Memory and Momentum: Culture and Change in Central and Eastern Europe

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Memory and Momentum: Culture and Change in Central and Eastern Europe

By UVic Germanic and Slavic Studies Graduate Students

Date and time

Saturday, March 4, 2017 · 9:30am - 5:30pm PST

Location

University of Victoria

3800 Finnerty Road Victoria, BC V8P 5C2 Canada

Description

The University of Victoria’s Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies is organizing an interdisciplinary graduate conference, entitled “Memory and Momentum,” set to take place on March 4, 2017. The theme is culture and change in Central and Eastern Europe. The goal of this conference is to bring together individuals from Western Canada and the United States to foster discussion on a wide range of topics regarding contemporary and historical culture in Central and Eastern Europe. This conference will be the first of its kind at UVic since 2013, and aims to provide attendees with valuable networking opportunities and a lively environment to discuss cutting edge research.

Memory and Momentum: Culture and Change in Central and Eastern Europe


Our Conference Schedule has been released**! Here are the details!

Moderators: Lauren Thompson and Dr. Peter Gölz

9:30 Registration and Coffee
10:00 Welcomes

Panel 1: Contextualizing Conflict 10:15-11:35

Andrea van Noord, University of Victoria
“Witnessing Ourselves: Systemic Memory and the Role of the Archive in Articulating Cultural Genocide”

Stevan Bozanich, University of Victoria
“Of Hajduks and Paramilitaries: The Embodiment of the Bandit-Rebel by Serbian Paramilitaries”

John Trafford, University of Victoria
“After the Sixth Army’s Destruction: The Effects of the Battle of Stalingrad on the Nazi Regime”

11:35 Break

Panel 2: Embodied Memory 11:50-1:10
Kate Ehle, University of Victoria
“Eating Kafka for Breakfast: Literary Tradition and the Cultural Situation of Contemporary Russian Protest Art”

Danielle Janess, University of Victoria
“Performing Immigration: Migrant Reburials in Berlin Today”

Anna Vorobyova, Simon Fraser University
“Transition and Health in Ukraine”

1:10 Light lunch provided in conference space with poster session

Panel 3: Art in Times of Change 2:05-3:25

Laurence Côté-Pitre, University of Toronto
“Conflicting Memories: The Role of Christa Wolf and her Literature for Germany’s Collective Memory”

Ethan Calof, University of Victoria
“Learning the Language of Violence: On Jewish Hypermasculinity in Isaac Babel’s Red Cavalry”

André Flicker, University of Victoria
“What’s a Play Without an Audience? Karl Kraus’ Die letzten Tage der Menschheit”

3:25 Break with refreshments

3:45 Screening of Readers of the Holocaust
4:05 Question period with Chorong Kim, Charlotte Schallié, and Ali Cairns.
4:50 Thank you!

**Exact times are subject to change.


FAQs

Where on campus is the conference located?:

The conference will be held in rooms 025 and A003 in the McPherson Library.

What are my transportation/parking options for getting to and from the event?

Victoria is accesible by various ferries, an international airport, and by seaplane.

Once in Victoria, the University is accessible by bus routes 4, 7, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 26, 39, and 51.

Parking on campus is all pay parking, but should be readily available on a Saturday. A map with parking lots is available at http://www.uvic.ca/home/about/campus-info/maps/pdf/parking-map-latest.pdf. The closest parking lots to the McPherson Library are lots B and C.

Do I have to organize my own food?

The conference will be catered with coffee and tea, snacks and a cold lunch. Please contact us before February 28 if you have any dietary concerns and we will do our best to accomodate them.

How can I contact the organizer with any questions?

If you have any further questions about the conference, please email us at gsgradconference@uvic.ca OR tweet us @UVicGMSTconf.

Organized by

Kate Ehle, Ethan Calof and Lauren Thompson are all master's students in Slavic or Germanic studies at the University of Victoria. They form the conference committee for the 2017 Memory and Momentum conference.

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