Program Jewish Literatures
Program: Overview
Day One: Monday, November 6: Antwerp
Hof van Liere, Prinsstraat 13, Antwerp
9:00 Registration
9:25 Introduction
9:30 Opening presentation by Bryan Cheyette - University of Reading
Philip Roth and Race: From Europe to the United States
PANEL 1: LANGUAGE AND MEMORY 1
10:10 Thomas Nolden - Wellesley College
Heterotopographies: Jewish Writing in Europe
10:50 Annelies Schulte Nordholt - Leiden University
French Postwar Jewish Literature and Literary Formalism: Continuity and Rupture
11:10 Coffee break
11:25 Peter C. Weise - Boston University
The Red Star of David: Jewish Writing in East Germany
11:45 Leen Maes - University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Prodigies of Metafictional Holocaust Representation: Jonathan Safran Foer /v/ Arnon Grunberg
12:05 Bettina Hofmann - University of Wuppertal
Look Back in Anguish: Jewish Writers on both sides of the Atlantic and their Representation of Eastern Europe
12:25 Discussion
12:50 - 13:40 Lunch
PANEL 2: RELIGION AND ETHICS
13:40 Derek Rubin - Utrecht University
Promised Lands: New Jewish American Fiction on Longing and Belonging.
14:20 Ranen Omer-Sherman - University of Miami
The Sinai of the Diasporic Imagination: Simone Zelitch's and Edmond Jabès's Disruptive Landscapes of Heretics and Strangers
14:40 Michael Bernard-Donals - University of Wisconsin
Exiled Memory: Israel in the literary and political imagination
15:00 Coffee break
15:15 Cheryl Alexander Malcolm - University of Gdansk
Of Rights and Rite: American and British Perspectives
15:35 Bridget Kevane - Montana State University
The Hidden Jew: The Jewish Dimension in Contemporary Latino Literature
15:55 Donald Weber - Mount Holyoke College
The Claims of Jewish Memory in Contemporary British and American Drama
16:15 Coffee break
16:30 Kitty Millet - San Francisco State University
The Victim as Mishnah, Post-Holocaust Mitzvot and Comparative Jewish Literatures
16:50 Kate McLoughlin - University of Glasgow
Dead Prayer? The Liturgical and Literary Kaddish. Allen Ginsberg's 'Kaddish', Leon Wieseltier's Kaddish, Libby Scheier's Kaddish for
My Father and Nathan Englander's 'The Twenty-Seventh Man'
17:10 Closing presentation by Geoffrey Hartman - Yale University
A Question of Distance: Shoah Literature and the Generations.
17:50 - 18:20 Discussion
19:00 Conference Dinner
Day Two: Tuesday, November 7: Ghent
PANEL 3: PARALLEL SESSIONS:
LANGUAGE AND MEMORY 2 + GENDER AND SEXUALITY
Session A Language and Memory 2
Jozef Plateau-zaal (18.01), Jozef Plateaustraat 22, Ghent
10:00 Margy Gerber - Bowling Green State University
Bridging the Gap: Genealogical Reconstruction in Recent Novels of German and Austrian Jewish Writers
10:20 Olaf Terpitz - Independent Scholar
A New Chapter in German Jewish Culture - Russian Jewish immigrant writers in the 1990s
10:40 David Metzger - Old Dominion University
Golems and The Postmodern Jewish Literary Imagination
11:00 Coffee break
11:20 Abigail Dennis - University of Queensland
The Authority of Holocaust Memory: Authenticating Narrative Strategies in Binjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments.
11:40 Matthew Capdevielle - University of Wisconsin
"The less we saw, the more he wrote": Absent Memory and Invention in Stories of Detection
12:00 Discussion
Session B Gender and Sexuality
Library English Literature, D.021A (18.01), Jozef Plateaustraat 22, Ghent
10:00 Frederica K. Clementi - The City University of New York Graduate Center
Ode to the Small Virtues: Natalia Ginzberg, Clara Serein and Lia Levi in Inter/National Perspective
10:20 Lucille Cairns - University of Durham
Female Jewish Writing of the Diaspora since 1933: French-language Jewish Women's Writing
10:40 David Brenner
From Gender to Germans: Between Subjectification and Symbiosis with Maxim Biller and Judith Butler
11:00 Coffee break
11:20 Fabienne Quennet - University of Marburg
Sexy Jews and Jewish Sex: Why Sexuality is Hip in Contemporary Anglo Jewish Literature
11:40 Hanna Serkowska - Warsaw University
Italian female Jewish Writers and Gender Discourse in Holocaust Texts
12:00 Discussion
12:30 Lunch
PANEL 4: LANGUAGE AND MEMORY 3
Jozef Plateau-zaal (18.01), Jozef Plateaustraat 22, Ghent
13:15 Elrud Ibsch - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Memory, History, and the Poetics of Irony in European Postwar Jewish Literature
13:55 Sue Vice - University of Sheffield
'Almost an Englishman': Post-War Representations of British Jewishness
14:15 Phyllis Lassner - Northwestern University
Imagined Identities, Critical Fantasies: Remembering the Kindertransport.
14:35 Coffee break
14:55 Mark Shechner - University at Buffalo
Looking for The Real: Philip Roth in Europe
15:15 Michael Kramer - Bar-Ilan University
Acts of Assimilation: The Invention of Jewish Literary History
15:35 Discussion
16:00 Coffee break
16:20 Closing presentation by Emily Budick - Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Survivor Guilt and Incomplete Mourning: The Symptoms of a Jewish Literary Canon (Kafka, Schulz, Ozick, Roth, Grossman, and Appelfeld)
17:00 Closing Reception