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Armenian Genocide to be discussed in London (Ontario) Congress PT1

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  • Armenian Genocide to be discussed in London (Ontario) Congress PT1

    The genocide of the Armenians will be discussed at the Congress of
    Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada in a member
    organized session on June 2, 2005. The Congress this year meets in
    London, Ontario. Members of the community could participate through a
    day pass. See below the details of the 3-part session. The section on
    the Armenian case is set at 12:30 noon.


    CONGRESS 2005
    University of Western Ontario
    Session sponsored by the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, the
    Society for Socialist Studies and the Canadian Women's Studies Association

    HOME - The Society for Socialist Studies (SSS) is an association of progressive academics, students, activists and members of the general public.


    Thursday, June 2, 2005

    Part 1: 9:00-10:30am in SH 3350, Break 10:30-10:45am, Part 2:
    10:45am-12:15pm in SH 2355, Break 12:15-12:30pm, Part 3: 12:30-2:00pm
    in SH 2355
    See http://www.uwo.ca/maps/

    Translated Memory and Language of Genocide: (Gendered) Responses to
    Traumatic Histories and Silence (with CWSA and CSAA)

    Session Coordinators: Dr. Sima Aprahamian and Dr. Karin Doerr

    Email Addresses: [email protected] and
    [email protected]

    Institutional Affiliations: Simone de Beauvoir Institute &
    Sociology-Anthropology, Concordia University and Simone de Beauvoir
    Institute & Modern Languages, Concordia University

    Mailing Addresses: Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University,
    1455 de Maisonneuve W., Montreal, QC, H3G 1M8 and Dept. of Classics,
    Modern Lang. & Ling., Simone de Beauvoir Institute, and Montreal
    Institute of Genocide Research, Concordia University, H-663 1455 de
    Maisonneuve Blvd. West Montreal, QC, H3G 1M8

    Phones: (514) 848-2424 x2142 or x2370

    Description: This session seeks to explore connections between
    genocide, the translating of experience, and the recording of
    memories. It also aims to deal with the language, silences, and
    denials of such history. We wish to illuminate diverse expressions by
    analyzing and theorizing survivors' responses as well as those of
    perpetrator nations. We seek to answer questions of how the
    persistence of racism, political agendas, and denial perpetuate
    traumatization or solicit the need to rearticulate responses to the
    past. We particularly welcome papers that include a gender dimension.

    Part I: Literary Responses
    9:00-10:30am in SH 3350

    `Le voci del silenzio': Voices of Silence in Elsa Morante's La storia
    Gabrielle Elissa Popoff ([email protected]), Columbia University

    Abstract: Elsa Morantes 1974 novel "La storia" plays story against
    history, presenting a non-hegemonic view of Italian fascism and World
    War II. In a key passage, a female protagonist witnesses mass
    deportations of Roman Jews. During her subsequent wanderings through
    the deserted ghetto, her epileptic hallucinations repopulate it in a
    maternal, fantastical way. Morantes willingness to mingle history with
    fiction and employ an unreliable narrator to reveal in nonstandard
    language untold truths about historys construction and the past is
    characteristic of 1970s Italian historical representations, in
    contrast to Holocaust survivors more immediate postwar works which
    stress their veracity and literary artlessness. [Note: The Italian
    word "storia" means both "history" and "story."]


    Personal and Political: Ruth Kluger's and Judy Chicago's Feminist
    Revisionings of the Holocaust Memories of Feminism and Nationalism in
    Ilse Langner's Mythological Dramas Lynn Kutch ([email protected]),
    Lehigh University

    Abstract: From 1932-1970 German playwright Ilse Langner developed a
    mythological sub-genre featuring mythological heroines that become
    emblematic of (West) Germany at highly politicized turning points in
    German history. The complexities and contradictions of Langner's
    heroines allow her to portray her country as strong and confident, but
    also as the feminized, abused victim driven to violence. This paper
    shows that the because of the more powerful messages of victimization
    or generalized critique of a war mentality that emerge from Langner's
    works, her topical, potentially hard-hitting critiques dissolve into
    subtle nationalism.


    Remembering Differently: Transgenerational Haunting in Anne-Marie
    Macdonld's The Way the Crow Flies Susanne Luhmann
    ([email protected]), Laurentian University

    Abstract: This paper examines transgenerational haunting in a Canadian
    novel, The Way of the Crow. As a form of historical knowledge
    transgenerational is an unconscious remembering. The book both tells
    a story about and is animated by the force of transgenerational
    haunting. The main protagonist becomes a witness to her father's sins
    and seeks to repair his crimes. By way of telling a different national
    history the novel accounts for traumatic national and personal events
    (slavery, the holocaust, the cultural genocide of Native people,
    childhood sexual abuse), which many would rather forget.



    Part II: The Holocaust and Remembering

    10:45am-12:15pm in SH 2355

    Words of Death and the Death of Words: Memories and Meanings of Jude
    Karin Doerr ([email protected]), Concordia University

    Abstract: Jude figures prominently in the Lexicon of the Third Reich
    Language and illustrates linguistically the Nazis systemic
    discrimination and the judeocide. In the postwar era, Jude and its
    connotations were silenced. This paper will address how concerns of
    post-Auschwitz generations of Germans and Jews converge. I shall
    include personal experiences with Jude, my research of the Nazi era
    language, and the work of artist and child of German Jewish survivors,
    Ruth Liberman. She deals dramatically with German words and memory of
    the past. I have also interwoven definitions of Jude from German
    dictionaries. Some editions reveal ambivalence with this term.



    Off the Record: Voices of Working Poor Jewish Women in Shoah
    Representations Marion Gerlind ([email protected]), University of
    Minnesota

    Abstract: The stigma of poverty and manual labor has been largely
    overlooked in historical reconstructions of the Shoah (Holocaust). Few
    scholars have scrutinized the connections between socioeconomic status
    and gender vis--vis death and survival. My research focuses on
    working-class and rural Jewish women growing up with this stigma. Lack
    of financial resources and connections decreased their chances of
    survival and their testimonies are missing in critical
    analyses. Listening to voices of those who were able to
    survive-against overwhelming odds-leads to a more comprehensive
    assessment of the Shoah. Primarily based on oral history interviews,
    I present a few snap shots from survivors' biographies.



    About Auschwitz: Recent Photographs
    Judith Lermer Crawley ([email protected]), Photographer/Retired
    from Vanier College

    Abstract: This presentation/slide-talk will position my most recent
    photography exhibit, in the context of my artwork, teaching and family
    history. It incorporates text with black and white photographs taken
    on a recent visit to the Holocaust's most infamous extermination camp,
    a place my parents, though not most of their families and friends,
    narrowly avoided. It functions on artistic, emotional, as well as
    informative levels. The text includes information researched after our
    visit, panels at Auschwitz and journal extracts. I will share further
    research about a photograph I encountered on the wall in one of the
    Auschwitz 1 buildings.
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