Dear all
We are delighted to inform you that registration for the forthcoming conference New Poetics of Disappearance: Narrative, Violence and Memory to take place on 16 and 17 June at Senate House (London) is now open.
For more information and how to register please follow this link: http://events.sas.ac.uk/igrs/events/view/15405/New+Poetics+of+Disappearance%3A+Narrative%2C+Violence+and+Memory
Best wishes
Jordana.
Dr. J. Blejmar
Lecturer in Hispanic Studies
Institute of Modern Languages Research
School of Advanced Study
University of London
Senate House
Malet St.
London WC1E 7HU.
Room ST 280 (Stewart House)
Tel: 020 7862 8964
Apologies for cross-posting
New Poetics of Disappearance
Narrative, Violence and Memory
16 and 17 June, 2014
Senate House, London
Organisers: Institute of Modern Languages Research, Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory (University of London), ERC - Narratives of Terror and Disappearance (Universität Konstanz)
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
MONDAY 16 JUNE
9-9.15 Welcome and registration: Jordana Blejmar, Silvana Mandolessi and Mariana Eva Perez
9.15-11 Autofictions of Disappearance
Silvana Mandolessi (Konstanz), Cuentos para no dormir: Infancia e ironía en la producción de ‘hijos’
Rike Bolte (Osnabrück), Poéticas de la Mascarada y del Camuflaje en tres obras literarias híbridas sobre la des/aparición: Martín Gambarotta, Punctum (1996), Félix Bruzzone, Los topos (2009) y Mariana Eva Perez, Diario de una Princesa Montonera (2012)
Sven Pötting (Köln), Para que sobreviva la esperanza (sobre la filomografia de Lucía Cedrón)
Ilse Logie (Gent), Usos de la ciencia ficción en dos relatos de ‘hijos’ argentinos
11-11.15 Coffee break
11.15- 12.45 The Disappeared and the Crisis of Representation
Kate Dunn (Edinburgh), Silvia Arce es aquí y ahora: Textual Strategies to Resist Disappearance in Alicia Partnoy’s ‘Palabras por Silvia’
Geoff Maguirre (Cambridge), Militancy and Make-Believe: Politicising Childhood in Infancia clandestina (2011)
Colleen Becker (IMLR/University of London), The Dark Matter of History: Wittgenstein, Salcedo and the Limits of Representation
12.45 -14.15 LUNCH
14.15 – 15.45 Figures of Disappearance
Daniela Omlor (Oxford), The figure of the impostor in Juana Salabert’s El velódromo de invierno (2001) and La noche ciega (2004)
Noa Vaisman (Durham), ‘Living Disappeared’: Liminal figures and ontolgical quandaries
Kirsten Mahlke (Konstanz), In search of a plesiosaur - Monsters and (dis)appearance in Paola Kaufmann’s The Lake
15.45- 16 Coffee break
16-17 Television, Marketing and Memory
Silvia Dapia (CUNY), Exploring Memory in Chilean Television (2011-13)
Philippa Page (Newcastle), Pepsi-for-Coke: Advertising, Neoliberalism and the Real Winner of the 1988 Plebiscite in Pablo Larraín’s Film No (Chile/Mexico, 2012).
17-18 Remembering Malvinas
Victoria Torres (Köln), El pasado para el futuro: Los desaparecidos y los ex-combatientes de Malvinas en tres novelas juveniles argentinas recientes
Jens Andermann (Zürich), El cuerpo fuera del paisaje: acerca de Malvinas de Juan Travnik
18-18.10 Break
18.10 – 20 KEYNOTE LECTURE: Martín Kohan (Universidad de Buenos Aires) Discussant: tbc
TUESDAY 17 JUNE
9-10.30 Imagining the Disappeared
Roland Spiller (Frankfurt), Desaparecidos en Guatemala: ‘La isla’, el archivo de la policía nacional en remedializaciones literarias y fílmicas.
Gorka Mercero (Birmingham) e Izaro Arroita (Pais Vasco) Desaparecidos en la democracia española y necesidad de una memoria insomne en Twist, del escritor vasco Harkaitz Cano
Laura Alonso (Gent)/ Rodrigo Marcó del Pont, ¿Eres una sombra, un mensajero o un alma en pena?: representaciones de los desaparecidos en La Ilíada de César Brie y El Teatro de Los Andes
10.30-10.45 Break
10.45-12.15 Comics and Disappearance
Saskia van Drunen (Independent researcher), Constructing a memory of disappearance through Comics in Argentina
Jordana Blejmar (IMLR/University of London), Dolls and Disappearance: On the graphic novel La herencia del Cornell
Karen Saban (Heidelberg), Una histori(a)eta para la memoria
12.15-13.45 Lunch
13.45 -14.45 The Disappeared as a Transnational Figure
Claire Launchbury (Chester), Missing Encounters at The Egg, Beirut
Nathalie Ségeral (LLEA/ Hawaii-Manoa): Between Saying and Not Saying: Writing Transgenerational Trauma in Sarah Kofman’s Rue Ordener, rue Labat (1994) and Cécile Wajsbrot’s Mémorial (2005).
14.45-16.45 Writers in First Person (Roundtable in Spanish)
Martín Kohan (chair): Patricio Pron, Ernesto Semán, Mariana Eva Perez
16.45-17 Coffee Break
17-18 Disappearance, Photography and Social Media
Cecilia Sosa (UEL), Viral Affiliations: Facebook, Kinship, and the Memory of the Disappeared in Contemporary Argentina
Vikki Bell (Goldsmiths), The Performativity of Photography in a ‘Space of Memory’ in Córdoba, Argentina (the D2 archive)
18-18.10 Break
18.10-20 KEYNOTE LECTURE: Sylvia Molloy (NYU) Discussant: Joanna Page (Cambridge)
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