13.00 — 14.00 

Forelæsning med professor og kommende æresdoktor i litteratur ved Aalborg Universitet, Jahan Ramazani:

“Mourning Across Languages: A Poem’s Six-Hundred-Year Journey”

This talk reflects on the extraordinary six-hundred-year journey made by an elegy that the American poet-philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson repeatedly translated, years after his son’s death. What happens to the original poem that the Persian classical poet Sa‘di wrote for his son when it crosses into a sixteenth-century Ottoman Turkish commentary, which makes it available to a nineteenth-century German translation, before arriving in Emerson’s hands? This cross-cultural, translingual, transhistorical reworking of another grieving father’s poem can help us probe questions about the relations among elegiac poetry, translation, and mourning.

Øvrige aktiviteter:

14.00 - 14.15:  Kaffe

14.15 - 14.30:  Mirjam Gebauer: Frank Schätzing’s novel Die Tyrannei des    Schmetterlings (Tyranny of the butterfly, 2018)

14.30 - 14.45: Gunhild Agger: Danish Occupation-era Film

14.45 - 15.00: Peter Stein Larsen: From Book Poetry to Digital Poetry

15.15 - 15.30: Steen Ledet Christiansen, “Fungal Unworldings”

15.30- 16.00 : Drømmespor - Koncert med forfatter Gerd Laugesen og klassisk guitarist Thea Visti Pedersen.
Unik koncert- og litteraturoplevelse, en skøn musikalsk performance, der trækker spor ind i drømmenes univers.

16.00 - 17.00: Reception.