Source: <http://www.goethe.de/gr/lon/enpkonf.htm>
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Hans Christoph Buch:
Blut im Schuh: Schlächter und Voyeure an den Fronten des
Weltbürgerkriegs
Supported by the Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes
Friday 11 April 2003 5pm
at Lincoln College, Oxford OX1 3DR, tel 01865-279 800
From 11 to 12 April 2003, Oxford Brookes University will be hosting an
interdisciplinary conference on "The Rhetoric of Aggression. The
Representation of Violence in German Literature and Other Textual Media
from 1945 to the Present". Speakers will investigate violence in all
its forms and dimensions as it is reflected in, or refracted by, post-
war German literature and other creative text-based media, such as
film, advertising, cartoons, and jokes.
The programme includes a reading by German writer Hans Christoph Buch
which will be open to both the conference participants and the general
public. Buch will read - in German - from Blut im Schuh: Schlächter und
Voyeure an den Fronten des Weltbürgerkriegs (2001), an absorbing
collection of essays and reports about the author's journeys to many of
the world's major trouble spots, ranging from Sierra Leone and Liberia
to Chechnya and East Timor.
Berlin-based writer Hans Christoph Buch, born in 1944, is the author of
numerous novels and stories, essays and texts on literary theory. He is
a member of PEN. His most important works of fiction include a highly
acclaimed trilogy of novels set in Haiti and, most recently, Kain und
Abel in Afrika (2001), a powerful and moving novel about the genocide
in Rwanda. A committed political commentator, Buch has also written
many perceptive eye-witness reports about war and crisis zones.
Further information about the conference can be found on the web
(http://solinux.brookes.ac.uk/bobbi/Conference2003.html), or contact
Professor Robert Weninger on [log in to unmask]
Free admission.
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