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&#160;Writing (for) the Market – Narratives of Global Economy25-27 June 2015, 4th annual conference of the DFG Research Training Group "Globalization and Literature: Representations, Transformations, Interventions"  will take at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich.This year's conference is concerned with the complex relationship between literature and the 'global market' and will address questions of the effects of the market on literary production as well as the representation and narration of 'the market' in literary texts. Besides bringing together international scholars from a variety of literary departments, the Open Forum "Global Playing for Everyone? Positioning Strategies on the Global Book Market" provides a room for discussion for different agents in the publishing industry.Keynote Speaker: Giséle SapiroFull details at this address:  http://www.en.conference.grk-globalisierung.uni-muenchen.de/index.htmlProgram:Thursday, 25th June13.30-14.00 | Introductory Address | Anna-Katharina Krüger, Franziska Jekel, Neele Meyer14.00-15.30 | Panel I | Globalization or the Literature of Late Capitalism    Barrett Watten (Wayne State University Detroit): Writing the Zone: Global Logics of American PostmodernismNina Peter (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg/FU Berlin): Precarious Ontologies: Contemporary Financial Markets in Literature15.30-16.00 | Coffee break16.00-17.30 | Panel II | The Poetics of Economy – the Economy of Poetics    Christine Künzel (Universität Hamburg): Economic Poetics or On the Gradual Production of Derivatives and Other Financial Fiction Whilst WritingAnne Enderwitz (Freie Universität Berlin): Early Modern Household Economy and the Trickster Plot18.00 | Keynote Address Gisèle Sapiro, CNRS ParisFriday, 26th JunePanel III |Access to the Global Canon10.00-11.30   TBAAnna-Katharina Krüger (LMU München): Slave Narratives Entering the Market – Between Self-Publishing and Political Agenda11.30-12.00 | Coffee break12.00-12.45    Rasha Chatta (SOAS London): Thematic Mints: On the Aesthetics of Migrant Literature Between Production and Circulation12.45-14.30 | Lunch breakPanel IV | The Negotiations of Literary Value14.30-15.15    Annegret Heitmann (LMU München): On the Turntable. Scandinavian Authors and the Global Market15.15-15.45. | Coffee Break15.45-17.15    Pavithra Narayanan (WSU Vancouver): Who's Afraid of Andrew Wylie? Gatekeepers, Markets, and Knowledge ProductionFranziska Jekel (LMU München): Marketing the Crisis. Reflections on Esthetic and Economic Value in Marlene Streeruwitz' Nachkommen. and Die Reise einer jungen Anarchistin in Griechenland.20.00 |Open Forum: "Global Playing for Everyone? Positioning Strategies on the Global Book Market"Saturday, 27th JunePanel V | Fashioning World Authorship10.00-11.30    Rebecca Braun (Lancaster University): What is a World Author? Conceptualizing Agency in the Global Literary MarketThoren Opitz (LMU München): World Wide Walt: The 1856 Leaves of Grass and the Global Market11.30-12.00 | Coffee break12.00-12.45    Mariano Siskind (Harvard University): World Literature and the Globalization of Aesthetic Forms: Before and After Magical Realism12.45 | Final Discussion and Closing Remarks | Thoren Opitz, Mahamat Ali AlhadjiIf there are further questions please email us and we will happy to help. For more information contact: globalisierung@lrz.uni-muenchen.de*******************************************Anna-Katharina KrügerResearch Scholar at DFG Group "Globalization and Literature"Luudwig-Maximilians-University MunichAnna-KatharinaKrueger@gmx.de