June 21

Morning Venue: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

10:00 –10:30 Coffee Break

10:30–11:30 Christine Shojaei Kawan (Enzyklopädie des Märchens, Germany):Once Two Brothers Had a Workshop…

11:30–12:30 Maria Tatar (Harvard University, USA): The Call of the Wild: Why Fairy Tales Are Good to Think With

12:30–14:00 Lunch

Afternoon Venue: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

1.A: Oral/written Texts, Types, and Genres: Reassessing Boundaries

Valdimar Hafstein, chair and discussant

14:00–14:20 Cyrille François (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland): Grimms’ Märchen and Andersen’s Eventyr: A Tale of Two Genres

14:20–14:40 John Lindow (University of California, Berkeley, USA): A Swedish Tale-Type System in 1844? The Organization of Hyltén-Cavallius and Stephens, Svenska folk-sagor och äfventyr

14:40–15:00 Martin Lovelace (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada): Literary and Oral Influences in Newfoundland Folktales

15:00–15:20 Rósa Thorsteinsdóttir (Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, Iceland):Kinder- und Hausmärchen in Iceland

15:20–15:40 Discussant’s feedback

15:40–16:00 Final debate

1.B: Fairy Tale and Genre in a Post-Grimm Era

Donald P. Haase, chair and discussant

14:00–14:20 Cristina Bacchilega and Steven Gin (University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa, USA): Where Are the Brothers Grimm in Today’s Fairy-Tale Web?

14:20–14:40 JoAnn Conrad (University of California, Berkeley, USA): Generic Convention and Typological Determinism in the Legacy of the Grimms

14:40–15:00 Ulrich Marzolph (Georg-August U. and Enzyklopädie des Märchens, Germany): The Grimmification of Narrative Tradition

15:00–15:20 Margaret A. Mills (The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA):Boundaries of Magic and Deceit: Genre and Subgenre in Folktale

15:20–15:40 Discussant’s feedback

15:40–16:00 Final debate

1.C: Brothers Grimm and their European Contemporaries

Sadhana Naithani, chair and discussant

14:00–14:20 Maria Teresa Cortez (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal): Just as the Grimms did? Intercrossings and Dynamics of Transformation in the Portuguese Reception of the Kinder- und Hausmärchen

14:20–14:40 Monika Kropej (Institute of Slovenian Ethnology, Slovenia):Collaboration of Jacob Grimm, Jernej Kopitar, and Vuk Karadžić in the Period of the National Awakening of Slavic Nations

14:40–15:00 Diarmuid Ó Giolláin (University of Notre Dame, USA):Thomas Crofton Croker: An Irish Grimm?

15:00–15:20  Niina Hämäläinen (University of Turku, Finland):The Brothers Grimm and Elias Lönnrot: Editorial Practices and the Quest for Modernity

15:20–15:40 Discussant’s feedback

15:40–16:00 Final debate

1.D: Cross-Perspectives on the Grimm Märchen

Anna Angelopoulos: chair and discussant

14:00–14:20 Shira Wolosky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel):Disciplinary Structure in Grimm and Harry Potter

14:20–14:40 Xúlio Pardo de Neyra (University of Corunha, Galiza, Spain):The Flight of a Hummingbird or die Reise von der Swabian. Miño the Rhine to the Hair of the Nixe: Grimm, Avellaneda, Becquer and Fole, Squaring the Sprites in a Literary Suevism

14:40–15:00 Susana Seixas (ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon): A Green Speck in the Dark Forest: An Aspect of Chromaticism in Grimm Tales

15:00–15:20 Discussant’s feedback

15:20–15:40 Final debate

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break

2.A: Contemporary Issues in Traditional Fairy-Tale Guise

Pauline Greenhill, chair; Martin Lovelace, discussant

16:30–16:50 Kimberly Lau (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA):Sleeping Beauty’s Queer Double: Narrative Hauntings and Vampire Longings in Angela Carter’s “The Lady of the House of Love”

16:50–17:10 Steven Kohm (University of Winnipeg, Canada): “This is the North, Where We Do What We Want”: Popular Criminology and the Red Riding Trilogy

17:10–17:30 Kendra Magnusson (University of Manitoba, Canada): Grimm Masculinities: Hucksters, Cross-Dressers, and Ninnies

17:30–17:50 Pauline Greenhill (University of Winnipeg, Canada):“Le piège d’Issoudun”: Motherhood in Crisis

17:50–18:10 Discussant’s feedback

18:10–18:30 Final debate

2.B: Metamorphosis as Metaphor: Transformative Magic in the Grimms’ KHM

Maria Tatar, chair and discussant

16:30–16:50 Yoel Perez (Ben Gurion University, Israel):Transformative Magic in a Bedouin Version from Israel of the Grimm Story “Little Brother and Little Sister” (AT 450)

16:50–17:10 Francisco Vaz da Silva (ISCTE–IUL / IELT, Portugal):Metaphor, Metamorphosis, and the Multiverse in Grimm Fairy Tales

17:10–17:30 Sara Graça da Silva (FLUP / IELT, Portugal):Frog Kings and Other More Ordinary Frogs: Why There is Nothing Heartless About Being Cold-Blooded

17:30–17:50 Discussant’s feedback

17:50–18:10 Final debate

2.C: Reception, Translation, Proliferation: Recollecting Grimm Traditions

Diarmuid Ó Giolláin, chair and discussant

16:30–16:50 Anne E. Duggan (Wayne State University, USA):The Reception of the Grimms in Nineteenth-Century France

16:50–17:10 Vanessa Joosen (University of Antwerp, Belgium): Dutch translators in the Tracks of the Brothers Grimm

17:10–17:30 Linh OnThiMy (Georg-August Universität, Germany):The Influence of the Brothers Grimm on Nguyen Dong Chi’s Viewpoint and Method of Collecting Folk Narratives

17:30–17:50 Discussant’s feedback

17:50–18:10 Final debate

June 22

Morning Venue: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

9:00–10:00 Valdimar Hafstein (University of Iceland, Iceland):The Opposite of Property: How the Grimm Brothers Helped to Create the Public Domain (and why perhaps that wasn’t so great)

10:00–10:30 Coffee Break

10:30–11:30 Jack Zipes (University of Minnesota, USA):Seeds of Revolution in the Grimms’ Tales: The Role of Superheroes from Six Who Changed the World to Seven Samurai

11:30–12:30 Donald Haase (Wayne State University, USA):The Brothers Grimm as Cultural Icons

12:30–14:00 Lunch

Afternoon Venue 1: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

3.A: Grimm Märchen, Heritage, and the Visual Arts

Ulrich Marzolph, chair and discussant

14:00–14:20 Peter Tokofsky (J. P. Getty Museum and U. of California, Los Angeles, USA):The Art of the Grimms’ Tales

14:20–14:40 Claudia Schwabe (University of Florida, USA):Between Socialism and Snow White: GDR Fairy Tales

Watch movies: Three Gifts for Cinderella; Die goldene Gans; Der kleine Muck; Rumpelstilzchen;

14:40–15:00 Aurélie Zygel-Basso (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada):Who Owns Fairy Tale Images? A European Heritage French Canadian Style, From the Plates of Yesteryear to the Silver Screen 

Watch movie: Isabelle au Bois dormant/Sleeping Betty (2007, 9’)

15:00–15:20 Dorothee Hemme (Georg-August Universität, Göttingen, Germany):On the Trail of Success with the Grimms: Strategies of Value Creation Around the Anniversary of the Grimms in Hesse and Lower Saxony

15:20–15:40 Discussant’s feedback

15:40–16:00 Final debate

3.B: Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms

Kay Turner, chair. Pauline Greenhill, discussant

14:00–14:20 Joy Fairfield (Stanford University, USA):Becoming-Mouse, Becoming-Man: The Sideways Growth of Princess Mouseskin

14:20–14:40 Cristina Bacchilega (University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa, USA):Clever Gretel and Clever Else as Queer Tricksters

14:40–15:00 Jeana Jorgensen (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA): Bodily Transgressions and Transformations in the Grimms

15:00–15:20 Kay Turner (New York University, USA):Playing with Fire: Intrigue, Attraction, Seduction, and Consummation in “Frau Trude”

15:20–15:40 Discussant’s feedback

15:40–16:00 Final debate

3.C: Pedagogical Uses of the Fairytale

Vladimira Velički, chair and discussant

14:00–14:20 Maria Afonsina Matos, Elane Rios Cabral (Centro de Estudos da Leitura – CEL/UESB, Brazil):Reading Station: Experiments with Fairy Tales in Brazilian Northeastern Interior

14:20–14:40 Maria da Natividade Pires (Escola Superior de Educação IPCB/ IELT, Portugal):Children’s Readings in the 21st century: Which Place for the Grimm’s Tales?

14:40–15:00 Marina Gabelica (University of Zagreb, Croatia):Grimm’s Fairy Tales in the New Media

15:00–15:20 Vladimira Velički and Damir Velički (University of Zagreb, Croatia):Multimedia Adaptations of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Possibilities and Limits

15:20–15:40 Discussant’s feedback

15:40–16:00 Final debate

AfternoonVenue 2: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (14:30 – 20:00)

Film Screenings & Roundtable

14:30–16:00 Milchwald, dir. Christoph Hochhäusler (2004)

Film screening, with an introduction by Jack Zipes

16:15–18:15    Hänsel and Gretel, dir. Yim Phil-Sung (2006)

Film screening, with an introduction by Jack Zipes

18:15–18:45 Coffee Break

18:45–20:00 Roundtable (convened by Pauline Greenhill and Jack Zipes)

Discussants: Pauline Greenhill, Vanessa Joosen, Maria Tatar, Kay Turner, Jack Zipes

June 23

Morning Venue: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

4.A: Filmic Adaptations of the Grimm Fairy Tales

Jack Zipes, chair and discussant

9:00–9:20  Marcie Fehr (University of Winnipeg, Canada): Mother/Witch and Forsaken Children: Distorted Women in Filmed Adaptations of “Hansel and Gretel”

9:20–9:40Catherine Tosenberger (University of Winnipeg, Canada):“We All Live in a House of Candy”: “Hansel and Gretel” as Pornographic Film Text

9:40–10:00John Patrick Pazdziora (University of St Andrews, Scotland): “From an Early German Folk Tale”: Re-appropriation the Grimm Fairy Tales in Jim Henson’s The Storyteller

10:00–10:20 Rona May-Ron (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel): Of Frogs and Men:  The Grimms’ “The Frog King or Iron Heinrich” and Disney’s The Princess and the Frog

10:20–10:40 Discussant’s feedback

10:40–11:00 Final debate

4.B: Re-engendering Grimm Märchen in Women’s Fiction

Kimberly Lau, chair and discussant

9:00–9:20  Martine Hennard Dutheil (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland):From Translation (Perrimm) to Rewriting (Grimmault): Angela Carter’s “Cinderella: or the Little Glass Shoe” and “Ashputtle: or the Mother’s Ghost”

9:20–9:40Shuli Barzilai (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel): Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s Transformation of Transformative Magic in “Briar Rose,” or the Real-Life Story of Sleeping Beauty

9:40–10:00   Christy Williams (Hawai‘i Pacific University, USA): Gaps in the Briar Hedge: The Reader’s Role in Awakening Briar Rose

10:00–10:20 Alexandra Cheira (University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, Portugal):The Grimms’ “The Glass Coffin” through the Looking Glass of A.S. Byatt’s Retelling

10:20–10:40 Discussant’s feedback

10:40–11:00 Final debate

4.C: The Grimms in America: Artifactualization, Authorization, and Artifice

Adam D. Zolkover, chair; JoAnn Conrad, discussant

9:00–9:20 Linda J. Lee (University of Pennsylvania, USA): Offering Guidance, Dispensing Justice: The Moral Compass of the Grimm Fairy Tales

9:20–9:40 David P. Nickel (University of Iceland, Iceland):Grimm Realities: Contemporary Representations of the Grimms in Popular Culture

9:40–10:00 Kristiana Willsey (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA):Based on a True Story: Fantasizing the Grimms

10:00–10:20 Adam D. Zolkover (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA):“A Most Agreeable Kind of Reading”: The Grimms, and the Making of a Nineteenth-Century American Middle Class

10:20–10:40 Discussant’s feedback

10:40–11:00 Final debate

11:00–11:30 Coffee Break

Maria Teresa Cortez, chair and discussant

11:30–11:50Ana Isabel Caria Duarte Evaristo (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal):Little Red Riding Hood in the Post-Grimm Era: Rewritings of the Tale in Contemporary Portuguese Children’s Literature

11:50–12:10Sara Reis da Silva (Universidade do Minho, Portugal): The Grimm legacy in Portuguese Children’s Literature: The Case of Little Red Riding Hood

12:10–12:30  Maria da Conceição Tomé and Glória Bastos (U. Aberta, Portugal):“Mirror, mirror on the wall/Who is the freest of them all?’’: Grimms’ and Contemporary Portuguese Children’s Literature Princesses

12:30–12:50 Discussant’s feedback

12:50–13:00 Final debate

5.B: KHM at the Intersection of Learned Tradition and Popular Literature, Art and Folk Narrative

Christine Shojaei Kawan, chair and discussant

11:30–11:50 Anna Angelopoulos (Université Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle,  France):Comparing Grimms’ Rumpelstilzchen to the Greek Popular tradition of the tale-type ATU 500

11:50–12:10 Isabel Cardigos (Universidade do Algarve / CEAO, Portugal):The Frog King and the Love of Scary Tales

12:10–12:30 Lubomír Sůva  (Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany): “Plague take it, today I´d dance with the devil if he asked me!” The Hero in the Czech Fairy Tale as Compared to Grimms´ Protagonists

12:30–12:50 Discussant’s feedback

12:50–13:00 Final debate

5.C: Creative Uses of Märchen in Multimedia, Performance, and Cross-genre Retellings

Vanessa Joosen, chair and discussant

11:30–11:50 Risto Järv (Estonian Literary Museum / University of Tartu, Estonia):Rotkäppchen and Seven Dwarfs: Characters and their Combinations in Fairy Tales

11:50–12:10 Rossitsa Minovska-Devedzhieva (Freelance puppet theatre director, Bulgaria): Interpreting Grimms’ Tales on Puppet Theatre Stage

12:10–12:30 Marina Gellona (Scuola Holden, Turin, Italy):The Grimm Brothers’ Golden Key To Creativity In Writing: KHM as a Text and Contest Where People Can Find Their New Stories

12:30–12:50 Discussant’s feedback

12:50–13:00 Final debate

13:00–14:00 Lunch