TRANSCULTURAL MEMORIAL FORMS: CONTEMPORARY REMEMBRANCE OF WAR, DISPLACEMENT AND POLITICAL RUPTURE
Tallinn University, Estonia, 17–19 March 2017
Friday 17th March 2017
9.15-9.30
Opening (M-225)
9.30-11.00
Multidirectional Memory I (M-225)
Chair: Eneken Laanes
Victoria Fareld (Stockholm University): Entangled Memories of Trauma: Améry and Fanon
Charles I. Armstrong (University of Agder): ‘As Though Curtains Were Drawn Suddenly Aside’: Embedded Metaphors and Poetry of the Northern Irish Troubles
Colin Davis (Royal Holloway, University of London): ‘The Day War Broke Out’: Talking and Not Talking About War
11.00-11.30
Coffee
11.30-13.00
Memory and Narrativity I (M-225)
Chair: Eneken Laanes
Jens Brockmeier (The American University of Paris): Layers of Life
Hanna Meretoja (University of Turku): From Appropriation to Exploration: A Non-Subsumptive Model of Storytelling
Matti Hyvärinen (University of Tampere): Scaffolded and Unscaffolded Hindsight in Julian Barnes’ The Noise of Time
13.00-14.00
Lunch for registered participants
14.00-15.30
Transcultural Memorial Forms in Eastern Europe (M-225)
Chair: Anja Tippner
Eneken Laanes (Under and Tuglas Literature Centre/Tallinn University): Transnational Memory as Translation
Kristin L. Canfield (University of Texas, Austin): The Cold War in/of Holocaust Film: The Divergent Reception of Ida
Kaisa Kaakinen (University of Turku): Reading Comparatively in the Twenty-First Century – the Case of Joseph Conrad
Transnational Memory in the Graphic Novel (M-213)
Chair: Anna Reading
Dragoş Manea, Mihaela Precup (University of Bucharest): Transcultural Intelligibility and Cultural Memory in Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers & Saints
Dana Mihăilescu (University of Bucharest): Mediating Memories of World War II Violence in Contemporary United States: On Amy Kurzweil’s Flying Couch
Anna Vuorinne (University of Turku): Trauma, History, and Ethics in Comics: The Legacy of Maus
15.30-16.00
Coffee
16.00-17.30
(M-218)
Keynote: Michael Rothberg (University of California, LA): Inheritance Trouble: Migration and Transcultural Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Germany
19.00
Dinner for registered participants
Saturday 18th March 2017
9.30-11.00
Political Theology (M-225)
Chair: Hanna Meretoja
Hans Ruin (Södertörn University): Necropolitics: On the Constitution of Community through Caring for the Dead
Siobhan Kattago (University of Tartu): Haunted House: Memory, Ghosts and Political Theology in Lenin’s Mausoleum
Kuisma Korhonen (University of Oulu): Memories of Fire: Continuity, Destruction, Rebirth
11.00-11.30
Coffee
11.30-13.00
Memory and Migration (M-225)
Chair: Hanna Meretoja
Molly Andrews (University of East London): Representing the Pain of Others: Tensions of Ethical Scholarship
Cigdem Esin and Aura Lounasmaa (University of East London): Ethical Conversations: Working with Refugee Narratives in Calais Jungle
Anna Reading (King’s College London): Future Memories: (Un)settling Displacement and European Neofascism Through Imaginative Remembering
13.00-14.00
Lunch for registered participants
14.00-15.30
Multidirectional Memory II (M-225)
Chair: Colin Davis
Anja Tippner (Hamburg University): Retroactive Juxtapositions: The Holocaust and the Expulsion of Germans in 21st Century Czech Literature
Jessica Ortner (University of Copenhagen): Transcultural Memory in Eastern European Migrant Literature – the Holocaust Revisited
Aušra Paulauskienė (Vytautas Magnus University): Holocaust Memory in the Formation of Lithuania’s Civic Society
Memory and Materiality (M-213)
Chair: Siobhan Kattago
Jakob Dahlbacka (Åbo Akademi University): ‘Inventio crucis’ – the Use of Biblical Narrative and History Culture as Prosthetic Memory When Converting a Night Club Into a Church
Kim Stefan Groop (Åbo Akademi University): Olukonda Mission Station as a (Trans)- Cultural Heritage
Tamara West (University of Manchester): The Dis-placement and Re-placement of Memory – A Physical and Virtual Stumbling Across Two Sites and Archives of Trauma
15.30-16.00
Coffee
16.00-17.30
(M-218)
Keynote: Ann Rigney (Utrecht University): Imagination, Materiality, and the Remaking of Memory
19.00
Screening of Common Ground and talk with artist Kristina Norman
Buffet dinner for registered participants
Sunday 19th March 2017
9.00-10.30
Archives of Trauma (M-225)
Chair: Kaisa Kaakinen
Aleksandra Kubica (King’s College London): Storytelling Memory: Museum on Wheels and Neglected Narratives about Former Jewish Inhabitants in Rural Poland
Neringa Latvyte-Gustaitiene (Vilnius University): Memorials and Memoralization of the Holocaust Sites in Lithuania
Claire Launchbury (School of Advanced Study, University of London): ‘How Am I Supposed to Talk to You, or With You or About You?’: Exploring the Refugee as Transcultural Memorial Form Co-Remembering the Nakba and the Shoah
Changing Memory Regimes in Eastern Europe (M-213)
Chair: Siobhan Kattago
Neringa Klumbytė (Lithuanian Social Research Center and Miami University, Ohio): Transitional Justice and Memories of Post-WWII Anti-Soviet Resistance in Lithuania
Taras Boyko (University of Tartu): Changing the Story: from Soviet to Post-Soviet War/Military Related Monuments in Ukraine
Annika Toots (Estonian Academy of Art): The Family Album: From Personal Stories to Memory Wars in Estonian Art
10.30-11.00
Coffee
11.00-12.30
Memory and Narrativity II (M-225)
Chair: Kaisa Kaakinen
Avril Tynan (Royal Holloway, University of London): Reconstructing Everyday Life: Patrick Modiano and Sebastian Faulks
Unni Langås (University of Agder): The Uses of History in the Current Refugee Situation. On Madame Nielsen’s novel Invasionen
Dina Abazovic (University of Agder): ‘Everyone in Town Is Crying’: Images of War in Sarah Kane’s Blasted
12.30-13.30
Lunch for registered participants
13.30-15.00
Representation of Trauma (M-225)
Chair: Kaisa Kaakinen
Heta Kaisto (Aalto University): Affections of Disaster – Taking Cue from the Method of Fragmentary Writing by Maurice Blanchot
Anja Portin (Aalto University): Narrative of Fragments – Documentary Essay as a Medium of Remembrance
Per Roar (KHIO, Oslo National Academy of the Arts): Docudancing Griefscapes
Representation of Memory (M-213)
Chair: Siobhan Kattago
Päivikki Romppainen (University of Oulu): Palimpsestic Writing – Provoking Ethical Reading?
Aura Nikkilä (University of Turku): Photographs as Vessels of Memory in Comics Dealing with Migration
15.00-15.30
Closing (M-225)
Contact: Eneken Laanes (elaanes@tlu.ee), Hanna Meretoja (hailme@utu.fi)
Organizers: Study circle Narrative and Memory: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics of the Nordic Summer University in collaboration with Estonian Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts (supported by the Tallinn University’s ASTRA project, TLÜ TEE (European Union, European Regional Development Fund))
Partners: Tallinn University; Under and Tuglas Literature Centre of Estonian Academy of Sciences; EUROM: European Observatory on Memories, University of Barcelona; MEFRO, University of Perpignan; SELMA: Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory, University of Turku
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