Testimonial Literature: A Comparative Approach

Matthew Johnson (Yiddish, Lund), Introductory Remarks

09:30

Anna Forné (Spanish, Gothenburg), “The Making of a Literature: The Latin American Testimonial Genre from the Margins to the Global Market”

Johanna Lindbladh (Russian, Lund), “Framing Uncertainty – Methodological Challenges in the Art of Witnessing”

10:30

Cristine Sarrimo (Comparative Literature, Lund), Thesis Paper Naja Bjørnsson (Arabic, Lund), Thesis Paper

11:00

Coffee

11:15

Minoli Salgado (International Writing, Manchester Metropolitan), Book Launch: Witness Literature, Culture, Memory and Contested Truths (via Zoom)

12:00

Lunch

13:15

Anja Tippner (Slavic Literature, Hamburg), “Documentation as Indictment: Narrating War Crimes in the Soviet Union”

Ulla Chowaniec (Polish, Lund), “Intimate Letters between Friends as Testimonial Literature”

14:15

Maryam Adjam (Ethnology, Uppsala), “Maybe Memory: The Poetics of the Remaining”

Daniel Helsing (Comparative Literature, Lund), Thesis Paper

Stefanie Heine (Comparative Literature, Copenhagen), “Herta Müller’s Atemschaukel and the Problem of the Witness”

15:30

Fika

15:45

Concluding Discussion