Dear Colleagues,
I would just like to bring to your attention a one-day workshop entitled "Remembering and Managing the Past in Germany and South Africa: A Comparison", which will take place at Nottingham Trent University’s Conference Centre on 11th April (2013). The workshop is financed by the British Academy as part of a collaborative project involving scholars working on South Africa and Germany (see below for further details). The workshop will begin at 10am and be finished by 5pm at the latest. We still have a few places available for interested listeners. If you would like to come along, please let me know.
Best wishes
Bill Niven
Remembering and Managing the Past in Germany and South Africa: A Comparison
Nottingham Trent Conference Centre, 11 April 2013, 10-5
Speakers are:
Cilliers van den Berg (University of the Free State), "Suspending the Narrative: Confronting a Representation of an Afrikaner History"
Helen Finch (Leeds), "Ressentiment, Witness and Forgiveness: H. G. Adler and
Holocaust memory"
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (University of the Free State), “Legacies of Trauma, South Africa's Wall of Silence: The Unsettling Narratives of White Former Conscripts of the South African Defence Force During Apartheid”
Bill Niven (NTU), "Discovering Germany's Colonial Past: Recent Trends in Memory
and Historiography"
Johann Rossouw (University of the Free State), "Life After Death: Dana Snyman and Kleinboer as Afrikaner Authors in the Light of Life after the Death of Apartheid”
Stuart Taberner (Leeds), "Literature as Cosmopolitan Museum: Creating a Shared Past?"
(The workshop is being organised as part of the BA-financed project “Contemporary German and Afrikaner Cultural Responses to Issues of Trauma, Reconciliation and Reparation”. This project will initiate research collaboration between researchers in the UK and South Africa working on trauma, reconciliation and reparation. We start from the premise that German Nazism and Afrikaner nationalism set in train political projects that were informed by the desire to set right perceived historical injustices against their respective communities, as well as by an overdetermined race consciousness. Although the outcomes of these projects were very different in scale and degree, both resulted in widespread discrimination and injustice. In order to restore their futures, Germans and Afrikaners had to come to terms with their political failures, and seek reconciliation with their victims and take decisive steps towards a post-racial identity based on mutual recognition of the former perpetrators and victims. Against this background, our project explores points of contact, and contrast, between the ways the 'perpetrator past' is being dealt with in contemporary German and Afrikaner culture.)
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