Centre for Jewish Studies
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts
Traces, Memory and the Holocaust in W.G. Sebald's writing:
an interdisciplinary seminar
Friday, 5 February 2010: 10.00-4.00
University Place, 3.204
Open to the public — all welcome
10.00-10.15:
- Introduction, Jean-Marc Dreyfus
10.15-11.15:
- Carol Angier (Birkbeck College, London): 'And so they are ever returning to us, the dead':
the presence of the dead in W. G. Sebald' - Jean-Marc Dreyfus (University of Manchester): 'Kindertransport, camps and the Holocaust in
Austerlitz'
11.15-11.30: tea break
11.30-12.30:
- Monica Pearl (University of Manchester): 'Peripatetic paragraphs: walking (and walking)
with W.G. Sebald' - Jeremy Gregory (University of Manchester): 'I couldn't imagine any world outside Wales':
the place of Wales and Welsh Calvinist Methodism in Sebald's European story'
12.30-13.30: lunch in University place
13.30-14.30:
- Till Geiger (University of Manchester): 'Confronting The History of Natural Destruction after
Auschwitz: Rethinking Sebald's Luftkrieg und Literatur' - John Sears (Manchester Metropolitan University): 'Utter Blackness: Figuring Sebald's Manchester'
14.30-14.45: tea break
14.45-16.00:
- Janet Wolff (University of Manchester): 'Max Ferber and the persistence of pre-memory in Mancunian exile'
- General discussion
16.00: End of the workshop