(Hi)Stories of Holocaust Memory
Conference and PhD course, University of Copenhagen,
Venue: Njalsgade 136, room 27.0.09, (KUA 1)
PROGRAMME (Note: Revised 18. May)
May 18, 2015:
09.15 – 09.45 Tea and Coffee
09.45 – 10.00 Welcome by Deputy Dean Jens Erik Mogensen
10.00-11.00 Keynote lecture: Barbara Hahn, Vanderbilt University
“Contemporary Novels: Traditions Dissolved in Dreams”
11.00 – 11.30 Discussion
LUNCH
12.45 – 13.30 Jessica Ortner, University of Copenhagen
“Transcultural’ Postmemory – The Decentralization of the Holocaust in
the Work of Barbara Honigmann”
13.30 – 14.00 Discussion
TEA AND COFFEE
15.00 – 15.45 Helen Finch, University of Leeds
“Traumatic Histories and Transnational Memories”
15.45 – 16.15 Discussion
18.00 Dinner (invited speakers)
May 19, 2015:
09.00 – 09.45 Matthew Boswell, University of Leeds
“Transnationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Future of Holocaust Memory”
09.45 – 10.15 Discussion
10.30 – 13.00 PhD Workshop
10.30 – 11.15 Maja Gildin Zuckerman, University of Southern Denmark,
“Zionist emergence through mobility and distribution: Connecting
Danish Jews to worldwide Zionism”
11.15 – 12.00 Troels Hughes Hansen, University of Copenhagen,
“Testimonial Functions in the Prose Style of Louis-Ferdinand Céline”
12.00 – 12.45 Joseph Ballan, University of Copenhagen,
“Post-Shoah Landscapes in the Short Fiction of Mavis Gallant”
This conference and PhD course is funded by CEMES:
Centre for Modern European Studies, University of Copenhagen.
cemes.ku.dk