Thursday August 21
09:30-11:00 Keynote 1: Jussi Parikka, “Media Fossils: A Production of an Archaeological Future” (chair Jesper Olsson)
11:00-11:30 coffee break
11:30-13:00 Panel 1: Missing Media, Absent Archives (chair and respondent Stef Craps)
- Gitanjali Pyndiah (London), “Non-Archival Memory in the Media”
- Tasnim Qutait (Uppsala), “‘There’s no memory bank for this kind of data’: Memory, Mediality and Diasporic Arab Literature”
- Brian Johnsrud (Stanford), “Lacuna Stories: Designing Transmediated Memory Spaces for Engaging with the Past”
13:00-14:15 lunch (faculty club)
14:15-15:45 Panel 2: Performances of Memory (chair and respondent Michael Rothberg)
- Sofie de Smet (Ghent), “Expanding the Notion of Trauma Narration in Applied Theatre”
- Hanna Teichler (Frankfurt), “Kunuk’s Atanarjuat–The Fast Runner: Remediating Orality, Performing the Past, Catalyzing National Identity”
- Jarula Wegner (Frankfurt), “Competitive Multidirectional Memory: Negotiations of Black-Jewish Relations in the Medium of American Rap”
15:45-16:15 coffee break
16:15-17:45 Panel 3: Postmillennial Media Storms (chair and respondent Richard Crownshaw)
- Holly Brown (Ghent), “Everything Deserves to Live”
- Sean Bex (Ghent), “Negotiating and Processing Post-Patriot Act Testimony: Dave Eggers’s Zeitoun and Voice of Witness’s Voices from the Storm”
- Carolin Schmitt (Frankfurt), “Haunting Voices: Mediated Memory in Paul Haggis’ In the Valley of Elah”
Friday August 22
09:00-10:30 Keynote 2: José van Dijck, “Social Media and the Construction of Memory” (chair Pieter Vermeulen)
10:30-11:00 coffee break
11:00-12:30 Panel 4: Mediations of Obsolescence (chair and respondent Amanda Lagerkvist)
- Nicholas Gilewicz (Annenberg School for Communication), “Reconceiving Journalism as a Mnemonic Community through the Decline of the United States Daily Newspaper”
- Sara Tanderup (Aarhus), “Remembering the Book in Contemporary Experimental Novels”
- Alex Casper Cline (Anglia Ruskin), “Manic Pixel Dream Miner”
12:30-13:45 lunch (faculty club)
13:45-15:15 Panel 5: Ecologies and Places of Memory (chair and respondent Stefan Helgesson)
- Priscilla Charat (Illinois), “Remembering the Holocaust Through Experiential Sites of Muslim Identity in Francophone Fiction”
- Maria Zirra (Stockholm), “Plastic Ecopoetry and the Work of Art in the Digital Age: The Case of Evelyn Reilly’s Styrofoam”
- Holly Gilbert (London), “Photography and the Placing of Memory”
15:15-16:45 Panel 6: Post-Revolutionary Textures of Memory (respondent Marianne Hirsch)
- Joyce Van de Bildt (Tel Aviv), “Documenting the 25 January Revolution: Online Memory Initiatives and the Challenge to State-Controlled Information in Post-Revolutionary Egypt”
- Codruta Pohrib (Maastricht), “Memory Matters Online: Digitizing Romanian Communist Memorabilia”
- Mihaela Brebenel (London), “Hauntologies of Urban Space in Romanian Moving Image”
16:45-17:15 coffee break
17:15-18:30 Panel 7: Writing Itself (chair and respondent Hans Ruin)
- Sara Eriksson (Stockholm), “Mediality and the Function of Memory in Diary Writing”
- Ole Olesen-Bagneux (Copenhagen), “The Missing Link in Medium Theory: Writing before Print and after the Computer”
19:30-21:30 conference dinner
Saturday August 23
09:00-10:30 Keynote 3: Marianne Hirsch, “Mobile Memories” (chair Richard Crownshaw)
10:30-11:30 coffee break
11:30-13:00 Panel 8: War Media (chair and respondent Mads Rosendahl Thomsen)
- Estibalitz Eskerra Vegas (Illinois), “‘All the Gernikas in the world’: Media and the Commemoration of the Victims of Aerial War”
- Tomas Karlsson (Umeå), “The Wargame as a Form of History Culture”
- Daria Mattingly (Cambridge), “Forgotten Soldiers of the Grain Front: Cultural Memory of Holodomor and Its Perpetrators”
13:00-14:15 lunch (Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet) — conference ends
Venue: Bergsmannen, Aula Magna, Stockholm University (Frescativägen 6)
Please remember to send your papers to mnemonics [at] english [dot] su [dot] se before August 6, so that they can be pre-circulated in good time. Remember that you have 15 minutes for your presentation.
