The programme for the coming semester is reproduced below, and is on
the web at:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/german/prog99.htm
UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN STUDIES
RESEARCH SEMINAR 2000-2001
Seminars take place on Thursdays at 4.00 p.m. in Room 6.2, unless otherwise stated. All welcome (including undergraduate students).
Semester 2
February 1
Owen Evans (Bangor): Distance from the Self? Ludwig Harig's 'novel' Weh dem, der aus der Reihe tanzt
February 8
Peter J. Davies (Edinburgh): Metaphor made real: Johannes R. Becher's journey from Expressionism to Stalinism
February 15
Martin Durrell (Manchester): Political unity and linguistic diversity in nineteenth-century Germany
February 22
Tom Cheesman (Swansea): Very German Turks (Not?): Zafer Senocak, Feridun Zaimoglu
March 1
Oskar Reichmann (Heidelberg): Nationale und Europäische Sprachgeschichts-schreibung
March 8
Frank Finlay (Leeds): Heinrich Böll's 'Suche nach dem Leser': Literary Culture and Publishing Practice 1945-1950
March 15
Eda Sagarra (Dublin): Mephisto und seine (weite) Verwandtschaft: On the representation of evil and its trivialisation in modern (post-Enlightenment) literature
March 22
Rhys W. Williams (Swansea): The Politics of Evasion: Alfred Andersch's Sansibar oder der letzte Grund
May 3
Neil Thomas (Durham): Humour in Diu Crone
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Prof. Colin Riordan
Department of German Studies
School of Modern Languages
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
Tel. (+44) 191 222 7513
Fax. (+44) 191 222 5442
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/staff/riordan.htm
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