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