LAY DOWN YOUR WEAPONS: WRITING AGAINST THE WAR (SCHREIBEN GEGEN DEN KRIEG)
The life, work and intellectual legacy of poet Ingeborg Bachmann is examined in an interdisciplinary conference. In post World War II Europe she created relationships between remembering and forgetting the tragedy of war and its effects that spread well beyond literary circles to influence a wide spectrum of European intellectuals of the second half of the 20th century. The conference will be supplemented by a traveling exhibition of photographs and texts from the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, readings, films and musical events.
4 November–5 November
10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Thursday: Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, S.U. Library; Friday: SU Humanities Center SeminarRoom, 304 Tolley Humanities Building
Co–sponsors:
Austrian Cultural Forum New York; German Academic Exchange Service; The College of Arts and Sciences; Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics; and the SU Humanities Center
SPEAKERS:
Hans Höller
Professor, Institute of German Studies, University of Salzburg, Austria
Gisela Brinker-Gabler
Professor, Comparative Literature, SUNY Binghamton, NY
Dagmar Lorenz
Professor of Germanic Studies and Director of Jewish Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
Karen Remmler
Professor of German Studies, Critical Social Thought, and Gender Studies, Mount Holyoke College, MA
Mark Anderson
Professor of German Literature, Columbia University, NY
Kirsten Krick-Aigner
Associate Professor of German, Wofford College, SC
Young-Ae Chon
Professor of German Language and Literature, Seoul National University, Korea
Vivian Liska
Professor of German Literature and Director, Institute for Jewish Studies, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Bernd Witte
Professor of Philosophy, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Peter Beicken
Professor of German, University of Maryland, MD
Peter Gilgen
Associate Professor of German Studies, Cornell University, NY
Sabine Gölz
Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, University of Iowa, IA
Helga Schreckenberger
Professor of German, University of Vermont, VT
Karl Solibakke
Associate Professor of German Literature, Syracuse University
Karina von Tippelskirch
Assistant Professor of German, Syracuse University
Karen Achberger
Professor of German, St. Olaf College, MN
Stefano Giannini
Assistant Professor of Italian, Syracuse University
Robert Pichl
Professor of German Literature, University of Vienna, Austria
Sara Lennox
Professor of German & Scandinavian Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
Ray Smith Symposium: Music of Conflict and Reconciliation
The relationship between music and conflict is complex: music has been used as a tool of war but it also has been used to resist, interpret or transcend the emotional trauma of conflict. These themes will be explored in colloquia, instruction and performance.
Co–sponsors:
Ray Smith Symposium; Department of Art and Music Histories; Office of the University Arts Presenter; Society for New Music; Department of Religion; the Mellon Central New York Humanities Corridor, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation initiative; and the SU Humanities Center
Power and Resistance in the Second World War
14–15 September
7:30 p.m.
Watson Theater, Watson Hall
Deborah Wong
Professor of Music, UC Riverside, “Music in Internment Camps”
Pamela Potter
Professor of Musicology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Music in Nazi Germany”
Respondents
Sanford Sternlich
Professor of English, SU and Laurie Marhoefer, Assistant Professor of History SU
In conjunction with the Eastend String Quartet performance, 15 September {link}
The War in Iraq
15–16 November
7:30 p.m.
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Jonathan Pieslak
Associate Professor of Music, CUNY, “For Duty, Honor and Country: The Recruiting Music of the US Military and the Islamic State of Iraq”
J. Martin Daughtry
Assistant Professor of Music, NYU, “A Painful and Necessary Noise: Thoughts on the Sonic Dimension of Operation Iraqi Freedom”
Respondent:
Mehrzad Boroujerdi
director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs SU
In conjunction with Society for New Music performance, 14 November {for more information}
Digital Witness Symposium
In conjunction with the 8th Annual Human Rights Film Festival (HRFF)
Friday, 1 October, 11 a.m.
The Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse III
Human rights media are rapidly transforming within a contemporary media environment increasingly defined by digital convergence. This symposium brings together internationally recognized experts in the field of human rights media to discuss these ongoing innovations and futures implications: Sam Gregory, Program Director at WITNESS; Mallika Dutt, founder and Executive Director of the international human rights organization Breakthrough; and Fred Ritchin, Professor of Photography and Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
Co-sponsor:
The Mellon Central New York Humanities Corridor, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation initiative
The Michael J.C. Echeruo Valedictory Symposium: Fifty Years of African Literature and Scholarship in the Academy, 1960–2010
The symposium features distinguished senior scholars in the discipline of African Literature who reflect on their experience of the reading, researching and teaching of African literature in the academy over the last 50 years. Participants will map the course of the journey thus far, and provide an impetus for an informed projection of new directions in the study of African Literature in the next half-century.
Friday, 15 October
9 a.m.–6 p.m.
SU Humanities Center Seminar Room, 304 Tolley Humanities Building
Co–sponsors:
The College of Arts and Sciences; Department of English; and the SU Humanities Center
Speakers:
Ernest Emenyonu
Professor, Department of Africana Studies, University of Michigan
Simon Gikandi
Professor Department of English, Princeton University
Kenneth W Harrow
Professor of English, Michigan State University
Biodun Jeyifo
Professor of African and African American Studies and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Anthonia Kalu
Professor of African American and African studies at Ohio State University
Bernth Lindfors
Professor Emeritus University of Texas at Austin
Lokangaka Losambe
Frederick M. & Fannie C.P. Corse Professor of English, University of Vermont
Biola Irele
Provost, Kwara State University, Nigeria
Emmanuel Obiechina
Fellow, Harvard University
Aliko Songolo
Halverson-Bascom Professor of French Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tejumola Olaniyan
Lousie Durham Mead Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kofi Anyidoho
Professor of Literature in the English Department of the University of Ghana
Life and Poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972): Presentation of the new Point of Contact bilingual edition: Alejandra
Wednesday, 20 October
6 p.m.
Maxwell Auditorium
A panel discussion will focus on the essential conflict of this contemporary poet vis-à-vis her world. In this woman’s life and extensive body of work, conflict could not be reduced to a psychological problem, but rather be seen as the mark of the existential clash faced by a generation of women. Distinguished panel guests include: Jaklin Kornfilt, Professor of Linguistics, Syracuse University; Douglas Unger Professor of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Bruce Smith, Professor of English, Syracuse University; Madeleine Stratford, Professor, Department of Language Studies, Université du Québec, Outaouais; Nayda Collazo Llorens and Patricia Bentancur, creators of two original visual texts included in the new Point of Contact edition, inspired by the poetry of Alejandra.
Alejandra (edited by Ivonne Bordelois and Pedro Cuperman), the new bilingual edition of Point of Contact focuses on the life and verse of the Argentine poet, Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972), a leading feminine voice in contemporary Latin American letters. The book approaches Pizarnik’s poetry through a series of letters, poems, critical and visual texts, including works by Olga Orozco, Fiona Mackintosh, Susana Chávez-Silverman, Madeleine Stratford, Tamara Kamenszain, Silvia Baron Supervielle, and María Negroni. Visual texts by Graciela Sacco, Nayda Collazo-Llorens, and Patricia Bentancur.
Co-sponsor:
Point of Contact
