Dear Colleagues,
Attached please find the programme for the international conference on:
A Melancholy Search for Heimat? History, Generation and Gender in German Discourse
28-30 September 2006
hosted by
UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland
Belfield
Dublin 4
Registration forms and further information can be obtained from:
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Conference speakers: Aleida Assmann (Universität Konstanz), Elizabeth Boa (University of
Nottingham), Sarah Colvin (University of Edinburgh), Mary Cosgrove (University of
Edinburgh), Matthias Fiedler
(UCD), Peter Fritzsche (University of Illinois, Urbana), Anne Fuchs (UCD), Susanne Kord (UCL),
J.J. Long
(Durham), Dagmar C. Lorenz (University of Illinois, Chicago), Bill Niven (Nottingham Trent
University), Helmut
Schmitz (University of Warwick), Matthias Uecker (University of Nottingham), Harald Welzer
(Universität Witten/
Herdecke), John Zilcosky (University of Toronto)
With best wishes for the summer
Anne Fuchs and Mary Cosgrove (organisers)
Professor Dr. Anne Fuchs Dr. Mary Cosgrove
School of Literatures, Languages and Film School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
University College Dublin University of Edinburgh
Belfield David Hume Tower
Dublin 4 Edinburgh
Ireland Scotland
T: 00353-1-7168524 0044-1316503639
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Programme:
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
A Melancholy Search for Heimat? History, Generation, and Gender in German Discourse
28-30 September 2006
Day 1: 28 September 2006 - UCD Humanities Institute, Belfield
9.00-9.30 Conference Registration
9.30-10.15
Susanne Kord (University College London),
Goethe's Weimar as Heimat-Ersatz: on the History of a Cultural Compulsion
10.15-11.00
Elizabeth Boa (University of Nottingham),
Heimat - inherited or inflicted trauma? Inter- and intra-generational wounds in Jirgl's Die
Unvollendeten,
Overath's Nahe Tage and Hein's Landnahme
11.00-11.15 COFFEE
11.15-12.00
John Zilcosky (University of Toronto),
Lost and Found: Disorientation, Nostalgia, and Holocaust Melodrama in Sebald's Austerlitz
12.00-12.45
Dagmar Lorenz (University of Illinois, Chicago),
Burying the Past – Imagining New Home Places: Post-Heimat Geography in Vladimir Vertlib
and Doron
Rabinovici
12.45.-14.15 LUNCH – UCD Humanities Institute
14.15-15.00
Bill Niven (Nottingham Trent University),
Remembering the Former Eastern Homelands in (Auto)biographical Literature on Expulsion
since 1990
15.00-15.45
Jonathan Long (University of Durham),
Urban Topographies in Photography 1990-2005
15.45-16.15 COFFEE
16.15-17.00
Matthias Uecker (University of Nottingham),
Fractured Families – United Countries? Nostalgia, Mourning and Nationbuilding in Das
Wunder von Bern and
Goodbye Lenin
17.00-17.45
Harald Welzer (Universität Witten/ Herdecke),
Memories of the Past and Future Memories
19.30 DINNER - Purty Kitchen, Dun Laoghaire
Day 2: 29 September 2006 - Newman House, St. Stephen’s Green
10.00-10.45
Aleida Assmann (Universität Konstanz),
Ghosts of the Past
10.45-11.30
Peter Fritzsche (University of Illinois, Urbana),
Were there Ghosts on the Eastern Front? The Beginnings of a Ghost Theory
11.30-11.45 COFFEE
11.45-12.30
Helmut Schmitz (University of Warwick),
Spectres of Grandfathers: Tradition and Heritage in Stephan Wackwitz’s Ein unsichtbares
Land and Thomas
Medicus’s In den Augen meines Großvaters
12.30-14.00 LUNCH – Own arrangements
14.00-14.45
Sarah Colvin (University of Edinburgh),
Der Aufstand der Töchter: Ulrike Marie Meinhof and Ingeborg Bettina Roehl
14.45.-15.30
Matthias Fiedler (University College Dublin),
Erstarrte Väter: The Discourse of Masculinity and Fatherhood after the Second World War in
Contemporary
German Literature
15.30-16.00 COFFEE
16.00-16.45
Mary Cosgrove (University of Edinburgh),
Melancholy Topographies in Contemporary German Literature: Arno Geiger’s Es geht uns gut
and Alois
Hotschnig’s Ludwigs Zimmer
16.45-17.30
Anne Fuchs (University College Dublin),
Recruiting the Dead: Necromancy and the Postmemorial Imagination
18.30 RECEPTION and book launch German Memory Contests: The Quest for Identity in
Literature, Film and
Discourse since 1990, ed. by Anne Fuchs, Mary Cosgrove and Georg Grote. Rochester:
Camden House, 2006.
The book will be launched by Professor Pól O’Dochartaigh, University of Ulster.
20.15 CONFERENCE DINNER – Fitzer’s, Dawson St
Day 3: 30 September – UCD Humanities Institute, Belfield
10.00-11.30 round table discussion:
History, Generation, and Gender in Contemporary German Discourse
Social Event:
Banshee Walk in the Wicklow Mountains and visit to Johnny Fox’s, “the highest pub in Ireland”
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