World Poetry Today: Production, Translation, Reception<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\nOrganised by University of Tartu, Tallinn University<\/strong>
in cooperation with Estonian Literary Society<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nOctober 1 to 4, 2025<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>
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Exlibris by Estonian Painter\u00a0Kristjan\u00a0Raud\u00a0(1865 \u2013 1943), in KUMU Art Museum (Tallinn)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\nPoetry is inherently \u201cworldly\u201d, both polytemporal and polyspatial, as stated by Jahan Ramazani. While poems belong to their immediate historical moment and national culture, they are at the same time transnational as well as transhistorical through their forms, techniques, rhetorical strategies, and language. (J. Ramazani, Poetry in the Global Age<\/em>, 2020) Using the term \u201cworld poetry\u201d, we wish to invite papers which focus on the intercultural dissemination of poetry and explore how the worldwide production, translation, and reception of poetry are influenced by (and, in turn, influence) the digital environment, which has led to the emergence of new mediums\/forms of poetry. Today, poetry is living and circulating as never before, both in book form and in the digital as well as the physical environment \u2013 its spread into the public space is already demanding attention in poetry studies (see C. Benthien, N. Gestring, Public Poetry<\/em>, 2023). Defined by Tartu\u2019s renowned literary scholar Juri Lotman as \u201ccomplexly constructed meaning\u201d (Analysis of the Poetic Text<\/em>, 1976, p. 35), poetry continues to pose new challenges for writers and translators, critics and readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe keynote speakers are Claudia Benthien (Universit\u00e4t Hamburg), Francis R. Jones (Newcastle University), Jahan Ramazani (University of Virginia), A.E. Stallings (University of Oxford), as well as Peeter Torop (University of Tartu), Rein Raud (Tallinn University) and Mihhail Lotman (Tallinn University, University of Tartu). Read more >>><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\nThe conference venue is Tartu, which is a UNESCO City of Literature and the 2024 European Capital of Culture and has a rich poetry scene. See more: https:\/\/tartu.kirjandus.ee\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe conference is the initiative of two research projects funded by the Estonian Research Council: The Factor of Lyrical Poetry in the Formation of Small Literatures (PRG1106, 2021-2025), led by Liina Lukas, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Tartu and Translation in History, Estonia 1850-2010: Texts, Agents, Institutions and Practices\u201d (PRG1206, 2021\u22122025), led by Daniele Monticelli, Professor of Translation Studies and Semiotics at Tallinn University. It will bring together the results of both projects placing them in a wider international comparative context. The conference is also supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment and the Ministry of Culture\u2019s research and development programme through the project \u201cVoices of Youth in Digital Age Poetry: Poetics, Attitudes, and Identities\u201d (KUM-TA75), led by Rebekka Lotman, Associate Professor of World Literature at the University of Tartu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
in cooperation with Estonian Literary Society<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
October 1 to 4, 2025<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>
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\nPoetry is inherently \u201cworldly\u201d, both polytemporal and polyspatial, as stated by Jahan Ramazani. While poems belong to their immediate historical moment and national culture, they are at the same time transnational as well as transhistorical through their forms, techniques, rhetorical strategies, and language. (J. Ramazani, Poetry in the Global Age<\/em>, 2020) Using the term \u201cworld poetry\u201d, we wish to invite papers which focus on the intercultural dissemination of poetry and explore how the worldwide production, translation, and reception of poetry are influenced by (and, in turn, influence) the digital environment, which has led to the emergence of new mediums\/forms of poetry. Today, poetry is living and circulating as never before, both in book form and in the digital as well as the physical environment \u2013 its spread into the public space is already demanding attention in poetry studies (see C. Benthien, N. Gestring, Public Poetry<\/em>, 2023). Defined by Tartu\u2019s renowned literary scholar Juri Lotman as \u201ccomplexly constructed meaning\u201d (Analysis of the Poetic Text<\/em>, 1976, p. 35), poetry continues to pose new challenges for writers and translators, critics and readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe keynote speakers are Claudia Benthien (Universit\u00e4t Hamburg), Francis R. Jones (Newcastle University), Jahan Ramazani (University of Virginia), A.E. Stallings (University of Oxford), as well as Peeter Torop (University of Tartu), Rein Raud (Tallinn University) and Mihhail Lotman (Tallinn University, University of Tartu). Read more >>><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\nThe conference venue is Tartu, which is a UNESCO City of Literature and the 2024 European Capital of Culture and has a rich poetry scene. See more: https:\/\/tartu.kirjandus.ee\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe conference is the initiative of two research projects funded by the Estonian Research Council: The Factor of Lyrical Poetry in the Formation of Small Literatures (PRG1106, 2021-2025), led by Liina Lukas, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Tartu and Translation in History, Estonia 1850-2010: Texts, Agents, Institutions and Practices\u201d (PRG1206, 2021\u22122025), led by Daniele Monticelli, Professor of Translation Studies and Semiotics at Tallinn University. It will bring together the results of both projects placing them in a wider international comparative context. The conference is also supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment and the Ministry of Culture\u2019s research and development programme through the project \u201cVoices of Youth in Digital Age Poetry: Poetics, Attitudes, and Identities\u201d (KUM-TA75), led by Rebekka Lotman, Associate Professor of World Literature at the University of Tartu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Poetry is inherently \u201cworldly\u201d, both polytemporal and polyspatial, as stated by Jahan Ramazani. While poems belong to their immediate historical moment and national culture, they are at the same time transnational as well as transhistorical through their forms, techniques, rhetorical strategies, and language. (J. Ramazani, Poetry in the Global Age<\/em>, 2020) Using the term \u201cworld poetry\u201d, we wish to invite papers which focus on the intercultural dissemination of poetry and explore how the worldwide production, translation, and reception of poetry are influenced by (and, in turn, influence) the digital environment, which has led to the emergence of new mediums\/forms of poetry. Today, poetry is living and circulating as never before, both in book form and in the digital as well as the physical environment \u2013 its spread into the public space is already demanding attention in poetry studies (see C. Benthien, N. Gestring, Public Poetry<\/em>, 2023). Defined by Tartu\u2019s renowned literary scholar Juri Lotman as \u201ccomplexly constructed meaning\u201d (Analysis of the Poetic Text<\/em>, 1976, p. 35), poetry continues to pose new challenges for writers and translators, critics and readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The keynote speakers are Claudia Benthien (Universit\u00e4t Hamburg), Francis R. Jones (Newcastle University), Jahan Ramazani (University of Virginia), A.E. Stallings (University of Oxford), as well as Peeter Torop (University of Tartu), Rein Raud (Tallinn University) and Mihhail Lotman (Tallinn University, University of Tartu). Read more >>><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n The conference venue is Tartu, which is a UNESCO City of Literature and the 2024 European Capital of Culture and has a rich poetry scene. See more: https:\/\/tartu.kirjandus.ee\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The conference is the initiative of two research projects funded by the Estonian Research Council: The Factor of Lyrical Poetry in the Formation of Small Literatures (PRG1106, 2021-2025), led by Liina Lukas, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Tartu and Translation in History, Estonia 1850-2010: Texts, Agents, Institutions and Practices\u201d (PRG1206, 2021\u22122025), led by Daniele Monticelli, Professor of Translation Studies and Semiotics at Tallinn University. It will bring together the results of both projects placing them in a wider international comparative context. The conference is also supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment and the Ministry of Culture\u2019s research and development programme through the project \u201cVoices of Youth in Digital Age Poetry: Poetics, Attitudes, and Identities\u201d (KUM-TA75), led by Rebekka Lotman, Associate Professor of World Literature at the University of Tartu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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