KONF: 70th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies, London / Online (9-10 June 2022)

INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH
School of Advanced Study | University of London

Booking is now open for the
70^th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies
https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/26267

Thursday, 9 June and Friday, 10 June 2022

The Colloquium will take place in person at King’s College London and online via MS Teams

Programme - Papers in blue are being given online

Thursday, 9 June 2022

09.45-10.00        Registration / Log in / Welcome
10.00-11.30        Panel 1: Death and Pain
Antimo Lucarelli (Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London): The Philosophy of Death in Ernst Bloch and Martin Heidegger
Roberto Interdonato (University of Graz): Staying under the Sun – The Ambivalence of Vision between Bliss and Pain in Ingeborg Bachmann’s poem ‘An die Sonne’ (1956)
Kevin Neuroth (King’s College London): Male Hysteria, Antisemitism and German Psychiatry, 1885-1900
Discussion
11.30-11.50        Coffee
11.50-12.50        Panel 2: Resistance
Meryem Choukri (University of Warwick): Archives of Resistance – Intersectional Alliances of Women of Colour in the 1990s
Jack Arscott (Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London): Writing the Writer and Anatomising Resistance
Discussion
12.50-14.10        Lunch Break (own arrangements)
14.10-15.40        Panel 3: Romanticism 
Paulina Julia Preisler (University of Bonn): Am goldenen Faden. Die Rezeption pythagoreischer Weltharmonie in Novalis‘ Klingsohr-Märchen
Dennis Schäfer (Princeton University): Ernst Wolfgang Behrisch – The Amanuensis in Dichtung und Wahrheit
Christopher Hoffman (Columbia University): Goethe and Literary Ascesis in Simmel and Gundolf
Discussion
15.40-16.00        Tea
16.00-17.00        2022 Sylvia Naish Lecture
Rhoslyn Beckwith (University of Swansea): Sex and the Sisi: An Examination of the Postmodern Literary Commemorations of Empress Elisabeth of Austria in the 21st Century
Discussion
End of first day

Friday, 10 June 2022

09.45-10.00        Registration / Log in
10.00-11.30        Panel 4: Eroticism and Desire
Kofi Kauffmann Mawusé Nsougan (University of Paderborn): Exotik und Erotik in deutschsprachigen zeitgenössischen Afrika-Texten. Eine intersektionale Untersuchung zu Corinne Hofmanns Die weiße Massai und Mara Kubeks Macumbé
Eloise Richardson (University of Cambridge): Thinking Outside the (Toy)Box: Masquerade, Performance and Subversion in Ernst Lubitsch’s Die Puppe (1919)
Aysha Melina Strachan (King’s College London): Meliur as a Figure of Omission in Konrad von Würzburg’s Partonopier und Meliur
Discussion
11.30-11.50        Coffee
11.50-12.50        Panel 5: Rethinking and Redefining
Imran Hashmi (University of Birmingham): Friedrich Nietzsche’s Redefinition of Enlightenment
Anna-Carina Dellwing (Ludwigsburg University of Education): ‘Es ist halt schwer, aber es steckt viel drin’.
Rainer Maria Rilkes Duineser Elegien – mit Schüler:innen literarische Gespräche führen
Discussion
12.50-14.00        Lunch Break (own arrangements)
14.00-15.30        Panel 6: Thresholds 1
Leonard Nadolny (Humboldt University Berlin): Geschlechtslose Männer und (un)sichtbare Frauen. Zur Darstellung nicht-konsensueller Sexualität und ihrer Kanonisierungsbedeutung in Christian Krachts Faserland und Marlene Streeruwitz’ Verführungen
Isabel Parkinson (St Hugh‘s College, University of Oxford): Let’s (Not) Talk About Sex, Baby: Promiscuity and Profanity in English Translations of Das Kunstseidene Mädchen (1932)
Vivian Jochens (Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London): Postmigration and Literature
Discussion
15.30-15.50        Tea
15.50-16.50        Panel 7: Thresholds 2
Claudia Merz (University of Olomouc): Literarische Frauenbilder in den Texten von deutschsprachigen Schriftstellerinnen aus den Gebieten Böhmens und Mährens im 19. Jahrhundert
Anchit Adrien Sathi (Queen Mary University London): Thomas Mann and the Queerness of Parenthood
Discussion

Advance online registration is essential whether attending in person or online
Book at https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/26267
Booking closes 8 June 2022

Registration for in person attendance: £15 for both days; £10 for one day (covers teas and coffees)
Online attendance free of charge

Institute of Modern Languages Research
School of Advanced Study | University of London
Room 239, Senate House | Malet Street | GB- London WC1E 7HU
Website http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk

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Redaktion: Constanze Baum – Lukas Büsse – Mark-Georg Dehrmann – Nils Gelker – Markus Malo – Alexander Nebrig – Johannes Schmidt

Diese Ankündigung wurde von H-GERMANISTIK [Mark-Georg Dehrmann] betreut – editorial-germanistik@mail.h-net.msu.edu