Friday, 6 November 2015
14.00 Opening of the conference, words of welcome
14.30 Keynote
Ernst van Alphen (Leiden): Legacies of Stalinism and the Gulag. Manifestations of Trauma and Postmemory
16.00 Panel 1: Beyond Socialism. Figurations of National Heroism
Chair: Matthias Schwartz (ZfL)
Valerij Viugin (St. Petersburg): Death of a Hero. WW II in Russian Fiction and Cinema under Putin
Davor Beganovič (Tübingen/Zürich): Conflicting Narratives. Contemporary Serbian Literature Between Četniks and Partisans
18.00 Panel 2: After Oblivion. Post-Socialist Reinventions of a Contested Past
Chair: Stefan Willer (ZfL)
Aleksandra Ubertowska (Gdańsk): Zombie-Stories as Reinventing the Past. Holocaust (Post)Memory in Polish Literature after 1989
Eleonora Narvselius (Lund): United by History, Divided by Memory? The Volhynian Massacres in 1943-44 and Attitude to Polishness in Western Ukrainian-based Intellectual Polemic
Saturday, 7 November
10.00 Panel 3: Documentary Fictions. Changing Devices of Remembrance and Testimony
Chair: Aurélia Kalisky (ZfL)
Stephenie Young (Salem, Massachusetts): Bodies of Evidence: Memory, Forensics, and “Documentary” Literature about Ex-Yugoslavia
Dana Mihăilescu (Bukarest): The Thrusts of Ghost-Writing. Eastern European Survivors’ Memories of the Holocaust in Post-Cold War Western Societies. On Sara Tuvel Bernstein’s The Seamstress and Leah Kaufman’s Live! Remember! Tell the World!
12.00 Panel 4: Postmemory Literatures. Rewriting the Textual Space
Chair: Tatjana Petzer (ZfL)
Nina Weller (Munich): Demythologizing History. On the Phantasmatic Dismantling of the Leningrad Blockade Narrations
Stephan Krause (Leipzig): “… within the uselessness we have to get from somewhere to somewhere, if we see more sense in speaking than in silence…” The ‘Textual Space’ of Holocaust and WW II Memory in Contemporary Hungarian Literature
15.00 Panel 5: Affective Media. Textual and Visual Representations
Chair: Erik Martin (Frankfurt/Oder)
Madlene Hagemann, Gernot Howanitz (Passau): Pictures from the Past. The Graphic Novel Alois Nebel as Drawn Postmemory of WW II
Schwartz, Matthias (ZfL): Feeling History. Szczepan Twardoch’s Affective Revisions of National Representations
17.00 Panel 6: Beyond the Nation State. Reshaping the Memory of World War II
Chair: Yael Almog (ZfL)
Kris van Heuckelom (Leuven): Transnational Aspects of Postmemory in Third-Generation Fiction on WWII and the Holocaust. The (Contrapuntal) Cases of Piotr Paziński and Erwin Mortier
Tatjana Petzer (ZfL): The Legacy of the Holocaust and World War II in (Post-)Yugoslav Writing and its European Echo
Sunday, 8 November
10.00 Panel 7: Postmemory and Affect. Post-Traumatic Refigurations of War Histories
Chair: Stephan Krause (Leipzig)
Joanna Niżyńska (Bloomington; Indiana): Traumatic Fantasies. Memory, Affect and Compensation in Contemporary Polish Literature
Heike Winkel (Berlin): Ambivalent Victims. Figurations of Expulsion in Contemporary Czech Literature
12.00 Panel 8: Beyond Postmemory. Comic and Dramatic Enactments of War Stories
Chair: Nina Weller (Munich)
Brigitte Obermayr (Berlin): (Im)possible Modes of Laughter in Historic Narration of the Great Patriotic War
Magdalena Marszałek (Potsdam): War, Media, and Capitalism. Remembering WW II as Social Criticism (Paweł Demirski’s Plays)
13.30 Concluding discussion
Please be so kind to register:
Sarah Affenzeller, affenzeller@zfl-berlin.org
Daily Scenes – An Eastern Travelogue
During the conference, video material from an ongoing art project by Matei and Andrea Bellu will be on view.