CLAS Symposium: Memory Matters II

CLAS Symposium: Memory Matters II
University of Nottingham, Highfield House, A 11

Thursday 27 June 2013
Organised and chaired by Franziska Meyer (German)

10:30 Siggy Frank (RSS): The Russian emigres in France during the German occupation.
10:40 Roger Woods (German): Walter Kempowski’s Echolot (A Collective Diary, 1993-)


10.50 DISCUSSION


POST-SOCIALISM

11.20 Sara Jones (Birmingham, Political Science and International Studies; Birmingham Fellow): Transitional Justice, Reconciliation and Memorials in Post-Socialist Romania and Germany
11.30 Ute Hirsekorn (German): Memories of the political East German elite after unification
11.40 Vladimir Zoric (RSS): The Habsburg memory in post-Yugoslav literature

11.50 DISCUSSION

12.20 BREAK - COFFEE/TEA/SANDWICHES


DIASPORA + POSTCOLONIALISM

12:50 Shashi Assella (ACS): The use of the memories of ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka in recent fiction by diasporic Sri Lankan women writers
13:00 Dirk Göttsche (German): Postcolonial memory in a German context

13:10 DISCUSSION

NETWORKS + RESEARCH PROJECTS

13:40 Bernard McGuirk (SPLAS) : MEMOSUR— A Lesson for Europe: Memory, Trauma and Reconciliation in Chile and Argentina
13:50 Joanne Sayner (Birmingham, Chair of the UoB Memory Group): Memory and Genre: Potential Research Collaboration

14:10-14.50 DISCUSSION