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24 - 27 MAY 2023 | GREIFSWALD

International Conference | IRTG Baltic Peripeties

Negotiating Peripeties: Change and Its Narratives

Organisation Committee:
Speakers: Victoria Oertel, Nina Pilz
Natalia Iost, Paul Kirschstein, Rezeda Lyykorpi, Victoria Oertel, Douglas Ong, Nina Pilz, Laura Tack, Martina Zagni, Krista Anna Zalāne (all Greifswald)

Academic advisor: 
Prof. Dr Eckhard Schumacher (Greifswald)

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25. Februar 2023 | Zürich | 16.30 CET & Stream

Paneldiskussion und Lesungen | Literaturhaus Zürich in Kooperation mit dem IRTG Baltic Peripeties

Fluchtpunkte – Ostseeraumnarrative

Podiumsdiskussion und Lesungen mit Dovilė Kuzminskaitė, Hasso Krull, Eckhard Schumacher, Artis Ostups und Krista Anna Belševica

Tage baltischer Literatur
FLUCHTPUNKTE – OSTSEERAUMNARRATIVE
Der Ostseeraum mit seinen neun Anrainerstaaten ist nicht nur ein Speicher historischer Wendepunkte, die das eine verschwinden und das andere (wieder) auftauchen lassen, sondern auch für persönliche Erfahrungen und Erzählungen. Aber was bedeutet es, innerhalb oder ausserhalb eines literarischen Textes, zu «verschwinden»? Nur aus dem Blick oder ganz aus der Existenz? In dieser Podiumsdiskussion stellen Autorinnen und Autoren unterschiedlicher Generationen aus Litauen, Estland und Lettland kurze Ausschnitte aus ihren Werken vor, die sich mit dieser Frage auseinandersetzen oder sie spielerisch verdrehen. Gerahmt wird die Diskussion durch einen Einblick in aktuelle Forschungspositionen zu narrativen Konstruktionen von Wendepunkten im Ostseeraum.

Mit: Dovilė Kuzminskaitė, Assistenzprofessorin an der Universität Vilnius, Übersetzerin und Lyrikerin; Hasso Krull, Lyriker, Kulturtheoretiker, Kritiker und Übersetzer, Träger des Juhan-Liiv-Preises für Lyrik; Eckhard Schumacher, Professor für Neuere deutsche Literatur (Greifswald) und Sprecher des internationalen Graduiertenkollegs «Baltic Peripeties» mit Partnern in Tartu und Trondheim; Artis Ostups, lettischer Dichter, Kritiker, Herausgeber und Literaturwissenschaftler (Tartu); Krista Anna Belševica, lettische Schriftstellerin, Forscherin und Projektkuratorin, die derzeit an der Universität Greifswald über Revolutionen im Erzählen arbeitet.

Das Gespräch findet auf Englisch statt. Weitere Informationen zur Veranstaltung und zum Live-Stream: https://literaturhaus.ch/programm/

27 OCTOBER 2022 – 2 FEBRUARY 2023 | GREIFSWALD | THURSDAYS, 18.15 – 19.45 CET

Joint Lecture Series

Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Baltic Sea Region. Spotlight on Symphonic Music and Opera

Joint Programme:
Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research (IFZO); DFG International Research Training Group Baltic Peripeties – Narratives of Reformations, Revolutions and Catastrophes; MA Programme History and Culture of the Baltic Sea Region

Series Sibelius im Kontext:
Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald, Theater Vorpommern, Universität Greifswald

Organisation:
Dr Verena Liu
| International Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research (IFZO)
Dr Arne Segelke | Master Programme “History and Culture in the Baltic Sea Region” (HiCuBaS)
Dr Alexander Waszynski | IRTG “Baltic Peripeties. Narratives of Reformations, Revolutions and Catastrophes”

  • 27 October 2022
  • ALEXANDRA FRIEDE, M.A. (HAMBURG)

    “Don’t be lazy and indifferent, get involved!” — what Baltic Sea states expect from citizens during crises (and vice versa)

  • 10 November 2022
  • ANTON SAIFULLAYEU, PH.D. (WARSAW)

    The Influence of the Belarusian Crisis 2020 on the Baltic Region

  • 17 November 2022
  • DR JAKOB SVENSSON & PROF. DR PER HELANDER (GREIFSWALD)

    Covid-19 Policy in Sweden: why is it so different?

  • 24 November 2022
  • PROF. DR CLEMENS RÄTHEL (GREIFSWALD)

    Opera/Nation-Building. Perspectives on the new opera house in Copenhagen
    Spotlight Lecture: Symphonic Music and Opera

  • 1 December 2022
  • PROF. DR ENE KÕRESAAR (TARTU)

    Museum Memories after Post-Communism: Representing Soviet Complicity in Baltic History Museums

  • 8 December 2022
  • PROF. DR TOMI MÄKELÄ (HALLE-WITTENBERG)

    Jean Sibelius, national und kosmopolitisch (lecture in German)
    Spotlight Lecture: Symphonic Music and Opera
    Series Sibelius im Kontext

  • 15 December 2022 (canceled!)
  • ERIK BENGTSSON, PH.D. (LUND)

    The Swedish Sonderweg in Question: Democratization and Inequality in Comparative Perspective, c. 1750–1920

  • 5 January 2023 (canceled!)
  • PROF. DR STEPHANIE HEROLD (BERLIN)

    Finding Empathy in Lost Places. Decay, Emotion and Heritage Making

  • 12 January 2023
  • DR VERENA LIU (GREIFSWALD)

    Opera and Operatic Canon in the Baltic Sea Region
    Spotlight Lecture: Symphonic Music and Opera

  • 19 January 2023
  • PROF. DR STEPHAN KESSLER (GREIFSWALD)

    Defining the Baltic Sea Area

  • 26 January 2023
  • PROF. DR DR PETER GÜLKE (WEIMAR)

    Adornos Mahler-Kriterien für Sibelius? – anhand seiner 4. und 5. Sinfonie (lecture in German)
    Spotlight Lecture: Symphonic Music and Opera
    Series Sibelius im Kontext

  • 2 February 2023
  • OLIVER AAS, M.A. (ITHACA)

    The Untimely Arctic

10 JANUARY 2023 | GREIFSWALD | 18.00 CET

Inaugural Lecture / Antrittsvorlesung

Prof. Dr Clemens Räthel (Greifswald): Brüchige Versprechen, verratene Ideale, unheilbare Medizin. Queere Wohlfahrtsstaats-Erzählungen in schwedischer Literatur des 21. Jahrhunderts

  • University of Greifswald, Aula, Domstraße 11, Eingang 2, 17489 Greifswald

Prof. Dr Clemens Räthel holds the Chair of Modern Scandinavian Literatures at the Department of Finnish and Scandinavian Studies, University of Greifswald. His research interests are theatre history, contemporary opera and literature in the Scandinavian countries as well as queer perspectives on the welfare state, questions of body productions and Jewish-Scandinavian exchange relations.

15 - 17 DECEMBER 2022 | TARTU

International Workshop | IRTG Baltic Peripeties

The Same Event? Morphologies, Reflections, Disseminations

Organisation:
Hella Liira | University of Tartu
Artis Ostups | University of Tartu
Martina Zagni | University of Greifswald
Krista Anna Zalāne | University of Greifswald

Academic advisor:
Marina Grishakova | University of Tartu

Keynote speakers: Roy Sommer (Wuppertal), Maria Tamboukou (London)

How to write (about) historical events? This interdisciplinary workshop, organised by the International Research Training Group “Baltic Peripeties. Narratives of Reformations, Revolutions and Catastrophes” (Greifswald – Tartu – Trondheim), explores conceptual and methodological approaches to the narration of historical events and their interpretation from historiographical, literary and regional perspectives: In narratology, ‘event’ is the central element in a plot that brings about change. Becoming manifest, identified and transmitted in different ways depending on various regimes of representation, disciplinary contexts, media and semiotic channels, the narrative construction of an event thus not only determines its respective features – factual, perceptual, affective, moral, ideological, etc.; it also lends the event a certain agency by influencing our perceptions of historical actors, actions and experiences. At the same time, multiple spatial perspectives reshape and diversify events across regions. In this respect, the Baltic Sea region with its multi-layered historical caesuras and turning points is a particularly promising area for investigating the complexity of historical events and ‘eventfulness’ – marked by past and acute challenges, it calls for new ways of writing a narratology of events.

15 DECEMBER – PhD Workshop Day (pre-circulated papers!): How to Write Narratives about Narratives?

  • 09.00 – 09.15
  • HELLA LIIRA (TARTU) & KRISTA ANNA ZALĀNE

    Words of Welcome

  • 09.15 – 10.00
  • VICTORIA OERTEL (GREIFSWALD)

    Diagnosing Events. Observations about ‘Event’ and ‘Disease’
    Moderation: Krista Anna Zalāne (Greifswald)

  • 10.00 – 10.45
  • Coffee Break
  • 10.45 – 12.15
  • DOUGLAS ONG (GREIFSWALD)

    The City as Meeting Point: How Wroclawian Museums Reshape Urban History by Representing Alternating Stories of Expulsion

    NATALIA IOST (GREIFSWALD)

    “Explaining Major Changes”. The Theoretical Framework for International Relations
    Moderation: Nina Pilz (Greifswald)

  • 12.15 – 13.30
  • Lunch
  • 13.30 – 14.30
  • REZEDA LYYKORPI (GREIFSWALD)

    The Explosive Power of Hidden Peripeties – the Application of the Concept of Peripety and Memory of Königsberg in Kaliningrad
    Moderation: Laura Tack (Greifswald)

  • 14.30 – 15.30
  • Coffee Break
  • Afternoon
  • KĀRLIS VĒRDIŅŠ (RIGA/ST. LOUIS), JEROME DE GROOT (MANCHESTER)

    Master Classes

 

16 DECEMBER

  • 09.00 – 09.30
  • ANTI SELART (TARTU)

    Welcoming Address

    MARINA GRISHAKOVA (TARTU)

    Introductory Lecture

  • 09.30 – 10.30
  • ROY SOMMER (WUPPERTAL)

    The Politics of Event Modeling: Narrative Dynamics in Theory and Practice
    Moderation: Martina Zagni (Greifswald)

  • 10.30 – 11.00
  • Coffee Break
  • 11.00 – 12.30
  • MARI HATAVARA (TAMPERE)

    Polyphony and Hindsight in Narrating a Historical Event. The Collapse of the Soviet Union in Finnish Parliamentary Talk from 1980’s until Today

    ECKHARD SCHUMACHER (GREIFSWALD)

    Narrating the Fall of the Wall. Versions and Inversions of an Event in Contemporary German Literature
    Moderation: Margit Bussmann (Greifswald)

  • 12.30 – 14.00
  • Lunch
  • 14.00 – 15.30
  • ANDREAS OHME (GREIFSWALD)

    The Same Event? The Concept of Event in Literary History

    STEPHAN KESSLER (GREIFSWALD)

    The Event and Semiosis – A Few Amazing Parallels
    Moderation: Clemens Räthel (Greifswald)

  • 15.30 – 16.00
  • Coffee Break
  • 16.00 – 17.00
  • MARIA TAMBOUKOU (LONDON)

    Tracing Events in Entanglements of Gender and Science: A Feminist Genealogical Perspective
    Moderation: Hella Liira (Tartu)

  • 17.00 – 17.15
  • Short Break
  • 17.15 – 18.45
  • Roundtable
    Transformative Events and the Limits of Narrative

    Discussants: MARINA GRISHAKOVA (TARTU), MARI HATAVARA (TAMPERE), Roy Sommer (Wuppertal), Maria Tamboukou (London)

    Moderation: Artis Ostups (Tartu)

 

17 DECEMBER

  • 09.45 – 10.00
  • Krista Anna Zalāne (Greifswald) & Alexander Waszynski (Greifswald)

    Wrap-Up Days 1 & 2

  • 10.00 – 10.45
  • Anti Selart (Tartu)

    Baltic Crusades: the Fatal Turning Point of Estonian History?
    Moderation: Paul Kirschstein (Greifswald)

  • 10.45 – 11.15
  • Coffee Break
  • 11.15 – 12.45
  • Riho Altnurme (Tartu)

    Martyrs – Christian or National? The Case of Tartu in 1919

    Michael Loader (Glasgow)

    The Narrative of Khrushchev as the Culprit of the Purge of the Latvian National Communists
    Moderation: Martin Nõmm (Tartu)

  • 12.45 – 13.00
  • Artis Ostups (Tartu) & Martina Zagni (Greifswald)

    Concluding Remarks

7 DECEMBER 2022 | Greifswald | 10.15 - 11.45 CET

Forschungskolloquium Neuere deutsche Literatur in Kooperation mit dem IRTG Baltic Peripeties

Judith Schalansky (Berlin): “Schwankende Kanarien”, Forschungskolloquium Neuere deutsche Literatur

1 DECEMBER 2022 | GREIFSWALD | 12.15-13.45 CET

Internal IRTG Seminar

Peripety, Memoriability and Narrative: Seminar with Prof. Dr Ene Kõresaar (University of Tartu)

7 NOVEMBER 2022 | Dublin | 17.00 - 18.30 GMT

Panel

Imperceptible Thresholds: New Heuristic Approaches

This panel presents ongoing research conducted by the International Research Training Group “Baltic Peripeties. Narratives of Reformations, Revolutions and Catastrophes”, examining turning points in history, politics, literature and science by applying the Aristotelian notion of peripety and neighboring concepts as means for analyzing narrative constructions of change. With Hans Blumenberg’s take on the “epochal threshold” as a starting point, the papers in this panel seek to make the case that the moment of turn itself remains imperceptible for those involved and thus requires a sophisticated hermeneutics, beginning its work only after the fact: An ‘epoch’ is a horizon of possibilities, which can be uncovered by naming that which has been and that which could not have been resolved. In order to get a hold of what a historical threshold might be, one has to sharpen the methodological strategies that allow for differentiating between a ‘not yet’ and an ‘already’.

Two case studies on the historiography and philosophy of 20th century body politics – definitions of disease brought forward by philosophers of science in East Germany, as well as ex post discourses on Scandinavian eugenic pasts – then provide evidence that only a multifaceted methodological approach allows for grasping those hidden liminal zones, which might be of highest relevance for modern society’s self-reflection and self-conceptualization.

Presenters (all Greifswald):

  • Dr Alexander Waszynski Not yet and already: Hans Blumenberg on Epochal Thresholds
  • Victoria Oertel Emplotment of Thresholds: Between Health and Disease
  • Anna Derksen Thresholds of Self-Reflection: Societal Discourses on Scandinavian Eugenic Pasts

19 – 21 September 2022 | Zicker (Rügen)

Internal Workshop

Writing Seminar

The three-day Writing Seminar gives doctoral researchers affiliated with the IRTG “Baltic Peripeties” the opportunity to meet each other across institutions and disciplines, and to discuss their respective writing projects.

14 July 2022 | GREIFSWALD

Internal IRTG Workshop

Nomadic Memory, Minority Perspectives and Turning Points in Contemporary Eastern Europe: Conversatorium with Zuzanna Hertzberg, Ph.D. (Warsaw)

13 July 2022 | Greifswald | 17.30 CEST

Film screening & discussion

“Soy Cuba” (USSR/Cuba 1964)

The Cuban-Soviet co-production “Soy Cuba” (1964) directed by Mikhail Kalatozov had long been forgotten until its international re-discovery in the early 1990s. Intended to visualize the oppression and uprising of the Cuban people, this highly sensual four-episode film by now counts as one of the milestones in film history, far and foremost because of its stunning acrobatic camera operation. “Soy Cuba” relates to Soviet propaganda cinema inasmuch as to the French Nouvelle Vague – and it is a document of its time: The film shoot began just one week after the Cuban Missile Crisis.

This screening of the newly restored 4k version is hosted by the International Research Training Group “Baltic Peripeties. Narratives of Reformations, Revolutions and Catastrophes” based at the universities Greifswald, Tartu and Trondheim. A short introductory note will elaborate on the aesthetic uniqueness inasmuch as on the screenplay by Enrique Pineda Barnet and the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who translated the historical turning points of the 1950s and 60s into a dense lyrical text.

Organisation and moderation:
Martina Zagni | University of Greifswald
Dr Alexander Waszynski | University of Greifswald

7 - 9 July 2022 | Greifswald

IFZO Annual International Conference

Baltic Sea in Exchange. Transformations between Conflict and Cooperation

This conference focuses on the study of transformative processes in the Baltic Sea region. In the context of climate change, political radicalization and economic crises, the societies of the Baltic Sea region must jointly cope with fundamental change. This affects both technologies and accepted practices, as well as established systems of meaning and values. These have emerged over centuries of interaction and integration and contribute to a shared problem and conflict management. It is one thing to develop renewable energy, sustainable economic models and transportation systems, but it is another thing to implement them and ensure their acceptance as transformative processes in the Baltic Sea Region. At the same time, environment and achievements are at stake, challenging health and public services in rural areas as well as threatening the cultural heritage of the entire region. Innovative ideas and approaches need not only be developed, but also recorded, translated and communicated. Complex transformations have left their mark on many fields of research. We invite scholars to the following sections to share their observations and findings and to discuss them in an interdisciplinary forum. The conference seeks to understand transformative processes and develop overarching questions in relevant fields of research.

Organisation:
Dr Alexander Drost | IFZO – Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research, University of Greifswald

15 – 18 June 2022 | Online | PST

Panel/Seminar

The Rebirth of Tragedy: Fresh Perspectives on an Ancient Genre

Once among the most debated topics of literary studies over a century ago, Tragedy qua literary and dramatic genre is once again having a moment. From Ato Quayson to Jennifer Wallace, a new generation of theorists have come forward to rethink this ancient, paradoxical genre in new global contexts. Writing now in a moment of particular isolation and suffering, what constitutes literary and dramatic Tragedy, and what is its purpose?

This panel solicits papers from across periods, geographies, and critical spaces to meditate on the genre of Tragedy. Papers might address: how have formal conceptions of Tragedy changed? How is Tragedy mediated through the critical lenses of feminism, anti/postcolonialism, and other area studies? What can today’s scholars make of the slippage between Tragic pessimism and optimism noted by the likes of Virgil, Nietzsche, and Césaire? And how, if at all, do contemporary scholars consider Tragic themes, such as the poetics of failure, hubris, hamartia, and anagnorisis? Do any of the “old rules” apply?

Organisers:
Catherine Culvahouse Fox, Ph.D. (Hong Kong)
Dr Alexander Waszynski (Greifswald)

14 – 16 June 2022 | Trondheim

Conference

16th biannual conference of the Nordic Association for Literary Research (NorLit): Literature and Space

9 - 10 JUNE 2022 | GREIFSWALD

Internal Workshop

Pamela Bromley, Ph.D. (Scripps College): Writing Workshop

Workshops providing both structured writing time and interactive sessions to support graduate students writing dissertations – typically called dissertation boot camps – are offered by many institutions across North America. Dissertation boot camps, which address the challenges of long-term, long-form writing projects, have been shown to decrease participants’ cognitive anxiety and procrastination, increase confidence and self-efficacy, and recognize and develop productive writing strategies. They bring together graduate students from multiple departments at different stages of the writing process, as the independent structured writing time and interactive sessions can support writers wherever they find themselves.

This two-day dissertation writing workshop is tailored to the specific needs of the PhD fellows in the IRTG Baltic Peripeties. Three of four sessions have a full hour of focused writing time, where fellows will work independently on their dissertation projects alongside others.

8 June 2022 | Greifswald

Internal Workshop

Prof. Kristoffer Neville, Ph.D. (UC Riverside): Topographical History in the Baltic North

Professor Kristoffer Neville is Chair at the Department of Art History, University of California, Riverside. He holds a Ph. D. from Princeton University (2007) and has been, among others, visiting professor at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. His work focuses on early modern culture in northern Europe, and particularly on the integration into a more coherent and synthetic art history of regions and traditions that is often being seen as distinct. His latest book “The Art and Culture of Scandinavian Central Europe, 1550-1720” (Penn State UP, 2019) investigates the cultural history of the courts in Copenhagen and Stockholm within northern Europe. He is currently working on a new project on topography as a basis for historiography, focusing on its significance for the formation of architectural history. In the summer term of 2022, he holds the Mercator Fellowship awarded by the IRTG “Baltic Peripeties” at the University of Greifswald

27 – 29 May 2022 | Seattle | 10.45am - 12.15pm PST

Panel

Stories of Turning Points in Cultural Memory – Baltic Peripeties

  • University of Washington, Seattle The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS) 28th Biennial Conference “Baltic Studies at a Crossroads”
  • More information: AABS Conference 2022

By shifting the focus from a spatial to a narratological approach, this panel tests out the notion of “peripety” as a new means of analyzing memoryscapes (Edensor 1997) in the Baltic Sea Region. Case studies by members of the International Research Training Group “Baltic Peripeties” (Greifswald – Tartu – Trondheim, 2021-2024) re-assess historical turning points through the lens of narration: How do local legends reassemble and thereby reconfigure the memory of historical storm floods as part of a plot? Which narrations about Königsberg circulate in museums and urban space of today’s Kaliningrad? How do different turning points interact, e.g. in current strategic political narratives and threat discourses, or in representing experiences of expellees in a post-Socialist memory culture in Poland and Lithuania? Where “event” and “narration” merge, memory culture approaches can be read in a new way: The re-evaluation of one moment as a turning point establishes the center of a plot that has a definite beginning and a definite end and thereby segments time and space in a meaningful way. As a category of production of meaning, “peripety” was first used in Aristotle’s Poetics. There, it denotes the turning point in a story, the event in which it becomes obvious that what is expected will not happen. As a neutral umbrella term for all sorts of turning points, it has considerable analytical potential that has yet to be exploited. For this novel approach, the Baltic Sea Region with its multiple layers of historical cesuras is a most fruitful research area.

Participants (all Greifswald):

  • Douglas Ong An Old Home in a New: Remembrance of Post-Second World War Expulsions in Public Spaces
  • Natalia Iost The Politics of Peripeties. ‘Narratives of Threat’ and the Emergence of a New Security Architecture in the Baltic Sea Region
  • Laura Tack Storm Flood as a Peripety in the Creation Legend of the Curonian Spit
  • Rezeda Lyykorpi The Myth of Königsberg in Kaliningrad. Reconfiguring History in Museums and Urban Space

Organiser and Chair:
Dr Alexander Waszynski (Greifswald)

16 MAY 2022 | GREIFSWALD | 18.00 CEST & ONLINE

Evening Lecture

Santeri Junttila, Ph.D. (Greifswald): Lehnwortforschung, vorgeschichtliche Datierungen und Ideologie

Die Lehnwortforschung ist ein wichtiges Instrument zur Rekonstruktion der ethnokulturellen Wirklichkeit von Sprecher*innen verschiedener Sprachen. Neben der Archäologie ist sie insbesondere für die Erforschung vorhistorischer Kontakte zwischen ethnokulturellen Gruppen relevant. Mitunter können die Ergebnisse der Lehnwortforschung zeitverzögert archäologisch verifiziert werden, mitunter liefert die Linguistik jedoch auch die einzige Evidenz für vorhistorische Kontakte. Durch diese Konstellation und den früher stark betonten Faktor des (sprachlichen) Prestiges bei der Begründung von Entlehnungsmotivationen, geriet die Lehnwortforschung mitunter in vorläufige Konflikte mit historisch-ideologischen Annahmen und Vorurteilen. Dies äußerte sich seit den 1970er Jahren in einem Disput zwischen finnischsprachigen und deutschsprachigen Linguist*innen, der die Datierung der älteren germanisch-finnischen Kontakte betraf und die gegenseitige Rezeption teilweise einschränkte. So verblasste auch der Umstand, dass germanistische und finnougristische Forschungsergebnisse seit längerem immer besser miteinander korrespondieren. Der Vortrag beleuchtet die Rolle der Linguistik für die Rekonstruktion vorgeschichtlicher ethnokultureller Verhältnisse und zeigt, wie ein fruchtbarer interdisziplinärer Austausch zur Harmonisierung der Erkenntnisse verschiedener Disziplinen beitragen kann.

Santeri Junttila studierte Finnougristik, Fennistik und Baltistik an den Universitäten Helsinki und Tartu. Er wirkte an verschiedenen Institutionen in Estland, Mordwinien (Russland) und Kroatien und promovierte 2016 an der Universität Helsinki mit der Arbeit Die Kumulierung des Wissens und die Trends in der Lehnwortforschung: Die Geschichte der Erforschung baltischer Lehnwörter im Urfinnischen [Übersetzung des finnischen Titels]. Seit September 2019 führt er an der Greifswalder Fennistik die Tradition bedeutender etymologischer Forschungen fort und leitet das BMBF-Projekt Baltische und ostseefinnische Sprachen im vorhistorischen Kontakt (BOFIK). Bereits seit 2018 fungiert er überdies als leitender Koordinator des Projekts Etymologisches Online-Wörterbuch des ältesten finnischen Wortschatzes, das an der Universität Helsinki von der finnischen Kone-Stiftung finanziert wird.

Moderation:
Prof. Dr Marko Pantermöller (Greifswald)

12 - 13 May 2022 | Trondheim

Workshop

Narrating Illness and Crises: Social Construction of Roles and Norms

  • NTNU Trondheim

How does narration take part in the construction of social worlds? Various genres and social practices develop their own types of narration that encompass many fields from health to collective remembrance and justice. The workshop will focus on these social constructions and try to answer the following questions: How do various genres, literary, journalistic, public information, specialized legal and medical texts, display precarious situations related to health and crisis and thereby enable insights into the social construction of roles and norms? How do they help identifying and diagnosing new situations? To which extent do they enable processes of healing, restoration, influence and governance?

Organiser: Prof. Dr Ingvild Folkvord, Department of Language and Literature, NTNU Trondheim

9 - 10 May 2022 | Greifswald

International Symposium

Säkularisierung erzählen. Entwürfe skandinavischer Literatur um 1900

International symposium under the scientific direction of Professor Dr Joachim Schiedermair (LMU Munich)

11 - 12 April 2022 | Greifswald

Lecture & Internal Workshop

Jānis Ozoliņš, Ph.D. (Riga): Narrative Discourse and Analysis. Introduction to Narrative Theory by Gérard Genette

In an attempt to combine analysis with the creation of new terms, the French literary theorist Gérard Genette (1930–2018) influenced the further development of narratology, and his discoveries have not lost relevance in the context of contemporary narrative theory. His theoretical views are based on diligence, discipline, and fighting spirit in the face of criticism from his most talented followers. The model of narrative analysis proposed by Genette makes it possible to see the trend in structural narratology, which focused more on the abstract level of the fable, while the study of the level of narrative and narration, that is undeniably represented by Genette himself, offered new concepts and possibilities for analysis. If the ideas of “high structuralism” experienced a sharp decline due to widespread criticism from poststructuralists, the terminology developed by Genette has remained relevant to this day. In the planned seminars, two important topics will be brought to the fore: 1) The original terminology developed by the Genette, which is considered to be one of the most accurate, created within the framework of narratology. 2) The distinction between mimesis and diegesis, the origins of which can already be found in the texts by Plato and Aristotle, but within the framework of Genette’s theoretical views, has turned out to be more extensive and modern than expected.

Jānis Ozoliņš, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the Art Academy of Latvia, and researcher at the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia. He is the editor of the book Andra Neiburga: Language, Gender, Narrative and Image (2018, ILFA), and coeditor of the books Monta Kroma: The Experience and Reflexy of Soviet Modernism (forthcoming (2022), ILFA) and Queer Stories of Europe (2016, Cambridge Scholars Publishing). Currently, he is researching queer representation and masculinities in contemporary art and Soviet cinema, the historical development of narrative theories, and the literary heritage of writer Andra Neiburga. He composes music, performs as a pianist, and has released two music albums together with his band Sigma.

Organiser:
Krista Anna Zalāne (Greifswald)

7 April – 14 July 2022 | Greifswald | Thursdays, 18.15 – 19.45 Cest

Joint Lecture Series

Irreversible – The Manifestations of Change

The Baltic Sea Region is an area where changes mostly occur within a set of intertwining transregional parameters. By focusing on the aftereffects of transformations, this joint lecture series inquires about processes that lack the chance of a turn-around: from a single event to a concatenation of circumstances leading to an unforeseeable outcome. It can be difficult to draw a line between the permanent and the transient, but there are, certainly, damages or developments that are irreversible, in terms of material loss or environmental change. At the same time, the very idea of irreversibility has to be processed in language and media; it is part of a discourse and thus of history. In literary theory, the term ‘peripety’ signifies a reversal of action: How do narrations model and maybe alter the irreversible? How do geopolitical tipping points affect subsequent generations? In taking historico-political, narrative, ecological, material, and aesthetic changes into consideration, this summer term program seeks to bring conceptional clarifications, concrete case studies from a broad range of disciplines and regional studies approaches together.

Organisation and moderation:
Dr des. Verena Liu | International Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research (IFZO)
Dr Arne Segelke | Master Programme “History and Culture in the Baltic Sea Region” (HiCuBaS)
Torsten Veit | Research Centre for Manors in the Baltic Sea Region
Dr Alexander Waszynski | IRTG “Baltic Peripeties. Narratives of Reformations, Revolutions and Catastrophes”

  • 7 April 2022
  • ASSOC-PROF. IMMO TRINKS, PH.D. (VIENNA)

    Mapping the Past – from Irreversible Archaeological Excavations to the Non-invasive Exploration of Entire Archaeological Landscapes

  • 14 April 2022
  • PROF. DR BENNO WAGNER (HANGZHOU)

    “He could never go home now”. Imperceptible Turning Points and Irreversible Trajectories as Narrative Devices in Conrad and Kafka

  • 21 April 2022
  • MAJA HAGERMAN (FALUN)

    Herman Lundborg – The Enigma of a Swedish Racial Biologist

  • 28 April 2022
  • PROF. DR LUC VAN DOORSLAER (TARTU)

    The Paradigm Shift from Non-change to Change: Reflections on Translation and Translation Studies

  • 5 May 2022
  • OLIVER HAUCK (FRANKFURT AM MAIN)

    Digital Reconstruction and “Rechte Räume” – Architectural Reconstruction between Cultural Heritage Mediation and “Right- Wing” Urbanism

  • 12 May 2022
  • PROF. DR MARIE-THERES FEDERHOFER (TROMSØ/HU BERLIN)

    In Search of the Northern Lights. On the Research History of a Riddle of the Sky

  • 19 May 2022 18.15 – 19.00 CEST
  • ROUNDTABLE

    Irreversible Actions in Politics

  • 19.00 – 20.30 CEST
  • PROF. DR PHILIPP THER (WIEN)

    In the Storms of Transformation: Shipbuilding and Social Change in Eastern Europe and the EU (lecture in German)

  • 2 June 2022
  • DR KATHLEEN SCHWERDTNER MÁÑEZ (GREIFSWALD)

    CANCELLED: Making the Baltic Blue – Supporting Ocean Literacy for the Sustainable Development of the Baltic Sea

  • 16 June 2022
  • WIBKE MÜLLER (GREIFSWALD)

    Climate Crisis – Water Crisis

  • 23 June 2022
  • PROF. DR MICHA WERNER (GREIFSWALD)

    Choices, Harm, and Reconciliation: (Ir)reversibility in Contexts of Moral Philosophy

  • 30 June 2022
  • PROF. DR HOLGER SCHULZE (COPENHAGEN)

    The Implex: On Transforming the Seemingly Irreversible in the 21st Century

  • 6 July 2022 16.15 – 17.45 CEST
  • PROF. DR THOMAS MOHNIKE (STRASBOURG)

    Mythemes of the North. Tracing Historical Change in the Discursive Grammar of the North with Computational Methods

  • 14 July 2022
  • ZUZANNA HERTZBERG, PH.D. (WARSAW)

    Recovering Nomadic Memory of the Ignitions of the Revolution as a Spark for Embodiment of Utopia Today

6 April 2022 | Greifswald | 19.15 - 20.15 CEST & ONLINE

Evening Lecture

Prof. Kristoffer Neville, Ph.D. (UC Riverside): Rewriting Old Narratives for a New Swedish Power: Topographical History in the Baltic Sea Region, 1550-1700

For early modern historians, topography and geography were integral to the creation of narratives about the past. They became even more essential when few other historical sources were available, as was the case in large parts of the Baltic region. When Sweden became a major power in the seventeenth century, there was an accompanying revision of the kingdom’s history to suit its new status. This largely imagined history was written in part through a creative reading of the few textual sources and a careful examination of the land and its features, both natural and man-made, which complemented one another in a revisionist history of the kingdom.

Professor Kristoffer Neville is Chair at the Department of Art History, University of California, Riverside. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University (2007) and has been, among others, visiting professor at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. His work focuses on early modern culture in northern Europe, and particularly on the integration into a more coherent and synthetic art history of regions and traditions that is often being seen as distinct. His latest book “The Art and Culture of Scandinavian Central Europe, 1550-1720” (Penn State UP, 2019) investigates the cultural history of the courts in Copenhagen and Stockholm within northern Europe. He is currently working on a new project on topography as a basis for historiography, focusing on its significance for the formation of architectural history. Other ongoing interests include architecture around 1700, prints and publishing, and early architectural literature. In the summer term of 2022, he holds the Mercator Fellowship awarded by the University of Greifswald.

6 April 2022 | Greifswald | 17.15 – 20.15 CEST

IRTG Festive Anniversary

Baltic Sea Region Narratives

On Wednesday, 6 April 2022 the International Research Training Group “Baltic Peripeties. Narratives of Reformations, Revolutions and Catastrophes”, based at Greifswald, Tartu and Trondheim, celebrated its postponed Festive Opening and 1st Anniversary at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald together with colleagues and guests.

The IRTG was officially opened with participation of the Rector of the University of Greifswald, Professor Katharina Riedel, the Lord Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Greifswald, Dr. Stefan Fassbinder, and the Speaker of the IRTG, Professor Eckhard Schumacher of the University of Greifswald. Following the theme “Peripeties in Pictures”, participating researchers and doctoral fellows then presented fascinating insights into the different research projects and focal points across the three partner universities.

In the evening, Professor Kristoffer Neville, Ph.D. (Department of the History of Art, University of California, Riverside), who will spend this summer at the University of Greifswald as part of a Mercator Fellowship of the DFG Research Training Group “Baltic Peripeties”, gave an exciting lecture on “Rewriting Old Narratives for a New Swedish Power: Topographical History in the Baltic Sea Region, 1550-1700”.

We thank all participants and guests for making this such a rich and inspiring event and look forward to further exchanges!

9 March 2022 | Greifswald | 12.15 – 13.45 CET

Roundtable (online)

International Responses to Putin’s Aggression: How Effective Are Military Deterrence, Economic Sanctions, and Diplomacy

Putin’s attack on Ukraine has changed the world. What can the International Community do about it? Remote roundtable with Margit Bussmann, Sabine Otto, Espen Geelmuyden Rød, Andris Banka, and Natalia Iost.

The international community is struggling to find the best answers to Putin’s attack on Ukraine. The European Union, NATO, and member states have responded with diplomatic efforts, economic sanctions, weapons support, and increased military presence in the Baltic and Eastern European states. How will the current measures likely affect the behaviour of Putin’s regime? This roundtable discusses the different foreign policy tools based on insights from previous research. We evaluate under what conditions deterrence and sanctions can be successful and how civil society and public opinion in an autocratic political system can impact their effectiveness.

Roundtable participants:

  • Dr Sabine Otto | Department for Political Science and Communication Studies, University of Greifswald & Department of Peace and Conflict Research (Uppsala University)
  • Dr Espen Geelmuyden Rød | Department of Peace and Conflict Research (Uppsala University)
  • Dr Andris Banka | Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research (University of Greifswald)
  • Natalia Iost | IRTG Baltic Peripeties (University of Greifswald)
  • Moderation: Prof. Dr Margit Bussmann | Department for Political Science and Communication Studies (University of Greifswald)

Organisation:
Department of Political Science & Communication Studies

31 January – 2 February 2022 | Greifswald

Internal PhD seminar

Chapter Sessions

The two-day Chapter Sessions provide doctoral researchers affiliated with the IRTG “Baltic Peripeties” with a forum to discuss draft chapters of their dissertation projects with their peers and supervisors.

21 OCTOBER 2021 – 27 JANUARY 2022 | GREIFSWALD | THURSDAYS, 18.15 – 19.45 CET

Joint Lecture Series

Kairos and Crisis: Turning Points in the Baltic Sea Region

Organisation and moderation:
Dr Alexander Drost | International Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research (IFZO)
Dr Cordelia Heß | Master Programme “History and Culture in the Baltic Sea Region” (HiCuBaS)
Dr Eckhard Schumacher | IRTG “Baltic Peripeties. Narratives of Reformations, Revolutions and Catastrophes”

  • 21 October 2021
  • PROF. DR ECKHARD SCHUMACHER, PROF. DR CORDELIA HEß, DR ALEXANDER DROST (ALL GREIFSWALD)

    Opening

  • 28 October 2021
  • DR SIMON GODART (BERLIN)

    Siculus mare. Times, Tides and Tragedies

  • 4 November 2021
  • HENNING HOCHSTEIN (GREIFSWALD)

    Fatal Escapes across the Baltic Sea

  • 11 November 2021
  • PROF. DR HELGE JORDHEIM (TRONDHEIM/OSLO)

    Timelines of Crisis, Diagrams of Terror. The 22 July Terror Attacks in Norwegian Collective Memory

  • 18 November 2021
  • DR ALEXANDER WASZYNSKI (GREIFSWALD)

    Catastrophe’s Turn. Floods and Battles as Turning Points in Theodor Fontane’s Fragment “Die Likedeeler”

  • 25 November 2021
  • ASSOC-PROF. DR JAN SÜSELBECK (TRONDHEIM)

    The Shoa as a Peripety in Norway – and beyond

  • 2 December 2021
  • PROF. DR STEFFEN FLEßA (GREIFSWALD)

    Innovations in Health Care – in the Right Place, at the Right Time and with the Right Promoter

  • 9 December 2021
  • DR JONATHAN DONGES (POTSDAM)

    Social Tipping Dynamics for Climate Action and Sustainability

  • 16 December 2021
  • ANNA DERKSEN (GREIFSWALD)

    A ‘Turning Point in the Fight for Equality’? Nordic Disability Rights Movements and the International Year of Disabled Persons in 1981

  • 13 January 20212
  • PROF. DR JENS LJUNGGREN (STOCKHOLM)

    The 1980s – when Equality Hit the Roof. The Ups and Downs of Social Equality in Swedish History

  • 20 January 2022
  • PD DR MATEUSZ KAPUSTKA (ZÜRICH)

    Missing the Kairos. Religious Imagination and Environmental Crisis

  • 27 January 2022
  • PROF. DR MARINA GRISHAKOVA (TARTU)

    Narrative Analysis of the Letters from the Post-Pandemic Future: Everyday Imaginaries in the Time of Crisis

16 – 17 September 2021 | Greifswald & online

Kickoff Workshop

Kickoff Workshop

At the start of each doctoral cycle of three years, the Kickoff Workshop brings doctoral researchers together with the professors from the partner universities in Tartu, Trondheim and Greifswald. In the workshop, the IRTG members present their respective research interests within the broader topical framework of “Baltic Peripeties”, while the Academic World Café facilitates in-depth group discussion on concepts and topics fundamental to the IRTG, for instance “narrative constructions”, “Baltic Sea Region”, “peripety”, as well as the prospective qualification and supervision strategy.

15 APRIL – 1 JULY 2021 | THURSDAYS, 18.15 – 19.45 CEST

Joint Lecture Series

Development, Crisis, Turning Point: Narrative Constructions of the Baltic Sea Region

Organisation and moderation:
Dr Alexander Drost | International Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research (IFZO)
Prof Dr Cordelia Heß | Master Programme “History and Culture in the Baltic Sea Region” (HiCuBaS)
Prof Dr Eckhard Schumacher | IRTG “Baltic Peripeties. Narratives of Reformations, Revolutions and Catastrophes”

  • 15 April 2021
  • PROF. DR JAN KÖRNERT (GREIFSWALD)

    The Banking Crisis in Norway, Sweden and Finland in the 1990s

  • 22 April 2021
  • PROF. DR MARGIT BUSSMANN (GREIFSWALD)

    Militarized Incidents in the Baltic Sea Region

  • 26 April 2021
  • PROF. DR DR H.C. MICHAEL NORTH (GREIFSWALD)

    Epidemien, Vulkanausbrüche und Sturmfluten: Katastrophen aus historischer Sicht (Import Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Digital Lecture “Naturkatastrophen und ihre Auswirkungen auf das System Erde”)

  • 29 April 2021
  • PROF. DR JOACHIM SCHIEDERMAIR (MUNICH)

    Historical Peripeties in Henrik Ibsen’s History (Plays)

  • 5 May 2021
  • PROF. DR CORDELIA HEß (GREIFSWALD)

    Was ist Antifeminismus? Befunde aus dem Ostseeraum (Import Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies (IZFG) Lecture Series “Gender@Greifswald”)

  • 20 May 2021
  • PROF. DR INGVILD FOLKVORD (TRONDHEIM)

    Responding to the 22nd of July Terror Attacks: Literary Timelines under Construction

  • 27 May 2021
  • PROF. DR ANTI SELART (TARTU)

    Russia’s War Against the “NATO” of the 13th Century

  • 2 June 2021
  • DR ALEXANDER DROST (GREIFSWALD)

    Borders and Borderlands in the Baltic Sea Region. Reflections on Concepts and Practices

  • 10 June 2021
  • DR DES ANTJE KEMPE (GREIFSWALD)

    Melting Point: Imaginations and Critical Narratives of the Arctic

  • 17 June 2021
  • PROF. DR CORDELIA HEß (GREIFSWALD), DR GUSTAVS STRENGA (GREIFSWALD/RIGA)

    Integration, Trauma, and Fragmentation: Medieval Saints and Heroes as Modern Realms of Memory

  • 24 June 2021
  • MARTIN KERNTOPF (GREIFSWALD)

    Environmentalism, Deterrence, and Identity: Political Narratives in the Baltic Sea Region after the End of the Cold War

  • 1 July 2021
  • PROF. DR ECKHARD SCHUMACHER (GREIFSWALD)

    Vanishing Points. Baltic Sea Peripeties in Contemporary German Literature and Film

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