INTERSECTIONS - INTERACTIONS - INTERDEPENDENCE
Culture and Politics in 20th century Germany
CONFERENCE AT
THE NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY
6th-8th SEPTEMBER 2000
PROGRAMME
WEDNESDAY, 6th September
10.30 Arrival and Registration
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Introduction
11.45 The Concept of Culture in its Development from the
19th to the 20th Century (FRITZ WEFELMEYER, Sunderland)
12.15 The 'Geist und Macht' Dichotomy in Germany: Just a
Game of Red Indians? (STUART PARKES, Sunderland)
12.45 Discussion
13.15 Lunch
14.30 German Political Culture regarding the 'Recent
Past'. A discourse-analytic view on three public
speeches of the 80s and 90s (HANS-JOACHIM HAHN, Berlin)
15.00 Remembering for the future, engaging with the present: National
memory management and the dialectic of normality in the 'Berlin Republic'
(CAROLINE GAY, Birmingham)
15.30 Discussion
16.00 Tea
16.30 Imagining multicultural society: migrant and postmigrant literature
in the context of social change (JIM JORDAN, Nottingham Trent)
17.00 ' Discussion
17.30 Sherry Reception
18.30 Dinner
20.00 Guest Speaker Thomas Ahbe (Leipzig). "Ostalgie":
Konstruktionen ostdeutscher Identität durch Westdeutsche und Ostdeutsche
seit dem Beitritt 1990.
THURSDAY, 7th September
8.00-9.00 Breakfast
9.15 '"Das habe ich getan", sagt mein Ged?chtnis, "Das
kann ich nicht getan haben", sagt mein Stolz!"'
History and Morality in Hochhuth's Effis Nacht
(HANS-JOACHIM HAHN, Oxford Brookes)
9.45 The Plebiscite of the Consumers? Hans Magnus
Enzensberger and Cultural Populism (ALASDAIR KING,
Portsmouth)
10.15 'Der Schriftsteller als B¸rger'- G¸nter Grass and
the Politics of the Seventies (GISELA SCHNEIDER,
University College Cork)
10.45 Discussion
11.15 Coffee
11.45 Coping with the Wende: Christa Wolf in the 1990s (PETER GRAVES,
Leicester)
12.15 Stefan Heym and GDR Cultural Policy (REINHARD
ZACHAU, University of the South, Tennessee)
12.45 Discussion
13.15 Lunch
14.30 The GDR and the West: Cultural policy and Diplomacy
in the 1980s (MARIANNE HOWARTH, Nottingham Trent)
15.00 The Reassessment of GDR Revolutionary Heritage in the
"Clowns-Liedertheater" of Karls Enkel (DAVID ROBB, Belfast)
15.30 Discussion
16.00 Tea
16.30 Intersubjectivity, Functional Coupling, Autonomy:
Luhmann and Habermas (COLIN GRANT, Heriot-Watt)
17.00 Models of the Intellectual in Contemporary France
and Germany (JOHN MARKS, Nottingham Trent)
17.30 Discussion
19.00 Conference Dinner
FRIDAY, 8th September
8.00 Breakfast
9.00 In the Exile of Internment: Reflections of
German-speaking Women interned by the British during
the Second World War
(CHARMIAN BRINSON, London: Imperial College)
9.30 '... ein tausendj?hriges Unrecht wieder gut machen':
Women and the German Civil Code (GISELA SHAW, University
of the West of England)
10.00 Discussion
10.30 Coffee
10.50 A Worm's and a Bird's Eye View: Culture and Politics
in Berlin after 1989 (ULRIKE ZITZLSPERGER, Exeter)
11.20 The Holocaust Memorial (MANUEL GULL, Nottingham
Trent)
11.50 Aimee und Jaguar, Hitlerjunge Salomon, Meschugge:
Presentations of Jewish Characters in recent German Films
(STUART TABERNER, Leeds)
12.20 Discussion and Conference Business
13.30 Lunch and Departure
Further Information
Location: The conference will be held at the Clifton Campus of The
Nottingham Trent University. Accommodation (en-suite) will be on-site, in
Peverell Hall. The campus is set on its own landscaped grounds with
University residences on site and the River Trent running at the back of the
campus. A location map can be found on the web at:
http://tims.ntu.ac.uk/images/Infomap.gif
Cost: Charges will be as follows and are inclusive of conference
registration. It will not be possible to offer individual packages which do
not fit into the following categories:
* Whole conference, including
conference dinner and accommodation
(full rate)
£ 135.00
* Speakers
£ 110.00
* Day delegate rate 6th September
(including lunch and refreshments)
£ 15.00
Plus evening meal
£ 25.00
* Day delegate rate 7th September
(including lunch and refreshments)
£ 15.00
Plus conference dinner
£ 35.00
* Day delegate rate 8th September
(including lunch and refreshments)
£ 15.00
INTERSECTIONS - INTERACTIONS Ò
INTERDEPENDENCE
CONFERENCE AT THE NOTTINGHAM TRENT
UNIVERSITY
6th-8th SEPTEMBER 2000
You are invited to complete the form of notification, indicating your wishes
as appropriate, and to return it to:
III Conference
Christof Noseleit
Department of Modern Languages
The Nottingham Trent University
Clifton Lane
Nottingham NG11 8NS
or by e-mail to: [log in to unmask]; or fax it: +44
(0)115-948 666 8
as SOON AS POSSIBLE. Receipt of your notification will be acknowledged in
due course.
Christof Noseleit
Research Assistant
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