Beyond MAUS. The Legacy of Holocaust Comics

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Beyond MAUS. The Legacy of Holocaust Comics

Veranstalter
Center for Jewish Studies
Veranstaltungsort
University of Graz
Ort
Graz
Land
Austria
Vom - Bis
26.05.2019 - 29.05.2019
Deadline
29.05.2019
Website
https://juedischestudien.uni-graz.at
Von
Ole Frahm, Hans-Joachim Hahn, Gerald Lamprecht, Olaf Terpitz, Markus Streb

Long before Art Spiegelman’s MAUS – A Survivor’s Tale appeared, there were reflections on the Holocaust to be found in comics. Already within the camps, early series of drawings like Mickey au Camps de Gurs (1942) were circulated, which bear some similarities to comics. And after the liberation, the persecution and annihilation of European Jewry was taken up as a central theme in comic books starting with Joe Kubert’s short story Golem (1946). MAUS marked an obvious transition in the perception of the relation between the Holocaust and comics, but in contrast to Spiegelman’s intentions MAUS was less noticed within the history of comics than in the history of the representation of the Holocaust. At the same time MAUS enabled numerous further representations of the genocide in comics.
The conference aims at a closer examination of the relation between the historical events of the "Endlösung" (“final solution”) and their different reflections in comics. How do series of images as well as comics position themselves with regard to the debate on the limitations of representing the annihilation of the Jews of Europe? What sort of visual memory do comics offer in light of a discourse dominated by photography and film? Which other narratives can be read here in comparison to the widely discussed literary narratives? Many superhero comics, often such with figures like the golem, devise a fictional vocabulary of images, forming an aesthetics and truth regarding the Holocaust, which have been very much neglected until today. The conference also asks how comics have altered the discourse on the Holocaust: What future of the memory of Auschwitz do comics hold in store for us? All these questions shall be discussed at length on the basis of a variety of examples as well as methodological and theoretical reflections.

Programm

Sunday, 26 May 2019
17:00 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION by the Organizers
18:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE
Samantha Baskind (Cleveland, OH):
BEYOND MAUS: The Legacy of Holocaust Comics

Monday, 27 May 2019
9:00-10:30 PANEL 1
FROM POSTWAR GRAPHIC SERIES TO MAUS & BEYOND
Chair: Hans-Joachim Hahn (Aachen/Bern)
Joël Kotek (Bruxelles):
JEWS ANd THE SHOAH IN COMIC STRIPS
from (complete) shadow to (intense) light
Kathrin Hoffmann-Curtius (Berlin):
POSTWAR GRAPHIC CYClES

11:00-12:30 PANEL 2
EARly COMICS ANd CARICATURES
Chair: Susanne Korbel (Graz)
Emil Gruber (Graz):
REPRESENTATIONS OF GENOCIDE AT THE BORDER BETWEEN CARICATURE ANd COMIC BOOK
Pascal Lefèvre (Brussels):
A RE-READING OF BERNARD KRIGSTEIN’S MASTER RACE

14:30-16:30 PANEL 3
HOLOCAUST COMICS IN DIFFERENT NATIONAl CONTEXTS:
ISRAEL, POLAND, JAPAN
Chair: Hans-Joachim Hahn (Aachen/Bern)
Kalina Kupczynska (Lodz):
THE HOlOCAUST IN RECENT EASTERN EUROPEAN COMICS (IMPULSE)
Susanne Korbel (Graz):
THE PORTRAyAl OF CHIldREN’S EXPERIENCES OF THE HOLOCAUST IN ISRAELI GRAPHIC NOVElS AND COMICS
Jaqueline Berndt (Stockholm):
INVOLVING THE UNINVOLVED
Manga ‘Fabrications’ of the Holocaust and their Global Potential

17:00-19:30 PANEL 4
EDUCATION By HOLOCAUST COMICS?
Chair: Gerald Lamprecht (Graz)
Jens R. Nielsen (Hamburg):
WHAT’S LEFT TO GO UNTOLD
The Importance of Being Subjective
Georg Marschnig (Graz) :
HOLOCAUST EDUCATION WITH COMICS?
Qualitative Explorations among Austrian History Teachers

Tuesday, 27 May 2019
9:00-10:30 POSTMEMORY, GENDER AND (AUTO-)BIOGRAPHY
Chair: Ole Frahm (Frankfurt)
Sarah Lightman (London):
WE ARE ON OUR OWN – AN EXAMPLE OF FEMINIST RAPE ART
PANEL DISCUSSION:
Sarah Lightman (London), Marie Schröer (Landau), Véronique Sina (Köln), Markus Streb (Gießen)

11:00-12:30 PANEL 6
DOCUMENTARIES VS. ALTERNATIVE HISTORICAL NARRATIVES
Chair: Gerald Lamprecht (Graz)
Hans-Joachim Hahn (Aachen/Bern):
DISTORTED TRACES OF THE HOLOCAUST IN HERGE’S TINTIN
Kees Ribbens (Amsterdam):
VISUALIZING THE FINAl STAGE OF GENOCIDE
August Froehlich’s early representation of the Holocaust in sequential art

14:30-16:30 PANEL 7
HIGHLY CONTESTED POPULAR IMAGES
Chair: Olaf Terpitz (Graz)
Christine Gundermann (Köln):
BETWEEN ENTERTAINMENT, HISTORY ANd REDEMPTION
Anne Frank in Comics
Didier Pasamonik (Ostende):
FROM THE DREYFUS AFFAIR TO MAUS
A short history of the animalisation of the representation of the Jews

17:00-18:30 PANEL 8
THE AMERICANIZATION OF THE HOLOCAUST ANd HOLOKITSCH
Chair: Markus Streb (Gießen)
Martin Lund (Stockholm):
SUPERHEROES AND THE SHOAH
On the Hyperamericanization of the Holocaust
Laurike in’t Veld (Rotterdam):
HOLOKITSCH?
Nazi Perpetrators in Holocaust Comics

18:30-20:00 GENERAL DEBATE
Chair: Kalina Kupczynska (Lodz)
IMPULSE
Ole Frahm (Frankfurt am Main):
DEPICTION? NARRATION? CLOSURE?
The Aesthetics of Comics and the Discussion about the Representation of the Holocaust

Wednesday, 29 May 2019
9:00-11:15 PANEL 9
SHADOWS OF THE HOlOCAUST
Chair: Ole Frahm (Frankfurt am Main)
Dana Mihăilescu (Bukarest):
CONFRONTING THE SHADOW OF THE HOLOCAUST THROUGH TRANSCULTURAL MEMORY NETWORKS
Martin Lemelman’s Mendel’s Daughter (2006) and Two Cents Plain (2010)
Jörn Ahrens (Gießen):
HIDDEN ATROCITIES
The Holocaust Framed by Calvo and Émile Bravo
Harriet Earle (Sheffield):
BEFORE MAUS:
Trauma Aesthetics and Visual Codes for Holocaust Art

11:15 Final Discussion

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