All are welcome to attend a seminar on "Testimonial Literature: A Comparative Approach," supported by the Centre for Modern European Studies in Copenhagen. The seminar will take place at the Centre for Languages & Literature at Lund University, Room SOL H135b, on 28 March from 9:15-16:30. A full schedule can be found below. Questions can be directed to Matt Johnson, matthew.johnson@arv.lu.se

Seminar on Testimonial Literature: A Comparative Approach

Location: SOL H135b, Lund University 

9:15 Matthew Johnson (Yiddish, Lund), Introductory Remarks

9:30 Anna Forné (Spanish, Gothenburg), “The Making of a Literature: The Latin American Testimonial Genre from the Margins to the Global Market”

Johanna Lindbladh (Russian, Lund), “Framing Uncertainty – Methodological Challenges in the Art of Witnessing”

10:30 Cristine Sarrimo (Comparative Literature, Lund), Thesis Paper

Naja Bjørnsson (Arabic, Lund), Thesis Paper

11:00-11:15 Coffee

11:15-12:00 Minoli Salgado (International Writing, Manchester Metropolitan), Book Launch: Witness Literature, Culture, Memory and Contested Truths (via Zoom)

12:00-13:15 Lunch

13:15-14:15 Anja Tippner (Slavic Literature, Hamburg), “Documentation as Indictment: Narrating War Crimes in the Soviet Union”

Ulla Chowaniec (Polish, Lund), “Intimate Letters between Friends as Testimonial Literature”

14:15-15:30 Maryam Adjam (Ethnology, Uppsala), “Maybe Memory: The Poetics of the Remaining”

Daniel Helsing (Comparative Literature, Lund), Thesis Paper

Stefanie Heine (Comparative Literature, Copenhagen), “Herta Müller’s Atemschaukel and the Problem of the Witness”

15:30-15:45 Fika

15:45-16:30 Concluding Discussion