‘Memory/Amnesia’
30 May 2015 – Queen’s University Belfast
PROGRAMME
| 09.30 – 10.00 | Registration and Welcome (Lanyon 0G/074) |
| 10.00 – 10.40 | Training Session: ‘Beyond the PhD: Applying for an academic post’ Dr Charlotte Baker |
| 11.00 – 12.30 | Panel A – Theorising Memory
Rebekah Vince: Multidirectional memory – in which direction? The Holocaust, colonialism and exile in Valérie Zenatti’s Jacob, Jacob Edward Still: Rocked, Cradled and Shaken: Melancholic stances in Qui Se Souvient de la Mer Agathe Zobenbuller: De Lazare à Lagarce: identité palimpseste and lazarean presence in the work of Jean-Luc Lagarce |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 – 15.00 | Panel B – Memory and Gender
Sarah Arens: Negotiating Space and Transnational Memories in Patrick François’ La dernière larme du lac Kivu Laura McGinnis: Re-Membering Masculinity: The Role of Memory in Antillean Women Writers’ Constructions of Masculine Identity Antonia Wimbush: Personal Memory and Exile in Nina Bouraoui’s Autobiographical Fiction |
| 15.00 – 15.15 | Tea and Coffee |
| 15.15 – 16.45 | Panel C – Algerian Memories
Hugh Hiscock: Recovering and Mapping Harki Memory Through Narrative Barry Nevin: ‘C’est honteux, ce que nous avons fait…’: Interrogating the Relationship between France and its Algérie in Jean Renoir’s Le Bled Robin Holmes: Concrete Difference: Paul Landowski’s Algerian monument from WWI to decolonization |
| 16.45 – 17.45 | Keynote: ‘Palimpsestic encounters between colonial and Holocaust memories’, Professor Max Silverman |
| 17.45 – 18.00 | Close |
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