http://dwp-kosovo.info/ en felber@forumzfd.de Copyright 2012 2012-02-07T13:27:14+00:00 http://dwp-kosovo.info/en/EVENTS/auks_summer_programm_in_kosovo_2012_collective_memory_and_transitional_just/ http://dwp-kosovo.info/en/EVENTS/auks_summer_programm_in_kosovo_2012_collective_memory_and_transitional_just/ Find more information on the programme and how to apply here: www.aukonline.org/summer 2012-06-24T16:12:45+01:00 http://dwp-kosovo.info/en/EVENTS/cfa_workshop_graphic_novel._sketching_w._g._sebald_in_pristina/ http://dwp-kosovo.info/en/EVENTS/cfa_workshop_graphic_novel._sketching_w._g._sebald_in_pristina/ In the past few years graphic novels have attracted more and more attention both in the field of literature and the visual arts. Not only do they allow for an alternative perspective on the complexities of everyday life, but because of their distinct use of two media - image and text - they also suggest how memories of the past can find new forms of expression despite their inherent blanks. This interrelation between image and text lies at the core of the project graphic, novel. Taking the works of W.G. Sebald as a point of departure, we would like to rethink the dynamics between the two mediums in the context of Pristina, eager to tackle what suggests itself as ⟩grey areas⟨ in the memorization process by means of graphics and text. Also W.G. Sebald famously utilized in his work both image and text in order to find a momentary equilibrium between otherwise hazy or fragmented recollections, personal memories and, at times, ineffable events. However, similar to the grid-like structure of a Graphic Novel, the merging of image and text in W.G. Sebald’s work produces an ⟩excess of meaning⟨, which cannot be fully resolved. The workshop graphic, novel. takes this relationship between W.G. Sebald’s work and graphic novels as a starting point to enhance an in-depth study on how to access memory through image and text. It aims at taking the potential of the literary and graphic elements of graphic novels further by drawing on the author’s ⟩poet(h)ic of remembering⟨, but also by the direct encounter with and research into the environment the workshop is set in. The participants are invited to creatively delve into yet unprecedented graphic-novelist techniques, sketching what has been lost, what is to be retrieved, and how to conjoin the missing bits and contradictions of recent local history. Being an initiative from Pristina, the subject-matter from where to explore those techniques is the city and its (in-)visible histories. Therefore, additional to the seminars, the workshop will have a closer look at the matter and the surfaces of the city. Archival documents, found photographs, oral history and walks through the city will form a central part of the research and of the elaboration of a new graphic novel by means of visual and literary expressions. Throughout the workshop, the participants are invited to work on a chosen context presented to them in the city of Pristina. The results of the workshop will be shown in a group exhibition during the »Polip Literature Festival« held from May 11, 2012 to May 13, 2012. graphic, novel. Sketching W.G. Sebald in Pristina is organized by Elisabeth Desta and Sonja Lau. The workshop is led by researcher Ute Friederich and graphic novelist Barbara Yelin. Ute Friederich | (born 1984) studied German and English philology in Bonn and Aberdeen. In 2009, she accomplished her studies with the Magister Artium in Bonn. Her Masters thesis »Komik – Comic. Komische Elemente in den Texten Franz Kafkas und ihre bildliche Umsetzung in verschiedenen Comic-Adaptionen« (Engl.: »Komik – Comic. Comical elements in the work of Franz Kafka and their visual translations in graphic novels.«) was awarded the Roland-Faelske-Preis for comic and animation films. She is currently working on her dissertation on trauma, remembrance and montage in the oeuvre of W.G. Sebald and in a selection of graphic novels. Barbara Yelin | (born 1977 in Munich) studied illustration at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. She lives and works in Berlin as illustrator and comic book artist. Recent graphic novels include »Le Visiteur« (2004), »Le Retard« (2006), both published by Actes Sud/Editions de L’An 2, and »Gift« (2010, with Peer Meter) published by Reprodukt. Since 2005 she has been co-editor and contributor of SPRING, the annual magazine of women illustrators and comic artists. From 2010 to 2011, she was commissioned to run a series of comic workshops in Cairo on behalf of the Goethe-Institute Cairo. She currently teaches as a visiting professor at the »Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar« in Saarbrücken (Germany), presenting a seminar on »Comics and Graphic Novels«. SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS WILL RECEIVE TRAVEL COSTS AND FREE BOARD AND LODGING IN PRISTINA. FOR MORE INFORMATION AND THE APPLICATION FORM PLEASE CONTACT: info@qendra.org 2012-05-11T14:27:14+01:00 http://dwp-kosovo.info/en/EVENTS/book_release_considering_the_future._perspectives_on_dealing_with_the_past_/ http://dwp-kosovo.info/en/EVENTS/book_release_considering_the_future._perspectives_on_dealing_with_the_past_/ forumZFD Kosovo has published the book “Considering the Future, Perspectives on Dealing with the Past in Kosovo” - a compilation of articles, written by Kosovars about the ‘social wounds’ of the violent past, caused to their own field of interest. Seven authors, members of Thinkers’ Forum, facilitated by Mrs. Karmit Zysman, are writing about the casualties of war in History Teaching, Literature, Mental Health, Theatre, Identity, Cultural Heritage and Memorials in Kosovo. An interesting perspective on less visible victims of the violence. 2012-01-01T10:03:00+01:00