Please find below the programme for the two-day international conference ‘Ten Years On - 9/11 in European Literature’ & bilingual reading with Thomas Lehr which will take place at Oxford University, St Hilda's College from 15-16 September 2011
(with apologies for cross-posting).
Registration has been extended till the 31rst of August. For registration and further information please see: http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/ten-years-on
TEN YEARS ON: 9/11 in European Literature
An International Conference & Reading
September 15-16, 2011
Oxford University, St Hilda’s College
Lady Brodie Room (Hall Building)
Thursday 15 September 2011
10.30 Registration (Hall Building, ground floor, central hallway)
11.00 Welcome & Keynote Speech
Rolf G. Renner (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg):
9/11: Interpretation of Disaster as Disaster of Interpretation.
12.15 Martin Endres (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg):
The Coming Trauma: The Affirmation of the Symbolic and the Task of Contemporary Poetry
13.00 Lunch (Dining Hall)
14.00 David Coughlan (University of Limerick):
Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland and the Beyond of Boundaries
14.45 Sandra Singer (University of Guelph):
Multivocality: Dissonance in the Discursive Response
15.30 Tea & Coffee
16.00 Tammy Amiel Houser (The Open University of Israel):
9/11 and the Symbolic Rupture in McEwan’s Saturday
16.45 Svenja Frank (University of Oxford):
Thomas Lehr’s September. Fata Morgana: The Mimicry of Dialogue
17.30 Short Break
18.00 Reading by Thomas Lehr: September. Fata Morgana
Chaired by Georgina Paul
Drink reception
19.30 Conference Dinner (Dining Hall)
Friday 16 September 2011
9.30 Emmanouil Aretoulakis (University of Athens):
Imagination, Destruction and Creation in 9/11
10.15 Ewa Kowal (Uniwersytet Jagielloński Kraków ):
Death in the Disco: The Bali Bombings and the Post-9/11 Question of the Reality/Fiction Division in Wojciech
Tochman’s Córeńka
11.00 Tea & Coffee
11.30 Ulrich Kinzel (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel):
The Wind of the Hudson: Gerhard Richter’s September.
12.15 Eóin Flannery (Oxford Brookes University):
Internationalizing 9/11: Hope and Redemption in Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin
13.00 Lunch (Dining Hall)
14.00 Ewout van der Knaap (Universiteit Utrecht):
About the Journalistic Mode in Representation: Rereading Alexander Osang's stories
14.45 Charles Burdett (University of Bristol):
The Islamic World as Other in Oriana Fallaci’s ‘Trilogy’
15.30 Tea & Coffee
16.00 Jean-Philippe Mathy (University of Illinois):
The Big Lie: 9/11 and the Reorientation of Intellectual Politics in France
16.45 Philipp Hubmann (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster):
Man Without Rights: The Specter of Dejuridification in Post-9/11 Critiques by European Intellectuals
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