Dear Colleagues,
please find below the final programme for the postgraduate symposium on "family chronicles in film, literature, biography and autobiography" at The Nottingham Trent University on 12 May.
We would be very glad to receive anyone interested in attending the symposium. There is no conference fee, and there will be no charge for afternoon tea. Lunch will be available at reasonable rates! You are welcome to stay on for an evening meal, and I shall be glad to provide anyone wishing to stay in Nottingham on the night of the 12th with information about hotel and guesthouse accommodation.
I shall also be glad to provide anyone interested in attending with information as to how to get to Clifton Campus.
Please let me know if you are coming, so that I have an idea of numbers.
With all good wishes and Frohe Ostern,
Bill Niven
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"Making Sense of the Past: Chronicles of the Family in Film, Literature, Biography and Autobiography"
Postgraduate Symposium on 12 May 2005 at The Nottingham Trent University,
Clifton Campus, George Eliot Building GE 101.
Programme
10.15-10.45 Arrival (Main Reception Area of George Eliot Building, Clifton Campus)
followed by Tea and Coffee
10.45-11.00 Welcome and Introductory remarks (Bill Niven)
11.00-11.30 Anja Henebury [Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin] "Poetik der Unschärfe. Nationalsozialismus im zeitgenössischen literarischen Familiengedächtnis"
11.30-12.00 Marie-Louise Wasmeier [University of Oxford Brookes] "Marcel Beyer's 'Spione': spying into the family past"
12.00-13.30 Discussion followed by lunch
13.30-14.00: Linda Shortt [University College Dublin] " 'Wer seiner Familie den Rücken kehrt, der taugt Nichts': an exploration of family identity and family values in Reinhardt Jirgl's 'Die Unvollendeten'"
14.00-14.30: Liz Dye [University of Nottingham] " 'Es geht weiter': the motif of cancer in Reinhard Jirgl's 'Die Unvollendeten'"
14.30-15.00 Discussion
15.00-15.30: Inga Scharf [The Nottingham Trent University] "Remembering or 'Being Towards the Present': female ways of dealing with the past in 'Deutschland, Bleiche Mutter' and 'Malou'"
15.30-16.00: Sabine Müller [University of Oxford] "Uwe Timm's 'Am Beispiel meines Bruders' as a Re-Positioning of the '68 Generation"
16.00-17.00: Discussion followed by tea
17.00-17.30 David Gallagher [Royal Holloway, University of London] "Chronicles of the Mann family in literature and film"
17.30-18.00 Victoria Smith [Nottingham University] " 'Unterwegs als sicherer Ort?': Travel, Place and Memory in contemporary German prose and biography"
18.00: Final Discussion and Close
19.00: Evening meal (for those that would like to stay on)
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