Dear Wiggies,
Below are details (programme and registration form) of the upcoming
annual meeting of the Conference of University Teachers of German in
Scotland which will take place at the Goethe Institute, Glasgow on Oct
14th. If you wish to attend, please reply to me or to Peter Davies
(contact details below), indicating whether you wish to be included in
the conference lunch. All colleagues and postgraduate students are
welcome.
We would ask all Scottish colleagues to please circulate this
information to any new staff members, LektorInnen or postgraduate
students who have joined Scottish institutions recently and who may not
be on any of the mailing lists.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Best wishes
Mary Cosgrove
Lecturer in German
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
University of Edinburgh
David Hume Tower
Edinburgh EH8 9JX
Tel: +44 131 6503639
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CUTGS Meeting October 14th 2006: Conference Programme
9.30-9.40: Welcome from Director of the Goethe Institute
9.40-10.20: Barbara Burns (Glasgow), The Work of Louise von François
(1817-1893)
10.20-11.00: Frauke Matthes (Edinburgh), “Was deutsch ist, bestimmen
wir”: Definitions of (Turkish-) Germanness in Feridun Zaimoðlu’s Kanak
Sprak and Koppstoff
11.00-11.30: Coffee Break
11.30-12.30: President’s Guest, Prof Ritchie Robertson (St John’s
College Oxford), Nietzsche and the Enlightenment
12.30-2.00: Lunch
2.00-2.40: Christopher Beedham (St. Andrews), The Empirical
Investigation of Grammar: The
Method of Lexical Exceptions
2.40-3.20: Verena Jung (Heriot Watt), Translating Vagueness: The
Translation of the Pronominal Adverb and other German Cohesive Devices
in Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser
3.20-3.50: Coffee Break
3.50-4.30: Greg Moore (St Andrews), Bausteine zu einer biologischen
Weltanschauung: Jakob von Uexküll and German Thought
4.30-5.00 Business Meeting
5.00: Wine Reception
Annual Meeting of the Conference of University Teachers of German in Scotland
Registration Form
Name:…………………………………………………..
Institution:……………………………………………...
Confirmation of attendance: I will / will not attend the CUTGS meeting
on Oct 14th 2006
Confirmation of meal: I will / will not attend the conference lunch
Conference Fee: £ 10.00 (£ 5.00 for postgraduate students) to be paid on
arrival. Lunch not inlucded.
Date: 14th October 2006 from 9.20am to 6.30pm
Location: Goethe-Institut
3 Park Circus
Glasgow G3 6AX
Tel: + 44 141 3322555
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Please direct any further queries to:
Dr Mary Cosgrove Dr Peter Davies
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Tel.: 0131 650 3639 Tel.: 0131 650 3632
European Languages and Cultures
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
University of Edinburgh
David Hume Tower
Edinburgh EH8 9JX
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