Cultural Encounters: Contemporary German and Israeli Literature Reception, Translation and World Literature
Thursday, July 1st 2021
9.00-9.15 Gathering and Opening Remarks
9.15-10.45 Panel 1
Judith Müller (University of Basel/Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Sifrut HaAvot and Weltliteratur: Reading Gershon Shofman Today
Yemima Hadad (Universität Potsdam)
Vaterland vs. Eretz HaAvot: Martin Buber on One Land and Two Peoples
10.45-11.15 Coffee Break
11.15-12.45 Panel 2
Fabian Sader (Europa-Universität Viadrina)
Tomer Gardi’s Broken German – A Radical Manifestation of Deleuze’s and
Guattari‘s Minor Literature?
Tomer Gardi (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
How We Are Translated
12.45-14.00 Lunch Break
14.00-15.00 Text Discussion 1
15.00-15.30 Coffee Break
15.30-17.00 Panel 3
Silja Behre (Tel Aviv University)
Book Politics: Cultural Diplomacies Between Israel and Germany, 1950s to
1970s
Cyra Sommer (Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig)
From Early Encounters to the ‘Memory Boom’: Autobiographies of German-
Jewish Émigrés in Israel as Sources of the German-Jewish-Israeli Relations
after the Shoah
17.00-17.30 Concluding Discussion for Day 1
Dinner
Friday, July 2nd 2021
9.00-10.30 Panel 4
Sebastian Schirrmeister (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
The Birth of Goliath from a Ball Bearing: Hebrew-German Artifacts of
Translation
Tom Kellner (MLU Halle-Wittenberg)
Translating Israeliness: Zeruya Shalev and Orly Castel-Bloom in the German
Literary Sphere of World Literature
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.00 Text Discussion 2
12.00-13.30 Lunch Break
13.30-14.30 Concluding Discussion