Roundtables will take place either in person or online.
The current schedule is based on information provided by 22 April 2024. No changes will be made after April 2024.
Please note that the designation “online” means that at least one contributor will be participating remotely and, at minimum, their block of the session will be available online. In many cases, most participants will be in Lausanne and only one or two contributors will be participating remotely so we encourage in-person conference attendees to go to the designated room to view the talks.
The full list of roundtables with abstracts is available for download.
| No. | Title | Participants | Modality |
| 1 | Revisiting Central and Eastern Europe: Contemporary Anglophone Writing and the Cold War | Katrin Berndt (MLU Halle-Wittenberg, Germany), Àgnes Györke (Károli Gáspár University, Budapest, Hungary) & Robert Kusek (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) | in-person |
| 2 | Transboundary Narratives: Contemporary Women’s Writing in English | Merve Sarıkaya-Şen (Başkent University, Turkey), Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor (Penn State University, United States) & Silvia Pellicer-Ortin (Zaragoza University, Spain) | in-person |
| 3 | Reading Revisited: Susan Sontag’s “Against Interpretation” at 60 | Nell Wasserstrom (University of Lausanne, Switzerland), Sofie Behluli (University of Bern, Switzerland), Davida Fernandez-Barkan (Harvard University, United States), Julia Straub (University of Fribourg, Switzerland), Simon Swift (University of Geneva, Switzerland) | in-person |
| 4 | Modernism in the 21st Century | Sangam MacDuff (University of Lausanne, Switzerland), Fiona Becket (University of Leeds, UK), Jane Goldman (University of Glasgow, UK), Patrick Jones (University of Geneva, Switzerland), Alberto Tondello (University of Edinburgh / University of Bern, Switzerland) | in-person |
| 5 | The Future of Metamodernism | Antony Rowland (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), Dennis Kersten (Radboud University, Netherlands), Paula Romero Polo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain), Timotheus Vermeulen (Oslo University, Norway), Usha Wilbers (Radboud University, Netherlands) | in-person |
| 6 | Visions of the Future: Literary Studies and Crisis | Matthew Scully (University of Lausanne, Switzerland), Thomas Austenfeld (University of Fribourg, Switzerland), Lola Boorman (University of York, UK), Isis Giraldo (University of Lausanne, Switzerland), Simon Swift (University of Geneva, Switzerland) | online |
| 7 | Meeting of the Gender Studies Network | Işil Baş (Istanbul Kültür University, Turkey), Florence Binard (Université Paris Cité, France), Renate Haas (University of Kiel, Germany), Nóra Sellei (University of Debrecen, Hungary), María Socorro Suárez Lafuente (University of Oviedo, Spain) | online |
| 8 | Rewriting mythologies for the blue humanities | Barbara Barrow (Lund University, Sweden), Monika Class (Lund University, Sweden), Julia Boll (University of Konstanz, Germany), Ursula Kluwick (University of Bern, Switzerland), Elena de Wachter (Lund University, Sweden) | in-person |
| 9 | Medieval English In Europe: What Works? | Rory Critten (University of Lausanne, Switzerland), Irina Dumitrescu (University of Bonn, Germany), Annette Kern-Stähler (University of Bern, Switzerland), Katherine Zieman (University of Poitiers, France), Giovanni Iamartino (University of Milan, Italy), Laura Esteban-Segura (University of Málaga, Spain) | in-person |