Conference programme
Friday, 6 July, 2012
8:30-9:30 / Education foyer / Registration
9:30-9:45 / E1 / Welcome / Arthur Chapman/
Minna Vuohelainen /
9:45-10:45 / E1 / Keynote 1 / Norman Geras (University of Manchester)
Chair: Arthur Chapman /
Hope, Shame and Resentment: Primo Levi and Jean Améry
10:45-11:15 / Education foyer / Tea & coffee11:15-12:45 / E2 / Panel 1a: Memory
Chair: Sante Maletta / Inés Valle Morán (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) / Une Histoire des odeurs: Primo Levi and the olfactive world in concentration camp narratives
Brian Walter (St. Louis College of Pharmacy) / The Offense of the Memory: Abstraction and Metaphor in The Drowned and the Saved
Minna Vuohelainen (Edge Hill University) / Primo Levi, memory and the oblique
E5 / Panel 1b: Identity
Chair: Mirna Cicioni / Lia Deromedi (Royal Holloway, University of London) / Identity After Trauma: Language and Selfhood in Primo Levi’s If Not Now, When?
Christopher Hamilton (King's College London) / 'These things are part of us': Primo Levi's Philosophical Anthropology
Pradeep Sharma (Addis Ababa University) / Primo Levi and the Problematic of Assimilation/ Alterity
E6 / Panel 1c: Intertextuality
Chair: Steve Van-Hagen / Catherine Charlwood (independent scholar) / ‘Il resto [non] è silenzio’: The Friendship of Texts between Hamlet and Se questo è un uomo
Vittorio Fichera (Istituto Comprensivo San Polo, Canossa) / Intertextuality in Primo Levi and George Orwell
Maria Anna Mariani (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul) / Paper Memories, Inked Genealogies: About Primo Levi's The Search for Roots
12:45-1:45 / Education foyer / Lunch
Time / Location / Activity / Speaker / Title
1:45-2:45 / E1 / Keynote 2 / Robert Gordon (Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge)
Chair: George Talbot / Outrageous Fortune: Primo Levi, Luck and the Holocaust
2:45-3:15 / Education foyer / Tea & coffee
3:15-4:45 / E2 / Panel 2a: Testimony and rhetoric
Chair: Robert Gordon / Kirsty McCulley (Edge Hill University) / Conveying the Holocaust: If This Is a Man and The Periodic Table
Franco Baldasso (New York University) / The Other as the Judge: Testimony and Rhetoric in Primo Levi’s Se questo è un uomo
Antony Rowland (University of Salford) / Primo Levi: Poetry as Testimony
E5 / Panel 2b: Identity and language
Chair: Minna Vuohelainen / Sara Miellet (Sussex University) / Primo Levi and language: From a sense of belonging through language to limits of language and the untranslatability of Auschwitz
Mirna Cicioni (Monash University, Melbourne) / Anti-Babel: Inter-linguistic Communication in Levi's Work
Didem Uca (University of Pennsylvania) / Losing Oneself in the Past and Finding Oneself in Unlikely Places: Language, Identity, and Community in Levi
E6 / Panel 2c: Media, reception, translation
Chair: Karen d’Souza / Giuseppe Episcopo (University of Edinburgh) / On Solid Air: Primo Levi’s Words through the Radio Waves
Paweł Wolski (University of Szczecin, Poland) / From Poland Without Love: Why Do We Read Levi Now and Why We Did Not Before
Marco Sonzogni (Victoria University of Wellington) / Literary Legacies: Translating Primo Levi’s poem ‘Schiera bruna’ into English
4:45-5:15 / Education foyer / Tea & coffee
5:15-6:15 / E1 / Keynote 3 / Anthony Rudolf (Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature)
Chair: Robert Sheppard / 'Best regards from home to home’: a UK friend and poetry publisher reads Primo Levi through his letters
6:15-7:30 / Hale Hall / Exhibition/ Wine reception / Jane Joseph: Etchings for Primo Levi
Jillian Edelstein: The Primo Levi photographs
8:00-10:00 / Fat Olive, Ormskirk / Conference dinner
Saturday, 7 July, 2012
8:30-9:00 / Education foyer / Registration
9:00-10:00 / E1 / Keynote 4 / Paul Salmons (Institute of Education, University of London)
Chair: Arthur Chapman / True Witnesses? Holocaust Education and the Legacy of Primo Levi
10:00-10:30 / Education foyer / Tea & coffee
10:30-12:00 / E2 / Panel 3a: Holocaust remembrance and Levi’s legacy
Chair: Daniel Gordon / Catherine Mooney (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) / Understanding and Judgement in the ‘Gray Zone’: Moral Ambiguity and the Holocaust
Gregory Herman (University of Aberdeen) / Jorge Semprún and the Legacy of Primo Levi
Marije Hristova (Institute for Language, Literature and Anthropology; Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC, Madrid/ Maastricht University) / Remediating Levi: Primo Levi in Spanish Contemporary Literature
E5 / Panel 3b: Holocaust Education
Chair: Adrian Burgess / Arthur Chapman (Edge Hill University), Alice Pettigrew & Adrian Burgess (Institute of Education, University of London) / ‘It happened, therefore it can happen again’: an exploration of English Sixth Form Students’ Ideas about the lessons of the Holocaust
Christina Foisy (York University, Toronto) / Hatred in the Holocaust Classroom: Reading Primo Levi affectively toward social change
Amanda Venable & Jennifer Killham (University of Cincinnati) / Portraying Primo: A Case Study Exploring an Ethical Dilemma through the Perspective of Primo Levi
E6 / Panel 3c: Chemistry, science and industry
Chair: TBC / Martina Bertoldi (University of Trento) / The construction of The Periodic Table
Margareth Hagen (University of Bergen) / Chemical Autobiographies
David Shteinman (Australian Centre for Commercial Mathematics, University of New South Wales/ Stamen Engineering Pty Ltd) / The Stern Judge: Primo Levi’s Legacy of a Philosophy of Work
Time / Location / Activity / Speaker / Title
12:00-1:00 / Education foyer / Lunch
1:00-2:30 / E2 / Panel 4a: Levi and political philosophy
Chair:
Kevern Verney / Anisha Datta (Brandon University) / The politics and violence of caste in the light of Levi’s ethics
Gabriel Noah Brahm Jr. (Northern Michigan University/ Brandeis University) / Levi Avec Lacan: 'Enjoyment' of the Holocaust in the New Anti-Semitism
Sante Maletta (IES Milan/ University of Calabria) / Political Philosophy after Primo Levi: Totalitarianism or Biopolitics?
E5 / Panel 4b: Holocaust education workshop / Paul Salmons (Institute of Education, University of London) / Holocaust Education workshop
E1 / Panel 4c: Illustrating Levi
Chair: Anthony Rudolf / Jane Joseph / Illustrating Primo Levi's ‘ghastly tale’: slide show of etchings and conversation with Anthony Rudolf
2:30-3:00 / Education foyer / Tea & coffee
3:00-4:00 / E1 / Keynote 5 / Judith Woolf (University of York)
Chair: Minna Vuohelainen / An Atom of Carbon: Primo Levi and Science
4:00-4:15 / E1 / Close / Arthur Chapman/
Minna Vuohelainen