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Sunday, April 29, 2007
10 a.m.-noon
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The Limits of Representation: Paul Celan and the Holocaust
182 Lillis
Amy Colin, Moses Mendelssohn Center, University of Potsdam; W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University; Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh: “Paul Celan and the Holocaust Poetry of Bukovina”
Jeffrey Librett, German and Scandinavian, UO: “Abstraction and Materiality in Paul Celan’s ‘Rose of No One’ and Colette Brunschwig’s Celan Collages”
Robert Kyr, School of Music and Dance (Composition and Theory) UO: “Witnessing the Unutterable”
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Sunday, April 29, 2007
3:15-5:15 p.m. |
Concurrent Panel 1—Visual Representations of Genocide
182 Lillis
Lawrence Baron, History, San Diego State University: “Genres of Genocide: Depicting the Armenian and Jewish Genocides on Film”
Oren Stier, Religious Studies and Judaic Studies Program, Florida International University: “A View from Above: The Hidden and the Revealed in Holocaust Visuality”
Concurrent Panel 2—Genocide in the Americas
282 Lillis
Jeffrey Ostler, History, UO:“The Question of Genocide in the Americas”
Beth Piatote, Ph.D. candidate, Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University: “Citing the Almanac: The Challenge of Seeing in the Age of Surveillance”
Victoria Sanford, Anthropology, Lehman College, CUNY: “From Genocide to Feminicide—Human Rights and Impunity in 21st-Century Guatemala”
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Monday, April 30, 2007
10 a.m.-noon |
The Nature of Witnessing
Gerlinger Alumni Lounge
Berel Lang, Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Wesleyan University: “Philosophers Witnessing: ‘. . . And only I have survived to tell you’”
Dominick LaCapra, Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies, Cornell University: “Witnessing, Testimony, Commentary”
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Monday, April 30, 2007
3-5 p.m. |
The Ethics of Witnessing in the Public Domain
Gerlinger Alumni Lounge
Jerry Fowler, William F. Podlich Distinguished Visiting Professor, Claremont McKenna College; Staff Director, Committee on Conscience, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (on leave 2006-07)
Nicholas Kristof, columnist, New York Times
Barbie Zelizer, Raymond Williams Professor of Communication and Director of the Scholars Program in Culture and Communication, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania
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