Memory, Word and Image: W.G. Sebald’s Artistic Legacies
AHM Conference 12-14 December 2019
This is the preliminary programme. Updates and minor changes will follow.
–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.
–Emilie Sitzia (chair)
Hanneke Grootenboer
Sebald’s Pensive Images
Sophie Knezic
Words That Pull: Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ Textual Mnemonics
–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
–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
–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
–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?
–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
–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
Susanne Junker
The Necropolis Project – The Sand From the Urns
Workshop
–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
–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
–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
–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
–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
Maria Barnas & Ilse Van Rijn
Ekphrastic Encounters
Workshop