrid International Conference at Friedrich Schiller University Jena from 28-30 September 2023

The conference is organized by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Valeska Bopp-Filimonov (Romance Studies, Jena University) and Marina O. Hertrampf (Romance Studies, University of Passau). The event is partnered by “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Romania.

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Programme

Thursday, 28 September 2023

5 pm Registration
6 pm Welcome Note
6:30 pm Keynote
Representations of Animal Harm and Their Social Impact. Insights from Empirical Ecocriticism
Wojciech Małecki (Wrocław, PL)
8 pm Dinner

Friday, 29 September 2023

10 am - Block I: National Perspectives
„Ohne die gefangene Fliege um ihre Meinung zu befragen“. Gequälte Insekten in der deutschen Literatur des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts
Paula Radnitz and Alexandra Tretakov (Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, DE)

The Child »Merely« Wants to Play... Violent Encounters Between Child and Animal in Russian Literature
Nadine Menzel (Leipzig, DE)

Dead Animals in Romanian Fiction: Critical Realism, Socialist Realism, Capitalist Realism
Ștefan Baghiu and Mihai Iovănel (Sibiu/Bucharest, RO)

1:30 pm - Block II: Gender, Sexuality, Pedagogy; 19th c. and earlier
The girl in a beast's skin. Childhood, animality and violence in fairy tales
Déborah Lévy-Bertherat (Paris, F)

Symbolic Violence towards Nature and Animals as a Symptom of Late Colonial Discourse: on Victorian Girls’ Periodicals and the Pitfalls of Feminine Gentleness
Maria Chiorean (Sibiu, RO)

‘La nécessité nous instruira’. Shipwrecked children and the exploitation of exotic animals in Jules Verne's Robinsonnades
Alix Ricau (Berlin, DE)

3:30 pm - Block III – Pedagogy, Education, Socialization, around 1900
„Que no pueden pedir consuelo para lo que sufren“. Animal cruelty in children as a challenge for pedagogical texts in France and Spain around 1900
Teresa Hiergeist (Wien, AT)

Children´s violence on animals: Elena Farago´s poems in which animals speak out (Romania 1906)
Valeska Bopp-Filimonov (Jena, DE)

Lessons about Animal Cruelty: The Socialization of Violence in Romanian Literature targeted at young Romanian and English-speaking Audiences
Cosmin Borza and Anca Simina Martin (Sibiu, RO)

6 pm - Videoscreening and Lecture
Le chat qui dort (1992) de Joël Bartolomeo ou les formes de la leçon
Vincent Lecomte (St. Etienne, F)

Saturday, 30 September 2023

9:30 am - Block IV - Dysfunctional Families, Burdens of Society , Ambivalent Historical Pasts, Psychoanalysis

“Some penguins go fishing and never come back”. Children and animals in Camilio José Cela’s The Family of Pascual Duarte (1942) and Marieke Lucas Rijneveld’s The Discomfort of Evening (2018)
Diana Mistreanu (Luxembourg/LU)

Child-animal violence as self-hatred. Self-representation and emancipation in Marin Preda´s The Moromete Family (1955)
Ovio Olaru (Sibiu, RO)

From condemnation to breaking taboos: Florence Dupré Latour’s graphic novel Cruelle (2016) as an autofictional processing of child cruelty to animals
Marina O. Hertrampf (Passau, DE)

11:30 - Block V – War time, More-than human Societies in Crisis, Contemporary Literature
Human-Animal Encounters During Wartime:  Literary Animals in Post-Yugoslav Literature
Snejana Ung (Sibiu, RO)

 12:15 pm - Closing Plenary