Time’s Witnesses: Narratives from Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen

The Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies cordially invitesyou to the Ninth Dr. George J. Wittenstein Lecture:

Referring to and proceeding from his book with the above title (co-edited
with Anette Storeide and published in 2006), Professor Lothe will focus on
both the possibilities and challenges of narrating about the historical
event of the Holocaust. He will also refer to Holocaust research in Norway,
including the projects pursued at the Center for Holocaust Studies where he
serves as a board member.

Jakob Lothe is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oslo.
His books include Conrad’s Narrative Method (Oxford, 1989) and Narrative in
Fiction and Film (Oxford, 2000). He is the author of numerous essays and
has edited or co-edited several volumes including, Franz Kafka: Zur
ethischen und aesthetischen Rechtfertigung (co-edited with Beatrice
Sandberg, Rombach Verlag, 2002), The Art of Brevity (University of South
Carolina Press, 2004), Literary Landscapes (Palgrave, 2008), and Joseph
Conrad: Voice, Sequence, History, Genre (co-edited with Jeremy Hawthorne
and James Phelan, Ohio State University Press, 2008). In 2005-2006 he was
the leader of the research project “Narrative Theory and Analysis” at the
Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo.

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