Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies
at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London
Registration for the Research Centre's Triennial Conference is now open: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/20105
The 2nd and 3rd Generation: experiences of the Descendants of Refugees from National Socialism
from Tuesday, 9 March to Thursday, 11 March 2021 (Online)
Participation is free and open to all who are interested in the topic. Advance registration is essential via the link above. The programme is also available in PDF at https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/20105
Programme
Tuesday, 9 March 2021
13.00-13.15 Welcome and Housekeeping: Jana Buresova (London)
Panel A: Second Generation Research – A New Field? (Chair: Andrea Hammel)
13.15-13.40 Andrea Hammel (Aberystwyth): ‘My experience began in the womb’ to ‘Too much Oh Weyhing’: Researching the Second Generation Experience’
13.40-14.05 David Clark (Independent Researcher): Descendent Generations: the Emotional Impact of ‘Roots Tourism’
14.05-14.30 Anita Grosz (Aberystwyth): A Comparative Study of the Kindertransport Second Generation in the UK and the USA
14.30-14.45 Break
Panel B: Citizenship (Chair: Andrea Hammel)
14.45-15.10 Dani Kranz (Beer Sheva): The Long Haul of Displacement and Refuge: Post-1945 German Legalese that Covers the Category German, Access to German Citizenship, and Discontent amongst Refugees from Germany and their Descendants
Presentation on Forthcoming Book: Debating the Zeitgeist and Being Second Generation (Chair: Miriam David)
15.10-16.45 Speakers: Miriam David, Merilyn Moos, Maggie Gravelle, Gaby Weiner, Anne R. Sultoon
Wednesday, 10 March 2021
Panel C: Die Generationsfrage in der Literatur (In German; Chair: Andrea Hammel)
10-:00 - 10:25 Yannick Gnipep-oo Pembouong (Trier): Ambivalenz als Darstellungsmittel der Vaterfigur in der Literatur jüdischer Autoren der ‘Zweiten‘ und ‘Dritten Generation‘
10.25-10.35 Short Break
Panel D: Art (Chair: Anita Grosz)
10.35-11.00 Monica Bohm-Duchen (London): Chasing Shadows: The Uses of Photography in the Work of Second Generation Visual Artists in the UK
11.00-11.25 Glenn Sujo (London): Aporiai: Reworkings of the Visual Field after the Event
11.25-11.50 Rachel Dickson (Ben Uri Museum and Gallery, London): Helga Michie, Ruth Rix and Rebecca Swift: Reflections on Art in Exile Across Three Generations, through the Exhibition Staircase (2000)
11.50-12.15 Jennifer Taylor (London): Enfant Terrible or Faithful Curator of Heritage? The Life and Work of Jo Bondy (1937-2015)
12.15-13.30 Lunch Break
Wednesday, 10 March 2021 (continued)
Panel E: Literature (Chair: Andrea Hammel)
13.30-13.55 Stephanie Homer (London): ‘Frag sie nicht, frag sie nie’: Investigating the Experience of the Second and Third Generations, Intergenerational Conflict and Resolution in Renate Ahrens’s Kindertransport Novel Das gerettete Kind
13.55-14.20 Agata Joanna Lagiewka (Galway): Multidirectional Memory and Transgenerational Trauma in Contemporary German Narratives
14.20-14.35 Break
Panel Discussion: Analysing the Second-Generation Experience (Chair: Bea Lewkowicz)
14.35:16:00 Speakers: Anthony Grenville, Brean Hammond, Deborah Vietor-Engländer and Bea Lewkowicz (ten-minute contribution each, responses to each other and then questions from the floor)
Thursday, 11 March 2021
Panel F: Literature and Language (Chair: Stephanie Homer)
09.30-09.55 Suzan Hussain (London): Second-Generation Refugee Children’s Language and Culture
09.55-10.20 Angharad Mountford (London): 'The Lenkvitch of my Grentmuzzer': Language and Refugee Experience in Sophie Herxheimer's Third Generation Poetry
10.20-10.45 Margaret May (London): Inventing the Truth: The Use of Photographs and Other Objects to Reconstruct Identity in Fictionalised and Autobiographical Family Narratives
10.45-11.10 Jana-Katharina Mende (Liege): Migrating Memories: Forgotten Stories of Babij Jar in German (Migrant) Literature and Discourse
11.10-11.25 Break
Panel G: Film (Chair: Bea Lewkowicz)
11.25-11.50 Sue Vice (Sheffield): Filming her Mother: Chantal Akerman as Second-Generation Artist
11.50-12.15 Sandra Meiri (OUI, Ra’nanna): The Transmission of Sexualised Trauma to the Second Generation: An analysis of Stalags: Holocaust and Pornography in Israel (2007)
12.15-12.50 Odeya Kohen Raz (Tel Aviv University): Arnon Goldfinger's The Flat (2011): Ethics and Aesthetics in Third Generation Holocaust Cinema (showing excerpts of the film)
12.50-13.15 Concluding Discussion
(Chair: Andrea Hammel)
13.15 Close of Conference
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