Gender and Memory in European Literature, Film and Visual Art
30 September and 1 October 2010
Birkbeck College, University of London
Conference venue: 30 September Room G01, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD;
1 October Room MAL 541, Main Building, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London,
WC1E 7HX
Thursday, 30 September
10.00 Registration and Welcome
10.30 Keynote One: Susannah Radstone (University of East London), ‘The
Sexual Politics of Time: Confession, Nostalgia, Memory’
11.30 Coffee
Session One
11.45 Barbara Becker-Cantarino (Ohio State University), ‘The Politics of
Memory and Gender: What Happened to Feminism in Germany?’Joanne Leal
(Birkbeck, University of London), ‘Mourning, Melancholy, Masculinity:
Remembering 1968 in German Fiction’
1.00 Lunch
2.30 Keynote Two: Sylvia Schraut (Bundeswehr Universität, Munich), ‘Gender
and Terrorism’
3.30 Coffee
Session Two
3.45 Katharina Hoffmann (Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg),
‘Concepts of Honour and Hero Construction in the Age of “New Wars”’Martin
Shipway (Birkbeck), ‘No Chickens Were Hurt in the Making of this Film:
Masculine Memories and Guilt in Haneke’s Caché’Jessamy Harvey (Birkbeck),
‘The Troubling Fictionalisation of the Life and Death of Alexia
González-Barros y González (1971-1985)’
5.30 Close
6.00 Film Screening
Friday, 1 October
Session One
10.30 Silke Arnold-de Simine (Birkbeck), ‘Gender and Memory in W.G. Sebald’s
The Emigrants and Monika Maron’s Pavel’s Letters’ Anna Reading (London South
Bank University), ‘Gender, the Holocaust and Narratives of Remembering’
11.15 Coffee
Session Two
11.30 Ingrid Sharp (University of Leeds): ‘Memory and Mourning in the War
Cycles of Otto Dix and Käthe Kollwitz: Beyond a Gendered Account’Geesa Tuch
(University of Zurich): ‘The Eyes of Love: Feminized Memory in Recent
Feature Films about World War II’Simon Bacon (Roehampton University),
‘Engendered by Gender: The Feminisation of Nostalgia in Alien Resurrection
by Jeunet’
1.15 Lunch
Session Three
2.30 Gabriel Koureas (Birkbeck), ‘Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul: A Journey Through
Melancholia, Nostalgia and Gender’Claudia Gremler (Aston University),
‘Leaving the Old Stories Behind? German Memory and the New Berlin in Judith
Hermann’s The Summer House, Later’
3.45 Coffee
Session Four
4.00 Sabina Lucia Müller (University of Konstanz), ‘A Ready-made Set of
Ancestors: Re-enacting a Gendered Past in The 1900 House’Sue Malvern
(University of Reading), Contemporary memorials and the gender of memory
5.45 Close
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