Dear Colleagues,
herewith the programme of the forthcoming postgraduate conference to be held at The Nottingham Trent University in January 2007. Please would you let me know by email if you would like to attend. Details of the precise venue will be sent round at a later date.
Best wishes
Bill Niven
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"Remembering by Dissolving? Memory Work and the Blurring of Genre Boundaries"
An Interdisciplinary Conference
hosted by the
History, Heritage and Geography Department
The Nottingham Trent University
on 25 and 26 January 2007
Programme
25 January
10.30-11.00 Arrival and Welcome
11.00-11.15 Introduction
11.15-13.00:
"Memory and Representations of Childhood in the Work of W.G. Sebald",
Nora Maguire (Department of Germanic Studies, Trinity College Dublin)
"The Phenomenology of Destruction: W.G. Sebald and the Literary Memory of the Allied Bombings in Germany", Colette Lawson (School of Arts, The Nottingham Trent University)
"Max Aurach/Frank Auerbach: Drawing from Memory or the Model in W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants (Dora Osborne, German Department, University of Cambridge)
13.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.15:
"The aesthetic of mourning, memory and defeat in postmodern fiction of the 1990s in Argentina", Emilse Hidalgo (Department of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, University of Nottingham)
"Re-seeing Argentina's Past in the Photographic Memory Work of Marcelo Brodsky", Alexia Richardson (School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Durham)
"Memory, Oral Traditions and the Popular Brazilian Poet Patativa do Assaré", Laiz Chen Capra (Department of Hispanic and Latin American Studies, University of Nottingham)
15.15 Tea
15.30-17.15:
"Studying one's own community. Reflections on the subjectivity/objectivity frontier", Lamphone Phonevilay (EHESS - Paris and University of Montreal)
"National Socialism in German family memory: the loss of historical authenticity. From psycho-sociological trauma to literary biography", Sientje Maes (Leuven University, Belgium)
"A World Heritage? The Role of Memory in the Formulation of Cultural Heritage and Cultural Property", Nicholas West (Program for Art and Cultural Management, Claremont Graduate University, California, USA)
17.15-19.00:
"'I'd never thought such stuff was worth writing about' (Seamus Deane Reading in the Dark.): Spinning a Yarn to tell the Troubles", Anthea Cordner (University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK)
"Creating Memories of the Rosenstraße Protest" (Hilary Potter, German Department, University of Bath, UK)
"The Authority of Memory: Faction, Fiction and The 1984-5 Miners' Strike", Katy Shaw (Department of English, Lancaster University)
19.30 Evening Meal
26 January
8.50-10.00:
"Haunted by Memory: Motives for uncovering the past in Ian McEwan's Black Dogs and Thomas Medicus' In My Grandfather's Eyes", Christopher Barenberg (School of Arts, The Nottingham Trent University)
"'We are, after all, our memories': Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated and Marcel Beyer's Spies" (Marie-Louise Wasmeier, English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths College, University of London)
10.00-11.10:
"History, memory, and the search for authenticity: the hybrid text in contemporary German (auto)biographical writing", Victoria Smith (German Department, Nottingham University)
"Naming the Insider: the (re-)creation of visual auto/biography", Terreena Dibley (English Department, University of Kent at Canterbury)
11.10 Tea and Coffee
11.30-12.40:
"Topographies of Memory: Sites and Practices of Remembrance Work in
Post-socialist Romania", Alyssa Grossman (Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester)
"'The Whole Book is a Lie': Romanian Germans and the Memory of Complicity", James Koranyi (Department of History, University of Exeter)
12.40: Lunch
13.30-15.15:
"History, Literature and Memory in Jörg Friedrich's The Fire", Stuart Smith (Department of Germanic Studies, Trinity College Dublin)
"Between history, literature and memory: Draza Mihailovic and the Chetniks in Yugoslav historical culture, since 1945", Tea Sindbaek (Institute of History and Area Studies, University of Aarhus)
"'The tone is calm, the research deep, and the presentation very exciting': The Thrilling History of the Cambridge Spies", Joseph Maslen (School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester)
15.15-16.30:
"Movie-made Memories: The Potential of Prosthetic Memory in Understanding how the Past is Represented in Cinema", James Aston (Manchester Metropolitan University)
"The Amnesia of Proximity: Egon Friedell and the Invention of Remembering", Mark Wagstaff (School of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London)
16.30: Tea and Close of Conference
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