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28 March - “Fiction and Remembrance” Masterclass Programme

CACSSS Seminar Room – G27 O’Rahilly Building, Ground Floor

Thursday 28thMarch 2019 h. 17.30

 

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)

 

Céire 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

College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences

Coláiste na nEalaíon, an Léinn Cheiltigh agus na nEolaíochtaí Sóisialta

College Office, Room G31 ,Ground Floor, Block B, O'Rahilly Building, UCC

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