Thursday, 19 September
19.30: Roundtable at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
(YIVO, 15 West 16th Street)
Roundtable ‘Yiddish on the Move—Yiddish Writing and Publishing after the Holocaust’, moderated by Erin McGlothlin, with Rachelle Grossman, Matt Johnson, Harriet Murav, and Christin Zühlke
Friday, 20 September
9-10.15: Panel Discussion 1 – Modes of reading, theoretical and historiographical approaches to Holocaust Literature
10.45-12: Panel Discussion 2 – Major and minor languages
Tours of the YIVO library will take place concurrently 10-12.30
13.30-15.30: Panel Discussion 3 – Tropes, metaphors, and themes
Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway, University of London
Saturday, 21 September
9-10.15: Panel Discussion 4 – New geographies of Holocaust literature
10.45-12: Panel Discussion 5 – Reception of non-“literary” texts as literature
Saturday afternoon free
Sue Vice, The University of Sheffield
Sunday, 22 September
9-10.15: Panel Discussion 6 – Texts and their (geo)political contexts
10.45-12: Panel Discussion 7 – Agents and mediators of Holocaust literature and centres of production and publishing
13.00-14.30: Public event for all interested (all details to be confirmed in due course):
‘Does Reading Holocaust Literature Strengthen Human Rights? A Forum Between Practitioners and Theorists’
With Zoe Norridge, Tabea Linhard, Kirril Shields, and, from the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, Savita Pawnday, from Agahozo Shalom Youth Village, Shiri Sandler, and the UN’s Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Ms Alice Wairimu Nderitu.
At: The Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl.
Ariane Santerre, University of Montreal
