ANK: 72nd National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies, London (28.04 – 29.04.2023)
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
Post a Reply
Join this Network to Reply