Program

Transcultural Perspectives in Language, Literature and Culture

in the 21st century
19-20 May 2022

THURSDAY 19 MAY

9:00-12:00 Registration open (ground floor Bâtiment d’enseignement UFR Lettres)

9:00-9:15 Welcome by the conference organizers (Room 7 d’enseignement UFR Lettres)

PANEL 1 PANEL 2
Transcultural Literature: A Study Literary Translingualism

9:15-10:45 9:15-10:45
(Room 9 Bâtiment d’enseignement UFR (Room7 Bâtiment d’enseignement UFR Lettres)
Lettres)

Moderator Stefano Rosso (University of Moderator Elisabeth Lamoth (Le Mans University)
Bergamo, Italy)
Kornelia Slavova (St. Kliment Ohridski University of
Guiyou Huang (Western Illinois University, Sofia, Bulgaria)
USA) “Literary Translingualism and the Case of ‘World
“Transculturaliterature: A Definition and Literature’: A View from Eastern Europe”
Discussion”
Liana Pshevorska, (United States Military Academy,
T.Sai Chandra Mouli (Osmania University, West Point, USA)
India) “Ethics and Aesthetics of Katalin Molnár’s Translingual
“Significance of Transcultural Fiction: A Literature”
Study”
Béatrice Bouvier, Laffitte (Université d’Angers France)
Julia Siccardi (Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, “Segalen, écrivain translingue ? ” 
France)
“‘Sharing the Experience of the Other’:
Towards an Understanding of Transcultural
Literature”

Coffee Break 10:45-11:15

KEYNOTE
 Aboueddahab Mohammed Redouane
(Le Mans University)
“Transsubjectivity, sublimation, and the desire of otherness.
Toward an American transcultural text”
Moderator François Thirion
11:15-12:15
(Room7 Bâtiment d’enseignement UFR Lettres)

LUNCH 12:15-13:45

PANEL 3 PANEL 4
Transculturality in American literature Transcultural Communication: Language and
Translation
13:45pm-15:45 13:45pm-15:45
(Room 9 Bâtiment d’enseignement UFR
Lettres) (Room 7 Bâtiment d’enseignement UFR Lettres)

Moderator Marek Paryż (University of Moderator Gunta Roziņa (University of Latvia)

Warsaw Poland)
Indra Karapetjana/Gunta Roziņa (University of Latvia)
Aristi Trendel (Le Mans University, France) “English as an academic Lingua Franca in Transcultural
“Transculturality: Ethics and Politics in Eva Communication in Latvia”
Hoffman’s Appassionata”
Yana Kuzmina (University of Latvia) “Transcultural
Adriana Elena Stoican, (Bucharest University Communication in EU and US Research Project Reports”
of Economic Studies, Romania)
“Jhumpa Lahiri — Facets of Transculturality María Jesús Fernández-Gil/ Nagore Palomares Martín
in South Asian American literature” (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain)
“Transcultural Engagement with Holocaust Memory in
Spain: A One-Way Process?”
Shuang Liu (Leiden University, Netherlands)
“Translingualism ≠ transculturality: A
Bentolhoda Nakhaei (Université de Rouen Normandie,
comparison reading of David Henry Hwang’s
France)
Chinglish and Ha Jin’s ‘An English
“The Transcultural Perspectives of African American
Professor’”
Literature in French Translation of the Known World”
Marta Koval (University of Gdansk)
“Linguistic Framework of Immigrant
Experience and Challengers of (Trans)cultural
Memory in Recent American Fiction” 
 COFFEE BREAK 15:45-16:15

ROUND TABLE
(Room 7 Bâtiment d’enseignement UFR Lettres)
16:15-17:30
Transculturality and the translation of English and Spanish Creole into French, and the
transcultural, multipolar experience of translating Japanese-American poet Amy Uyematsu
(University of Bordeaux-Montaigne)
The group, represented by Lhorine François, Sophie Rachmuhl (who discovered and presented Amy
Uyematsu to us), Sabine Tinchant, and Nicole Ollier, who directs the group, will try to render the
delicate transcultural task they face

Moderator Ojārs Lāms (University of Latvia)

18:30-19:30

Guided Visit to the Old City, le Mans

Meeting Point: Place de la République

(in front of the MONOPRIX supermarket)

20:00 CONFERENCE DINNER

FRIDAY 20 MAY
 9-12 Registration open

PANEL 5 PANEL 6
Transcultural Perspectives on the Western Transculturality in the Humanities
Session I: Contemporary Literary Westerns
Across Cultures

9:00-11:00 9:00-11:00
(Room 9 Bâtiment d’enseignement UFR (Room 7 Bâtiment d’enseignement UFR Lettres)
Lettres)

Moderators Marek Paryż, University of Moderator Kornelia Slavova (St. Kliment

Warsaw, Poland and Johannes Fehrle, Ohridski University of Sofia, Bulgaria)
Humboldt University, Germany
François Thirion (Le Mans University, France)
MaryEllen Higgins (Pennsylvania State “From Modern Era Anarchism to XXIst Century Global
University, USA) Environmental Movements: Class Struggle, Anarchism
“The Western as a Transcultural Genre: A and Anti-capitalist Traditions in the New "Green"
Reading of J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Movements of the Western World”
Barbarians”
Claudie Servian (Université Grenoble Alpes, France)  
Johannes Fehrle (Humboldt University, “Hybridation culturelle et idéelle franco-américaine dans
Germany) “Guy Vanderhaeghe’s Transcultural le travail des chorégraphes étatsuniens au XXIème siècle”
Mapping of History”
Nesrin Alrefaai (London School of Economics and
Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo (University of the Political Science) / Lyudmila Razumova (King’s College
Basque Country, Spain) London / (DL) and University of Birmingham)
“Pioneras by Silvia Coma: A Two-Way “Transcultural Collaboration: A Journey of an Animated
Trans-Atlantic, Cross-Gender Journey to the Film”
“Promised Land”

Marek Paryż (University of Warsaw, Poland) Olga Thierbach-McLean (Independent scholar) “'Great
“A Transnational Queer Western: Sebastian Storytelling Transcends Borders': The Transculturation
Barry’s Days Without End” Effect of Multinational Streaming Services” 

Coffee Break

11:00-11:30

KEYNOTE
THEODORA TSIMPOUKI
(NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS)
“Home everywhere or nowhere?
Understanding the Transcultural Experience Contrapuntally”
Moderator Aristi Trendel
(Le Mans University)
 11:30-12:30
(Room 7 Bâtiment d’enseignement UFR Lettres)

12:30-13:45
LUNCH

PANEL 7
Transcultural Perspectives on the Western
Session II Tracing the Genealogies of
Transnationalism in Contemporary
Cinematic (Post)Westerns
PANEL 8
The Transcultural Aspects of Food in Latvian
Literature and Life-Stories

13:45-15:15 13:45-15:15
(Room 9 Bâtiment d’enseignement UFR (Room 7 Bâtiment d’enseignement UFR Lettres)
Lettres)

Moderators Marek Paryż (University of Moderator Ojārs Lāms (University of Latvia)

Warsaw Poland) and Johannes Fehrle
(Humboldt University, Germany) “The Representation of Oranges in Contemporary
Latvian Prose and Challenges for Translation” Ieva
Stefano Rosso (University of Bergamo, Italy) Kalniņa / Madara Stāde (University of Latvia)
“From James Fenimore Cooper to Tex Willer
and Bruno Bozzetto: Eccentric Transcultural Ojārs Lāms / Mārtiņš Laizāns (University of Latvia)
Migrations of the American Western” “Zis is ze rasol”. Contemporary Latvian migrant
literature and the translation of food culture”
Ralph Poole (University of Salzburg, Austria)
“Home-Longing in Fatih Akin’s Elina Kursite (University of Latvia) “Mixed food-
Transnational Heimat Westerns” identities of 90's Latvia”

Jesús Ángel González (Universidad de

Cantabria, Spain)
“Transcultural Approach to the Argentinian
Western”
PANEL 9
Language and transculturality

15:15-16:15

(Room 9 Bâtiment d’enseignement UFR

Lettres)

Moderator: Johannes Fehrle (Humboldt

University, Germany)
Cecily Fasham (Keble College, University of
Oxford, UK)
 “All l language is migrant’: Language as
Transcultural Network in Caroline Bergvall’s
Transhistorical Translations”

Stanislav Kolář/ Iva Dedková (University of

Ostrava, Czech Republic)
“Bilingual and Cross-cultural Encounters in
Kate Chopin’s Short Stories”

16:15 conference closing drink