Kindertransport Research Workshop:
Experience, Narratives and Archival Resources
at the University of Sussex in Arts seminar room A 71
Wednesday, 11 June 2003
10.30-11.00 Coffee and Registration (Arts A 71)
11.00-11.30 Welcome by Edward Timms (Director, Centre for German-Jewish
Studies)
11.30-13.00 Family Papers and Archival Records
Iris Guske (Ofterschwang/University of Sussex), 'Family Papers as a
Polysemic Resource'
Claudia Curio (Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, TU Berlin), 'The Use
of Archival Records in Kindertransport research'
13.00-14.00 Lunch (own arrangement)
14.00-15.30 Kindertransport Narratives in Autobiography and Fiction
Irene Katzenstein-Schmied (New York), 'Kindertransport Children as
Characters in Fiction'
Andrea Hammel (CJGS), 'Writing the child: Kindertransport Narratives as
Topic and Resource'
15.30-16.00 Tea
16.00-17.00 Open Forum
with participation by members of the 'Kindertransport' generation
Thursday, 12 June 2003 (in Arts A71)
9.30-11.15 Literary Narrative and Personal Experience: W. G. Sebald's
Novel Austerlitz
Christopher Gregory-Guider (Sussex), 'The Movement Through Place as an
Ethics of Memorialisation in the Works of W.G. Sebald'
Susi Bechhofer (Rugby),'Film as Medium for Personal Memory: Whatever
Happened to Susi?'(excerpts of the film will be shown)
11.15-11.45 Coffee
11.45-13.15 The Art of Commemoration
Michael Krüger (Hanser Verlag), 'On publishing W. G. Sebald's
Austerlitz'
Bernhard Malkmus (St John's College, Cambridge), 'The image-text
relation in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz as 'Ars memoria' of the
Kindertransporte'
13.15-14.15 Lunch (own arrangement)
14.15-15.45 Archival and Research Strategies
Edward Timms (CGJS), 'Review of Recent Research'
Ben Barkow (Director of the Wiener Library), 'Kindertransport Archives
at the Wiener Library'
15.45-16.15 Tea
16.15-17.45 Reading by Michael Krüger (introduced by Iris Guske)
The German author and publisher Michael Krüger will read from his book
Himmelfarb, which deals with the issue of stolen intellectual property
or plagiarism as practised by German academics once their former
colleagues had fled the country (in German and English).
followed by a concluding discussion chaired by Edward Timms
Registration Form:
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Registration for the workshop is free to Friends of the Centre for
German-Jewish Studies. You will be able to become a member on the day.
To register, please send this form to Samira Teuteberg, Centre for
German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex Library, Brighton, BN1 9QL.
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Tel.: 01273-877184
The seminar room A71 is on the ground floor of University of Sussex Arts
Building A. Please find a map of the campus under
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/USIS/campus/map/
Coffee and Tea will be provided during the conference. There are several
coffee shops and common rooms on the University of Sussex campus where
lunch can be purchased.
Andrea Hammel
Research Coordinator
Centre for German-Jewish Studies
University of Sussex Library
Brighton
BN1 9QL
Tel +44 (0)1273 877178
Fax +44 (0)1273 877174
For further information please visit our website:
www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/cgjs
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