Made in Class. Literary Education in Nineteenth- and Twentieth- Century Europe
Conference 3-5 December 2025
Literary and Cultural Studies Research Unit, Arts Faculty, KU Leuven
MDRN Research Lab KU Leuven
Programme
Wednesday 3 December
13.00-13.30: Registration (Entrance Hall Erasmushuis)
13.30-14.00: Introduction by Anke Gilleir and Pieter Verstraeten (LETT 08.16)
14.00-15.00: Keynote 1 (LETT 08.16)
Laura Tosi (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) – Shakespeare for Children, Pinocchio for Adults
15.00-16:00: Panel 1 – (Trans)national Contexts and Approaches (LETT 08.16)
- Sophie Modert (Universität Bonn) – “Je universeller der Blick, desto nationeller das Herz”: German Literature and the Fostering of a Dynastic Identity in the Late Habsburg Empire
- Eva Gijsen (KU Leuven) – Reading What School Can’t Teach: The Nesthäckchen-Series as a Political Guideline for Young Girls
16.00-16.30: Coffee Break (LETT 07.01)
16.30-18:00: Panel 2 – A Window to Modernity (LETT 08.16)
- Hendrick Heimböckel (Universität Osnabrück) – Concepts of Subject-Specificity and the Interdiscursive Formation of Teaching German Literature in Secondary Education
- Barbara Distefano (KU Leuven) – Teaching for Writing, Writing for Teaching: Measuring the Involvement of Modern Writers in School Education
- Paul Keckeis (Universität Klagenfurt) – From Supplement to Guideline: “Modern Literature” in the Teaching Discourse of the “Zeitschrift für die österreichischen Gymnasien” (around 1900)
18:00: Reception (Entrance Hall Erasmushuis)
Thursday 4 December
9:30-10.30: Interview
David Martens in Conversation with Bernard Lahire (LETT 08.16)
10.30-11.00: Coffee Break (LETT 07.01)
11.00-12.00: Panel 3 – Écrivains et manuels scolaires
- Martin Michel (KU Leuven) – La définition de la littérature dans les manuels scolaires francophones belges (1880-1940) : enjeux esthétiques, pédagogiques et moraux
- Sarah Cornet (Université de Montréal) – Yourcenar, Gide et Radiguet : vers une représentation amendée de l’enseignement au XXe siècle ?
12.00-13.00: Lunch (Entrance Hall Erasmushuis)
13.00-15.30: Panel 4 – Education and Literature in the Low Countries (LETT 08.16)
- Louise Ledegen (Universiteit Antwerpen) – Publishing for the Pupil: The Role of Educational Institutions in the Development of Original Flemish Children’s Literature Funds in the Early Twentieth-Century
- Valerie Meessen (Universiteit Leiden) – Prescribed Literature: The Contents of and Approaches to English Literature in Dutch Textbooks for Havo/Vwo Students (1985-2020)
- Ruth Van Hecke (KU Leuven / UC Louvain) – “The scar of a replica”: Education In and Through Stefan Hertmans’ Dius (2024) in Dialogue with Maurice Gilliams’ Elias of het gevecht met de nachtegalen (1938)
- Koen Rymenants – Literary Aesthetics and Humanist Education in the Fifties: Albert Westerlinck on Literature at School in Post-War Flanders
- Janneke Weijermars (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) – The Poet Prudens van Duyse (1804-1859) as a Literature Teacher
15.30-16.00: Coffee Break (LETT 07.01)
16.00-17.00: Keynote 2 (LETT 08.16)
Michael Kämper-van den Boogaart (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) – “Erläuterung oder Erlebnis?” (W. Schönbrunn, 1921) – Explanation or Experience? Conflict Lines of German Literature Education before 1933
19.00: Conference Dinner
Friday 5 December
9.30-10.30: Keynote 3 (LETT 08.16)
Rachel Sagner Buurma (Swarthmore College) and Laura Heffernan (University of North Florida) – I.A. Richards’s Modern Poetry Course (1925)
10.30-11.00: Coffee Break (LETT 07.01)
11.00-12.30: Panel 5 – L’enseignement du contemporain (LETT 08.16)
- Giulia Puzzo (KU Leuven) – Paul Celan : poète et lecteur d’allemand à l’École Normale de Paris
- Dorian Barbieur (KU Leuven) – L’ancêtre d’Apostrophes? La réception de la littérature contemporaine dans l’enseignement populaire pour adultes en Belgique (1892-1940)
- Charles Garatynski – Witkacy contre la “classe” : pédagogies absurdes et anti-école dans l’oeuvre et la vie de Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
12.30-13.30: Lunch (Entrance Hall Erasmushuis)
13.30-15.30: Panel 6 – Educating the Reader (LETT 08.16)
- Maxim Braun (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) – Learning to Read Images: How Fairy Tale Publications Shaped Literary Practices in 19th-Century Europe
- Giulia Scialanga (KU Leuven) – “We Don’t Need No Education”… or Do We? The Education of the Unruly Child from Carlo Collodi’s Le avventure di Pinocchio (1881-83) to Antonio Rubino’s Viperetta (1919)
- Ulrich Kinzel (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel) – Meditation or Social Orthopedia: Literary Education in Late Modern Germany
- Christopher Busch (Universität Bonn) – “New Subjectivity” as a Pedagogical Program: Literature and Didactic Intervention in Western Germany ca. 1960–1980
15.30: Closing Remarks by Pieter Verstraeten (LETT 08.16)
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Martin Michel (18 novembre 2025). Made in Class. Literary Education in Nineteenth- and Twentieth- Century Europe. PatrimoniaLitté. Consulté le 14 avril 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/155ul

