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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
20th Anniversary Conference :: The Contribution of Oral Testimony
to Holocaust and Genocide Studies
October 6, 7, 8, 2002
Sunday, October 6
Room 102 – Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street
| 9:00 | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:40 | Greetings |
| 10:00 | Listening
Chair: James Young (UMass)
Lawrence L. Langer (Simmons College)
Philip Gourevitch (The New Yorker)
Henry Greenspan (University of Michigan)
Sidney Bolkosky (University of Michigan) |
| 11:15 | Teaching
Chair: Paula Hyman (Yale)
Walter Reich (George Washington University)
Mary Felstiner (San Francisco State University)
Betty Lou Blumberg (Hamden Hall Country Day School) |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 2:00 | Trauma
Chair: Dori Laub (Yale University Medical School)
Robert Kraft (Otterbein College)
Peter Balakian (Colgate University)
Patricia Yaeger (University of Michigan) |
| 3:15 | Historical Yield
Chair: Deborah Dwork (Clark University)
Annette Wieviorka (CNRS, France)
Dahlia Ofer (Hebrew University)
Jan Gross (New York University)
Sarah Timperman (Fondation Auschwitz, Brussels) |
| 4:30 | Keynote Address – Elie Wiesel
Battell Chapel, Elm and College Streets |
Monday, October 7
Lecture Hall, Sterling Memorial Library
| 9:00 | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:30 | Pathway to Intellectual Access
Chair: Alice Prochaska (Yale)
Robert Perks (British National Sound Archives)
Joanne Weiner Rudof (Yale)
Richard Szary (Yale) |
| 10:45 | Genres of Testimony
Chair: Ben Kiernan (Yale)
Roger Simon (University of Toronto)
Ernst van Alphen (University of Leiden)
Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer (Dartmouth) |
| 12 | Lunch |
| 1:30 | Sociological and Cultural Perspectives
Kai Erikson (Yale)
Jeffrey Alexander (Yale)
Aleida Assmann (University of Konstanz)
Paul Gilroy (Yale) |
| 2:45 | Field Work
Chair: Susan Suleiman (Harvard)
Nathan Beyrak (Israel)
Tony Kushner (Southampton University, U.K.)
Henry Rousso (CNRS, France) |
| 4:00 | Coffee break |
| 4:30 | Summations and Discussion
Chair: Geoffrey Hartman (Yale)
Alvin Rosenfeld (Indiana University)
Vivian Liska (University of Antwerp) |
| 7:30 | Witness: Voices from the Holocaust (location TBD)
Screening introduced by Associate Producer Joanne Weiner Rudof |
Tuesday, October 8
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
| 4:30 | Symposium: Holocaust Literature: Freedoms and Responsibilities
Moderator: Sidra Ezrahi
Aharon Appelfeld
E.L. Doctorow
Irving Feldman
Thane Rosenbaum
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Rapporteurs
| | Ulrich Baer (New York University)
Michael Rothberg (U of Ill/Urbana-Champagne)
Jared Stark (Cornell)
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Associated Events
| October 4 | Leona Toker, “A Comparison of Holocaust and Gulag Literature”
(Hebrew University) – 4PM – Comparative Literature Library, Bingham Hall- 7th floor |
| October 9 | Susan Gubar, “Poetry and Testimony,” (Indiana University) – 4PM |
| October 9 | Graduate school Colloquium with Joanne Weiner Rudof and Geoffrey
Hartman – HGS 211 – 8PM |
| October 10 | Patricia Klindienst, “The Seed Remembers: Native American and
Cambodian Genocide Survivors and their Gardens,” (Writer-in-Residence,
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Spring 2003) – 2:30PM |
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