Day 1 SZ 15.22 ReSoWi, Universität Graz
9:30 Registration
9:45 | Yvonne Živković (Universität Graz): Opening Remarks
10:00–11:30 | Panel 1: Fluvial Imaginaries – Rivers in Central European Literature, Film, and Art
Jelena Lalatović (Universität Graz): Fluvial Agency and Mythopolitics: Rituals of Violence in August Cesarec's novel Our Lady of Bistrica and Merce Rodoreda's Death in Spring
Stefanie Populorum (Universität Graz): The Danube in Austrian Poetry since 2000
Magdalena Germek (University of Ljubljana): More-than-Human Mura: Seeing a River in Crisis
Suzana Marjanić (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb): Performative River Arts: Rivers in Croatia
11:45–13:15 | Panel 2: Fluvial Ecologies – Facets of Posthuman Poetics
Virginia Wild (Universität Würzburg): Die Emmenschlange in Gotthelfs Die Wassernot im Emmental (1838)
Christian Himmelsund Voie (University of Southeast Norway): Avenues to the Future? The Anthropocene Rivers of Nature Writing
Krešimir Vuković (Charles University Prague): Narrating Ancient Rivers: River Deities, Gender, and Fluidity
15:15–16:30 | Panel 3: Fluvial Resistance – Decolonial and Global River Perspectives
Nico Stab (Universität Mannheim, online): Poetics of Care in Esta herida llena de peces (2021): Fluvial Agency, Maternity, and Memory between Decolonial Care and an Exoticizing Gaze
Eve Wong (University of Johannesburg): Sweet Water for All: Camissa, Fabulation, and Khoisan Water Epistemology in Cape Town
Isabelle Donetch (UCL): Monstrous Rivers: Necropolitics and the Imbunching of the Mapocho
Achim Küpper (FU Berlin, online): Streams, Caught Between Word and Image. Nature and Media Reflection in
the Work of Wilhelm Raabe
19:30–21:30 | Film Screening Sava (2021), MR 33.0.010, ground floor, Merangasse 70
“Anthropomorphosing a River” (10min), Screening Sava (71min), Q&A with director Matthew Somerville and editor Gorjan Atanasov (30min)
Day 2 SZ 15.22 ReSoWi, Universität Graz
10:00–11:00 | Keynote: Mirna Šolić (University of Glasgow):
"Only the River Looks the Same:" Hydronarratives of the 21st Century Balkans
11:15–12:45 | Panel 4: Fluvial Entanglements: Agency, Loss, and Memory
Katarzyna Rytlewska (Casimir the Great University in Bydgoszcz): The River as an Actant: An Analysis of Selected Works by Olga Tokarczuk
Yi-Ting Wang (Käte Hamburger Centre CURE, Universität Saarland): River Art as Reparative Practice: Walking Seminars on the Saar River
Anna Iakovets (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main): Affordances einer Aue: Der Fall Mologa
Katya Larina (UCL): Fluvial Materiality of Nikel: An Exploration of Transboundary Water Systems in the Arctic Borderlands of Norway, Finland, and Russia
14:15–15:00 | Panel 5: Fluvial Voices – Animism and Legal Personhood
Beth Lettington (University of Hull): 'I touch with chaste palms moist and cold': Sabrina, goddess of the River Severn as an animist voice for Nature in John Milton's A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle (1634)
Ellen Hagedorn (Universität Wien): Rivers as Legal Subjects: Mere Objects of Representation?
15:00-15:15 | Yvonne Živković (Universität Graz): Closing Remarks
