Dear colleagues,
This (not exclusively German Studies) workshop at the University of Bath
may be of interest. Please contact the organisers (see below) directly if
you would like to attend.
Best wishes,
David Clarke
University of Bath
Department of European Studies and Modern Languages
The Memory, History, Identity Cluster invites you to a
Mediating Memory Workshop
With sessions on literary approaches; visual cultures; museum spaces and
mediating memory of political events
Organisers: Hanna Diamond ([log in to unmask])
Nina Parish ([log in to unmask])
Date: Saturday 7 March, 9.30 - 17.00
Venue: 1WN 3.11
All welcome - Admission free - Lunch will be available at a cost of £10.
To confirm attendance and make lunch bookings, please contact Lauren Jones
[log in to unmask] by 28th February 2009.
Mediating Memory Workshop Programme
9.30: Introduction
A. 9.45: Literary approaches
Axel Goodbody (Bath): The Memory of Literature: Peter Handke's 'Repetition'
Renate Rechtien (Bath): From critical 'Vergangenheitsbewältigung' and the
drama of repression to understanding the self as body: Christa Wolf's
Patterns of Childhood and In the Flesh.
Christine Tipper (Bath): War and the challenge of identity in Alain
Bosquet's fiction
11.15 Coffee/tea
B. 11.30: Visual cultures
David Montero (Bath): 'It is not life, but its shadow'. Spectral memory in
José Luis Guerín's Tren de sombras
Nikki Cooper (Swansea): Who's French now? The 'Enemy' Changes Garb
12.45: Lunch
C. 14.00: Museum spaces
'Museums' as Mediators or as Cultural Brokers?
Marion Demossier (Bath): The Mucem in Marseille, the Musée d'Anthropologie
in Cortes and the Musée des Confluences in Lyon
Nina Parish (Bath): The Centre Culturel Tjibaou in New Caledonia
15.15: Coffee/tea
D. 15.30: Mediating memories of political events
Chris Reynolds (Nottingham Trent): Mai 68: Filmic representations and the
mediation of memory
David Clarke (Bath): Remembering the Victims of State Socialism in the GDR
16.45 Concluding Remarks
17.00 Close
Dr David Clarke
Lecturer in German
Department of European Studies and Modern Languages
University of Bath
Bath BA2 7AY
Tel: +44 (0) 1225 386244
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