Event date: Thursday 13 December 2012, 1.30 p.m. – 4.45 p.m.
Location: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Blandijnberg 2, Faculty Room

Seminar around Marianne Hirsch’s newly published book The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture 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)