Postmemory Now
Rethinking Flight, Persecution, Destruction and War: how do we define postmemory now?
Rethinking Flight, Persecution, Destruction and War: how do we define postmemory now?
The Centre for the Movement of People, Aberystwyth University and online: 20-22nd June 2022
Conference booklet: Abstracts
Conference booklet: biographies of speakers
The handout for Petra Rau’s plenary can be found here.
Programme
Monday June 20th
6pm Introductory talk: Petra Rau – ‘Stories we tell ourselves in order to live’ – Postmemory and the Uncertainty of Interpretation in Family Memoir
(Medrus 1)
Conference dinner 7.30 (Medrus Mawr)
Tuesday June 21st
9.30-11 Panel A : Postmemory: Diagnosis or Manifestation of Dis-ease?
Plenary speaker: Kirstin Gwyer
Emily Horton: ‘Contemporary Chilean Gothic: The Vulnerable and Monstrous Imaginary of 1.5 Generation Memory’
Muhammad Numan: ‘Negotiating the Poetics and Politics of Difference in Post-9/11 Pakistani Poetry: A (Post)memory study’
11 – 11.30 coffee break
11.30 – 1 Panel B: Postmemory and the Anthropocene
Plenary speaker: Stef Craps
Zehra Azizbeyli: ‘The Flag on Five Fingers’ Mountain range in Cyprus: Memory’s Work and an Ecological Disturbance’
Neal Alexander: ‘Walking the Tar Sands: Poetry and the Fossil Economy’
1-2 Lunch
2 – 3.30 Panel C: Memory Activism and Creative Practice in the Diaspora
Plenary speaker: Cara Levy
Mairi Neeves: ‘Viet Thanh Nguyen “The Refugees”: Haunting Pasts and the Short Story Cycle’
Nancy Sharma: ‘Violence, Forgetting, and Silence: The Idea of Postmemory in Shafak’s The
Island of Missing Trees’
3.30 – 4 coffee break
4 – 5.30 Panel D: Postmemory and Futurity in Contemporary European Literatures
Plenary speaker: Maria Roca Lizarazu
Helen Finch: ‘Queer Futurities and Traumatic Pasts in Recent German Novels: Ippolito, Othmann,
Yaghoobifarah’
Tasha Alden: ‘Affecting Archives: Postmemory and Historical Fiction’s Queer Potential.’
Free evening in town, dinner at own expense and arrangement
Wednesday June 22nd
10 – 11.30 Panel E: Postmemory and the Movement of People
Andrea Hammel ‘Flight, Travel and Postmemory: Statelessness and Belonging in Second Generation Writing’
Aine McMurtry: ‘Postmemory meets Posttranslation: Uljana Wolf’s Aliens (2009)’
Shuchi Kapila: ‘Learning to Remember: The Indian partition of 1947’
11.30 – 12 Tea/Coffee and final remarks
Conference ends
Postmemory Now 