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Host: Department of English, The University of Chester
Homepage: http://english.chester.ac.uk
Email: f.haig@chester.ac.uk
Organizers: Dr Francesca Haig
Description:
Registration is now open for this exciting one-day interdisciplinary conference, which addresses a variety of issues surounding recent Holocaust representations. The keynote speaker is Professor Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway) and there will be a range of papers on topics including: Holocaust piety; representing the perpetrators; God on trial; comparing first and second generation Holocaust memoirs; the Americanized Holocaust of Star Trek; Holocaust literature for children; videotaped oral testimony; photography and history; the role of fairytale in Holocaust narratives; Holocaust exhibits; the Holocaust in the work of Bernhard Schlink, Anne Michaels, Claude Lanzmann, Elie Wiesel, Ruth Klüger, Georges Perec and many more.
Submitted by: Francesca Haig
Date received: August 11, 2009, revised August 14, 2009
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