Reading Group

Reading Group


Event dates: December 2008 – June 2009
Location: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Rozier 44

  • First meeting: Wednesday 3 December 2008, 12.30 p.m. – 1.30 p.m., C 01.43 (GUST)
    Marianne Hirsch, “Mourning and Postmemory”
  • Second meeting: Wednesday 7 January 2009, 12.30 p.m. – 1.30 p.m., C 01.43 (GUST)
    Wulf Kansteiner and Harald Weilnböck, “Against the Concept of Cultural Trauma (or How I Learned to Love the Suffering of Others without the Help of Psychotherapy)”
  • Third meeting: Wednesday 11 February 2009, 12.30 p.m. – 1.30 p.m., D 0.21 A
    Natan Sznaider, “Suffering as a Universal Frame for Understanding Memory Politics”
  • Fourth meeting: Wednesday 18 March 2009, 12.30 p.m. – 1.30 p.m., D 0.21 A
    Idelber Avelar, “Introduction: Allegory and Mourning in Postdictatorship”
  • Fifth meeting: Wednesday 20 May 2009, 12.30 p.m. – 1.30 p.m., D 0.21 A
    Selma Leydesdorff, “Stories from No Land: The Women of Srebrenica Speak Out”
  • Sixth meeting: Thursday 25 June 2009, 12.30 p.m. – 1.30 p.m., D 0.21 A
    Susan Sontag, “Regarding the Pain of Others”