College of Arts and Sciences
University of South Carolina
17th Annual Comparative Literature Conference
This conference is made possible by the
collaboration with and generous support of:
• The Comparative Literature Program
• The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Women and the Holocaust
Cultural Productions and Interpretations
• The Jewish Studies Program
• The Walker Institute
• The English Department
• The Women’s and Gender Studies Program
• The University of South Carolina Office of the
Provost/ International Affairs
• The College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean
• The Film and Media Studies Program
• The USC European Studies Program
Conference Director:
F. K. Clementi, Jewish Studies,
University of South Carolina
Advisory Committee:
Allen Miller, Vice-Provost for International Programs
University of South Carolina
For more information contact: [email protected]
March, 2015
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The Inn at Claussen’s
2003 Greene Street,
Columbia, SC 29205
Alexander Beecroft, Undergraduate Director,
Comparative Literature Program, University of South Carolina
Meili Steele, Professor of English,
University of South Carolina
Coffee Break
Registration: 10:30am - 12:00pm
Panel I: 2:45 - 4:00
Light Refreshments: 12:30
The Holocaust as Seen from America and from the Second
Generation
Conference Opening: 1:00 - 2:00
Welcoming Remarks:
Anne Bezuidenhout, Senior Associate Dean
Stan Dubinsky, Director of Jewish Studies
Keynote Address:
Introductions: Federica K. Clementi, University of South
Carolina
Marion Kaplan, New York University
Persecution and Gender: Jewish Responses to
Nazism, 1933-1939
Moderator: Lilly S. Filler, South Carolina Council on the
Holocaust
Sunday / 2:45 - 5:30 P.M.
Sunday / 10:30A.M. - 2:00 P.M.
Sunday, March 1
Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky: “The Holocaust
in the Writings of Zelda Popkin”
Tikva Meroz-Aharoni, University of Kentucky: “‘I Forgave
My Father as an Adult but I Will Never Forgive Him for
My Childhood’: Lea Aini and the Consequences of the
Holocaust”
Panel II: 4:15 - 5:30
Moderator: Jeanne Garane, University of South Carolina
John Cox, Sarah Minslow and Lynnette Deem, UNC
Charlotte: “Women as Resisters, Perpetrators, and in
‘Gray Zones’”
Reception: 5:45 - 7:15
The Inn at Claussen’s
Film Screening: 7:30
Charlotte, by Frans Weisz (1981)
(Open to the public)
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Registration: 7:30am – 8:30am
Monday / 8:30 - 9:45 A.M.
Panel III: 8:30 - 9:45
Moderator: Jada Ach, University of South Carolina
JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz, Texas A&M University (Galveston) and
Donna Gosbee, Texas A&M University (Commerce): “Women
and the Holocaust: Survival under the Umbrella of War and
Genocide”
Jennifer Blevins, University of South Carolina: “The Psychosexual Consequences of the Holocaust for Two Young Girls—
Milena Roth and Anne Frank”
Monday / 12:00 - 1:00 P.M.
Monday, March 2
Keynote Lecture: 12:00
Special Remarks:
Allen Miller, Vice Provost, Director of International Affairs
Introductions: Saskia Coenen-Snyder, University of South
Carolina
Sara R. Horowitz, York University
Gender and the Holocaust: Why Women’s Stories
Matter
Lunch: 1:00
On your own. Ask the hotel receptionists for suggestions.
The hotel is located in walking distance from Five Points,
where a broad variety of eateries, pubs, and cafés are
located.
Alessandro Carrieri, Monash University (Melbourne, Australia):
“Alice Herz-Sommer and Cultural and Spiritual Resilience in
Theresienstadt”
Coffee Break
Monday / 10:15 - 11:45 A.M.
Panel IV: 10:15 - 11:45
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Moderator: Sara Schwebel, University of South Carolina
Marjanne E. Goozé, University of Georgia: “Survival in Berlin:
Inge Deutschkron’s Memoir Ich trug den gelben Stern [I Wore
the Yellow Star] as Counternarrative to the Americanization of
Holocaust Memory”
Stella Behar, University of Texas (Pan American): “Régine
Robin: From Cyber-fiction Stories to History”
Rachel Dean-Ruzicka, Georgia Gwinnett College: “Finding our
Heroines: New Routes into Holocaust History for Young Adults”
Monday / 2:30 - 3:45 P.M.
Panel V: 2:30 - 3:45
Moderator: Kevin Lewis, University of South Carolina
Nicole Meyer, Georgia Regents University: “Nathalie
Sarraute’s Fractured Childhood and Its Jewish Silences”
Brooke Leeton, University of Georgia: “Trauma in Process:
The Quest for a Personal Narrative in Charlotte Salomon’s
Life? or Theatre?”
Norbert Hinterleitner, The Anne Frank House, with Doyle
Stevick, University of South Carolina: “Representing
Women in Educational Graphic Novels about the
Holocaust”
Coffee Break
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Tuesday, March 3
Special Events
Seeing, Reading, Remembering Charlotte Salomon: 4:15
Panel VI: 9:00 - 10:15
Introductions: Heidi Lovit, Columbia Jewish Film Festival
Moderator: Kathleen Whalon, University of South Carolina
Guest Speaker
Frans Weisz, film director
Film Screening: 4:30
Life? or Theatre? by Frans Weisz (2012)
(Open to the public)
Keynote Lecture: 6:15 - 7:00
Tuesday / 9:00 - 10:15 A.M.
Lara R. Curtis, University of Massachusetts Amherst: “Noor
Inayat Khan: Conceptualizing Resistance in Holocaust-Related
Writings”
Chayah Stoneberg-Cooper, Allen University (SC): “‘Wouldn’t
Be Surprised Were It True, No Surprise at All:’ Black Women
in South Carolina Recollecting the Shoah”
Jingsheng Zhang, University of South Carolina: “A
Postcolonial and Feminist Reading of Contemporary China’s
Representations of Shanghai Jewish Refugees between 1939
and 1941”
Introductions: Agnes Mueller, University of South Carolina
Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds
Between History and the Everyday: Gender,
Trauma, Crime and Confession in Reading of
Charlotte Salomon’s Leben? oder Theater? 19411942
Banquet: 7:45
Elizabeth Kaufmann, Diary, France 1940-41
Monday - Special Events / 4:30 - 7:15 P.M.
At Saluda’s Restaurant: 751 Saluda Avenue, Columbia, SC
29205. We will leave the hotel at 7:30 and walk together to
the near-by restaurant.
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Eugenia Hochberg, Diary, Poland 1943-44
Tuesday / 10:30 - 11: 45 A.M.
Panel VII: 10:30 - 11:45
Moderator: John Mandsager, University of South Carolina
Isabel Meusen, University of South Carolina: “The
Representation of Lesbian Persecution during the Holocaust
in the Movies Aimée & Jaguar and Novembermond”
Kerstin Steitz, Old Dominion University: “Jewish Women’s
Experiences during the Holocaust as Reflected in the
Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial and Its Filmic Engagement Zeugin
aus der Hölle (1965)”
Julia Velasco, University of South Carolina: “Reading Nazi
Huntresses: Women as Perpetrators in Fictional Holocaust
Narratives”
Conference Closing Remarks:
Federica K. Clementi, University of South Carolina
For their indispensable help with this conference
organization, we especially thank:
Sincere thanks to all participants and to our
friends and colleagues who agreed to moderate
panels and introduce speakers.
John Mandsager, Jewish Studies
Jiayao Wang, Comparative Literature
Terri Lucas and the USC administrative staff
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Online Program and Brochure Designer: Jiayao Wang
Illustrations: courtesy of The Wiener Library, London, and USHMM,
Washington DC
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