“Socionarratology”-Project: Mapping a Field Between Literary Studies and Social Sciences
KEYWORDS FOR SOCIONARRATOLOGY
Second International Conference: June 4-6th, 2026, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Conference Program (below) or download as PDF
June 4-6, 2026, Humboldt University Berlin
International Conference of the “Socionarratology”-Project, funded through the Princeton-Humboldt Strategic Partnership
Location: Festsaal, Luisenstrasse 56, 11015 Berlin (Location OpenStreetMap & Google Maps)
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THURSDAY, June 4th
18:00-18:15 Welcome & Introduction
Florian Fuchs (Princeton) & Marc Ortmann (Humboldt)
18:15-19:30 Opening Keynote
Gisèle Sapiro (EHESS Paris): “The Sociology of Literature: How to Combine External and Internal Analysis?”
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FRIDAY, June 5th
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-12:00 Panel 1: Collectives
Asmara Wibowo (Humboldt): “Reading Community”
Laura K. Nelson (Princeton): “Provisional Forms”
Respondent: Patrick Hohlweck (Humboldt)
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-15:00 Panel 2: Rhetorics
Serguei Oushakine (Princeton): “Speech Interference”
Petra Beck (Humboldt): “Narrative as Tool”
Respondent: Anita Traninger (FU Berlin)
15:15-16:45 Panel 3: Worlds
Mollie Eisner (Princeton): “Worldmaking”
Philipp Felsch (Humboldt): “Narrative Reason”
Respondent: Martin Bauer (Mittelweg 36 / Soziopolis)
17:30-19:00 Keynote
Andreas Reckwitz (Humboldt): “Narratives and Loss”
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SATURDAY, June 6th
[09:30-10:45 Internal Socionarratology Core Group Meeting]
11:00-12:30 Panel 4: Imaginaries
Sarah Rivett (Princeton): “Indigenous Literary Formations”
Philipp Weitzel (Humboldt): “Techno-Social Imaginary”
Respondent: Dominik Bartmanski (Harvard / TU Berlin)
12:30-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-15:00 Panel 5: Heuristics
Florian Glück (Humboldt): “Details, Clues, Traces”
Paola Del Toro (Princeton): “Representational Flexibility”
Respondent: Anne Gräfe (Lüneburg)
15:15-16:45 Panel 6: Methodologies
Simon Clemens (Humboldt): “Figuration”
Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida (Princeton): “Interpretation”
Respondent: Ethel Matala de Mazza (Humboldt)
17:15-18:45 Closing Keynote
Florian Fuchs (Princeton) & Marc Ortmann (Humboldt): “Socionarratives and Socionarration”
A Two-Year International Research Project Funded by the Humboldt-Princeton Strategic Partnership
Organized by Marc Ortmann (Sociology, Humboldt) & Florian Fuchs (German, Princeton)