KONF: ASSOCIATION FOR GERMAN STUDIES IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, Nottingham (05.-07.09.2022)

1.00-2.00

Arrival and registration, lunch

In Trent B46 (The University of Nottingham, University Park, Trent Building, Nottingham NG7 2RD)  

2-00

3.30

Panel Autobiography

Chair: Ute Hirsekorn

Medieval Studies

Chair: Sarah Bowden

German Screen Studies Network 1: Media and Gender

Chairs: Dora Osborne & Katya Krylova

Helen Finch: German-Jewish literary life writing after the Holocaust as archive of emotions

Samantha Grayck: The Political is Personal: Trial Reportage as Autobiography and Public Witnessing

Elizabeth Boa: Elizabeth Boa: ‘Emine Sevgi Özdamar: Das Leben ist eine Karavaserei (1992), Die Brücke vom Goldenen Horn (1998), Ein von Schatten begrenzter Raum (2021): an autofictional trilogy?

Josephine Spelsberg: Chivalric Compassion versus Race: Inclusion and Exclusion of Diverse Characters in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival

Cameron Cross: Blame it on the Devil: A Dehumanisation Studies Reading of Violence, Possession and Morality in Der Stricker's Die eingemauerte Frau

Detlev Weber: Wolfdietrich; a wolf standing up for his rights

Tom Smith: In the Moment: The Present as Work in Progress in Queer Streaming Media

Harry Louis Roddy: Ecce Homo: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Portrayal of Wounded Masculinity

Eleanor Halsall: Unsung heroines – the forgotten contribution of the Ateliersekretärin

3.30-4.00

                               BREAK

4.00-5.30

                                           President’s Guests: Ulrike Almut Sandig

                                   reading from her work

                                     and in conversation with Karen Leeder, academic, author, poet and translator

6.30

                                                                                                     DRINKS RECEPTION AND DINNER (at 7:00) in the Orchard Hotel,        

                                                                    The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham (NG7 2RJ),

                                                          walking distance from Trent Building

9.00-

10.30

Teaching and Researching Adaptation 1

Chair: Debbie Pinfold

Linguistics

Chair: Melani Schroeter

The 18^th Century Panel

Chair: Joanna Raisbeck

Zeljko Uvanovic:  Alain Gsponer’s Heidi (2015) and Jugend ohne Gott (2017): A Comparison of Utopian and Dystopian Adaptation Techniques

(remote)

Christiane Schönfeld: The Impact of Adaptation: German-language literature on film  (remote)

Julian Preece: From French Vienna to Barcelona via New York: Marriage Scenes in International Adaptations of Arthur Schnitzler’s Reigen

Claus Ehrhardt & Sabrina Link: The usage of routine formulae in Bundestag speeches

Louis Cotgrove: als ob jetzt kann man dich ernst nehmen: Emergent grammaticalization of subordinating conjunctions in German digital youth language

Torsten Leuschner: The rise of V1-Conditionals in German(ic): Traditions and a Constructionalisation-Based Scenario

Flavio Auer: Tieck’s Kaiser Octavianus as capstone of Early Romanticism

Elystan Griffiths: Obedience in the Age of Enlightenment

Jerome Carroll: Johann Gottfried Sulzer’s adherence to and departure from rationalist principles: perfectibility, indeterminacy, relationality, anti-essentialism

10.30-

11.00

BREAK

11.00-

12.30

Teaching and Researching Adaptation 2

Chair: Julian Preece

 The young and the old in the 18th and 19th centuries

(In association with the English Goethe Society)

Chair: Kevin Hilliard

Stories of Contagion in Literature, Film and Theory (4 papers of 15 minutes each)

Chair: Heike Bartel (Organizer Sebastian Klinger)

Alexandra Lloyd: Die Linie ist wie eine Stimme’: Adapting Acoustic Worlds in Ulli Lust and Marcel Beyer’s Graphic Novel Flughunde (2013)

Debbie Pinfold: Effi Briest and her Afterlives: Teaching a Canonical Text through Film Adaptations

Rey Conquer: Reading Transit with Christian Petzold

Željko Uvanović: Climbing Jacob’s Ladder post mortem as old and young. The Ascension of Goethe’s Faust (1832/1833) and Haupt-mann’s Hannele (1893) in Comparison. (remote)

Hans Hahn: The Accommodation of Art in Old Age as seen in Thomas Mann’s Lotte in Weimar.

Charlotte Woodford: “Wir hätten keine Zukunft mehr? Unsinn!”: Future-orientated ideas of aging in women’s writings around 1900

Alice Christensen: Das Verfahren der Impfung: Protective Strategies in Works by Walter Benjamin and Anna Seghers

Marie Kolkenbrock: Immunitary Democracy and Social Quarantine: On the Cultural History of Distance Metaphors

Annja Neumann: Infectious Images: Dr Tulp’s Afterlife in German Literature, Visual Culture and Performance

Sebastian Klinger (Oxford): Learning from an Epidemic: Sleeping Sickness and Sleep Science

12.30-

1.30

LUNCH

1.30-

3.00

PGR/ECR session (hybrid)

Chairs: Louis Cotgrove and Sascha Stollhans, Claire Ross, Isabel Story

This session is specifically targeted at anyone who identifies as a postgraduate or early-career academic and is an opportunity to discuss all experiences of life in academia in a relaxed, supportive environment. The session will take a roundtable format with several invited speakers who will lead discussions covering issues specific to postgraduates and early-career academics, including precarity in the current academic job market, research and teaching opportunities in the UK and Ireland, academic jobs in the DACH region, and networking opportunities. 

Schools networking and liaison (hybrid)

Chair: Alex Lloyd (Oxford)

(With representatives from the regional schools networks)

Rebuilding outreach and networks after COVID; and curating online support for schools

German Studies and impactful research – examples and discussion

Chair: tbc

Contributions from Nicola Mclelland, Karen Leeder, Heike Bartel and others

German Screen Studies Network 2: Cinema and Identity

(Chairs) Dora Osborne and Katya Krylova

Bastian Heinsohn: Revolutionizing German Cinema in the 1960s: The films of Will Tremper

Paul Leworthy: Memory, Family and a Post-Migrant Perspective: Migration Reframed in Almanya -Willkommen in Deutschland

Philip Decker: Searching for the Nazi Potemkin: Karl Anton’s Panzerkreuzer Sebastopol as Tribute and Rebuttal to Bolshevism

3.00-

3.30

BREAK

3.30-

5.00

Deutsch als Fremdsprache / Language Teaching Practices in German Departments (4 papers of 15 minutes each)

Chair: Ulrike Bavendiek

19^th- and Early-20^th -Century Studies 1

Chair: Margit Dirscherl

German Studies and/in Health Humanities

Chair: Heike Bartel

Daniela Flint: Too large, too small? The importance of group size for effective ab initio German language teaching

Sophie Payne & Wendy Hillier (University of Reading): Effective assessment in LfA modules

Sabina Barczyk-Wozniak: German Courses in Institution-Wide Language Provision at Cardiff University – programme design and student profiles

(remote)

Tracey Reimann-Dawe: Integrating post A-level and ab inito learners of German in language and cultural modules: challenges and successes

(remote)

Joanna Neilly: Rethinking Romanticism through Die Winterreise

Alyson Lai: Staging the Apocalypse: Juxtaposition in die Brücke Studios and der Blaue Reiter Almanac

Anchit Sathi: Thomas Mann and the Queerness of Parenthood

Stephanie Hilger: Intersections: Health Humanities and German Studies

(remote)

Rebecca Kammerlander-Wismeg: A missing limb and a broken heart

Katherine Calvert: Happiness and Despair in Erika Runge’s Frauen: Versuche zur Emanzipation

5.00-5.15

BREAK

5.30-6.30

The AGS at 90 – Reflections on the past, looking to the future

7.15

DINNER

9.00-

10.00

Association for German Studies Business Meeting

10.00-

10.15

                                                                     BREAK

10.15-

11.45

 The Anthropocene

 Chairs: Karen Leeder and Nicola Thomas

German Studies Open Panel

Chair: TBC

Cultural crossings: transition, translocation and transformation 1

Chair: Caroline Summers

Alexis Radisoglou: Anthropocene Realism

Karen Leeder: An Anthropocene Aesthetics? Thoughts based on two Contemporary Poets

Nicola Thomas: Doom and Bloom: Friederike Mayröcker’s Anthropocene Lateness

Ian Ellison: Über-, Fort-, Nach-, Weiterleben? Benjamin and Afterlife

Peter Davies: Archive or Memorial? Working with the Archive of the First Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial

Merisa Sahin: Ottoman Vulgärmaterialismus: Beşir Fuad and His Theory of a Materialist Citizenship (remote)

Joseph Prestwich: Constructing Germanness through Anglo-German Collaboration in Joe Hill-Gibbins’ A Midsummer Nights Dream (2017)

Sophia Buck: A ‘Baedecker durch das geistige Paris’: Walter Benjamin’s (national) literary histories as travel guides for foreigners

Claire Ross: Yadé Kara’s Cafe Cyprus and the imperial property ladder

11.45-

12.00

BREAK

12.00-

1.30

Cultural crossings: transition, translocation and transformation 2

Chair: Caroline Summers

History of learning and teaching German

Chairs: Catherine Mason & Nicola McLelland

19^th- and Early-20^th -Century Studies 2

Chair: Margit Dirscherl

Agis Sideras: Transition im Werk von Alfred Andersch

Tobias Heinrich: Undines Briefe. Sprachen der Grenzüberschreibung in der Korrespondenz Ingeborg Bachmanns und Hans Werner Henzes

Nicola McLelland: German at Universities in the UK and Ireland – a preliminary history

Catherine Mason: The ebbing of poetry and prose in the language-learning classroom, 1900 – the present

Cristophe Fricker: What language learning means to tabloid readers

Nick Jones: Building Utopia: On Cathedrals and Revolutions in Arnold Zweig’s Pont und Anna

Margit Dirscherl: Alexander Lernet-Holenia’s and Stefan Zweig’s ‚kleine Komödie‘ Qui pro quo (1928)

Ute Wölfel: Failing Humanism in the Face of National Socialism: Friedrich Wolf’s Professor Mamlock (1933)

1.30-2.30

CLOSING WORDS AND LUNCH