Event dates: November 2009 – May 2010
Location: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Rozier 44, reading room English Literature library (D 0.21 A)

• Wednesday 18 November 2009, 12.30 p.m. – 1.30 p.m.
  “An Extremely Loud Tin Drum: A Comparative Analysis of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum”
  Sien Uytterschout
• Wednesday 2 December 2009, 12.30 p.m. – 1.30 p.m.
  “Inherited Loss:  Primary vs. Transmitted Holocaust Trauma in Literature and Film”
  Philippe Codde
• Tuesday 8 December 2009, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
  “September 11 as European Trauma”
  Kristiaan Versluys
• Wednesday 16 December 2009, 12.30 p.m. – 1.30 p.m.
  “Considering the Pain of Others: Trauma Transfer and Narrative Framing in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”
  Ilka Saal
• Wednesday 24 February 2010, 12.30 p.m. – 1.30 p.m.
  “Traumatic Mirrorings: Holocaust and Colonial Trauma in Michael Chabon’s The Final Solution”
  Gert Buelens
• Wednesday 17 March 2010, 12.30 p.m. – 1.30 p.m.
  “En estado de memoria / In a State of Memory van Tununa Mercado: De helende kracht van het schrijven”
  Ilse Logie
• Wednesday 19 May 2010, 12.30 p.m. – 1.30 p.m.
  “‘We victims and survivors declare the past to be in the present’: Irreversible and Irrevocable Experiences of Time in a Post-Conflict Context”
  Berber Bevernage