One-Day Conference on W.G. Sebald:
“On the Natural History of Destruction: Sebald’s View of History”
Close to the third anniversary of W.G. Sebald’s tragic death this
one-day conference brings together a range of international Sebald
scholars to discuss W.G. Sebald’s view of history, especially his
notion of the historical catastrophy, from a number of interlocking
points of view. The symposium includes papers on Sebald’s epidemics;
the notion of witnessing in his writing; Sebald’s melancholy;
intertextuality; Sebald’s animals and miniature histories. The
conference closes with a contribution by Anthea Bell, Sebald’s last
translator. She will talk about her latest translation of the
posthumously published volume Campo Santo which will appear in English
translation next year. The conference is open to Sebald scholars and
enthusiasts alike.
Date: 10 December 2004,
Venue: Humanities Institute of Ireland,
University College Dublin
Belfield
Dublin 4
For registration details and any other information please contact the
manager of the HII, Valerie Norton, T: 00353-1-7164690, e-mail:
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Programme:
9.00-9.30 Anne Fuchs (Dublin), Introduction
9.30-10.10 Jonathan Long (Durham), Sebald’s Miniature Histories
10.10-10.50 Jan Ceuppens (Leuven), The Exactitude of Witnessing in
Sebald’s Prose
10.50-11.10 Coffee
11.10-11.50 Sven Meyer (Hamburg), Myth and Destruction: Sebald’s Döblin
11.50-12.30 Mary Cosgrove (Dublin), The Melancholy of History: Sebald
and Peter Weiss
12.30-13.10 Lunch
14.30-15.10 Michael Niehaus (Bochum), Sebald’s Epidemics
15.10-15.50 Russell Kilbourn (Toronto), Catastrophe with Spectator:
Subjectivity, Intertextuality and Realism in W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of
Saturn
15.50-16.20 Coffee
16.20-17.00 Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa (Cork), Innocent Creatures:
Animals as Victims of History in W. G. Sebald’s Prose
17.00-17.50 Anthea Bell (Cambridge), After Austerlitz: Translating
Sebald
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