Dr. Susanne Knittel

Universitair hoofddocent
Literatuurwetenschap
Moderne en hedendaagse literatuur
s.c.knittel@uu.nl

Activiteiten

2024

IOS Fair Transitions Platform seminar series: Rethinking the Margins. Talk by Dr Susanne Knittel, Staging Ecocide, with Dr Luisa Netto as discussantKnittel, S. (Participant)
29 Apr 2024

2023

Ecologies of Violence: Scales of Complicity in Contemporary Family NovelsKnittel, S. (Keynote speaker)
17 Nov 2023
, BAAHE Conference 2023: “Complexities/Complicities”
Urban Politics and Memory of Heritage: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the City as an Agent in Historical CultureKnittel, S. (Organiser)
31 Oct 2023
Berghahn (Publisher)Knittel, S. (Peer reviewer)
17 Sept 2023
Unheimliche Heimat: Schattenseiten der ErinnerungKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
2 May 2023
De Gruyter (Publisher)Knittel, S. (Peer reviewer)
24 Mar 2023

2022

University of Michigan Press (Publisher)Knittel, S. (Peer reviewer)
7 Oct 2022
Representing the Holocaust: Ethics, Affect, and PerpetrationKnittel, S. (Speaker)
26 Sept 202230 Sept 2022
Berghahn (Publisher)Knittel, S. (Peer reviewer)
Aug 2022
The Value of Dust: Memory and Identity at Italy’s MarginsKnittel, S. (Member of committee)
2 Jun 2022
Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University (External organisation)Knittel, S. (Member)
20222027

2021

Ecologies of Violence. Revisiting (Mi)lieux de Mémoire after the Environmental TurnKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
29 Nov 2021
The Question Concerning PerpetratorsKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
11 Nov 2021
, The 1939 Lecture in Holocaust Studies

2019

Wor(l)ds Without Us: Lecture at Descartes Honourscollege UtrechtKnittel, S. (Participant)
2 Oct 2019
Memory and Activism: Mnemonics Summer School 2019Knittel, S. (Organiser)
18 Sept 201920 Sept 2019
University of Wisconsin Press (Publisher)Knittel, S. (Peer reviewer)
29 Mar 2019
OSL Winter School Ravenstein Seminar 2019Knittel, S. (Participant)
23 Jan 201925 Jan 2019

2018

Regarding Perpetrators: Repetition, Reenactment, RepresentationKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
29 Nov 2018
The Uncanny Memory of Nazi EuthanasiaKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
12 Oct 2018
, Vereniging Vrouwelijke Juristen Rotterdam
Understanding Perpetration and ComplicityKnittel, S. (Participant)
28 Jun 2018
Figures of Comparison in Memory Studies: Singularity, Multidirectionality, DiffractionKnittel, S. (Keynote speaker)
19 Apr 201821 Apr 2018
, Co-memoration
Mirroring Evil RevisitedKnittel, S. (Organiser)
22 Mar 201824 Mar 2018
Double exposuresKnittel, S. (Organiser)
11 Jan 201813 Jan 2018
Violence Elsewhere. Imagining Violence outside Germany since 1945. DAAD-funded project, UCL and University of York (External organisation)Knittel, S. (Chair)
20182020
Compromised Identities? Reflections on Perpetration and Complicity under Nazism; AHRC-funded project, UCL (External organisation)Knittel, S. (Chair)
20182021

2017

Mirroring Evil UnboundKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
13 Dec 201716 Dec 2017
, Memory Studies Association
Memory Studies AssociationKnittel, S. (Participant)
13 Dec 201716 Dec 2017
Shallow Graves: The Politics of Perpetrator RepresentationKnittel, S. (Keynote speaker)
14 Nov 201716 Nov 2017
, El infierno de los perpetradores
Parallax (Journal)Knittel, S. C. (Guest editor)
18 Oct 2017
Memory after Humanism: Vulnerability, Disability, SpeciesKnittel, S. C. (Invited speaker)
7 Apr 2017
Memory after HumanismKnittel, S. C. (Keynote speaker)
15 Feb 2017
, Futures of Memory
Journal of Perpetrator Research (Journal)Knittel, S. (Editor)
2017 → …

2016

Towards a Post-Humanist Memory StudiesKnittel, S. C. (Speaker)
4 Dec 2016
, Thinking Through the Future of Memory
Towards a Posthumanist Memory StudiesKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
3 Dec 20165 Dec 2016
, Thinking Through the Future of Memory
Confronting Violent Pasts and Historical (In)JusticeKnittel, S. (Participant)
1 Dec 20163 Dec 2016
Teaching about Perpetrators: Ethics, Aesthetics, PoliticsKnittel, S. (Organiser)
10 Nov 201612 Nov 2016
Shallow Graves: The Politics of Perpetrator RepresentationKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
20 Oct 201622 Oct 2016
, On Collective Violence. Actions, Roles, Perceptions
Representing Perpetrators of Mass ViolenceKnittel, S. (Organiser)
31 Aug 20163 Sept 2016
Shallow Graves: The Politics of Perpetrator RepresentationKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
23 Jun 201624 Jun 2020
, The Impact of WWII on European Society and Culture
Memory, Posthumanism, and the AnthropoceneKnittel, S. C. (Organiser)
19 May 2016
Memory, Posthumanism, and the AnthropoceneKnittel, S. (Organiser)
19 May 2016
Teaching about Perpetrators: Theories, Concepts, ApproachesKnittel, S. (Organiser)
28 Apr 201630 Apr 2016
Memory and Repetition: Reenactment as an Affirmative Critical Practice – Perpetrator DocumentsKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
21 Mar 2016
Why Look At Perpetrators?Knittel, S. (Organiser)
15 Mar 2016
Unheimliche Heimat. Triest als Erinnerungsraum. Simon Wiesenthal LectureKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
18 Feb 2016
Fragmente einer kulturellen Erinnerung: NS-‘Euthanasie’ und ZwangssterilisationKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
13 Feb 2016

2015

The Transatlantic Eugenics Movement as a Site of MemoryKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
16 Oct 2015
, Dynamics of Vulnerability and Traumatic Affect
Bridging the SilenceKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
28 Sept 2015
, Technologies of Narration
Probing the Limits of Categorization: The 'Bystander' in Holocaust HistoryKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
24 Sept 201526 Sept 2015
Teaching about Perpetrators: Documents, Media, RepresentationsKnittel, S. (Organiser)
10 Sept 201512 Sept 2015
Re: Perpetrators: Repetition, Reenactment, RepresentationKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
1 Sept 20153 Sept 2015
, Encountering Perpetrators of Mass Killings, Political Violence, and Genocide
Black Holes and Revelations: The Foibe on Italian TelevisionKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
18 May 2015
, lezing voor studievereniging Euphorion (Utrecht)
The Uncanny Memory of Nazi EuthanasiaKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
6 May 2015
, Historische Lezing, Medische Studenten Faculteitsvereniging Utrecht "Sams"
The Uncanny Memory of Nazi EuthanasiaKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
23 Jan 2015
, Holocaust Memorial Day 2015: Vergeten Slachtoffers: 70 jaar reflectie
Book Presentation The Historical UncannyKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
22 Jan 2015
, Transnational Memory Seminar
Memory and Repetition: Reenactment as an Affirmative Critical PracticeKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
2015
, Memory Practices and the Making of Europe. International NITMES Conference
Colonial Ruin: (In)Visible Sites of Postcolonial MemoryKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
2015
, Colonial Ruin: (In)Visible Sites of Postcolonial Memory

2014

Literature and TestimonyKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
19 Oct 2014
, Herdenking Opstand Sobibor
The Uncanny Memory of Nazi EuthanasiaKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
3 Jul 2014
, Disturbing Pasts: Reverberations of the Second World War in Europe after 1945 (University College London)
Mnemopathographies: Crime Fiction as Vehicle for Local and (Trans)National Memory WorkKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
27 Jun 2014
, Memory Transfers and Transformations (Konstanz)
Transnational Memory SeminarKnittel, S. (Organiser)
19 Jun 2014
Memory Redux: The foibe on Italian TelevisionKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
19 Jun 2014
, Negotiating Memories on Television and in the Public Sphere: The Case of Italy (Utrecht)
“Basta con le rimozioni!” Le foibe nella televisione italianaKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
19 Jun 2014
, Televisionismo (L’istituto italiano di cultura per i Paesi Bassi, Amsterdam)

2013

Constructing a Nation of Victims: The Repression of Fascism in Italian MemoryKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
17 Sept 2013
, In Search of Transcultural Memory, COST Action Conference, Work Group Politics of Memory, Social Construction of Guilt and Victimhood

2012

Vicarious Witnessing: Towards a More Inclusive Memory StudiesKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
2012
, Invited Lecture, Comparative Literature Seminar
The Perpetrator ParadoxKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
2012
, Public Lecture
Black Holes and Revelations: Trieste’s Divided MemoryKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
2012 → …
, Transnational Memory Series, research area Cultures and Identities

2011

Vicarious Witnessing: The Memory of Nazi Euthanasia in German Post-War LiteratureKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
19 Apr 2011
, WWII, the Resistance and the Holocaust in Italian Literature and Cinema (New York)

2010

The Musical Poetics of Amelia RosselliKnittel, S. (Invited speaker)
2010 → …
, Poetry, Poetics, and Society in Italy since 1945