September 20 (room 212)
14:00 Registration and welcome (NB! in building 1585, the foyer)
14:30 Keynote, Andrea Pinotti: ‘Monument Nonument: The Paradoxes of Monumental Memory (chair: Mads Rosendahl Thomsen)
15:45 Coffee
16:15 Panel 1: Forms of historical representation (chair: Stijn Vervaet)
- Agata Pietrasik (Warsaw / Berlin): The Ethics of Form: The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial
- Maud Guichard-Marneur (Copenhagen): The form of historical representation within the museum setting of the Schindler Factory Museum, Krakow, Poland
17:30 Panel 2: Memory and the archive (chair: Kristina Fjelkestam)
- Ole V.G. Olesen-Bagneux (Copenhagen): Is the library memory?
- Marcos Beck Bohn (Sao Paolo): The Time of Recollection
19:00 Dinner (tapas buffet at the university)
September 21 (different rooms; see below)
9:15 Keynote: Sharon Macdonald: ‘Cosmopolitanism and transnational heritage’ (in Store sal, chair: Mads Rosendahl Thomsen)
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Panel 3: Performances of memory (in room 120, chair: Stijn Vervaet)
- Jenelle Davis (Illinois): Counter-Memorials and Commemorative Actions: Contemporary Memorial Practices in Post-Katrina New Orleans
- Nadiya Chushak (Melbourne): Mesmerized by the Nostalgic Representations of the Yugoslav Past? Aesthetics and Ethics of Yugonostalgia
- Sara Tanderup (Aarhus): At the Limits of Literary Representation
12:30 Lunch
13:45 Panel 4: Negotiations of national heritage (in room 112, chair: Frederik Tygstrup)
- Karen Lindo and Giullia Nazarro: Australian National Heritage: Civilizing the Natives for Cultural Consumption?
- Hanna Teichler (Frankfurt): Fiction, facts and forcible removal: Narrative depictions of Australia’s (post)colonial history
- Alice Heeren (Illinois): On Mourning and Historical Amnesia: The Perennial Modernity of Brazilian Architecture
Panel 5 is cancelled due to cancellation from Olga Rodriguez. Alice Heeren is moved to panel 4
15:15 Coffee
15:45 Panel 6: Transnational memories of the Holocaust (in room 112, chair: Stijn Vervaet)
- Zhuang Wei (Frankfurt): The medial representation of the „Shanghai Ghetto“ (1943-1945)
- Anna Szász (Budapest): “I am not concerned with copying anymore. I paint all my thoughts.” Politics and ethics in Omara’s work
- Kirril Shields (Queensland): Selective Memory: Australian Culture, Australian Literature, and a Nation’s Representation of the Third Reich Perpetrator
19:00 Dinner at ‘Godsbanen’
September 22 (room 212)
9:30 Keynote, Ann Rigney: ‘Memory by Numbers: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Counting’ (chair: Mads Rosendahl Thomsen)
10:45 Coffee
11:00 Panel 7: Literature as a medium of memory (chair: Frederik Tygstrup)
- Chris Lloyd (London): Remembering Slavery: Museums, Monuments, Novels
- Maria Elisabeth Hüren (Frankfurt): (Re-)Attaching Detached Readers: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sunas a Postcolonial Civil War Narrative
- Palle Nørgaard (Aarhus): Self-representation and the other: Ethical Dimensions of New Spanish Life Writing in Esther Tusquets and Kirmen Uribe
12:30 Lunch (sandwiches)
13:30 Panel 8: The aesthetics of complicity (chair: Pieter Vermeulen)
- Veronique Bragard (Louvain) and Karen Lindo: The sensorial redemption of the perpetrator’s tale: Style and confession in Wilfried N’Sondé’s Le Silence des esprits
- Toby Smethurst (Ghent): Perpetration and Victimhood in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz and On The Natural History of Destruction
- Maria Zirra (Utrecht): Complicitous Poetics: The Aesthetics of Confession in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott
15:00 Coffee
15:30 Panel 9: After witnessing (chair: Pieter Vermeulen)
- Daniel Pedersen (Stockholm): Memory and Holocaust after the Last Witness
- Joana Craveiro (London): Foreign Looks on the Portuguese Revolution: Displaced and post-memory approaches to a dictatorship, revolution and post-dictatorship
- Johanne Bøndergaard (Aarhus): Authentically sick: On the case of Casper Schjødt Nielsen: Samlede Journaler 1996-2009
17:00 Roundtable talk / closing remarks
18:30 Dinner (tapas buffet at the university)
Venue: ‘Kasernen’ at Aarhus University, Department of Aesthetics and Communication, Langelandsgade 139, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Building 1585 and 1584.
Contact:
- Research Assistant, PhD, Kasper Green Krejberg. Email: kaspergk [at] hum [dot] au [dot] dk, Phone: +4587163067 / +4531127374
- Associate Professor, PhD, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen. Email: litmrt [at] hum [dot] au [dot] dk, Phone: +4587163029
Please note that paper presentations are scheduled to 20 min plus 10 min for discussion.
