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The Fantastic Afterlives of the Holocaust | |||
von Mittwoch, 16. Juni 2021 - 14:00 Online: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pcOCtpz4uEtC5uD2UIgvp1nFAsvERSUSw
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The workshop will open up space for debates on the various meanings these figures assume in relation to the Holocaust. To this end, we are equally interested in the ways they shape individual and collective perceptions and representations of the event, become means of conveying its experience (both first-hand and vicarious), and in influence private and social/cultural imaginaries. Our intention is to locate this debate on a historical, political, and epistemological plane that goes beyond the questions of trauma and of representation and representability, and beyond current explorations of fantastic and supernatural phenomena in the Holocaust in terms of magic realism or ‘trauma fiction’. In a similar vein, we want to distance ourselves from conceptualisations that associate the fantastic and supernatural merely with escapist trajectories in literature and genres of evasion. Instead, we wish to address the complex and multifaceted aftereffects of the Holocaust and the phenomena that epitomise and embody the event’s haunting presence. Thus, rather than approaching them primarily as literary epiphenomena or aesthetic gestures of failed or successful imitations of the Holocaust’s realities, we propose to examine the ways in which certain aspects and experiences of the Holocaust live on in fantastic figures. Concept and organization: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pcOCtpz4uEtC5uD2UIgvp1nFAsvERSUSw Programme: Each speaker has 40 minutes. This includes 15 minutes paper and then commentator notes (5 minutes) and discussion (20 minutes) All times correspond to Central European Time (CET=GMT/UTC+2) Wednesday, 16 June 14:00 Opening Words Panel 1: Haunting in Holocaust Writing and Testimony 14:30 Kathryn L. Brackney (Harvard University, Cambridge) 15:10 Marianne Windsperger (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies) Commented by Stéphanie Benzaquen-Gautier (University of Nottingham) 15:50 Break Panel 2: Continuity – Discontinuity 16:20 Ella Falldorf (Friedrich Schiller University Jena) 17:00 Kobi Kabalek (Pennsylvania State University) Commented by María del Pilar Blanco (University of Oxford) 17:40 Break Panel 3: The Deathless Woman (2019) 17:50 Film Screening 19:30 Discussion with the Director, Roz Mortimer Moderated by Éva Kovács (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies)
Thursday, 17 June Panel 4: Vernacular Ghosts 14:30 Borbála Kriza (Independent Researcher, Budapest) 15:10 Aleksandra Szczepan (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) Commented by Layla Renshaw (Kingston University, London) 15:50 Break Panel 5: Spectral Spaces 16:00 Emily-Rose Baker (University of Sheffield) 16:40 Yechiel Weizman (Humboldt University, Berlin/Dubnow Institute Leipzig) Commented by Tim Cole (University of Bristol) 17:50 Break Panel 6: The Politics Of Ghosts 18:30 Zuzanna Dziuban (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna) 19:10 Martyn Hudson (Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne) Commented by Gudrun Rath (University of Art and Design, Linz)
Friday, 18 June Panel 7: The Holocaust in Alternate Realities 14:30 Brian Crim (University of Lynchburg) 15:10 Dany Melkonowicki (Haifa University/Yad Vashem, Jerusalem) Commented by James McFarland (Vanderbilt University, Nashville) 15:50 Break Panel 8: Epistemology and Aesthetics 16:00 Elana Gomel (Tel Aviv University) 16:40 Colin Davis (University of London) Commented by Kirsten Mahlke (University of Konstanz) 17:20 Break Final Comments and Discussion 17:40 Concluding remarks: Wouter Hanegraaff (University of Amsterdam) Image: Courtesy of the artist Hila Keinan, Tel Aviv. From the cycle Cannibalism in Concentration Camps By participating in this event, you consent to the publication of photos, video and audio recordings that are made during the event. |
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