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INSTITUTE OF ROMANCE STUDIES
SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
THURSDAY 4 JULY and FRIDAY 5 JULY 2002
Forgetting
Supported by the British Academy
PROGRAMME
Thursday 4 July
9.30 REGISTRATION
10.00 Susan Suleiman (C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilisation of
France and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University) Amnesia
and Amnesty
11.00 COFFEE
11.30 Cathy Caruth (Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Emory
University) Trauma and Forgetting
David Forgacs (Professor of Italian, University College London) Primo Levi's
Palimpsest
13.00 LUNCH (0WN ARRANGEMENTS)
14.00 Paul Connerton (Associate Fellow of the IRS) Topographies of
Forgetting
Ian Christie (Professor of Film, Birkbeck College London) Against
Oblivion: Strategies for Remembering the First World War in French Cinema
15.30 TEA
16.00 Laura Mulvey (Professor of Film, Birkbeck College London) Showing of
her documentary (co-directed with Mark Lewis), Disgraced Monuments
Eva Hoffman (writer) Reading from her work
17.30 END OF SESSION (APPROXIMATE)
Friday 5 July
10.30 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
11.00 Edward Timms (Professor of German, University of Sussex)
Remembering to Forget: Deuteronomy 25:19 as a Paradigm for Narratives of
Modern Warfare
Simon Jarvis (Lecturer in English Literary History, University of Cambridge)
Oblivion
12.30 LUNCH (OWN ARRANGEMENTS)
14.00 Johannes Fabian (Professor of Cultural Anthropology, University of
Amsterdam) Forgetful Remembering: A Colonial Career in the Congo
Nicholas Harrison (Senior Lecturer in French, University College London)
Dark Continent: A Metaphor's Journey
15.30 TEA
16.00 Andreas Huyssen (Villard Professor of German and Comparative
Literature, Columbia University) Resistance to Memory
17.30 END OF SESSION (APPROXIMATE)
Organisers: Paul Connerton (Associate Fellow of the IRS) and Emma Wilson
(Senior Lecturer in French, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge)
Venue: Institute of Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University
of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU (No smoking
building)
It is advisable to register in advance to guarantee a place. It is often possible
to book on the day but places cannot be guaranteed. Registration forms (see
the Institute's website on http://www.sas.ac.uk/irs) should be sent to the
Administrators at the Institute of Romance Studies.
Fees per day: £25.00 Standard; £10.00 Members of IRS and concessions;
£5.00 Graduate students in subscribing departments
Enquiries: Tel: +44 (0) 20 7862 8677; Fax: +44 (0) 20 7862 8672; E-mail:
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