Second try: IPW 2026, Dortmund

[Krafft, John M.]

The conference poster evidently won't attach to a list message, but you can
probably download it from the IPW website.

jmk

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Call for Papers
International Pynchon Week 2026
June 15-19, 2026
TU Dortmund University, Germany
www.internationalpynchonweek.org


“Consider coal and steel. There is a place where they meet.” (Gravity’s
Rainbow)

Indeed there is, and this is also the place where the international
community of Pynchon
scholars meets next: the Ruhrgebiet, the heart of continental European
industrialization
where capitalism, technology, humans, and nature converged to help create
modernity
itself—along with its dialectic of liberation and oppression, individualism
and
totalitarianism, peace and war, and many other aspects that are central to
Thomas
Pynchon’s works. Now postindustrial but still a central node of
transnational migration,
exchange, and industry, the place is many, many places at once, perhaps not
quite the
heterotopian Zone but a diverse and storied site nonetheless, and thus the
appropriate
site for discussions of Pynchon’s stories and everything around them.

The American Studies team at TU Dortmund University invites scholars and
students,
amateurs and novices, fans and critics to get together for a five-day event
of
presentations, translation workshops, conversation, and general Pynchonian
fun. We
especially invite papers that address Pynchon in translation or the
publication history of
his works outside the US, but there are no thematic restrictions: Anything
Pynchon is welcome.

If you want to present a paper at the conference, please submit an abstract
of no more
than 500 words along with a bio statement to burak.sezer at tu-dortmund.de and
sascha.poehlmann at tu-dortmund.de by September 30, 2025.



--
Prof. Dr. Sascha Pöhlmann (he/him)
American Literature and Culture
TU Dortmund
Emil-Figge-Straße 50
44227 Dortmund

+49 (0) 231 755 2932
https://tu-dortmund.zoom.us/my/sascha.poehlmann
https://islk.kuwi.tu-dortmund.de/poehlmann

-- 
John M. Krafft
Professor Emeritus of English
Miami University
+1-513-550-9114
krafftjm at miamioh.edu

Living inside the System is like riding across the country in a bus driven
by a maniac bent on suicide.
—Thomas Pynchon