B19: Global Villages

Seminar Leaders: Myles Chilton, University of Chicago and Susanne Vees-Gulani, University of Michigan

Friday, April 16, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Breakout Room 3

Katharina Gerstenberger, University of Cincinnati: “Goodbye to Berlin (East)”

Susanne Vees-Gulani, University of Michigan: “Manipulating Memory Through Reconstruction: Architecture and German Identity After 1945 and Today”

Nancy Edgar, University of New Brunswick: “‘The Longing for What’s Lost’: The City as Palimpsest in Catherine Bush’s The Rules of Engagement”

Neil Christian Pages, Binghamton University: “Narrative Destruction - City as Memory and Place in the Work of W. G. Sebald”

Saturday, April 17, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Breakout Room 3

Jolie Sheffer, University of Virginia: “Mapping the City, Mapping the Self:  Mary Antin’s The Promised Land”

Ranen Omer-Sherman, University of Miami: “Splinters of Messianic Memory in the New York City Imagism of Charles Reznikoff”

Myles Chilton, University of Chicago: “Memoir as Historiography: Self, City, and Memory in Atwood’s Cat’s Eye”

Elise Bartosik-Vélez, Dickinson College: “The Collecting Columbus: The United States at the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893”

Sunday, April 18, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Breakout Room 3

Morgan Adamson, University of Minnesota: “Tracing the City: History and Desire in Ricardo Piglia’s The Absent City”

Rebecca Dyer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology: “A Vacant Apartment as Monument:  Memorializing Beirut in Hoda Barakat’s The Stone of Laughter”

Anirban Adhya, University of Michigan: “Excavating the Future: Place Memory and Urban Preservation”

Carol Fadda-Conrey, Purdue University, “Reconstructing Memories: The City as a Restorative Location of Diaspora in Hanan al-Shaykh’s Only in London”