The conference will consist of a program of paper sessions and keynote lectures. The keynote speakers will be published as soon as they have been confirmed.
Gisele Sapiro
Gisèle Sapiro is Professor of Sociology at the EHESS and Senior Researcher at CNRS. She has been hugely influential in sociology of literature, through works on connections between literature, law and politics in a Bourdieusian vein. Specifically she has studied prizes, translations and power dynamics within the literary field among other things. She’s translated to Nordic languages, for instance with Kan man skilja verket från författaren? (Verbal, 2023).
She has coedited The Routledge Handbook of the History and Sociology of Ideas (2023) and is author of The Sociology of Literature (Stanford UP, 2023) and The French Writer’s War (Duke UP, 2014). She was awarded a Humboldt-Forschungspreis in 2023.