Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature
at the Institute of Germanic Studies, London
'Stifter and Modernism'
CONFERENCE
Wednesday, 10 - Friday, 12 December 2003
Co-Ordinators: Dr Helena Ragg-Kirkby (Leeds) and Professor Martin Swales
(London)
ORGANISED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE AUSTRIAN CULTURAL FORUM, THE UNIVERSITY OF
LEEDS, AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
As a proponent of a specific aesthetic and moral order, Adalbert Stifter has
long been regarded as a natural heir to the Great Classical Tradition. Yet
even critics persuaded of this view have often detected troubling sub-texts
within his fiction. More recently, some commentators have seen him as an
important precursor of modern writing (from Kafka to Bernhard and Sebald).
In any event, the extraordinary stylistic provocation of his work has lost
none of its power to challenge and unsettle the reader.
The first Stifter event of note to be held in this country for almost twenty
years, the conference aims to contribute to a major re-evaluation of the
author's work as we approach the bicentenary of his birth.
PROGRAMME
WEDNESDAY, 10 DECEMBER
At the Institute of Germanic Studies, 29 Russell Square, London WC1
14.00 Welcome by MARTIN SWALES (London)
14.15 GERHARD NEUMANN (Munich): 'Archäologie der Passion: Zum
Liebeskonzept in Stifters Nachsommer'
15.15 RITCHIE ROBERTSON (Oxford): 'Stifter and Modernisation'
16.15 Tea
16.45 Parallel Sessions
UTE MASCHKE (Cornell): '"Der Hagestolz"'
MONIKA EHLERS (Potsdam): '"Das Weib erträgt den Himmel nicht":
Figuren der Grenzüberschreitung in Stifters Novellen'
At the Austrian Embassy, 18 Belgrave Square, London SW1
19.30 JOHANN LACHINGER (Linz/D.): '"Wien und die Wiener": Stifters
zivilisationskritische Perspektiven auf die Großstadt von Oben und von
Unten'
followed by a Reception given by H.E. The Austrian Ambassador
THURSDAY, 11 DECEMBER
At the Institute of Germanic Studies, London WC1
9.30 ALEXANDER STILLMARK (London): 'Stifter's latent Antinomies?'
10.30 MICHAEL MINDEN (Cambridge): 'Stifter and the Post-Modern Sublime'
11.30 Coffee
12.00 Parallel Sessions
MONIKA RITZER (Leipzig): 'Stifter und die Politik'
CORNELIA BLASBERG (Tübingen): 'Augenlieder des Erzählens: Zu
Adalbert Stifters gerahmten Erzählungen'
12.45 NICHOLAS SAUL (Durham): 'Nature, Culture and Ethnicity: Stifter's
Gypsies'
13.45 Lunch (own arrangements)
15.00 Parallel Sessions
AXEL FLIETHMANN (Monash): 'Die Natur der Stelle in Stifters
"Nachsommer"'
ROBERT STOCKHAMMER (Berlin): '"So ereigneten sich auf verschiedenen
Stellen verschiedene Dinge": Stifters Selbstkorrekturen um 1848'
15.45 Parallel Sessions
STEFAN WILLER (Berlin): '"Nachahmung der Väter, Nachahmung der
Natur": Zum Mimesis-Komplex bei Adalbert Stifter'
ULRIKE VEDDER (Berlin): 'Erbschaften und Übertragungen: Stifters
testamentarische Schreibweise'
16.30 Tea
17.00 JOHANNES JOHN (Munich): 'Einige Bemerkungen zu einem "Work in
Progress": Zum momentanen Stand der Historisch-Kritischen Ausgabe der Werke
und Briefe Adalbert Stifters'
FRIDAY, 12 DECEMBER
At the Institute of Germanic Studies, 29 Russell Square, London WC1
10.00 RÜDIGER GÖRNER (London/Aston): 'Stifter oder die Ästhetik des
Grenzwerte'
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Parallel Sessions
MARCUS HAHN (Siegen): 'Stifters "Garten voll Gespenster":
Epigonalität? Postmoderne, "Narrenburg"/"Nachkommenschaften"'
WOLFGANG LUKAS (Zurich): 'Intertextualität und Transformation im
Biedermeier/Vormärz: Die Konstruktion eines neuen literarischen Paradigmas
in Stifters "Der Hochwald"'
12.15 Parallel Sessions
PETER PFEIFFER (Georgetown): 'The Currency of Values and the Work of
Interpretation: Adalbert Stifter's "Der Nachsommer"'
DAGMAR VON HOFF (Hamburg): 'Krise der Wahrnehmung: Das
Aufmerksamkeitsdispositiv bei Adalbert Stifter'
13.00 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.15 Parallel Sessions
MARTYN BULLYNCK (Ghent): 'Stifter's "Nachsommer" as Secondary
Alphabetisation'
DOERTE BISCHOFF (Münster): 'Glänzende Stoffe, Zerrissene Gewebe:
Text(ilie) und Fetisch bei Stifter'
15.00 DUNCAN SMITH (Brown): 'Interrupting Terror: Narration in Stifter's
"Turmalin"'
16.00 Concluding Discussion
ATTENDANCE
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Registrations, accompanied by the appropriate fee should reach the Institute
by Wednesday, 26 November 2003.
FEES
RATE 3 DAYS 1 DAY
STANDARD £30.00 £12.00
REDUCED £25.00 £10.00 (Fully paid-up Friends of the IGS only)
STUDENT £15.00 £ 5.00 (Students with proof of status only)
FORMS OF PAYMENT
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payable to the 'University of London IGS'. We regret that we can no longer
accept Eurocheques.
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regret that it is not possible to refund fees in case of non-attendance.
ACCOMMODATION
Participants are asked to make their own accommodation arrangements. The
Institute can supply a local hotel list on receipt of a stamped
self-addressed envelope. Moderately-priced accommodation is in short supply,
so please book early!
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