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    D0.07 – Oudemanhuispoort Oudemanhuispoort 4-6, Amsterdam

  • Welcome

    D0.09 – Oudemanhuispoort Oude Manhuispoort 4-6, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, Leonida Kovać, Ilse van Rijn

  • Session 1 – Memory Revisited 1

    Vondelzaal – Universiteitsbibliotheek UvA Singel 425, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    –Ihab Saloul (chair)

    Irina Emelianova
    The Architectural Monuments to Dante Alighieri During the Fascist Era: The Dialogue of Art Between Politics and the Aesthetics

    Veronica Rudorfer
    Seeing the Void: Forms of Visual Representation of So-Called “Arisierungen” in Contemporary Art

    Anna Seidl
    Mapping Out Memory: W.G. Sebald Cartography as Iconography.

  • Session 2 – Pensive Images 1

    Potgieterzaal (C0.01) – Universiteitsbibliotheek UvA Singel 425, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    –Emilie Sitzia (chair)

    Hanneke Grootenboer
    Sebald’s Pensive Images

    Sophie Knezic
    Words That Pull: Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ Textual Mnemonics

  • Session 3 – Continuous Present 1

    D0.08 – Oudemanhuispoort Oudemanhuispoort4-6, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    –Leonida Kovać (chair)

    Anna Marie Fisker
    Gertrude Stein – An Enigmatic Author of Memory, Word and Image

    Jelena Todorovic
    Worlds of Eternal Present: the Hidden Patterns of Baroque Thought in Sebald’s Literature

  • Session 4 – Memory Revisited 2

    Vondelzaal – Universiteitsbibliotheek UvA Singel 425, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    –Ihab Saloul (chair)

    Joseph Ngoaketsi & Collence Chisita
    Displaying Trauma: Representation and Narrative of the Historical Memory of Sharpeville Massacre, 1960

    Alia Yunis
    Shaping Collective Memory & Identity With Scheherazade  

  • Session 5 – Pensive Images 2

    Potgieterzaal (C0.01) – Universiteitsbibliotheek UvA Singel 425, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    –Emilie Sitzia (chair)

    Florian Goettke
    Research and Writing With Images

    Francesca Verga
    Working With Images: Documentary Photography for Mike Kelly and W.G.Sebald

    Christian Mieves
    Illegible Signs and the Critique of Image: Contemporary Artistic Practices and Notions of History

  • Session 6 – Spectral Presence 1

    D0.08 – Oudemanhuispoort Oudemanhuispoort4-6, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    –Carolyn Birdsall (chair)

    Falk Messerschmidt
    Musee de l’Histoire Coloniale de France Petra Rau Memoir as Trompe l’Oeil: Mnemonic Objects in Lifewriting

    Ilse Van Rijn
    ’Ghostwriting and Artists’ Texts: We Are Here, But Is It Now?

  • Viva – Janice McNab

    Aula - Oude Lutherse kerk Singel 411, Amsterdam

    "The Ghost Artist. Tracing spectral embodiment as a figure of aesthetic resistance, in an unknown woman’s Eighteenth century paintings, and works by Hilma af Klint and Louise Bourgeois" 

  • Session 7 – Memory Revisited 3

    Vondelzaal – Universiteitsbibliotheek UvA Singel 425, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    –Elize Mazadiego (chair)

    Hayk Paul Hambratsum
    “The Question Now Is Not What I Have Seen, but How I’ve Seen It”: the Materialization of Memory in Russian Films of Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci

    Miguel Alirangues López
    Negativity in Words and Images: a Genealogy for Sebald’s Austerlitz

  • Session 8 – Pensive Images 3

    Potgieterzaal (C0.01) – Universiteitsbibliotheek UvA Singel 425, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    –Emilie Sitzia (chair)

    Tine Melzer
    Visiting the Site Twice: Aspectual Thinking in W.G. Sebald’s Work

    Uwe Schutte
    Silent Dialogue: on Interplay Between Word and Image in Tess Jarray’s and W.G. Sebald’s for Years Now

    Bryan Gee
    Images with Writing: Models for a Visual Novel

  • Session 9 – Spectral Presence 2

    D1.09 – Oudemanhuispoort Oudemanhuispoort4-6, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Susanne Junker
    The Necropolis Project – The Sand From the Urns

    Workshop

  • Session 10 – Continuous Present 2

    Vondelzaal – Universiteitsbibliotheek UvA Singel 425, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    –Leonida Kovać (chair)

    Sandra Krizic Roban
    Leaning Images: Reading Nasta Rojc and Ana Muscet

    Mark Edwards
    Shelter

    Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes
    Memory, Word and Image in Sebald and Joyce: Towards a Non-Linear, Transhistorical Ethics Communicated Through Minor Adjustments in the Book’s Visual Elements

  • Session 11 – Pensive Images 4

    Potgieterzaal (C0.01) – Universiteitsbibliotheek UvA Singel 425, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    –Emilie Sitzia (chair)

    Tilo Reifenstein
    W.G. Sebald’s Words and Pictures: Propositions for Art History as Literary Practice

    Elena Carletti
    Writing With Images: Porta’s Poetry of Trauma

    Katarzyna Szymanska
    Visual Arts Towards the Work of Thomas Bernhard

  • Session 12 – Memory Revisited 4

    D1.09 – Oudemanhuispoort Oudemanhuispoort4-6, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    –Chiara de Cesari (chair)

    Hlynur Helgason
    Resisting the Effacement of Culture. Rememory in the Work of Palestinian Artist

    Beril Cakir
    Identity and Memory: Counter-Hegemonic Implications of Saturday Mothers in Turkey and Artistic Representations of Resistance

  • Session 13 – Continuous Present 3

    Vondelzaal – Universiteitsbibliotheek UvA Singel 425, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    –Elize Mazadiego (chair)

    Catherine Anabel
    In the Labyrinth: Sebald’s (Post-war) French Connections

    Silke Helmerdig
    Fragmented Memories of the Past Futures

    Peter Muir
    Robert Smithson: the Landscape Reels Back

  • Session 14 – Spectral Presence 3

    Potgieterzaal (C0.01) – Universiteitsbibliotheek UvA Singel 425, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    –Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes (chair)

    Simon Fleury
    Condition Report: Mapping the Museum(Object)Encounter

    Juliet Simpson
    Imaging the Uncanny Memory: War and the Isenheim Altarpiece 1917 – 19

    Leonida Kovac
    Sebald’s Toute la Mémoire du Monde

  • Session 15 – Pensive Images 5

    Belle van Zuylenzaal Singel 425, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Netherlands

    Maria Barnas & Ilse Van Rijn
    Ekphrastic Encounters

    Workshop

  • In Memoriam Thomas Elsaesser

    Goethe-Institut Herengracht 470, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    –Anna Seidl (chair)
    In Memoriam Thomas Elsaesser
    We will be screening extracts from his film The Sun Island (2017).

  • Guided Tour – The Stedelijk Museum and the Second World War by Gregor Langfeld

    Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Museumplein 10, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    This guided tour will focus on the impact of National Socialism on the Stedelijk Museum’s collecting strategies. In the 1930s and 40s, the Stedelijk maintained close ties with artists, collectors, and art dealers who, after Hitler’s rise to power, were increasingly left with no choice but to flee Germany. The arrival of these exiles in the Netherlands influenced the history of this museum, which was just starting to make up for lost time and seriously collect the art of the international avant-garde.

  • Closing of the conference

    Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Museumplein 10, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    There is an option to linger in the café/restaurant of the Stedelijk Museum (at delegates’ own expense). Some tables are reserved.

  • Exhibition – Memory, Word and Image: Tacita Dean at Boekie Woekie: Books by Artists 9.12.2019 – 6.1.2020

    Boekie Woekie Berenstraat 16, Amsterdam

    The screening of Tacita Dean's Michael Hamburger, 2007, at the Stedelijk Museum is complemented by a small exhibition at Boekie Woekie: Books by Artists. 
    Tacita Dean made a book entitled W.G. Sebald in 2006, in which she used the writer's methods to narrate instances of her own biography and (family/world) history: through a journey from the Dutch-German border to Düsseldorf to prepare an exhibition.