Dr. Jana Mikota and Prof. Daniel Stein cordially invite you to the hybrid lecture series "Graphic Narrative, Biography and Holocaust", which will take place on Tuesdays from 18 - 20 h (c.t.) in US-C 116 during the winter semester 2025-2026. Participation via Webex (video conference) is also possible!
The exact program can be found below.
Registration required: Jana Mikota(mikota@germanistik.uni-siegen.de)
Everything at a glance
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Event date
In the winter semester 2025/26
every Tuesday 6-8 pm -
Venue
University of Siegen
Campus Unteres Schloss
US-C 116
Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2
57068Siegen
or online! -
Event format
Lecture series, open to the general public
Program
- October 14
Introduction - October 21
Stephanie Lunkewitz (Los Angeles): Illustrating Biographies - October 28
Thomas Harding in conversation - November 04
Daniel Stein (Siegen): (Auto-)Biography and graphic storytelling - November 11
Petra Josting (Bielefeld): Autobiographical narration of the Holocaust in picture books - November 18
Hannah Brinkmann in conversation - November 25
Discussion - December 02
Myriam Halberstam (Berlin): Publishing biographies - December 09
Martin Frenzel (Darmstadt): Beyond Maus. Hatred of Jews and the Shoah in comics. From Rosenthal, Calvo, Kriegstein to Anne Frank, Jan Karski, the photographer of Mauthausen, the Holocaust of bullets, Oradour and memories of the Shoah. The principle of pictorial history as a vehicle for an active culture of remembrance - December 16
Larissa Jagdschian (Essen-Duisburg): Intergenerational constellations of figures in picture books - January 13
Kalina Kupczinska (Lodz): "A multivalenced knot of memory" - graphic biography(ies) of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - January 20
Lisa Källström (Lund): Who speaks when people draw? Shoah remembrance in Joanna Rubin Dranger's graphic novel Ihågkom oss till liv (2022) - January 27
Simone Depner (Hildesheim): Enabling access to the literature of remembrance - February 03
Final discussion
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