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Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
Keynes College - University of Kent
Cultural Memory
Forgetting to Remember/ Remembering to Forget
Draft Programme
September 10
09:00-10:00 - Registration/Coffee - (Keynes Foyer)
10:00-11:20 - Parallel Sessions
What to Remember, What to Forget? Coming to Terms with Dictatorship in Spain I (KLT5)
Chair: Dr A. Lázaro-Reboll
Prof. P. J. Smith, (Cambridge): “Viewing in Troubled Times: Cultural Memory in Spanish TV Drama”
Dr M. Roser-i-Puig, (Kent): ‘Catalan Theatre Under Franco: The Quarrelsome Party, by Joan Brossa (1919-1998)’
Dr R. Miles (Hull): “Reclaiming Revelation: Another Look at Pan’s Labyrinth and The Spirit of the Beehive”
France and Algeria/ Algeria and France (KLT6)
Chair: Dr G. Macola
Dr G. Austin, (Sheffield): “Hypermnesia/Amnesia: Memory in Algerian Cinema”
Dr J. McCormack, (Sydney): “Can the Algerian War be Forgotten in France?”
C. Eldridge, (St Andrews): “Forgetting for the Sake of Unity: The Amicale des Algériens en Europe and the Algerian Immigrant Community in France”
Representations of the Past (KS15)
Chair: Prof. R. Edmond
Assoc. Prof. A. Nettelbeck, (Adelaide): “Remembering Australian Frontier History: Some Recent Case Studies”
Dr J. Owen, (London): “Thinking Memory and Amnesia Together. British Cultural Institutions and the Commemoration of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Save Trade, 2007”
M. Cumberbatch, (Sheffield): “Historical Amnesia and Trans-Atlantic Violence”
Memory, Cultural Historiography and the Cold War (KS16)
Chair: D. Reason
Dr D. Ayers, (Kent): “Forget Trotsky”
Dr G. Pooke, (Kent): “Francis Klingender (1907-1955): A Marxist Art Historian Out of Time”
Dr J. Callow, (Marx Memorial Library): “Lifting the Velvet Pall: The Vindication of Julius Fucik”
Dr B. Thomas, (Kent): “‘The Truest Poetry Is the Most Feigning’: Edgar Wind on Art and Morals in the Cold War Period”
War, the Internet, Forgetting and Remembering (KS17)
Chair: Prof. M. Evans
Dr D. Todman, (London): “I feel our loss as keenly as anyone': The First World War Online”
Dr L. Noakes, (Brighton): “War on the Web: Remembering and Forgetting the People's War in 21st century Britain”
11:20-11:40 – Coffee - (Keynes Foyer)
11:40-13:00 - Parallel Sessions
Reclaiming Memory in Latin American Post-Conflict Societies (KLT5)
Chair: Dr W. Rowlandson
Dr N. Sobrevilla Perea, (Kent): “Truth Telling and the Archives of Terror in Peru and Argentina”
Dr P. Drinot, (Manchester): “For Whom the Eye Cries: Memory, Monumentality and the Ontologies of Violence in Peru”
J. Knight, (Liverpool): “Rewriting Identities: The Committed Generation’s Reclamation of Cultural Memory in El Salvador”
Palestine: Past, Present and Future (KLT6)
Chair: Prof. D. Landry
Prof. I. Pappé, (Exeter): “The 64 Villages: Past and Present”
Dr G. Karmi, (Exeter): ’Memories of Palestine in Palestinian Literature’
Prof. G. Piterberg, (UCLA): “Autobiographical Settler Novels: A. Camus and S.Yizhar”
War and Contested Memories: Vietnam, Algeria and Spain (KS15)
Chair: Prof. M. Camino
Dr J. Strachan, (Lancaster): “Between Diasporic Consciousness and Oedipal Love: History and Memory in European Colonial Algeria”
Dr P. Hagopian, (Lancaster): “Never Having to Say You’re Sorry: US Commemorations of Vietnam in the Age of the National Apology”
Prof. M. Camino, (Lancaster): “Blood of an Innocent: Montxo Armendáriz’s Broken Silence (2001) and Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)”
Proustism (KS16)
Chair: Dr S. Weller
Dr T. Baldwin, (Kent): “Spectres of Proust: Deleuze reads Le Temps retrouvé”
Dr J. Kear, (Kent): “In Search of Time Recaptured: Marker’s Proust”
History and Architecture / History and Memories: (KS17)
Chair: Dr G. Adler
Dr R. Pyrah, (Oxford): “Erasure versus Palimpsest: Cultural Memory and Urban Policy in a Multicultural City (L’viv, Ukraine)”
Dr T. Brittain-Catlin, (Kent): “The Beautiful Country”
Dr A. Sharr, (Cardiff): “The Sedimentation of Memory”
13:00-14:00 – Lunch - (Keynes Foyer)
14:00-15:45 - Parallel Sessions
Empires and Memories (KLT5)
Dr J. Borossa
Prof. N. Harrison, (London): “Metaphorical Memories: Freud, Conrad and the Dark Continent”
Dr S. Durrant, (Leeds): “Gender, Mourning and Community in Postapartheid South African Fiction”
Dr R. Langford, (Cardiff): “‘Through a Glass, Darkly’: Tintin au Congo, Photography and the Belgian Congo Atrocities”
Dr A. de Paula Martins, (U.Católica): “Going Beyond Oblivion in António Lobo Antunes’s O Esplendor de Portugal”
Forgetting to Preserve (KLT6)
Chair: Dr H. Maes
Dr D. Jackson, (Kent): “Not Forgetting Leavis”
Prof. J. Carrette, (Kent): “Forget Theory: William James and Disciplinary Amnesia”
A. Sforza, (Kent): “Testimony in Franco Basaglia’s Practice”
Palestine and Questions of Representation (KS14)
Chair: Dr G. Bowman
Dr S. Meiri, (Israel): “The Revival of Cultural Amnesia: The Films of Judd Ne’eman”
Dr J. Nassari, (London): “Representing Palestinian Refugee Lives: Technobiographies and the Politics of Representation”
Dr C. Schofield (Kent): “A Lake Beyond the Wind and Arabesques: Memory as Cultural Practice in Two Palestinian Novels”
The Great War in European Cultural Memory (KS15)
Chair: Dr S. Goebel
Dr H. Biber, (Vienna) “Satirical Memory. The Journal ‘Die Fackel’ by Karl Kraus”
Dr D. Bandelj, (Nova Gorica): “Diaries of Slovenian Soldiers in WWI”
V. Ther, (Trinity College, Dublin): “Remembering and Forgetting Death: The Political Battle for the Memory of the First World War in Weimar Germany 1918-1924”
H. Wolf, (London): “Forgetting, Holding Back and Hiding: On the Similarity of First World War Remembrances”
What to Remember, What to Forget? Coming to Terms with Dictatorship in Spain (II) (KS16)
Chair: Dr M. Roser-i-Puig
Dr S. Leggott, (Wellington): “Remembering the Past in Spain: Children’s Memories in Contemporary Fiction by Women”
Dr C. Ramblado-Minero, (Limerick): “Sites of Memory/Sites of Oblivion in Contemporary Spain: A Cartography of the Spanish Civil War and its Aftermath”
D. Finnerty, (Limerick): “Republican Mothers and the Reinscription of the Republican Legacy into Spanish Cultural Memory”
J. Meddick, (London): “Traumatic Memory and Trans-generational Haunting in La Sombra del Viento by Carlos Ruiz Zafón”
Responses to Nietzsche (KS17)
Chair: Dr T. Baldwin
A. Eder, (Tübingen): Animal Speech: Forgetting in Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Elektra’
Dr B. Hutchinson, (Kent): “‘Ein Penelopewerk des Vergessens’?: W.G. Sebald’s Poetics of Forgetting”
P. Laffitte, (IUFM, Amiens): “The Untimely Function of Forgetting, or ‘Innocent Violence”’
Dr S. Weller, (Kent): “The Derangement of Mnemosyne: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Celan”
15:45-16:15 – Coffee - (Keynes Foyer)
16:15-17:40 - Dean of the Faculty of Humanities: Dr Karl Leydecker to welcome delegates
Keynote Address - Chair: Dr Caroline Rooney (KLT 1)
‘Semitism and the Palestinians’ by Professor Joseph Massad
17:40-18:30: Wine reception for the Opening of the Exhibition “Photography & Cultural Memory” curated by Dr C. Wilson (Keynes Teaching Foyer & Gallery)
18:30-19:30 – Dinner (Rutherford College Dinning Hall)
20:30 - Pontecorvo’s La Battaglia di Algeri (Gulbenkian)
September 11
09:00-09:30 – Registration – (Keynes Foyer)
09:30-11:15 - Parallel Sessions
Creating and Recreating Memories Through the Arts (KLT 5)
Chair: Dr N. Sobrevilla Perea
Dr W. Rowlandson, (Kent): “Testimonio and the Cuban Revolution”
Dr W. Pino-Ojeda, (Auckland): “Memory and Neoliberalism in Post-Authoritarian Chile: Popular Art and the Future of the Past”
Dr A. Astvaldsson, (Liverpool): “Cultural Memory and Resistance in Latin American Narratives”
Identity, Remembering and Trauma (KLT 6)
Chair: Dr M. Forrester
Dr J. Kaye, (Ryerson): “Those Crazy Canucks: The Method in the National Cinematic Madness”
M. Frey, (Harvard): “Germany’s Cinema of Retroflection”
H. Saeed, (Manchester): “Khamosh Pani and the Cinematic Representation of Gendered Trauma”
Film: History and Memory (KS15)
Chair: Dr C. Deacy
T. Stubblefield, (Irvine): “A Machine of Forgetting or a Time Capsule of History? Reassessing the Cinema’s Engagement with Cultural Memory
L. Wayne, (London): “Remembering Absences or Forgetting: Memory in Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire”
A. Wendler, (Weimar): “Forget about Bach – Meet him at the Movies”
L. Zeng, (Northwestern): “From Trauma to Nostalgia: Remembering or Forgetting the Cultural Revolution”
Literary Representations of World War II (I) (KS16)
Chair: Dr B. Hutchinson
Dr H. Galle, (São Paulo): “Novel or Documentation? World War II in Recent German Literature”
Dr C. Berberich, (Derby): “We Shall Be Punished: Positionality and Post-Memory in Rachel Seiffert’s The Dark Room, Uwe Timm’s In My Brother’s Shadow and W. G. Sebald’s The Emigrants
M Wasmeier, (London): “Fictional Memories and Forgotten Facts: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated and Marcel Beyer’s Spione”
History Embodied: (KS17)
Chair: R. Winkler
Prof. J. Gorman, (Belfast): “Open Narrative Sentences and Historical Judgement”
R. Winkler, (Dundee): “Nietzsche and Heidegger: History as an Existential Problem”
11:15-11:45 - Coffee
11:45-13:00 - Keynote Address - Chair: Prof. Elizabeth Cowie (KLT1)
“Has Time Become Space?” by Professor Mary Anne Doane
13:00-14:00 – Lunch (Keynes Foyer)
14:00-15:45 - Parallel Sessions
Forgetting Psychoanalysis (KLT5)
Chair: Dr S. Wood
Dr F.Morlock, (Syracuse): “Primal Forgetting”
Dr S.Kivland, (Sheffield): “The Forgetting of a Foreign Name”
U.Orlow, (Westminster): “The Visitor”
Memory and Religion (KLT6)
Chair: Prof. J. Carrette
Dr G. Barry, (Galway): “The Disarmament of Hatred: Marc Sangnier, Catholicism and the Collective Memory of the First World War in France in the 1920s
Dr C. Deacy, (Kent): “Redemption from the Past: Memory, Theology and Film”
O. Cetin, (Leiden): “Teaching to Remember/Teaching to Forget: Modes of Continuity and Change in the Bosnian practice of ifta”
Cultural Interpretations of Memory (KS15)
Chair: Dr C. Wilson
Dr A. Reading, (London): “The Memobile: Me, My Mobile Phone and the Terror of Forgetting”
W. Fiorucci, (Kent): “The Role of Memory in the Arts: Banti’s Women are Dying”
F. Cox, (National U. of Ireland, Cork): “Sibylline Sisters – Virgil’s Presence in Contemporary Women Writers”
Film: Absence and Concealment (KS16)
Chair: Prof. E. Cowie
Dr R. Rogers, (Regina): “Remember to Forget This: Buried Memories of 9/11”
Dr A. Zanger, (Tel Aviv): “The ‘Unimaginable’ Image in Chantal Akerman’s Cinema”
J. Ng (London): “In Absentia: 9/11 and the Erasure of Image in Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu’s ‘Mexico’ (11’09”01-September 11)”
History and Cultural Memory (KS17)
Chair: Prof. G. Anderson
E. Richardson, (Cambridge): “Forgetting Alexander”
Dr S. Brownlie, (Manchester): “Forgetting and Remembering a Foundational Moment: the Norman Conquest”
Dr I.Karremann, (Munich): “The Role of Oblivion on the Early Modern Stage”
15:45-16:15 – Coffee
16:15-18:30 - Parallel Sessions
A New Past (KLT5)
Chair: Dr D. Jackson
Dr K. Varley, (Edinburgh): “Collective Amnesia and the Taboos of ‘France’s Terrible Year’ of 1870-71”
Dr A. Valassopoulos, (Manchester): “Assia Djebar’s So Vast the Prison: Seductive Trails”
J. Ridley, (Kent): “Subjectivity, Solidarity, Silence: Forging Forgetfulness in Assia Djebar’s Women of Algiers in Their Apartment”
Memory Matters: An Encounter Between LAND2 and the Space&Place Collaborative (KLT6)
Chair: C. Aldarondo
C. Aldarondo, (Minnesota): “A Virtual Tour of the Legacy of Joseph Wagenbach”
Dr I. Biggs, (Bristol): “Memory Matters: Re-membering and Forgetting in ‘Deep Mapping’”
L. Markiewicz: “Some Thoughts on Losing”
Prof. M. Werry, (Minnesota): “Remembering Indigeneity, Listening to Land”
J.Tucker, (Leeds): “Present Tense: Drawing Close to Death”
Testimony and Memory (KS15)
Chair: Dr K. Leydecker
Prof. T. Ort, (North Carolina): “(Re)Remembering Resistance: How the Heydrich Assassination Became Good, 1943-1993”
Dr J. Scott, (Kent): “Singing the Land: Narrative, Space and Memory in Bruce Chatwin’s The Songlines”
B. Rassi, (Southampton): “Fine-tuning Memory: the Representation of the Past in Radio Österreich in 1950s Austria”
Architecture and History (KS16)
Chair: Dr T. Brittain-Catlin
Prof. G. Fontana-Giusti, (Kent): “Designing Cities for Memory”
Dr G. Adler, (Kent): “The Ruins of Modernism”
18:30-19:30 – Dinner (Rutherford College Dinning Hall)
20:00- Prof Paul Allain Introduces Piotr Borowski (Gulbenkian)
20:15- 21:15- Film Screening: The Song is Over is an extraordinary documentary film made by Piotr Borowski, one of Poland’s leading experimental theatre directors, which charts his return to the poor, decaying villages of north-east Poland in the outer reaches of the EU. It demonstrates the power of music to bring back the dead and reawaken the past in a moving tribute to another distant age.
12 September
09:00-09:30 – Registration – (Keynes Foyer)
09:30-11:15 - Parallel Sessions
Politics, Memory and Discourse (KLT5)
Chair: Dr C. Wilson
Prof. C. Lloyd, (Durham): “Imagined and Retrieved Memories in French Wartime Narratives”
Prof. A. Frisch, (Maryland): “Tragedy and Forgetting in Seventeenth-Century France”
Dr F. Mcintosh, (Lille III): “Liberal Tradition vs. the Modernist Hatred of the Past”
Literary Representations of National Socialism and World War II (KLT6)
Chair: Dr S. Weller
Prof. J. Armstrong, (Western Washington): “Testimony and Silence in Maisie Renault’s La Grande misère: When Memories Are Unforgettable and Unspeakable”
Dr A. Steinsiek and Dr U Schneider, (Innsbruck): “Christine Bustas’s ‘Inability to Mourn’? New Perspectives on the life and works of the Austrian Writer Christine Busta (1915-1987)”
Dr P. Rau, (Portsmouth): “From Myth to ‘Modern’ Memory? World War II in Contemporary Literature
Building and Rebuilding Memories (KS15)
Chair: Prof. P. Read
Dr B. Könczöl, (Cambridge): “I Was – I Am- I Will Be: Reinventing the Memory of Rosa Luxembourg”
Dr J. Sayner, (Birmingham): “Building the Mosaic: A Contribution to the Cultural History of Antifascism”
Dr C. Wilson, (Kent): Cultural Memories in Carlos Freire and Robert Solé’s Alexandrie
l’Egyptienne
Memories and History/ History and Memories (KS16)
Chair: Prof. G. Ditchfield
S. Knittel, (Columbia): “Uncanny Homelands: National Socialist Euthanasia between Remembering and Forgetting”
D. Leggett, (Kent)“The Authority of Tradition: Memory, Testimony and Technological Change in the Victorian Navy”
G. Carr, (U. British Columbia) “Memory, Forgetting and the Politics of Regret in Canada”
11:15-11:30 – Coffee - (Keynes Foyer)
11:30-12:50 - Parallel Sessions:
Forgetting in Order to Remember in German Literature Since World War II (KLT5)
Chair: Dr A. Staehler
Dr R. Rechtien, (Bath): “From Psychoanalytical to Corporeal Memory: Christa Wolf’s Patterns of Childhood and In the Flesh”
Dr A. Goodbody, (Bath): “Unearthing the Truth? Volker Braun’s Literary Excavations of the German Democratic Republic”
Dr D. Clarke, (Bath): "Forgetting as Liberation from Traumatic Memory: Reinhard Jirgl’s Apostate: Novel from a Nervous Era”
Amnesia, Trauma and the Cinematic Material: Constructions of Memory in Film (KLT6)
Chair: Dr F. Stadtler
Dr K. Knowles, (Edinburgh): “Memory as Materiality in Experimental Cinema”
Dr A. Schaffner, (Kent): “‘I just don’t remember’. Amnesia as Metaphor in David Lynch’s Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive”
K. Brown, (Edinburgh): “Once Upon a Time: Memory, Trauma and History in the Films of Sergio Leone”
Forgetting and Reinventing: European Cultural Memory in the Shadow of 1989 (KS15)
Chair: Dr S. Goebel
Dr J. Sundholm, (Karlstad): “Finland at War on Screen since 1989: Affirmative Historiography and Prosthetic Memory”
Dr A. Verlicu, (Karlstad): “Re-learning to Remember: Romania’s Cultural Legacy and European Aspirations”
12:50-14:00 - Lunch - (Keynes Foyer)
14:00- 15:45 - Parallel Sessions:
Visual Witnessing (KLT5)
Chair: D. Reason
Prof. S. Aasman, (Groningen): “Home Movie Memories: Reversed Annals”
Dr A. Marcus, (Aberdeen): Beautiful Dachau: in Absence of Memory
Dr F. MacLaren, (Nottingham): “The Space of Forgetting”
Memorials, Sites and Museums (KLT6)
Chair: Prof. G. Fontana-Giusti
I. Manka, (Vienna): “The Former Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg Today – Trivialisation, Appropriation, and Alienation of a Difficult Heritage”
M. Pinheiro, (Manchester) “Re-Presenting the Imperial Adventure: Expo ’98 and Portuguese Cultural Memory”
V. Bishop Kendzia, (Berlin): “Remembering and Forgetting the Holocaust in Germany”
Empires, Conflicts and Memories (KS15)
Chair: Prof. L. Innes
Dr F. Stadtler, (Open U): “Imagining Nation, Ethnic Conflict, and Cultural Memory – Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost and Romesh Gunesekera’s Reef”
R. Lee, (Open U): “The Rebirth of Deep Memories”
M. Ridda, (Kent) “A Kind of India Happens Everywhere: The ‘I’, Bombay and London”
Post-War Discourses (KS16)
Chair: Prof. L. Goldstein
Dr P. Cooke, (Exeter): “Remembering and Forgetting the Dark Years in the Post-Liberation Journalism of François Mauriac”
Prof. M. Sullivan, (New Jersey): “Vietnam and Iraq: Forgetting to Remember”
Prof. C. Preston, (Kansas): “Generational Oblivion, National Memory”
Cultural Forgetting/ Cultural Remembering (KS17)
Chair: Dr A. Schaffner
M. Berek, (Leipzig): “The Dark Side of Memory – Forgetting and its Dependency on the Conditions of Remembering”
B. Forchtner, (Lancaster): “Performing the ‘Judge-Penitent’ – Emergence and Regression of the German Perpetrator Trauma”
C. Tedaldi, (UC Dublin): “Memory in Exile: How to Survive National Amnesia and Live (Un)happily ever after”
15:45-16:15 – Coffee (Keynes Foyer)
16:00-17:30 - Keynote Address: Chair: Dr S. Goebel (KLT1)
“The Social Construction of Silence” by Professor Jay Winter
17:30-18:30 - Sherry Reception - (Keynes Foyer)
18:30- 19:30 – Dinner (Rutherford College Dining Hall)