Publications

Bibliographies

"Small Sovereignty" - Research Bibliography

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Bibliography for the sub-corpus "Narraciones de oficina"

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Bibliography on the "Narcoliteratura" sub-corpus

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Lectures

Schäfer, Karolin (planned): "The Second Sex" feat. the Bureau: Female Workers in Latin American Office Literature. "Files, Forms, Fictions: Bureaucracy's Literary Lives from Ledgers to Algorithms", University of Bonn, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, October 16-17, 2025.

Schäfer, Karolin & Melchor Audirac, Fernanda (planned): Latin American Office Literature in Retrospect: "Small-scale sovereignty. Personal forms of domination in everyday life and their representation in the Hispano-American novel of the 20th and 21st century" (University of Kassel, 2022-2025). "Files, Forms, Fictions: Bureaucracy's Literary Lives from Ledgers to Algorithms", University of Bonn, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, October 16-17, 2025.

Schäfer, Karolin (2025): Sex Object - Madwoman - Puppet Mistress: Archetypes of Female Workers in Latin American Office Literature. Lecture at the "International Conference on Gender Studies: Gender and Power", 01.-02.03.2025, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (Online).

Schäfer, Karolin (2024): Perspectivas diacrónicas: La literatura de oficina entre la sociedad disciplinaria foucaultiana y la sociedad de control deleuziana. Lecture at the Coloquio Internacional "Redes de poder y dominación en oficinas, burocracias y empresas", 26-27.06.2024, DFG/CELA/University of Kassel.

Witthaus, Jan-Henrik (2024): Distancia y proximidad en Los expedientes (1957) de Marco Denevi. Lecture at the Coloquio Internacional "Redes de poder y dominación en oficinas, burocracias y empresas", 26-27.06.2024, DFG/CELA/University of Kassel.

Schäfer, Karolin (2024): The office as a dispositive. The representation of forms of rule in the Argentinean and Uruguayan office literature of neoliberalism. Lecture at the conference of the doctoral program GeKKo, 07.-08.06.2024, Hofgeismar.

Schäfer, Karolin (2024): "[A] pesar de su carácter manso, puede ser [...] feroz." - Hegemonic masculinity and the dream of being someone else in Guillermo Saccomanno's post-crisis novel El oficinista (2010). XXXIX Forum Junge Romanistik, 20-22.03.2024, Hamburg.

Schäfer, Karolin (2024): The (de)construction of Argentine middle-class identity: Guillermo Saccomanno's El oficinista (2010). Guest lecture in the advanced seminar "Office Stories from Latin America" on 18.01.2024, University of Kassel.

Interviews

Melchor Audirac, Fernanda (2024): Interview with Luciana Strauss about her novel El ente (2018), conducted as part of the Coloquio Internacional "Redes de poder y dominación en oficinas, burocracias y empresas", 26-27.06.2024, DFG/CELA/University of Kassel.

Workshop

Witthaus, Jan-Henrik (2023): Pequeña soberanía. Formas y representaciones de poder en la novela hispanoamericana de los siglos XX y XXI. Encuentro Latinoamericano of the CELA Kassel from July 11 to 13, 2023.

Podcast "Fabulari"

Benjamin Loy & Jan-Henrik Witthaus (2023): Fictions of everyday sovereignty. Jan-Henrik Witthaus on the Kassel DFG project "Small Sovereignty". Episode 32 of the science podcast fabulari of the University of Vienna, June 29, 2023.