Conference Sessions and Calls for Papers
Current Calls for Papers
MLA Convention, January 5-8, 2023, in San Francisco, CA: Heine and the Diasporic Experience
In “Vitzliputzli,” “Bimini,” “Das Sklavenschiff,” and other texts, Heine gave voice to the historical moment of diasporic experience. How do these passages become newly legible in Heine’s writing? What were the political and cultural parameters of these poems? What is the substance of Heine’s interventions into diasporic spaces? How do these late poems contribute to a discursive practice in Heine’s oeuvre that privileges new political and mythic sensibilities? Through a deliberate dislocation of his previous work, Heine makes a shift by putting his narratives into contact with new cultural settings that exist outside the boundaries of Europe and into areas that represent colonial violence, the “New World,” and the transatlantic slave trade. This panel is a rethinking of Heine’s work in its historical context as a way of marking older diasporic transitions in his poetry and prose.
Please send 250 words abstracts by March 2022 to Alicia E. Ellis (aeellis@colby.edu).
Past Conferences
MLA Convention, January 2022: Heinrich Heine and Human Rights
Presider
Alicia Ellis, Colby College
Presentations
Claudia Nitschke (Durham University, UK): Embodying Human Rights: Heine’s Atta Troll
Christoph auf der Horst (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf): Heine’s Struggle for Human Rights: Writing in the Spirit of Solidarity
Willi Goetschel (University of Toronto): Poetic Justice: Heine’s Critique of the Limitations of Human Rights
Helge Dedek (McGill University): ‘A Bible of Egoism’: Heine, ‘Human Rights’, and Law
Sebastian Wogenstein (University of Connecticut): Lege artis: Heine and Human Rights
MLA Convention, January 2021: World Literature Otherwise: Heine's Opening Gambits
Presider
Willi Goetschel, University of Toronto
Presentations
Contact
If you would like to notify the membership of a Heine-related call for papers and would like it posted on this website, please email Sebastian Wogenstein (wogenstein@uconn.edu).