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This is the preliminary programme. Updates and minor changes will follow.
Welcome
D0.09 – Oudemanhuispoort Oude Manhuispoort 4-6, Amsterdam, NetherlandsChrista-Maria Lerm Hayes, Leonida Kovać, Ilse van Rijn
Keynote – Hilde Van Gelder – “As a Dog Finds a Spoon.”
D0.09 – Oudemanhuispoort Oude Manhuispoort 4-6, Amsterdam, Netherlands–Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes (chair)
Hilde Van Gelder
“As a Dog Finds a Spoon.”
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?
Lunch – Soup and Salad
BG2 Turfdraagsterpad 15-17, Amsterdam, NetherlandsViva – 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, NetherlandsSusanne 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
Dinner at the Canteen
BG2 Turfdraagsterpad 15-17, Amsterdam, NetherlandsSession 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, NetherlandsMaria 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, NetherlandsThis 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.
Keynote – James Elkins – Models for Word and Image: From Rodenbach to Fernandez Mallo
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Museumplein 10, Amsterdam, Netherlands–Ilse van Rijn (chair)
James Elkins
Models for Word and Image: From Rodenbach to Fernandez Mallo
Closing of the conference
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Museumplein 10, Amsterdam, NetherlandsThere 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, AmsterdamThe 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.