[With apologies for cross-posting]
Dear All,
herewith the final programme for next week's symposium.
Hope to see you there!
Best wishes,
Bill Niven
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2nd Postgraduate Symposium at NTU
12 May 2005
Room 101, George Eliot Building, Clifton Campus, The Nottingham Trent University
Provisional Programme
10.15-10.45 Arrival, Tea and Coffee
10.45-11.00 Welcome and Introductory remarks (Bill Niven)
11.00-11.30 Helmut Schmitz [University of Warwick], "Spectres of Grandfather, or: From the spirit of Prussian Protestantism to the RAF: Stephan Wackwitz's 'family novel' 'Ein unsichtbares Land'"
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
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