KONF: 68th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies, online (24.-25.05.2021)

Jane Lewin Discussion

INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH

School of Advanced Study | University of London

 

Booking is now open for the

 

68th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies 

 

Monday, 24 and Tuesday, 25 May 2021 (online)

 

 

Monday, 24 May 2021

 

11.45-12.00     Registration/Login

 

12.00-13.30     Panel 1: Death and Murder

Nicholas Beckmann (Free University of Berlin): Murder Tales – True Crime Narratives between Fact and Fiction
Anna-Carina Dellwing (Ludwigsburg University): Suicide in Children's and Youth Literature: The Role of the Reader in the Construction of Perpetrator and Victim Roles
Anna Murawska (University of Hamburg): When Dying is not Enough: The Aspect of Extinction in some Sturm und Drang Dramas

 

13.30-14.00     Break

 

14.00-15.30     Panel 2: Identities in Writing

Monja Stahlberger (Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London): Kindertransport Diaries, Self and Belonging: An Investigation of Ambiguous Identities
Sam Osborn (University of St Andrews): The Queer Split-Perspective in Brigitte Reimann’s Franziska Linkerhand
Joseph Russo (University of Glasgow): John Henry Mackay’s Ideas on Queerness in Der Puppenjunge

 

15.30-16.00     Break

 

16.00-17.30     2021 Sylvia Naish Lecture

Laura Lux (King’s College London): Science and the Cinematic Machine: Harun Farocki’s NICHTlöschbares Feuer and the 1968 ‘Technologie-Kampagne’

 

 

Tuesday, 25 May 2021

 

11.45-12.00     Registration/Login

 

12.00-13.30     Panel 3: Educational Interventions

Catherine Mason (Queen Mary University of London): From National Socialism to the Red Army Faction: An Unexpected Collision with the Penguin Book of German Verse
Djouka Tuekam (University of Dschang): Der Gebrauch von ʿIhr und Wir plusʾ und ʿder kompetenzbasierte Ansatz‘. Der Faktor ʿUmweltʾ im DaF-Unterricht in nicht deutschsprachigen Ländern: Der Fall von Kamerun
Juliana de Albuquerque (University College York): Goethe and Gender

 

13.30-14.00     Break

 

 

14.00-15.30      Panel 4: The World Around Us

Corinna Sauter (Tübingen): Weltmeer, Seefahrt: Zur nautischen Daseinsmetaphorik und Lebenskünsten bei Jean Paul
Vandana Rani (Nehr University, India/University of Constance): Natur-Mensch Symbiose: Mutualismus oder Parasitismus? Eine vergleichende Studie der zwei Werke Das Haidedorf und Frost
Sifei Qin (University of Erlangen-Nuremburg): Das Außenseitertum im Werk Wilhelm Raabes

 

15.30-16.00     Break

 

16.00-17.30     Panel 5: Reimagining Receptions

Jana Riedel (Queen Mary University of London): Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as Cultural Transferant: the Great Exhibition of 1851
Matthew Shaul (Queen Mary University of London): Photographer Gundula Schulze Eldowy and the East German Secret Police
Mavris Masterson (University of Wisconsin, Madison): Flesh Made Word: Ernst Jandl’s Interpretation of the Gospel of John

 

This event will be held online via Zoom.

Participation is free, but advance online registration is essential at https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24283

Booking closes on 23 May 2021.

 

 

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More about the Colloquium

 

 

 

Institute of Modern Languages Research

School of Advanced Study | University of London
Room 239, Senate House | Malet Street | GB- London WC1E 7HU http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk<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 [Lukas Büsse] betreut – editorial-germanistik@mail.h-net.msu.edu