Empathy and Memory Studies Conference 23 June 2012 Birkbeck College, University of London Conference venue: B34, Main

Building, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London, WC1E 7HX Conference organisers: Silke Arnold-de Simine (ECL, Birkbeck, University of London, s.arnold-desimine@ bbk.ac.uk); Richard Crownshaw (English, Goldsmiths, r.crownshaw@gold.ac.uk); Susannah Radstone (Arts and Digital Industries, UEL, s.radstone@uel.ac.uk) Saturday, 23 June 10.00: Keynote One: Carolyn Dean 11.15: Coffee 11:35: Session One - Lucy Bond/Jessica Rapson (Goldsmiths), Unsettling Empathy: Interrogating the mediation of affect in contemporary memorial practice - Felicity Collins (La Trobe University, Melbourne), Too Much Empathy, Too Much Affect - Pieter Vermeulen (Stockholm University), Refused Identification as Dysphoric Affect: Affective Scenarios of (Dis)Connection in The Contemporary Novel and Memory Studies 1.00: Lunch 2:30: Session Two - Emilio Crenzel (CONICET / Universidad de Buenos Aires), On the Trail of Disappearances: Empathy, Terror and Memory in Argentina - Alice Hohenlohe (Goldsmiths), The failure of Empathy?: Third generation Germans and their Responses to Cultural Representations of the Holocaust - Gabriel Koureas (Birkbeck), The politics and gender of empathy in a postcolonial context 4.00: Coffee 4.20: Keynote Two: Stef Craps (Ghent University), On Not Closing the Loop: Empathy, Ethics, and Transcultural Witnessing 5.30: Wine and Nibbles WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITIES, BIRBECK, SCHOOL OF ARTS, BIRKBECK, CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF CULTURAL MEMORY, INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC AND ROMANCE STUDIES AND GOLDSMITHS (UNIVERSITY OF LONDON)