Texas Tech University Comparative Literature at TTU Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures at TTU
The 37th Annual Texas Tech University
Comparative Literature Symposium
Memory and History:
Cultural Representations of Displacement and Genocide
Thursday-Saturday, 25-27 March 2004
Symposium Co-Directors:
Ingrid Fry and Charles Grair
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If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? This Symposium is dedicated to Ingrid |
The Samuel Bak Exhibit will be on display open to the public and free of charge in the Gallery of the Texas Tech University Library on weekends from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.. The Exhibit is made possible in part by a grant from Humanities Texas, a State Partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.*
*Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibition to not necessarily reflect those of Humanities Texas and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
THURSDAY, MARCH 25
All panels will take place in the FOREIGN LANGUAGE BUILDING (FL): the Qualia Room is in the basement, and refreshments will be set up outside of the Qualia Room.
SESSION 1A, 3:30-5:00 p.m. Native North Americans
QUALIA ROOM Moderator: Laura J. Beard
David S. Weir. "A Place of (Re)Birth: The Conflicted Relationship Between the Lipan Apache and the Presidio San Sabá"
Loretto Jones. "The Premeditated Genocide of the Principal People"
Laura J. Beard. "Taught to Vanish: Narratives of the Boarding School Experience"
SESSION 1B, 3:30-5:00 p.m. Humanizing the Other
FOREIGN LANGUAGE 105 Moderator: Jill Connelly
Michael S. Collins. "Fake Humans"
David Blamy. "First Man, Second Person, Third World: Indiana Jones and the Great Imperialist Text"
Kerstin Kistner. "Toni Morrison's Beloved: The Suppression and Remembrance of Traumatic Experiences"
SPECIAL READING by Stephen Graham Jones, 5:00-6:00, QUALIA ROOM;
Selections from The Bird is Gone and Bleed into me.
Introduced by Laura Beard
Additional event:
Theater Production of "America Shows Her Colors," a play by Norman Bert, professor in the Department of Theater and Dance. The performance takes place in the Main Auditorium of the International Cultural Center, 601 Indiana Ave., 7-10:00 p.m. (and again on Friday). The performance is open to the public; admission is $2.00 per person.
FRIDAY, MARCH 26
SESSION 2A, 9:00-10:30 a.m. German Self-Reflection
QUALIA ROOM Moderator: Will Gray
Elizabeth Morrow Clark. "A Sideways Glance at the Past: An Historian reads Günter Grass"
Alfred Lutz. "Martin Walser and W.G. Sebald: Memory and the Politics of Heimat"
Kerstin Mueller. "Erwin Sylvanus's Korczak und die Kinder: Challenging a Selective German Memory"
SESSION 2B, 9:00-10:30 a.m. Art and Horror
FOREIGN LANGUAGE 105 Moderator: Stephanie Borst
Che-ming Yang. "Mapping the Unspeakable Horror in The White Hotel: The Deterritorialization of Her Desire/Writing"
James Whitlark. "Uncanny Genocide in Kafkaesque Literature"
Brian D. Steele. "The Painter as Pygmalion: Rubens, Love and Memories of Titian"
SESSION 3, 10:45-12:00 p.m. Memories of the German Past
FOREIGN LANGUAGE 105 Moderator: Erin Collopy
Will Gray. "The Tyranny of Pragmatic Consensus: The Oder-Neisse Line in Memory and Politics"
Brian Doherty. "The Innocence of Experience and the Loathing of Memory: The Novels of Imre Kertész"
LUNCH 12:00-1:50
FOREIGN LANGUAGE 105:
1:50 p.m. WELCOMING REMARKS by Jane Winer, Dean of Arts & Sciences
KEYNOTE ADDRESS,
2:00-3:00 p.m.Lawrence L. Langer, "Representing a Vanished People:
Samuel Bak's Landscapes of Jewish Experience"
Introduced by David Larmour
SESSION 4, 3:15-4:30 p.m Jewish Cultural Identity
QUALIA ROOM Moderator: Jean Levesque
Sarah Ponichtera. "The Politics of Yiddish Literature"
Sonja Niederacher. "Postwar Austria and the Jewish Refugees: The Role of the Exile Studies in Coming to Terms with the Past"
John Paul Ricco. "The Sur-reality of Frédéric Brenner’s Diaspora: Homelands in Exile"
SESSION 5, 4:45-6:00 p.m Film and Atrocity
FOREIGN LANGUAGE 105 Moderator: José Santos
Tamar Efrat. "Envisioning/Reconstructing Post-Mem ory, History and Trauma: Elida Schogt’s Second Generation Contemporary Multi-Genre Videos and Films"
Olivier J. Tchouaffe. "Representing Evil: Reflexion on Menno Meyjes's Max (2002)"
Marc Nichanian. "Catastrophe and Representation: Some Thoughts on Atom Egoyan’s Ararat"
Special public performance, 3:15-4:45, English Building 001: Excerpts from the play Anne Frank with Panel Discussion by the Director and Playwright.
SATURDAY, MARCH 27
SPECIAL PUBLIC EVENT, 10:00 a.m. Official Opening of Samuel Bak Exhibit in the Gallery of the Texas Tech University Library. Introductory Lecture by Lawrence L. Langer in the Conference Room of the Library.
SESSION 6A, 9:00-10:45 a.m. Soviet and Post-Soviet Displacements
QUALIA ROOM Moderator: David Larmour
Anthony Qualin. "Aliens and Alienation: Postcolonial Identity in the Space Scenes in Aitmatov's The Day Lasts More than 100 Years"
Natalie Tarenko. "Babi Yar and/in D.M. Thomas's The White Hotel: Cross-Cultural, Cross-Genre Memory"
Jennifer Sunseri. "Andrei Platonov's Chevengur: Genocide, Utopia, and the Dysfunctional Logos"
Larson Powell. "Heimat DDR: Konrad Wolf's Ich war 19 as Displaced Foundation Narrative"
SESSION 6B, 9:00-10:45 a.m. Literary Resistance and Affirmation
FOREIGN LANGUAGE 105 Moderator: Nancy Reed
Lissa Robinson. "Performing Elegy: The Art of Rebecca Belmore as Sites of Mourning and Acts of Resistance"
Mirjam Hirch. "Subversive Humour in Selected Plays by Canadian Native Writers"
Fru Festus Ndeh Tabeh. "Displacement, Estrangement, and the Tussle for Survival as Leitmotiv in Contemporary Diasporic Literature"
Simon Payaslian. "Hovannes Shiraz, Paruir Sevak, and the Memory of the Armenian Genocide"
SESSION 7A, 11:00-12:15 p.m. Displacements in Latin America and Spain
QUALIA ROOM Moderator: Ted McVay
María E. Olaya. "Álvaro Mutis and Rolf Abderhalden: Towards a Discourse of Displacement in Colombia"
Nandini Dhar. "Memory and Rewriting of Puerto Rican History: Alliance through Class Lines: A Study of Rosario Ferre's 'Sweet Diamond Dust'"
Kevin O’Donnell. "Los Santamaría: A Spanish Exile Family Shifts Nations and Narrations"
SESSION 7B, 11:00-12:15 p.m. Between Asia and North America
QUALIA ROOM Moderator: Greta Gorsuch
Akiko Naono. "Embracing the Dead in the Bomb's Shadow: Drawings by Atomic Bomb Survivors"
Sheena Wilson. "Recombinant Narratives & Sacred Silence: Japanese Canadian Post-Internment Representations"
Carolina Mendoza-Serrano. "How to Tell the Truth of Guilt: A Study of Guilt in Tim O'Brien's 'The Man I Killed' and 'Good Forms'"
LUNCH 12:15-1:30
Special Recognition of Prof. Emeritus Wolodymyr T. Zyla 1:30-1:55, QUALIA ROOM
The first professor of Russian at Texas Tech University, Dr. Zyla established the program in Russian and Slavistics and founded the Annual TTU Comparative Literature Symposium. In over two decades of dedicated service to the university, he directed ten symposia and edited the proceedings for publication.
Introduced by Prof. Emeritus Harley D. Oberhelman
PLENARY ADDRESS,
2:00-3:00, FOREIGN LANGUAGE 105:Gregor Thum, "Lost Landscapes: Literal and Visual Representations of Former East German Territories after WWII"
Introduced by William Gray
SESSION 8, 3:15-5:00 p.m. Northern Africans: Home/Diaspora
QUALIA ROOM Moderator: Hafid Gafaiti
Rebecca Lorins. "Engineering Bodies: Genocide or the Everydayness of Death in Sudan"
Joyce Zonana. "'I have nothing to do with history': Memory, Loss and the Construction of Egyptian Jewish Identities in Diaspora"
Sibel Vurgun. "The Double Absence/Double Presence: An Approach to Analyse the so-called Littérature 'Beur' in France"
Josette Hollenbeck. "New Strategies in Modern Conflicts: The Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo"
SESSION 9, 5:15-6:6:30 p.m. Holocaust Discourses
FOREIGN LANGUAGE 105 Moderator: Meredith McClain
Chaya Ostrower. "Humor as a Defense Mechanism in the Holocaust"
Laurie Cannady. "Every Day's a Bad Hair Day: The Significance of Hair as a Tool of Retelling in Sara Nomberg-Przytyk and Charlotte Delbo's Holocaust Literature"
Gail Berlin. "'Pour forth your words and cast them into letters': Holocaust Memoirists and Contemporary Theorists on the Use and Limits of Language"
The Directors of the Comparative Literature Symposium would
like to express their appreciation for the generous support of the following
groups & individuals:
Humanities Texas, a State Partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities
The College of Arts & Sciences
The Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
The College of Visual & Performing Arts
The Departments of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures, English & History
The Honors College
The Southwest Center for German Studies
The German Club & Delta Phi Alpha
Hillel
Sam Dragga
Hafid Gafaiti
William Gray
Linda S. Jones
Meredith McClain
Janet Perez
Brian Steele
Susan Isabel Stein
Frederick Suppe
Phade Orion Vader
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