CRASSH

9.30 - 10.00

Registration and Coffee

10.00 - 10.15

Welcome and Introduction
Dr Andrew Webber (Acting Director, CRASSH) &
Martin Modlinger (University of Cambridge)

10.15 - 12.00

Session I
Chair: Andrew Webber (CRASSH) 

Prof. Colin Davis (University of London, Royal Holloway)
Trauma and Ethics: Telling the Other’s Story

Dr Antje du Bois-Pedain (University of Cambridge)
Testifying to Trauma: How Legal Accountability Mechanisms and Personal Narratives and Representations of Trauma Interact

12.00 - 13.00

Lunch 

13.00 - 14.45

Session II
Chair: Philipp Sonntag (Ethik der Textkulturen, University of Erlangen)

Michael Sauter, M.A. (University of Augsburg, Germany)
Painful Reading: The Fiction of Cormac McCarthy

Martin Modlinger (University of Cambridge)
You can't change names and feel the same': Other people's pain in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz

14.45 - 15.15

Tea & Coffee

15.15 - 17.00

Session III
Chair: Dr David Midgley (University of Cambridge) 

Prof. Dr. Hubert Zapf
(University of Augsburg, Germany)
Trauma, Narrative, and Ethics in Recent American Fiction

Prof. Dr. Rudolf Freiburg (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
Trauma as Normalcy: Pain in Philip Roth’s The Human Stain

17.15 - 18.30

Keynote address
Chair: Christopher Geissler (University of Cambridge)

Prof. Susana Onega (Zaragoza University, Spain)
Experimentalism, Empathic Unsettlement and the Ethics of Affects in Trauma Fiction

9.30 - 10.15

Session I (Please note: in German only)
Chair: Philipp Sonntag (Ethik der Textkulturen, University of Erlangen) 

Prof. Dr. Bettina Bannasch (University of Munich, Germany)
Das aufgesperrte Maul der Null. Herta Müllers Roman “Atemschaukel” im Kontext lagerliterarischer Debatten

10.15 - 10.45

Tea & Coffee

10.45 - 12.30

Session II
Chair: Daniel Wolpert (University of Cambridge) 

Prof. Robert Eaglestone (University of London, Royal Holloway)
Ethics, pain and Holocaust testimony

Dr Margie Tolstoy (Westcott House, Cambridge)
The Redemption of Solitude

12.30 - 13.30 

Lunch 

13.30 - 15.15

Session III
Chair: Dr Lucia Ruprecht (University of Cambridge)

Dr Zoe Norridge (University of Oxford)
Human remains as memorial: Murambi and the evolution of pain narratives in post-genocide Rwanda

David Mwambari (Syracuse University)
Cracks of Memory: Ethical issues in narrating Trauma of Youth in Post Conflict African Countries

15.15 - 15.30

Closing Remarks