Conference Programme
Friday, 17 September 2010|
13:00 – 15:00
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Registration (foyer in front of P2/P3, Philosophicum) | |
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Welcome (Fakultätssaal) | |
| 15:15 – 16:30 |
Keynote Lecture (Fakultätssaal)
Philip Tew, Brunel University: Re-examining the Traumatological Imagination: 9/11; Traumaculture; Traumatologies; Mediatisation and Hollywood |
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| 16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee | |
| 17:00 – 18:30 | Parallel Sessions | |
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Trauma, Violence and Narrative Form (P2)
Sandra Meyer, Universität Duisburg-Essen: ‘You Never Changed Your Identity?’ – New Forms of Representing Trauma and Identity Formation in Kate Atkinson’s Writing Corinna Stück, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz: ‘It Must Have Been Terribly Traumatic’: Violence and Scenarios of Apocalypse in David Mitchell’s Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas Miroslav Kotásek, Brno University of Technology: Trauma Architecture |
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Trauma and Identity (P3)
Cécile Leupolt, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz: The Ambiguity of Fictional (Non)Confession: John Banville’s The Book of Evidence Caroline Lusin, Universität Heidelberg: ‘A Memory of Darkness and Nothing Wrong’: Narration, Loss and Identity in A.L. Kennedy’s Paradise (2004) Franziska Quabeck, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster: Ishiguro’s Fictionalisation of Trauma as Pretext |
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| 19:30 | Conference Dinner (Heilig Geist, Mailandsgasse 11) |
Saturday, 18 September 2010
| 9:15 – 10:30 |
Keynote Lecture (Fakultätssaal)
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Anne Whitehead, Newcastle University:
Writing With Care: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go |
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| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee | |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Parallel Sessions | |
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Humor, Irony and Hyperbole as Responses to Violence and Trauma (P2)
Florian Kläger, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster: The Age of Overstatement: Global Hyperbole and Subjective Autonomy in Recent British Fiction Anđelka Križanović, Universität Mainz: Mocking Militant Muslims and Terrorist Violence in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth Dan O’Hara, Universität Köln: Traumatic Irony: A Model of Unintentional Disclosure in Recent British Fiction |
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Trauma and the (Im)Possibility of Recovery (P3)
Elizabeth Weston, Western Kentucky University: Haunting and Traumatic Intrusion in Hilary Mantel’s Beyond Black Stefani Brusberg-Kiermeier, Universität Hildesheim: Violence and Loss without Trauma? Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and Nocturnes Christa Schönfelder, Universität Zürich: ‘Putting Things in Order’: Trauma and the Struggle for Recovery in Trezza Azzopardi’s The Hiding Place |
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| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Parallel Sessions | |
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Global and Local Perspectives (P2)
Adriana Kiczkowski Yankelevich, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia: Making Up Complex Identities through Women’s Eyes in an Age of Global Uncertainty Michaela Schrage-Früh, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz: The Contemporary Irish Trauma Novel |
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Negotiating the Past (P3)
Ryszard Bartnik, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznán: Truth and Reconciliation on the Way Back from the Northern Irish Underworld: David Park’s The Truth Commissioner – a Case Study Maria Jesus Martinez-Alfaro, University of Zaragoza: The Truth Always Lies Beyond the Frame: Negative Epiphanies in Rachel Seiffert’s The Dark Room Silvia Pellicer-Ortín, University of Zaragoza: Unspeakability and the Evolution of Narrative Technique in Eva Figes’ Representation of Trauma |
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| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee | |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | Parallel Sessions | |
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Visualising/Performing Trauma and Violence (P2)
Andrés Romero-Jódar, University of Zaragoza: Trauma and Terrorism in Alan Moore’s Graphic Novels Patrick Duggan, University of Northampton: Trauma, Performance and Ethics of Encounter |
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Ethics and Aesthetics of Violence and Trauma (P3)
Sylvia Karastathi, University of Cambridge: ‘About Suffering They Were Never Wrong’: Ekphrasis and the Mediation of Suffering in Pat Barker’s Double Vision and Life Class Julika Griem, Technische Universität Darmstadt: Learning How to Vanish: On the Ethics of Reading and Writing about John Burnside Adrian Rainbow, Universität Zürich: The Rage of Loss: J.G. Ballard's Aesthetics of Violence |
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| 17:00 – 17:15 | Closing Remarks (Fakultätssaal) |