All rooms are equipped with an overhead projector
Rooms C, D, E, F, G and H (H only on Saturday): slide projector (framed slides, carrousel. There are extra carrousels available to set up your presentation in advance)
Rooms C, D, M, N, O, U and Committee Room 2: beamer to connect your laptop. You have to bring you own laptop. (If you want to use your Apple notebook, please contact us, as it may be incompatible.)
Rooms C, T and U: VCR
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Who is the Narrator? Voices of Emigrants in W.G.Sebald's Writing.
| SEBALD has made it his responsibility as a writer to serve the cause of those “to whom the greatest injustice was done,” and whose memory, he fears, will vanish if not kept alive by providing a voice for them. His writing is seen by him as an act of restitution. Ever restless, even haunted, his narrator’s journey sets him on a path that is littered by visions of destruction and victimization. His texts fuse fiction and factionality, providing a platform for witnesses to our moral disasters. Sebald’s academic essays and fiction contribute in novel ways to the cultural memory that informs our perception of history. The paper will examine the relationship between narrator and protagonists, between the listener/writer and the lost souls whose life he elevates and makes known. By recognizing an affinity between these, he also gives the reader an opportunity to develop their own “Wahlverwandtschaft” (elective affinity) with the unfortunate protagonists, all of them emigrants in one form or another, and thus a new sensitivity for our history of victimization is attained.
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