Conference programme

Welcome and conference opening (10.30-10.45) 

• Jenny Watson and Michel Mallet

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, The Post-memorial Reconstruction of Family Trauma in Sie kam aus Mariupol (2017) by Natascha Wodin and the Inclusion of Forgotten Historical Episode of ‘Zwangsarbeit’ into the Transnational Memory Space (‘Gedächtnisraum’) of Europe
• 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.

Keynote Lecture (17.30-19.00) ​​​​

• Kristen Kopp, The Haunting of the Drang nach Osten

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
• Daniel Harvey, “KOMISCH UND UNGESCHICKT” or What translators can learn from Katja Petrowskaja’s Vielleicht Esther (2014)

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

Keynote Lecture (16.00-17.30) ​​​

• 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  

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

Keynote Lecture (15.00-16.30)

• Lenny Ureña Valério, Narrating the Eastern Borderlands: Medical Accounts and Colonial Discourse in the Prussian-Polish Territories

Roundtable discussion and conference close (17.00-17.45)