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�