Thursday, April 28 |
| 15:00-15.15 | Opening Remarks: Daniel Stein / Lisanna Wiele |
| 15:15-16:45 | Keynote I - Norbert Bachleitner (Vienna):
“The Beginnings of the Feuilleton Novel in France and the German-Speaking Regions”
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| 17:00-19:00 | Workshop I
- Ricarda Musser (Berlin):
Brazilian-French Cultural Contact in Serial Format: The Revista Popular (Rio de Janeiro, 1859-1862)
- Raphaela Averkorn (Siegen):
Promoting Serial Fiction in 19th-Century Spain: Wenceslao Ayguals de Izco
- Gunter Süß (Mittweida):
“Ride with Capitola: The Politics of E.D.E.N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand”
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| 19:30 | Reception |
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Friday, April 29 |
| 9:00-10:30 | Keynote II - Walburga Hülk-Althoff (Siegen):
Spectacular, Spectacular – Early Paris “Mysteries” and “Dramas” (Eugène Sue)
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| 11:00-13:00 | Workshop II
- Heike Steinhoff (Bochum):
Of Ladies, Flower Girls and Brothel Madams: Womanhood and Female Sexuality in American City Mystery Novels
- Lisanna Wiele (Siegen):
Dead Man Walking - On the Physical Manifestations of Sociopolitical Narratives in George Thompson's City Crimes - Life in New York and Boston
- Florian Groß (Hannover):
(Re-)Making American Culture: Ned Buntline, the Crystal Palace, and the Transnational Series and Adaptations of New York
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| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30-16:00 | Keynote III - Ronald Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray (Pittsburgh):
“Between Hamburg and Boston: Frederick Gleason and the Rise of Serial Fiction in the United States”
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| 16:30-19:00 | Workshop III - Tanja Weber (Köln):
The Media Mysteries of London
- Nicole Glaubitz (Darmstadt):
Counting (on) Crime: Serial Narration, Crime Statistics, and the Emergence of a Mass Literary Market
- Pia Wiegmink (Mainz):
The Annual “Gift” of Freedom: Women’s Transnational Networks in Abolitionist Serial Print Culture
- Matthias Göritz (St. Louis):
The Laws of the Series: From Heinrich Börnstein’s Die Geheimnisse von St. Louis (Mysteries of St. Louis) to Today’s Serial Narration
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| 19:30 | Dinner |
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Saturday, April 30 |
9:30 11:15 | City Tour Keynote IV - Mark Turner (London): ‘From Serial to Series: The Culture of Seriality in the 19th Century’
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12:45 14:15 | Lunch Workshop IV - Tobias Scheidt (Siegen):
“Cannot but be interesting to our Readers”: Periodicals and the Transfer of Popular History in Britain and Germany, c. 1830-1860
- Fabian Grumbrecht (Göttingen):
“The Interaction between Serial Fictions and Non-Fictional Texts in the Kölnische Zeitung in the 1850s and 1860s”
- Reyhan Tutumlu Serdar (Instanbul) / Ali Serdar (Istanbul):
A “Distant Reading” of the Ottoman/Turkish Serial Novel Tradition
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| 16:15 | Final Discussion |
