PG 7004 “Fiction and Remembrance” Masterclass
Programme
CACSSS Seminar Room – G27
O’Rahilly Building, Ground Floor
Thursday 28thMarch 2019 h. 17
Introduction by Daragh O’Connell (UCC: CASiLaC)
Keynote address
Robert Gordon (Cambridge): Fiction Before Memory: Italy 1945-48
Chair: Martina Piperno (UCC)
Friday, 29thMarch 2019
h. 10 Introduction by Kate Hodgson (UCC: CASiLaC/Memory cluster)
Panel I – Chair: Daragh O’Connell (UCC: CASiLaC)
Chiara Bonfiglioli (UCC): ‘Factory Tales’: Women’s Labour, Fiction and the Loss of Socialist Utopia in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Barbara Siller (UCC): Going Down in History as Barbarians: Contemporary Austrian Fiction and its Dealing with Memories
Alan Gibbs (UCC): Refusal of Memory or Refusal of Narration? Remembrance in Contemporary American Fiction
h. 12.00 – Lunch Break
h. 13.30 – Panel II – Chair: Chiara Giuliani (UCC: CASiLaC/Memory cluster)
Martina Piperno (UCC): Memory of Civilizations, Genocide, and Loss in Giorgio Bassani’s “The Garden of the Finzi-Contini” (1962)
Dónal Hassett (UCC): Fact, Fiction and Fantasy: Gillo Pontecorvo’s ‘Battle of Algiers’
as a Multi-Directional Lieu de Mémoire (1966)
Ceire Broderick (UCC): Remembering for the present: Chilean historical novels commemorating the colonial past
h 15.30 – Coffee Break
h. 16.00 – Discussion
h. 16.30 – End of the Masterclass