Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine
Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance
Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust
Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History
Luxembourg Centre for European Law
Luxembourg Centre for Socio-Environmental Systems
This conference brings together scholars to examine the forms, functions and future trajectories of small literatures in Europe. The papers address a set of shared research questions: How can we define and classify small literatures? Which morphological features distinguish them? How do peripheral or marginal traditions contribute to national cultures and broader European identities?
Through case studies of Belgian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Estonian, Finnish, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Maltese and Slovenian literatures, as well as Central European cultures, participants will explore how small literary systems negotiate visibility, cultural authority and world literary positioning. Other contributions investigate the history of literature in post-imperial/post-colonial settings, while still others analyse digital methods for tracing literary development or the reception of smaller traditions across Europe.
Conveners
Prof. Dr Jeanne E. Glesener, University of Luxembourg
Prof. Dr Benedikts Kalnacs, University of Latvia
Prof. Dr Marko Juvan, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
