Postmemory seminar with Marianne Hirsch

When: 13 December 2012

Where: University of Ghent

Seminar around Marianne Hirsch's newly published book The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and VisualCulture after the Holocaust (Columbia UP, 2012).


1.30 p.m. - 2.45 p.m.: Q&A session about the introduction and the first chapter of The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture after the Holocaust

2.45 p.m. - 3.15 p.m.: Coffee/tea break

3.15 p.m. - 4.45 p.m.: Paper presentations

Philippe Codde (UGent), “From Afterimage to Postmemory: Literary and Cinematic Representations of First- and Third-Generation Holocaust Trauma”

Evelyne Ledoux-Beaugrand (UGent), “'Des mères qui voulaient vivre': Motherhood and Symbolic Filicide in Recent Women’s Novels Dealing with the Holocaust”

Stijn Vervaet (UGent), “Entangled Histories: Family Memories and the Representation of the Holocaust in the Work of David Albahari”

Respondent: Marianne Hirsch (Columbia)

All are welcome. For further information, please contact Stef Craps