Programme
The programme is as follows:
| Monday 23rd March | ||
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| 11.00am - 1.00pm | Registration | |
| 1.00pm - 1.30pm | Welcome by Prof. Griselda Pollock and Prof. Max Silverman Directors of the AHRC Research Project Concentrationary Memories |
Rupert Beckett Theatre |
| 1.30pm - 3.00pm | Opening Lecture Prof. Zygmunt BaumanEmeritus Professor of Sociology, University of LeedsCamp, Ghetto, No-Go AreaChair Prof. Bryan Cheyette (University of Reading) |
Rupert Beckett Theatre |
| 3.00pm - 3.30pm | Coffee | |
| 3.30pm - 4.30pm | Keynote 1Migration and Motif: the Memories of An ImageProf. Thomas ElsaesserUniversity of Amsterdam |
Rupert Beckett Theatre |
| 4.45pm - 5.45pm | Keynote 2Exodus as an Embodiment of a Metaphor or the Mere Fact of Survival. The Ongoing Experience of Captivity of Displaced Persons on Their Way to Mandatory Palestine in 1947Ronny LoewyGerman Film Institute, Frankfurt |
Rupert Beckett Theatre |
| 6.00pm - 6.30pm | Reception and drinks | |
| 6.30pm - 7.30pm | Discussion |
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Tueday 24rth March
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| 9.00am - 10.30am | Keynote 3Filming the Eichmann Trial. Hurwitz in JerusalemProf. Sylvie Lindeperg and Annette WievorkaParis1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and CNRS | Room G19 Michael Sadler Building |
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| 10.30am - 11.00am | Coffee | ||
| 11.00am - 12.30pm | PANEL A (room G15)Max Silverman(University of Leeds)Fearful imagination. Nuit et brouillard and concentrationary memoryMatthew John (University of Leeds)
Self-Conscious Cinema: Nuit et Brouillard, La Jetée and the Lazarean image Isabelle de le Court (University of Leeds) Surrealist aesthetic and the concentrationary sublime in Lee Miller's photographs of Buchenwald and Dachau |
PANEL B(room G19)Florence Nicoll(University of Leeds)Staging the Holocaust?: Charlotte Delbo's theatre of affect and the reconfiguration of memorial strategiesNicholas Chare (University of Reading)
Deep Memory Contained: The Writings of Charlotte Delbo John Crossley (University of Leeds ) Warhols Representations of Mao and The Birmingham Race Riots |
Screening: room G19Old Mining BuildingViet FlakesCarolee Schnemann (1965)16mm/video 8'23 Psalm BranchStan Brakhage, (1966-78) 16mm 85' |
| 12.30pm - 1.30pm | Lunch | ||
| 1.30pm - 3.00pm | PANEL C(room G15)Griselda Pollock(University of Leeds)Aesthetics of Responsibility towards Death in the Image: Jacques Rivette on Potecorvo's 'Kapo' (1959)Ferzina Banaji (University of Cambridge)
Filming the Banality of Evil |
PANEL D(room G19)Sylvie Simonds(McGill University)More Than Meat: A study of World War II and Vietnam Atrocity Photographs in Carolee Schneemann's Kinetic Theatre WorksAndrew Wear (University of Tasmania)
Thinking takes form: Vergangenheitbewältigung in the work of Joseph Beuys Maria Ruido (University of Barcelona) PLAN ROSEBUD: On the images, sites and politics of memory |
Screening: room G19Old Mining BuildingThe wallAlan Parker,(1982), DVD 95' |
| 3.00pm - 3.30pm | Coffee | ||
| 3.30pm- 5.00pm | PANEL E(room G15)Jennifer Cazenave(Northwestern University/Paris VII)"Images Without Imagination" Claude Lanzmann's Shoah (1985)Mischa Twitchin(Goldmsiths College)
In Support of the Court's Memory |
PANEL F(room G19)Melissa Bradshaw(Birckbeck College)Plath's HolocaustKate Ince (University of Birmingham)
The terror of horror: Georges Franju's Le Sang des bêtes (1948) Angela O'Flaherty (University College Cork) Oeuvre Lazaréen: Anna Langfus's Holocaust Writing (1960-65) |
Screening: room G19Old Mining BuildingPlan Rosebud 1 Maria Ruido(2008) DV 113' |
| 5.15pm - 6.15pm | Keynote 4Concentrationary Memory is Multidirectional MemoryMichael Rothberg (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) | Room G19Michael Sadler Building | |
| 6.15pm - 6.45pm | Discussion |
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Wednesday 25th March
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| 9.00am - 9.30am | Coffee | ||
| 9.30am - 11.00am | PANEL G(room G15)John Ackerman(Northwestern University)The Memory of a Common World: Hannah Arendt and Politics After TotalitarianismChristopher Finlay (University of Birmingham)
Narrative, Violence, and Political Legitimacy in Arendt, Fanon, and Pontecorvo John McKeane (University of Oxford) 'You shall never Know': the later Maurice Blanchot and the Holocaust |
PANEL H(room G19)Claire Launchbury(University of London)Animated Memory: Ari Folman's Waltz with BashirBenjamin Hannavy Cousen (University of Leeds)
Isn't this where.? Projections on Pink Floyd's Wall: resistance and the breakdown of resistance to the concentrationary imaginary |
Screening: room G19Old Mining BuildingViet FlakesCarolee Schnemann (1965)16mm/video 8'23 Psalm BranchStan Brakhage, (1966-78) 16mm 85' |
| 11.00am - 11.30pm | Coffee | ||
| 11.30pm - 1.00pm | PANEL I(room G15)Craig Hankin(University of Newcastle upon Tyne)Beyond Auschwitz: Primo Levi and the echo of totalitarianismAdi Kunstman (Manchester University)
The politics of remembering and forgetting: same-sex relations in memoirs of the Soviet gulags Ines Weizman (London Metropolitan University) Architect Dissidents: the possible architecture of the governed |
PANEL J(room G19)Christiane Heß(Bielefeld University)Visual archives - drawings from the concentration campsCaroline Perrett (University of Leeds)
Fautrier's Otages: Beyond "Tender Pinks and Greens", and White and Black Glenn Sujo (Courtauld Institute of Art) Yehuda Bacon: Lines across an Abyss |
Screening: room G19Old Mining BuildingThe wallAlan Parker,(1982), DVD 95' |
| 1.00pm - 2.00pm | Lunch | ||
| 2.00pm - 3.30pm | PANEL K(room G15)Cathy Hsiao(Stony Brook University)Levinas and the limits of representation: totalitarianism, imperialism and the paradox of the face of the Asian otherDeborah Whitehall (University of Melbourne)
Arendt and the reflexive totalitarianism of Universal declarations of Rights |
PANEL L(room G19)Vikki Bell(Goldmsiths College, London)On Fernando's Photograph: The Bio-Politics of Re-Appearance in ArgentinaHelena Reis Cabeleira (University of Lisbon)
Art and Education in the production of subjectivity and cultural resistance: the self-invention of the Artist while Pupil Mario di Paolantonio (York University) Contested temporalities in Cuerpo y Materia: The practice of re-showing artworks from Argentina's dictatorial past |
Screening: room G19Old Mining BuildingPlan Rosebud 1Maria Ruido(2008) DV 113' |
| 3.30pm- 4.00pm | Coffee | ||
| 4.00pm - 5.00pm | Keynote 5Political Life after Totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt on the Limits and Possibilities of CosmopolitanPatricia OwensQueen Mary, University of London | Room G19Michael Sadler Building | |
| 5.15pm - 5.45pm | Discussion |