TBLR – ”Aesthetic Memory” COURSE PARTICIPANTS as of 24th Jan. 2011	AFFILIATION / DISCIPLINE / PROJECT	W/ PAPER	W/O PAPER	REMARKS Hotel = Hotel Motel One Berlin-Alexanderplatz, Dircksenstraße 36
FACULTY
Professor Dr., Dr. h. c. SIGRID WEIGEL direktion@zfl-berlin.org, litera@zfl.gwz-berlin.de	Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin; Institut für Literaturwissenschaft, Technische Universität Berlin.	Guest lecture Thursday 27th Jan.: “The Pictures as the lighting flash for the ‘long echoing thunder’ of theory formation. On the relevance of art for Benjamin’s epistemology”		No hotel room. Takes part the whole of Thursday 27th Jan.
Professor Dr., Dr. h. c. ERIKA FISCHER-LICHTE theater@zedat.fu-berlin.de	Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin.	Guest lecture Friday 28th Jan.: “Invocation of the Dead – The Potsdam Antigone from 1841 and the Reinvention of Theatre as Cultural Memory”		No hotel room. Takes part all tre days??
Professor Dr. ANSGAR NÜNNING ansgar.nuenning@anglistik.uni-giessen.de, gcsc@uni-giessen.de	Sonderforschungsbereich Erinnerungskulturen, Justus-Liebig-Universtät Gießen	Guest lecture Saturday 29th Jan.: “On the Problems of Representing Personal and Cultural Memory: Literature as a Medium for Exploring Fictions and Frames of Memory”		No hotel room. Takes part one day.
Privatdozentin Dr. CHARLOTTE KLONK charlotte.klonk@culture.hu-berlin.de	Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.	Guest lecture Saturday 29th Jan.: ”Portraits without Qualities”		No hotel room. Takes part 28th and 29th Jan. – Lunch both days; dinner only Saturday 29th Jan.
Professor Dr. ASTRID ERLL erll@em.uni-frankfurt.de	Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.	Guest lecture Thursday 27th Jan.: “Media and (Trans-) Cultural Memory”		Hotel room from 26th till 30th Jan. (4 nights). Takes part all three days.
Professor LARS SÆTRE lars.saetre@lle.uib.no Director TBLR/National and TBLR/Bergen, Organizing Committee	Comparative Literature, Dept. of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies (LLE), University of Bergen.			Hotel room from 25th till 30th Jan. (5 nights).
Professor UNNI LANGÅS unni.langas@uia.no Board Member TBLR/National, Organizing Committee	Scandinavian Literatures and Media Studies, University of Agder, Kristiansand.			Hotel room from 26th till 30th Jan. (4 nights).
Professor MARIE-THERES FEDERHOFER marie-theres.federhofer@uit.no Board Member TBLR/National, Organizing Committee	German Literary and Cultural Studies, Dept. of Culture and Literature, University of Tromsø.			Hotel room from 26th till 30th Jan. (4 nights).
Professor KNUT OVE ELIASSEN knut.eliassen@ntnu.no Board Member TBLR/National, Organizing Committee	Comparative Literature, Dept. of Scandinavian Studies and Comp. Lit., Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim.			Hotel room from 26th till 28th Jan. (2 nights).
Associate Professor CATO WITTUSEN cato.wittusen@uis.no Board Member TBLR/National, Organizing Committee	Dept. of Media, Culture and Social Studies, University of Stavanger.			Hotel room from 27th till 30th (3 nights).
Associate Professor MARGARETH HAGEN margareth.hagen@if.uib.no Board Member TBLR/Bergen, Organizing Committee	Italian Literary Studies, Dept. of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen.			Hotel room from 26th till 30th Jan. (4 nights).
Associate Professor KELD HYLDIG keld.hyldig@lle.uib.no Board Member TBLR/Bergen, Organizing Committee	Theatre Studies, Dept. of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies (LLE), University of Bergen.			Hotel room from 26th till 30th Jan. (4 nights).
Professor RANDI KOPPEN randi.koppen@if.uib.no Board Member TBLR/Bergen, Organizing Committee	British Literary Studies, Dept. of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen.			Hotel room from 26th till 30th Jan. (4 nights).
Associate Professor CHRISTINE HAMM christine.hamm@lle.uib.no Board Member TBLR/Bergen, Organizing Committee	Scandinavian Literary Studies, Dept. of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies (LLE), University of Bergen.			Hotel room from 26th till 30th Jan. (4 nights).
Associate Professor ŽELJKA ŠVRLJUGA zeljka.svrljuga@if.uib.no Supervisor to Inger-Anne Søfting	American Literary Studies, Dept. of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen.			Hotel room from 26th till 30th Jan. (4 nights).
Associate Professor KETIL KNUTSEN ketil.knutsen@uis.no Supervisor to Lene Bøe	Dept. of Cultural Studies and Linguistics, University of Stavanger – Programme for Memory Studies (MemS).			Hotel room from 26th till 30th Jan. (4 nights).
Professor SVEIN GLADSØ svein.gladso@hf.ntnu.no Supervisor to Annabella Skagen	Theatre Studies, Dept. of Arts and Media Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim.			Hotel room from 26th till 30th Jan. (4 nights).
PhD-STUDENTS
HANNE HAMMER STIEN hanne.hammer.stien@uit.no	Dept. of Arts Studies, Section for Cultural Studies, University of Tromsø; Tromsø Museum. PhD-project: “Object as Image: Museum photography between people and object”.		W/o Paper.	Hotel room from 26th till 30th Jan. (4 nights).
ESPEN INGEBRIGTSEN Espen.Ingebrigtsen@if.uib.no	Germanist Literary Studies, Dept. of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen. PhD-project: ”Erinnnerungsrepräsentation, Geschichtsbilder und Narration bei W. G. Sebald”. [”Erindringsrepresentasjon, historiebilder og narrasjon hos W. G. Sebald”]	W/ Paper. Title: “’Wie Meerespflanzen das Dunkel durchtasten’. Erinnerung, Medien under Intertexte in W. G. Sebalds Austerlitz”. (In German, w/ Norwegian abstract)		Hotel room from 26th till 31st Jan. (5 nights).
BO BYRKJELAND bo.byrkjeland@if.uib.no	Spanish-American Literary and Cultural Studies, Dept. of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen. PhD-project: ”Latinamerican Self-Translation: An historical perspective, and readings of María Luisa Bombal and Rosario Ferré". [”Latinamerikansk selvoversettelse: Et historisk perspektiv og lesninger av María Luisa Bombal og Rosario Ferré"]	W/ Paper. Title: ”María Luisa Bombal: Traduttora, traditora”” (In English)		Hotel room from 26th till 30th Jan. (4 nights).
HOLGER PÖTZSCH holger.potzsch@uit.no	Dept. of Culture and Literature, Documentation Sciences, University of Tromsø. PhD-project: ”Bordered Space and Liminal Beings” – the discursive production of space and boundaries in artefacts of popular culture; how generic war movies negotiate boundaries between the self and the other. [”Bordered Space and Liminal Beings” – den diskursive produksjonen av rom og grenser ved populærkulturelle uttrykk; hvordan generiske krigsfilmer forhandler grenser mellom selvet og den andre]	W/ Paper. Title: “Renegotiating Difficult Pasts: Two Documentary Dramas on Bloody Sunday, Derry 1972”. (In English)		Hotel room from 26th till 30th Jan. (4 nights).
MARTIN SAND Martin.Sand@lle.uib.no	Greek, Classical Studies, Dept. of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies (LLE), University of Bergen. PhD-project: ”The Rhetorics of Mockery: Greek Lampoons from Late Antiquity”. [”Spottens retorikk: Greske smedeskrifter fra senantikken”]	W/ Paper. Title: ”Attack as Religious Self-Definition: John Chrysostom’s Adversus Judaeos I” (In English)		Hotel room from 26th till 30th Jan. (4 nights).
PAULINE ANN HOATH Pauline.Hoath@lle.uib.no	History of Arts, Visual Culture, Dept. of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies (LLE), University of Bergen; and Project Nomadikon, Infomedia, Social Sciences, University of Bergen. PhD-project: “When Domestic Space Meets Imperial Space”	W/ Paper. Title: “The place where history can take hold of me”. (In English)		Hotel room from 25th till 31st Jan. (6 nights).
TATJANA KIELLAND SAMOILOW tatjana.samoilow@ntnu.no	Comparative Literature, Dept. of Scandinavian Studies and Comp. Lit., Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim. PhD-project: ”Financial discourses in Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks and Alexander L. Kielland’s novels”. [“Økonomiske diskurser i Thomas Manns Buddenbrooks og romanene til Alexander L. Kielland”]	W/ Paper. Title: ”Jewish Market Capitalism in Kielland and Mann”. (In English) [“Jødisk markedskapitalisme i Kielland og Mann”]		Hotel room from 26th till 30th Jan. (4 nights). German commentator.
STEFFI de JONG steffi.dejong@ntnu.no	Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim. PhD-project: ”Exhibiting Europe – The development of European narratives in museums, collections and exhibitions”: Foundation myths of the EU: the role of the witness (WW II) and of workers’ culture (in the ECSC) as seen in the European narratives in contemporary West European museums and exhibitions (Steffi de Jong), and in regional and national cooperation (Torgeir Bangstad). [”Å utstille Europa – Utviklingen av europeiske fortellinger i museer, samlinger og utstillinger”]	W/ Paper. Title: ”Exhibiting Memory – Video testimonies in Second World War and Holocaust Museums” (In English) [”Når minnet stilles ut – Video-vitnesbyrd i 2. verdenskrigs- og Holocaust-muséer”]		Hotel room from 26th till 30th Jan. (4 nights).
LENE BØE lene.boe@uis.no	Dept. of Cultural and Linguistic Studies, University of Stavanger. PhD-project: Bøe studies in the University of Stavanger’s Programme for Memory Studies (MemS). – Background in history, the didactics of history, and art and culture management.	W/ Paper. Title: ”Om historiebruk og natursyn i lokalhistorie” (In Norwegian with English abstract) [”Use of history and views of nature in local history”]		Hotel room from 26th till 30th Jan. (4 nights).
TOVE KÅRSTAD HAUGSBØ Tove.Haugsbo@kunstmuseene.no	History of Arts, Dept. of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies (LLE), University of Bergen; Bergen Art Museums; Research group Visual Culture. PhD-project: ”New Perspectives for the Research on the Painter Nikolai Astrup’s Art.” – New perspectives on Astrup’s works to further the current interest in his art and to discuss the state of this interest. A particular focus on the garden motif in his paintings, which opens up for an inter-aesthetic discussion of Astrup’s garden and for the study of further media that Astrup made use of. [”Nye perspektiv i forskinga av Nikolai Astrup sin kunst”. – Nye, aktualiserande perspektiv på Astrup sine kunstverk, og ein diskusjon av Astrup sin aktualitet i dag. Eit særleg fokus på hagemotivet i måleria som inngang til ein tverrfagleg diskusjon av Astrup sin hage, og til studiet av fleire av dei media som Astrup nytta.]		W/o Paper.	Hotel room from 26th Jan. till 1st Feb. (6 nights).
BERNHARD ELLEFSEN bernhard.ellefsen@uia.no	Comparative Literature, Dept. of Scandinavian Literatures and Media Studies, University of Agder, Kristiansand. PhD-project: ”Transgression and Transcendence in Bellow, Mailer and Roth.”	W/ Paper. Title: “Transgression and Identity” (In English) [“Overskridelse og identitet”]		Hotel room from 26th till 30th Jan. (4 nights).
ANNABELLA SKAGEN annabella.skagen@ntnu.no	Theatre Studies, Dept. of Arts and Media Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim. PhD-project: “The Count's Palace to Prince's Street: Theatre in Trondhjem 1790-1814”. – Investigates the theatrical activities, private, amateur and professional, native to Trondhjem around the turn of the 19th C, in regard to the relationship between scenic practices and cultural contexts.		W/o Paper.	Hotel room from 26th till 30th Jan. (4 nights).
OLAF HAAGENSEN olaf.haagensen@uia.no	Scandinavian Literary and Cultural Studies., Dept. of Scandinavian Literatures and Media Studies, University of Agder, Kristiansand. PhD-project: ”Witnessing Strategies in Scandinavian Contemporary Literature”. [“Vitnesbyrdstrategier i skandinavisk samtidslitteratur”]	W/ Paper. Title: ”’The Industrial Complex of Litzmannstadt’. On the cover photograph of Steve Sem-Sandberg’s novel The Destitutes of Lodz”. (In Norwegan w/ English abstract) [”’Industrikomplekset Litzmannstadt’. Om omslagsfotografiet til Steve Sem-Sandbergs roman De fattiga i Lodz”]		Hotel room from 26th till 30th Jan. (4 nights).
FRODE LERUM BOASSON frode.boasson@ntnu.no	Comparative Literature, Dept. of Scandinavian Studies and Comp. Lit., Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim. PhD-project: ”Hamsun and Historical Vitalism”. [”Hamsun og den historiske vitalismen”]	W/ Paper. Title: “Den historiske vitalismen – Men Livet Lever!” (In Norwegian w/ English abstract) [“The Historical Vitalism – But Life Lives On! [The Road Leads On]”]		Hotel room from 26th till 30th Jan. (4 nights).
INGVIL FØRLAND HELLSTRAND ingvil.f.hellstrand@uis.no	Network for Gender Studies, Social Sciences, University of Stavanger. PhD-project: “Visual Representations of Body and Identity in popular Culture”. [“Visuelle representasjoner av kropp og identitet i populærkultur”]	W/ Paper. Title: ”Passing as human: Star Trek and Norwegian debate on contemporary biopolitics”. (In English)		Hotel room from 25th till 30th Jan. (5 nights).
SISSEL GUNNERØD – sissel.gunnerod@est.hio.no	Art, Design, Form; Visual Culture; Urban Research Programme, Section for Aesthetics, Oslo University College / History of Arts, Dept. of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies (LLE), University of Bergen. PhD-project: “Abject, Revolt, Poetry – A study of the ambivalence of trash in contemporary art”. – How is contemporary art involved in transforming notions of trash? [“Abjekt, revolt, poesi – en undersøkelse av søppelets ambivalens i samtidskunsten”– Hvordan bidrar samtidskunsten til å bevege begreper om søppel?]		W/o Paper.	Hotel room from 26th till 30th Jan. (4 nights).
INGER-ANNE SØFTING Inger-Anne.Softing@hit.no	Dept. of Culture and Humanities, Telemark University College, Notodden / American Literary Studies, Dept. of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen. PhD-project: “African American Literature as Inter-Cultural Dialogue”.	W/ Paper. Title: “Everyday Blues: Alice Walker’s The Color Purple as Epistolary Slave Narrative”. (In English)		Hotel room from 26th till 30th Jan. (4 nights).
ANNE KARINE KLEVELAND anne.karine.kleveland@ntnu.no	Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim. PhD-project: “Cultural encounters between Norway and Latinamerica in Kjartan Fløgstad’s œuvre. Analyses to bring out how multi-layered cultural encounters are installed”. [Arbeidstittel: “Kulturmøter mellom Norge og Latin-Amerika i Kjartan Fløgstads forfatterskap. Analyse av utvalgte tekster skal vise hvordan det oppstår kulturmøter på flere nivåer”.]		W/o Paper.	Hotel room from 26th till 30th Jan. (4 nights).
ANDERS SKARE MALVIK anders.malvik@hf.ntnu.no	Dept. of Scandinavian Studies and Comp. Lit., Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim. PhD-project: “Interface Aesthetics”. A study of Matias Faldbakken’s art and literature from a media perspective. Several of Faldbakken’s works invite us to discuss the contemporary relationship between art, subjectivity and media technology, and this project investigates the use relevance of the term interface for the study of that relationship. ["Grensesnittets estetikk". En studie av Matias Faldbakkens kunst og litteratur i et medieperspektiv. Flere av Faldbakkens arbeider inviterer oss til å drøfte forholdet mellom kunst, subjekt og medieteknologi i samtiden, og prosjektet undersøker anvendbarheten av begrepet grensesnitt for å forske på dette forholdet]	W/ Paper. Title: ”Art’s Problem at the Millennium”. Dissertational introductory chapter; draft. (In Norwegian w/ English abstract) [”Kunstens problem ved årtusenskiftet”. Utkast til innledningskapittel i avhandlingen.]		Hotel room from 26th till 30th Jan. (4 nights).
EIRIK LODÉN eirik.loden@lle.uib.no	Comparative Literature, Dept. of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies (LLE), University of Bergen. PhD-project: “Opera as Interpretation: The Hermeneutics of Benjamin Britten's Adaptations of Herman Melville, Henry James, and Thomas Mann”. [“Opera som interpretasjon: Hermeneutikken i Benjamin Britten’s adaptasjoner av Herman Melville, Henry James og Thomas Mann”. (Arb.tittel; avh. skrives på engelsk)]	W/ Paper. Title: “Music and Meaning in Benjamin Britten's Opera Adaptation of Melville’s Billy Budd”. (In English)		Hotel room from 26th till 4th Feb. (9 nights).
GRY CECILIE RUSTAD g.c.rustad@media.uio.no	Dept. of Media and Communication, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo. PhD-project: How television series like Mad Men, Lost and The Wire constitute a special media culture. – Study areas: TV fiction, TV studies, film, spectator theory, media aesthetics, genre studies and narrative theory. [Hvordan tv-serier som f.eks. Mad Men, Lost og The Wire kan konstituere en egen mediekultur. – Fagfelt og interesser: Fjernsynsfiksjon, TV-studier, film, tilskuerteori, medieestetikk, genrestudier og narrativ teori]	W/ Paper. Title: “ ‘We'll have a civil rights march for women’ - The Bigger Picture of Television Drama”. (In English)		Hotel room from 26th till 30th Jan. (4 nights).
FREDRIK LANGELAND fredrik.langeland@uis.no	Network for Gender Studies, University of Stavanger. PhD-project: ”Discourses of intimacy in television and the media. – How intimacy and sexuality are represented and staged in TV (TV fiction, reality-TV, docu-fiction/documentaries) since the 1990’s. A study of discursive formations of intimacy and sexuality, how they are publicly mediated in Norway, and how their transformations influence the way gender, sexuality and intimacy are understood.” [Intimitetsdiskurser i TV og media. – Hvordan intimitet og seksualitet blir representert og iscenesatt i fjernsyn, knyttet til fiksjons-tv, reality-tv og docu-fiction/dokumentar-sjangere siden 1990-tallet. En undersøkelse av forskjellige former for diskursive uttrykk av intimitet og seksualitet, hvordan disse formidles i norsk offentlighet, og hvordan endringer i dem påvirker forståelsen av kjønn, seksualitet og intimitet]	W/ Paper. Title: “‘Shut up, damned dirtbag woman’. Fantasies about free pleasure as a masculine protest in Manshow on Channel TV2 Zebra.” (In Norwegian w/ English abstract) [“‘Hold kjeften på deg, forbanna møkkakjerring’. Fantasier om fri nytelse som en maskulin protest i TV2 Zebras Manshow.”]		Hotel room from 25th till 30th Jan. (5 nights).
BRYNHILD GRANÅS – brynhild.granas@uit.no	Dept. of Sociology, Political Science and Community Planning, Multi-disciplinary research school CEPIN (Citizenship, Encounters and Place Enactment in the North), University of Tromsø. PhD-project: The industrialization of ”the interior areas of the Nordic periphery”: An analysis of place conceptions and the ”displacement” of Kiruna Town. [Industrialisering av ”nordområdenes innland”: En analyse av stedsforståelser og ”flyttinga” av Kiruna by]	W/ Paper. Title: ”A town, a mine, and the virtues of narrating place history”. (In English)		Hotel room from 26th till 30th Jan. (4 nights).

E-mail addresses – PhD-students:

hanne.hammer.stien@uit.no, Espen.Ingebrigtsen@if.uib.no, bo.byrkjeland@if.uib.no, holger.potzsch@uit.no, Martin.Sand@lle.uib.no, Pauline.Hoath@lle.uib.no, tatjana.samoilow@ntnu.no, steffi.dejong@ntnu.no, lene.boe@uis.no, Tove.Haugsbo@kunstmuseene.no, bernhard.ellefsen@uia.no, annabella.skagen@ntnu.no, olaf.haagensen@uia.no, frode.boasson@ntnu.no, ingvil.f.hellstrand@uis.no, sissel.gunnerod@est.hio.no, Inger-Anne.Softing@hit.no, anne.karine.kleveland@ntnu.no, anders.malvik@hf.ntnu.no, eirik.loden@lle.uib.no, g.c.rustad@media.uio.no, fredrik.langeland@uis.no, brynhild.granas@uit.no

E-mail addresses – Faculty:

direktion@zfl-berlin.org, litera@zfl.gwz-berlin.de, theater@zedat.fu-berlin.de, charlotte.klonk@culture.hu-berlin.de, erll@em.uni-frankfurt.de, ansgar.nuenning@anglistik.uni-giessen.de, gcsc@uni-giessen.de, lars.saetre@lle.uib.no, unni.langas@uia.no, marie-theres.federhofer@uit.no, knut.eliassen@ntnu.no, cato.wittusen@uis.no, margareth.hagen@if.uib.no, keld.hyldig@lle.uib.no, randi.koppen@if.uib.no, christine.hamm@lle.uib.no, zeljka.svrljuga@if.uib.no, ketil.knutsen@uis.no, svein.gladso@hf.ntnu.no