Haunted Landscapes of German Eastern Europe
Registration is now open for the free, online conference Haunted Landscapes of German Eastern Europe (see CfP last circulated April 22). The conference will take place online from Wednesday 4th to Friday 6th of August, with panels from approximately 11am to 7.30pm (UK time) each day.
This link leads to the Eventbrite sign up form https://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/delc/german/news-and-events/haunted-landscapes-of-german-eastern-europe
The programme is below. The keynotes will be advertised separately but signing up for the full conference will mean you get the invitations to those public events automatically too.
Wednesday, August 4 |
Panel 1 (11.00-12.30): Memory and Forgetting Imke Hansen, “Germans´ ghosts haunt here, and the bread will never rise in this oven.” Narrative and memorial Landscapes in Upper Silesia Shivani Chauhan, Reading Photographic Images and Identifying Mnemonic Threads of the Post-memorial Project in Sie kam aus Mariupol (2017) by Natascha Wodin Ernest Schonfield, The Nazi Ghost and the Sinti Woman in Kerstin Hensel’s Bell Vedere (1982) |
Panel 2 (13.00-14.30): Landscape, History and Identity Bidyum Medhi, The ‘optical illusion’ in Horst Stern’s The Last Hunt (1989) Paul Peters, THE LOST WORLD OF THE BUKOVINA: Heimat and Heimatverlust in Paul Celan Deirdre Byrnes, The Haunted Landscape of Babi Yar: Holocaust Spaces and the Challenges of Post-Memory in Katja Petrowskaja’s Vielleicht Esther |
Panel 3 (15.00-16.30): Beyond the Concentration Camp Judith Vöcker, Jewish ghettos during Nazi occupation as legal spaces under foreign law Dennis Schaefer, Hannah Arendt’s Theresienstadt Mona Becker, Provisional Constructions, Ab/normal Violence: Forced Labour and Satellite Concentration Camps in Germany, 1944-45. |
17.30-19.00, Keynote Lecture Kristin Kopp, The Haunting of the “Drang nach Osten” |
| Thursday, August 5 |
Panel 4 (11.00-13.00): Exploring Multilingualism Bogdan Nita, The bilingual condition of the German identity in Herta Müller and Oskar Pastior Nishant K Narayanan, The Binding Element(s) – Languages and Borders as haunted spaces Paulian Petric, Eastern European Judaism in German Literature: A few reflections on language and identity in texts by Martin Buber and Nelly Sachs |
Panel 5 (14.00-15.30): Transnational Memory Entanglements Amy Leech, Expanding the Nationalgeschichte: Entangled European Memory in Nino Haratischwili and Saša Stanišić Karolina Watroba, Navid Kermani’s Entlang den Gräben and Its Readers: Remapping Europe’s East Katy McNally, Building Memory: Victim Narratives and Empathy in Recent German Fiction |
16.00-17.30 Keynote Lecture Kristin Rebien, Contested Eastern Borderlands: Conflict and Community in Johannes Bobrowski’s Novels |
Panel 6 (18.00-19.30): Memory and Transformation Amber Nickell, A Valley of Hope and "River of Blood": Ethnic German Imaginaries of the East and their Consequences in Romanian and German occupied Southern Ukraine Raluca Cernahoschi, “Auch bei uns im fernen Transsilvanien”: The Transylvanian Saxons and the Long Shadow of the Third Reich in the Work of Bettina Schuller Gábor Kerekes, Die moderne ungarndeutsche Literatur und ihr Verhältnis zu Deutschland und zur deutschen Geschichte |
Friday, 6 August |
Panel 7 (11.00-12.30): 19th Century Orientalisms Marion Dotter, Vom Grundbesitz zum Adel. Die Darstellung des östlichen Europas in Habsburgischen Verwaltungsakten Ana Foteva, The Merger between East and West in Vojvodina and the Gap between Orient and Occident in Bosnia-Herzegovina during Habsburg Rule Eva Tamara Asboth, Imaginationen des „europäischen Orients“ im deutschsprachigen Raum des 19. Jahrhunderts |
Panel 8 (13.00-14.30): Colonial Continuities Enikő Dácz, Colonizing a Central European City: Transnational Perspectives on Kronstadt/Brașov/Brassó in the First Half of the 20th century Jenny Watson, Discovering the East: Colonial Adventurers in German Novels of the Eastern Front Jakub Kazecki, Through an Orientalist Lens: Colonial Renderings of Poland in German Cinema after 1989 |
15.00-16.30 Keynote Lecture Lenny Ureña Valério, Narrating the Eastern Borderlands: Medical Accounts and Colonial Discourse in the Prussian-Polish Territories |
17.00-17.45 Roundtable discussion and conference close |