German Research Seminars 2000-2001
Thursdays, in North Arts room 216, at 4 pm till about 5.30
http://www.swan.ac.uk/german/research/ressem.htm
All welcome
12 October: Mike Joseph (writer and publisher, Cardiff),
'The Hundred Year House: Holocaust History and Family History'
[see background information and links at the website]
19 October: opportunity to preview 'Für Lohn und Würde'
(documentary, 30 mins, 1999, dir. Helmut Bauer, on the
pursuit of justice by women survivors of Ravensbrück
concentration camp and the Daimler-Benz factory-camp
in Genshagen, near Berlin)
[see background information and links at the website]
26 October: Dr Helmut Bauer (writer and filmmaker, Berlin) and
Agnes Bartha (Hungarian survivor of Ravensbrück and
Genshagen/Berlin, Budapest),
'Für Lohn und Würde', followed by an update on the women
survivors' quest, and discussion (in German and/or English)
9 November: Allyson Fiddler (Lancaster),
'Staging Jörg Haider: Elfriede Jelinek's Ein Lebewohl'
16 November: Colin Riordan (Professor of German, Newcastle),
'Problems of Progress in German Literature'
23 November: Stuart Smith (Swansea),
'"Im Westen nichts Neues"? World War Two in West German
Prose of the 1950s (Peter Bamm, Gerd Gaiser, Gert Ledig)'
30 November: Mererid Puw Davies (UCL), title tbc
7 December: Paul Cooke (Aberystwyth),
'Beyond a Trotzidentität? Questions of East German Identity in
Post-Wende Literature'
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'Writing Diasporas' conference
Swansea, September 20-23 2000:
Programme, (updated) abstracts, follow-up information etc at:
http://www.swan.ac.uk/conferences/transcomm/mainpage.htm
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German Research Seminar:
http://www.swan.ac.uk/german/research/ressem.htm#Prog001
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Dr Tom Cheesman (Lecturer in German / Dozent fuer Germanistik)
Department of German
University of Wales Swansea
Swansea SA2 8PP
Wales, GB
T: 00 44 1792 295170
F: 00 44 1792 295710
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http://www.swan.ac.uk/german
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