Event date: Friday 2 October 2015, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Location: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Blandijnberg 2, Faculty Room (first floor, right above the main entrance)

10:00-11:00
Unni Langås, University of Agder
Mental Images, Media Images and Traumatic Memory in Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle 1

Charles Armstrong, University of Agder
‘Emblems of Adversity’: Traumatic Images of the Troubles in Northern Irish Poetry

11:00-11:30
Coffee break

11:30-13:00
Aureliana Natale, University of Naples / Ghent University
Falling Men, on the Page

Steidel Birkeland, University of Agder
The Origin and Circulation of the Traumatic Extra-texuality of Images in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man and Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge

László Muntéan, Radboud University Nijmegen
Trauma and Taboo: The Ethical Dimensions of Identifying 9/11’s Falling Man

13:00-14:00
Lunch

14:00-15:00
Benoît Glaude, Université de Louvain
Exprimer ou expirer: l’imagerie populaire traumatisée par la guerre ?

Aarnoud Rommens, Université de Liège
Graphiating the Desaparecidos: Delayed Censorship in Alberto Breccia’s Graphic Novel Adaptations

15:00-15:30
Coffee break

15:30-16:30
Pedro Moura, University of Lisbon / KU Leuven
Ink Ghosts: Visual Presence of Haunted Memories in Comics

Andrés Romero-Jódar, independent scholar
The Black Panel, or the Urge to Visualize the Impossible

17:00
Drinks
(Vooruit, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 23; a short walk from the Blandijn building)

For more information, please contact Maaheen Ahmed.