The 35th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies
will be held at the
University of London School of Advanced Study
Room 349 Senate House
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
On
Friday, 2 and Saturday, 3 April 2004
PROGRAMME
Friday, 2 April
10.00-10.30 COFFEE and REGISTRATION
10.30-11.15 ERNEST SCHONFIELD (University College London): 'Aesthetics as the Modality of Social Interaction in Thomas Mann's "Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull"'
11.15-12.00 LUCY MACNAB (University of Leeds): '"Das literarische Fräuleinwunder": Representations of the Body in Short Stories by Three Contemporary Women Writers'
12.00-12.45 ELAINE ELLERY (University of Manchester): 'Looking East: The Jewish Literary Tradition in Gertrud Kolmar's "Susanna"'
12.45-14.00 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.00-14.45 KATRIN SEELE (University of Oldenburg): 'Goethes poetische Poetik: Dichtung als Medium der Wissensvermittlung'
14.45-15.30 ARNAUD PRÊTRE (University of Wales, Swansea): ' The Modernist Reception of Lessing's "Laokoon": Questions of Space and Time'
15.30-16.00 TEA
16.00-16.45 JULIANE PARTHIER (University of Reading): '"Der Ossi ist ein Volksstücktyp": Dramatic "Zonenrandbeschreibungen" since the mid-1990s'
16.45-17.30 ANJA RILEY (University of Wales, Swansea): '"Ich war der Finger in der Wunde, das Salzkorn im Auge, der Stein auf dem Herzen": Guilt and Shame in Hans-Ulrich Treichel's "Der Verlorene"'
Saturday, 3 April
10.00-10.30 COFFEE
10.30-11.15 IAN COOPER (Christ's College, Cambridge): 'Two Visions and the Turn: Rilke's "Orpheus. Eurydike. Hermes" and Eliot's "Burnt Norton"'
11.15-12.00 BIRGIT RYSCHKA (University of Limerick): 'The Construction of National Identity in Selected Dramatic Works of Tom Murphy and Felix Mitterer'
12.00-12.45 BEN SCHOFIELD (University of Sheffield): 'Dimensions of Privacy in Gustav Freytag's Novel-Cycle "Die Ahnen" (1872-1880): Love as an Exercise in Nation Building'
12.45-14.00 LUNCH (own arrangements)
14.00-14.45 RIKKE CHRISTOFFERSEN (University of Stirling): 'Narrative Strategies in Erich Maria Remarque's "Im Westen nichts Neues" and Leonhard Frank's "Der Mensch ist gut"
14.45-15.30 HOLLY SAYER (University of Exeter): 'The Problematic Reception of Arthur Schnitzler's Early Works in the German and Austrian Press as documented in Schnitzler's Press Cuttings Collection'
15.30-16.00 TEA
16.00-16.45 SUSANNE MEURER (Warburg Institute, London): '"In Verlegung des Autoris": Sandrart's "Teutsche Academie" and the 17th-Century Book Market'
16.45-17.30 RAYMOND COFFER (Institute of Germanic Studies, London): 'Paths to the Concurrence of Dissolution: Schönberg and Gerstl in Gmunden in 1908'
REGISTRATION
To attend, please complete and return your registration form (available from the Institute at the address below or at www.sas.ac.uk/igs/HPPOSTGRADACTIVITIES.htm#PGcolloquiatitle )together with your FEE of £15.00 and a STAMPED SELF-ADDRESSED ENVELOPE to reach the Organisers, National Postgraduate Colloquium, c/o Institute of Germanic Studies, 29 Russell Square, GB-London WC1B 5DP by Friday, 26 March. Cheques in £-Sterling please, payable to the 'University of London IGS' (we regret Eurocheques cannot be accepted). The fee is payable by SPEAKERS AS WELL as other participants.
ACCOMMODATION
Bed-and-breakfast accommodation is available close to the venue at College Hall, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HZ. Please make arrangements direct (Tel: 020- 7685 2000; e-mail: [log in to unmask]).
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INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC STUDIES
University of London School of Advanced Study
29 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DP
Tel: +44 (0)20- 7862 8965/6
Fax: +44 (0)20- 7862 8970
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Website: http://www.sas.ac.uk/igs/
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