W. G. SEBALD SEMINAR SERIES 2010
Traces, Memory and the Holocaust in W.G. Sebald’s writing: an interdisciplinary seminar
In association with the Centre for Jewish Studies and Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts
Friday, 5 February 2010: 10.00-4.00, University Place, 3.204
10.00-10.15: Introduction, Jean-Marc Dreyfus
10.15-11.15:
Carol Angier (Birkbeck College, London): 'And so they are ever returning to us, the dead': the presence of the dead in W. G. Sebald'
Jean-Marc Dreyfus (University of Manchester): ‘Kindertransport, camps and the Holocaust in Austerlitz’
11.15-11.30: tea break
11.30-12.30:
Monica Pearl (University of Manchester): ‘Peripatetic paragraphs: walking (and walking) with W.G. Sebald’
Jeremy Gregory (University of Manchester): ‘I couldn't imagine any world outside Wales’: the place of Wales and Welsh Calvinist Methodism in Sebald's European story’
12.30-13.30: lunch in University place
13.30-14.30:
Till Geiger (University of Manchester): ‘Confronting The History of Natural Destruction after Auschwitz: Rethinking Sebald's Luftkrieg und Literatur’
John Sears (Manchester Metropolitan University): ‘Utter Blackness: Figuring Sebald’s Manchester’
14.30-14.45: tea break
14.45-16.00:
Janet Wolff (University of Manchester): ‘Max Ferber and the persistence of pre-memory in Mancunian exile’
General discussion
16.00: End of the workshop
Open to the public – all welcome
