Colloquium 1: January 2006

Women dying: victims, suicides, mourning

Trinity College, Oxford 

Thursday, 5 January 2006

14.30-17.00: Welcome and Introductions

Introduction to the project and its aims: Sarah Colvin & Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly
Participants introduce themselves and their research

17.00-18.00: Opening Paper

Pamela Sue Anderson (Oxford) - Death and/as Woman: Ambiguity and Ambivalence in the Philosophical Imaginary

Friday, 6 January 2006

9.00-13.00: Classical and Biblical Models of Sacrifice

(Chair: Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly)

Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg (Madison, Wisconsin) - The Perfect Death as represented in the Lives of Medieval Women Saints

Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood (Oxford) - Iphigeneia and others: virgin sacrifices in ancient Greece

Anna Linton (King’s, London) - Endgames: The literary fates of Iphigeneia and Jephthah’s daughter

14.30 - 18.00: Driven to death – Suicide or Freitod

(Chair: Sarah Colvin)

Gesa Dane (Göttingen) –  Cause of death: Loss of honour. Dimensions of the concept of victimhood

Nicholas Saul (Durham) – Authorship, gender, remembrance: Woman and the problem of suicide from Lucinde to Wally

Ruth Owen (Oxford) – German Ophelia Poems 1940-2000

Saturday, 7 January 2006

9.30 - 12.00: The Living Dead

(Chair: Anna Richards)

Jürgen Barkhoff (TCD) – Women vampires , victimhood and vengeance: E.T.A. Hoffmann’s “Gräßliche Geschichte”

Ben Morgan (Oxford) – Zombies and mourning in Elfriede Jelinek's “Die Kinder der Toten”

12.00 - 15.00: The Aestheticisation of the Victim

(Chair: Helen Fronius)

Stefanie Knöll (Düsseldorf) - Beauty meets Horror: The motif of death and the maiden in early modern art

Uta Kornmeier (Oxford) – Victim or Venus? Waxworks in the long 19th century

Sunday, 8 January 2006

9.00- 11.00: Grief and Mourning

(Chair: Anna Linton)

Anna Richards (Birkbeck, London) - Mourning ‘with a female heart’: Grief and gender in the late eighteenth century

Gisela Ecker (Paderborn) - Weiterschreiben. Marie Luise Kaschnitz' and Friederike Mayröcker's Requiems

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Conclusions and Future Directions: Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly & Sarah Colvin