Beyond the Sea: Literature, Media and Cultural Techniques of the Maritime

Workshop

Wednesday, December 13, 13:15–17:00

Tobias Nanz & Anders Engberg-Pedersen



Host: DIAS in cooperation with the Department of Culture and Language (SDU), the Center for War Studies (SDU) and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Venue: DIAS seminar room



Topic:

The sea is an unknown smooth space. It is a space from which natural forces emanate, it is loaded with fictions that are meant to make it comprehensible. It is a space of trading and communication, but also a space of battles, war, and disruption. Since ancient times people such as coast dwellers, government officials, or military thinkers have sought to control the sea with ships and submarines and with specific media and cultural techniques. This workshop brings together perspectives from literature, media and culture studies to discuss the challenges of the sea and people’s struggle to transform the smooth space into a striated and thus controllable space.




13:15 – 13:30: Introduction


13:30 – 15:00: Panel 1 / Chair: Tobias Nanz


Bernhard Siegert (BU Weimar): Trafalgar: Victory through Love and Hermeneutics


Søren Frank (SDU): Coastal havoc in Peder Frederik Jensen’s Rans vilje (2023) and Holger Drachmann’s ’Efter Orkanen’ (1881)


15:00 – 15:30: Coffee and Cookies


15:30 – 17:00: Panel 2 / Chair: Anders Engberg-Pedersen


Lieven Raymaekers (KU Leuven): War and the Ocean: Man, Media and Submarine Fiction


Tobias Nanz (SDU): Noisy Shores. Communicating (after) the Apocalypse