Narratives from Behind Barbed Wire

The international conference "Narratives from Behind Barbed Wire: 'Witness Literature' in the Historical and Political Context of the 20th Century" (58–60 Galernaya Street).

Program

21 may

11:30am–1:00pm Panel 1. Moderator: Denis Skopin

• Nahid Kabir (BRAC University, Bangladesh) "Witnessing the Genocide in Bangladesh in 1971"
• Snezana Stankovic (Humboldt University, Germany) "Imprinted. Sensory Presence of the Past"

1:00–2:00pm Lunch

2:00–4:00pm Panel 2. Moderator: Ramina Abilova

• Grigory Tulchinsky (SPbU) "Narration and Its Significance in Witness Literature"
• Denis Skopin (SPbU) "Criticism of Political Theology (On the Origin of the Concentration Camps)"
• Roman Enotov (Minsk, Belarus), Ksenia Shtalenkova (European Humanities University, Lithuania) "'Memoria Nominis Clara' Theatre Project: Playwrighting, Ready-Mades and the Right to Remember the Holocaust"

4:00—4:30pm Coffee break

4:30–6:00pm Panel 3. Moderator: Denis Skopin

• Peter Rutland (Wesleyan University, USA) "Memory Politics in a Post-truth World"
• Michael Lewis (Al-Quds University) "The Creative 'Specimen:' Imaginative Art and the Onus of Witness Literature"

22 may

11:30am–12:45pm Online showing and discussion of the play "Memoria Nominis Clara," dedicated to the Yama (the Pit) Memorial and Minsk Ghetto, with participation of Ksenia Shtalenkova (European Humanities University, Lithuania)

12:45–2:00pm Lunch

2:00–4:00pm Student panel. Moderator: Denis Skopin

• Veronika Krasilovtseva (SPbU) "The Functional Body of a Prisoner: Experience and Philosophical Reflection on It"
• Anastasia Kalacheva (SPbU) "Claude Lanzmann's Shoah as a Cinematic Text. Fundamental Witnessing of the Holocaust"
• Ramil Niazov (SPbU) "'I Remember That'—Post-memory of Aliens (Inorodtsy) and Exiles on the Example of Gennady Ni-Li's Story"
• Daria Lapina (SPbU) "Easter 1945. Religious Narratives About Dachau Concentration Camp"
• Maria Ivanovskaya (SPbU) "Witnessing Rwandan Genocide"