The PRELIMINARY WORKSHOP FOR THE PREPARATION OF AN INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIC PROJECT is taking place at Justus Liebig University Giessen between the 12th-13th July 2018 at the Giessen Centre for Eastern European Studies, Conference Room Otto-Behaghel-Straße 10 (Philosophicum I), Building E, Room 209.
WORKSHOP PROGRAMME
Wednesday, 11 July 2018
Arrival of the participants; from 19.00 (7 p.m.) welcome meeting at restaurant Justus (optional): 35390 Gießen, Frankfurter Straße 7
https://www.gasthaus-justus.de/
Thursday, 12 July 2018
10.00 – 10.15
Welcoming and introduction (Reinhard Ibler)
EXEMPLARY PROBLEM AREAS OF THE HANDBOOK I: WORKS
(Chair: Andreas Ohme, Greifswald)
10.15 – 10.35 (paper), 10.35 – 10.50 (discussion)
Elisa Hiemer (Gießen): Piotr Paziński’s Short Prose Works “Pensjonat” and “Ptasie Ulice”
10.50 – 11.10 (paper), 11.10 – 11.25 (discussion)
Marie Brunová (Praha): Jiří Weil’s “Žalozpěv za 77 297 obětí”
11.25 – 11.45 (paper), 11.45 – 12.00 (discussion)
Hana Nichtburgerová (Hamburg): Richard Glazar’s Memoir Book “Die Falle mit dem
grünen Zaun“ / “Treblinka, slovo jak z dětské říkanky”
12.00 – 14.00
Lunch Break
EXEMPLARY PROBLEM AREAS OF THE HANDBOOK II: TOPICS
(Chair: Wolfgang Schwarz, Leipzig)
14.00 – 14.20 (paper), 14.20 – 14.35 (discussion)
Štěpán Balík (Praha/České Budějovice): Jewish Identity in Polish and Czech Literature
14.35 – 14.55 (paper), 14.55 – 15.10 (discussion)
Jiří Holý (Praha): Holocaust as Entertainment
15.10 – 15.30 (paper), 15.30 – 15.45 (discussion)
Marcela Zoufalá (Praha): The Shoah from a Women’s Point of View
15.45 – 16.30
Coffee Break
EXEMPLARY PROBLEM AREAS OF THE HANDBOOK III: TRANSITIONS
(Chair: Bartłomiej Krupa, Warszawa)
16.30 – 16.50 (paper), 16.50 – 17.05 (discussion)
Arkadiusz Morawiec (Łódź): Deconstructing a Myth: Soap from Human (Jewish)
Fat. Remarks on the Margins of Zofia Nałkowska’s Short Story Prose “Professor
Spanner”
17.05 – 17.25 (paper), 17.25 – 17.40 (discussion)
Agata Firlej (Poznań): The Culture Topoi in the Czech and Polish Theatre Representations
of the Shoah
17.40 – 18.00 (paper), 18.00 – 18.15 (discussion)
Šárka Sladovníková (Praha): Filmic Adaptions of the Holocaust
ca. 19.00
Dinner
Friday, 13 July 2018
10.00 – ca. 13.00
OPEN DISCUSSION ABOUT THE ONGOING DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROJECT
Discussion of Content-Related and Conceptual Questions
Aims and thematic scope of the handbook
Outline of the articles to be included (on the basis of a preliminary list of suggestions)
Structure of the articles (on the basis of a model article)
Potential authors of the articles
…
Discussion of Organizational Questions
Central location of the project
Participating institutions
Potential further cooperation partners
Organizing team
Required personal and equipment
Required funds
Timeframe
Potential funding institutions
Next organizational steps
…
AFTERNOON AT FREE DISPOSAL
19.00
Dinner
Saturday, 14 July 2018
Departure of the participants
Guest Accomodation:
Gästehaus Wilhelma, Wilhelmstraße 3, 35392 Gießen
(Balík, Brunová, Firlej, Holý, Krupa, Morawiec, Nichtburgerová, Sladovníková, Zoufalá)
http://gaestehaus-wilhelma.de/
Parkhotel Sletz, Wolfstraße 26, 35394 Gießen
(Ohme, Schwarz)
https://www.parkhotel-sletz.de/de/startseite/
The workshop is financially supported by Deutsch-tschechischer Zukunftsfonds,
Gießener Zentrum östliches Europa (JLU), Lehrstuhl für Slavische
Philologie/Literaturwissenschaft (JLU) and the Prague Centre for Jewish Studies
(Faculty of Arts, Charles University)
Organization:
Forschungskreis Holocaustliteratur und -kultur im mittleren und östlichen Europa
(Lehrstuhl für Slavische Philologie/Literaturwissenschaft, JLU)
Contact:
Elisa Hiemer, M.A., Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Institut für Slavistik, Otto-
Behaghel-Straße 10 D, D-35394
Tel.: +49(0) 641/99-31141 E-Mail: Elisa-Maria.Hiemer@slavistik.uni-giessen.de
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Ibler, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Institut für Slavistik,
Otto-Behaghel-Straße 10 D, D-35394 Gießen
Tel.: +49(0)641/99-31186 E-Mail: Reinhard.Ibler@slavistik.uni-giessen.de
The programme of the Workshop can be found here: Workshop-Giessen_Programme
