ANK: 72nd National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies, London (28.04 – 29.04.2023)

Jane Lewin Discussion

72ND NATIONAL POSTGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM IN GERMAN STUDIES

Friday, 28 and Saturday, 29 April 2023
At the University of London Senate House, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU

Friday, 28 April 2023
11.00-11.15 Registration / Welcome
11.15-12.45 Panel 1: Memory, Landscapes & Objects
Nancy Wilson (Queen Mary, University of London):  Nothing to See Out There?: The Ruin Gazers of Postwar German Cinema (1946–1948)
Lauren Cuthbert (University of Aberdeen): Commemoration and Commodification: Memorialisation of the German and Vietnamese Past through Objects in Meiers Nachlass (1975) and Eintritt kostenlos (1976)
Matthew Childs (University of Washington): The Ethics of Narrating Catastrophe: Kleist’s Das Erdbeben in Chili
Discussion
12.45-13.45 Lunch (Sandwich lunch provided)
13.45-15.15 Panel 2: Unusual Narrative Voices
Johanna Käsmann (University of Vienna): Vom Skandal zur Literaturkritik nach 1990. ˈIchˈ von Wolfgang Hilbig

Jente Azou (University of Mainz): Intergenerationelle Erinnerungskonstruktion in Nora Krugs Graphic Novel Heimat
Sara Walker (University of Vienna): Farewell, Cruel Landscape and Utopia in Ilse Aichinger’s ‘Mirror story’
Discussion
15.15-16.00 Tea
16.00-17.00 2023 Sylvia Naish Lecture
Sophia Buck (Merton College, Oxford): A 'Baedecker durch das Geistige Paris'. Walter Benjamin's (National) Literary Histories as Travel Guides

Saturday, 29 April 2023
10.30 -10.45 Registration / Welcome
10.45 -11.45 Panel 3: Gender & Sexuality in Literature 
Daniel Glanzner
(University of Bamberg): The Musical Erotic in Klaus Mann’s Symphonie Pathétique
Alida Vetturelli (University of Salzburg): Kafkas Frauenfiguren an der Schwelle zum Matriarchatsmythos und zum Judentum
Discussion
11.45-12.15 Tea / Coffee
12.15 -13.15 Panel 4: Reading & Rereading
Laura Kinzig
(University of Göttingen): The Aesthetic Character of Literary Works: Outline of a Literary Hermeneutics
Bogdan Burghelea (University of Tübingen): Reading Romantik Queer
Discussion
End of colloquium with optional lunch (own arrangements)

Advance online registration is essential
Book at: https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/72nd-national-postgraduate-colloquium-german-studies

The registration fee payable by speakers and other attendees: £15
(covers teas and coffees as well as a sandwich lunch on the first day)

The Colloquium is organised by a committee of students in association with the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies (ILCS)
Current members: 
Lauren Cuthbert (Aberdeen);  Matthew Hines (Birmingham); 
Anja Rekeszus (King's College London); Monja Stahlberger (ILCS, London)

 

Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies (formerly IMLR)
School of Advanced Study |University of London
Senate House | Malet Street |London WC1E 7HU
Tel: +44 (0)20 7862 8966 | Email: jane.lewin@sas.ac.uk
Website: https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/


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

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