KONF: 67th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies, online (22.10. – 23.10.2020)

INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH

School of Advanced Study | University of London

Thursday, 22 and Friday, 23 October 2020

10:00 – 15:00 (online via Zoom)

Programme

Thursday, 22 October 2020

10.00-10.15 Registration / Login

10.15-11.15 Panel 1: Illuminations: New Readings in German Romanticism

Svenja Glass (University of Kent): Language – Metaphor – Poetry: The Relevance of Mathematics in German Romanticism

Jonny Elling (University of Bristol): ‘Now lending splendour’: Luminous Rivers and the Figure of the Poet in Percy Shelley’s ‘Mont Blanc’ and Novalis’s Heinrich von Ofterdingen

11.15-11.30 Break

11.30-12.30 Panel 2: Investigating Archives and Exhibitions

Sophie Bayer (University of Edinburgh): The Ernst Levin Collection
Clare George (Miller Archivist/Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies at the IMLR) introduces the IGS Archives

12.30-13.30 Lunch Break

13.30-15.00 The 2020 Sylvia Naish Lecture (Chair: Godela Weiss-Sussex, IMLR)
Katherine E. Calvert (University of Sheffield): The Idealised Mother and the Socialist Movement in Weimar Germany

Friday, 23 October 2020

10.00-10.15 Registration / Login

10.15-11.15 Panel 3: Bildung, Family and Gender: Ideas in Transmission and Flux from the Baroque to Goethe
Sofia Derer (University of Heidelberg): Translation and the Strasbourg Lutheran Church in the Devotional Writings of Johann Michael Moscherosch

Juliana de Albuquerque (University College Cork): Goethe and Gender

11.15-11.30 Break

11.30-12.30 Panel 4: Outsiders and the Other: Counter-Culture, Marginalisation and Resistance in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries
Francesco Albé (University of Cambridge): ‘Wir sind alle sehr exponiert’: Homosexual German Émigrés during National Socialism

Sifei Qin (University of Erlangen): Das Außenseitertum im Werk Wilhelm Raabes
12.30-13.30 Lunch Break

13.30-14.30 Panel 5: Images of Society: From Photographic Records to Political Visions
Chantal Sullivan-Thomsett (University of Leeds): The German Green Party as ‘the leading force of the left-centre’: ‘radical’ pragmatism or gentrified protest?

Shivani Chauhan (University of Oxford): Gegen den Strudel des Vergessens: Identifying Mnemonic Threads of Post-Memorial Project and Reading Family Photographs in Sie kam aus Mariupol (2017) by Natascha Wodin

Participation is free, but advance online registration is required. Only registered participants will be sent the link c. one week beforehand enabling them to access the event. Registration is now open at:

https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22834

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