(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

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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