The event will take place on October 25, 16:00-17:30 (Central European Summer Time), and you are all warmly welcome to attend.   

Access
If you’re interested in attending, please send an email to chang.liu@hcts.uni-heidelberg.de to get the ZOOM link and access code. This will also help us keep track of the expected number of attendees

Abstract
This talk, based on Sara Landa's new book Chinesisch-deutsche Lyrikdialoge (De Gruyter 2023), analyzes how German-speaking poetry translators in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries entered into dialogue with Chinese poetry - and used their position of distance to explore new paths within their own poetry. It demonstrates the study of Chinese poetry has provided numerous German poets with opportunities to explore aesthetics approaches and to sound out social and political positions.

Speakers
 Sara Landa studied German Language and Literature, History, Chinese Studies, Eastern Slavistics and European Literatures and Cultures in Freiburg, Beijing and Strasbourg (EUCOR). Her PhD dissertation on German-Chinese poetry translations and transformations was published with De Gruyter under the title “Chinesisch-deutsche Lyrikdialoge”. Research interests include in particular questions of comparative literature and translation, ecocriticism, literature and politics, literatures of the 20th and 21st century.
  Géraldine Fiss (許潔琳) is Associate Teaching Professor in Inter-Asia and Transpacific Studies at the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego, where she teaches modern Chinese literature, film, intellectual history, and aesthetics. Her research focuses on Chinese literary and cinematic modernisms; Chinese-German literary, poetic, and cinematic encounters; Chinese women’s literature and film; Chinese science fiction; and Chinese ecocritical discourses. In her current work, she examines modern and contemporary Chinese literature and cinema, and the trans-cultural influences that inform these literary and visual modes.
  LU Shengzhou (卢盛舟) is Associate Professor of German at the School of Foreign Studies at the Nanjing University, China. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. His research has focused on Modern German Literature and Chinese-German literary relationship. He has published articles in Kleist-Jahrbuch, Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik, Foreign Literature Review (外国文学评论), Foreign Literature (外国文学), Contemporary Foreign Literature (当代外国文学), Modern Chinese Literature Research (中国现代文学论丛) etc. Currently, he is doing his research as Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Nanjing University.