Dear All,
You are warmly invited to the opening of the Centre for Anglo-German
Cultural Relations in the presence of his Excellency, The Ambassador of
Germany, Thomas Matussek. This event will take place this Thursday
December 1 2005 at 6:30 pm, and will be held in the Senior Common Room,
Queen’s Building, Queen Mary, University of London, at the Mile End
Campus. Further information pertaining to the purpose of the Centre for
Anglo-German Cultural Relations can be found below, and also at this
internet address:
http://www.modern-languages.qmul.ac.uk/research/anglogerman/index.html
To book your place at this event please email: [log in to unmask]
Many thanks,
Angus Nicholls.
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Dr. Angus Nicholls,
Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations,
Department of German,
Queen Mary,
University of London.
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS.
Phone: +44 (0) 207 882 2683
Fax: +44 (0) 208 980 5400
The Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations at Queen Mary, University
of London.
On December 1 2005 the German Ambassador will officially inaugurate the
recently founded Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations, which will
offer its own MA programme as from 2006/07. Accordingly the Department of
German in the School of Modern Languages will be offering a centenary
programme focusing predominantly on Anglo-German themes.
To study languages through their respective literatures is to deepen, and
refine, our understanding of the Other, and thus contribute to the
meaningful mediation between cultures, and to enhancing the quality of
reciprocal cultural transfers. The College has a high level of expertise
in this area. With our combined and enhanced efforts we are certain of
ensuring that sustained high quality teaching and research on German
culture, including visual cultures, will continue to contribute to the
underpinning of relations between Britain and Germany with all their
characteristic, but enriching, differences and equally strong elective
affinities.
An integral part of our ambition is to promote the study of Anglo-German
cultural relations in all their immense diversity, as one of the pivotal
dimensions of European integration, both by drawing on existing strengths
and by enacting the principle of reciprocity through a lively programme of
visits by writers and other cultural practitioners, as well as by
concentrating research-led postgraduate teaching accordingly.
With its unique resources, its cultural and other non-academic
institutions, its museums and galleries, theatres, publishers and other
media that are relevant in this connection, London provides an ideal
context in which the research activities of the Centre can thrive. It is
moreover of genuine symbolic significance that this Centre is located in
the east of London; for it is here that London's cultural diversity has
always been at its most inspiring; and the presence of German and Jewish
communities was, until the First World War, the most prominent influence
in this area.
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